Iconic Female Designer Patricia Urquiola Upgrades Her Lowland Sofa With A Softer Composition

Spanish designer and architect Patricia Urquiola is known for her eye-catching creations which are usually characterized by stained-glass panels or entire interior redesigns. She heavily focuses on modern style accentuated with feminine accents and intriguing elements. She is also known for her strong support of female designers. “Where women differ from males is in their flexibility, adaptability, and ability to multitask,” Urquiola said to Elle Decor in 2010. “We must be capable of surviving and even those two qualities—flexibility and adaptability—are extremely important to me in design.” And, she recently updated her Lowland Sofa for the Italian brand Moroso, giving it the name Loveland.

Designer: Patricia Urquiola for Moroso

Patricia Urqouila upgraded her Lowland sofa for the Italian brand Moroso, imparting it with a softer composition, and adorning it with a new name – Loveland. The three-seater sofa design adapts the previous design which was created in 2000. It features lower-positioned armrests, and a rounded backrest shape, which gives the sofa a gentler and more pebble-like appearance.

“The new design choices enhance the architectural qualities of the series while maintaining the sophisticated rationalist mood of this sofa, as a stand-alone piece or in a composition,” said Moroso. The Loveland sofa features a modernist steel base, which is paired up with warm and contemporary wood, and arranged at interesting sculptural angles.

Lowland was upgraded to Loveland to implement “a different approach to sustainability”. With Loveland, they eliminated developing a whole new product, and instead, they jazzed up a beloved classic to create an eternal and evergreen piece. There isn’t any unnecessary production or any additional waste. Resources are saved and minimized, as a pre-existing furniture piece is transformed and elevated. The Loveland sofa is available with or without armrests and can be upholstered in fabric or leather. You can choose between Honey, Tropical Wood, or Coffee finishes for the sofa’s wooden base.

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Anker USB-C chargers are up to 43 percent off

Anker USB-C chargers are up to 43 percent off on Amazon, with prices ranging from $16 to $68. There are a bunch of chargers available, from entry-level devices to the company’s premium models.

Perhaps the most notable discount is for the Nano 2. This is one of the company’s mid-range chargers and costs $32 as part of this sale, which is a whopping 43 percent off. This 65W charger boasts three ports, with power distributed efficiently between each connected device. It’s tiny, roughly the size of a charging case for earbuds, and features two USB-C connections and one standard USB-A connection.

The budget-friendly Nano 3 is also on sale for $16, which is a discount of 20 percent. This model offers a similar experience to the Nano 2, but with just a single USB-C port. The baddest Anker charger of them all, the Prime, is part of this promotion. It’s on sale for $68, instead of $87. This 100W charger will make short work out of depleted devices. It features a trio of ports, two USB-C and a single USB-A, and includes the company’s ActiveShield 2.0 system to ensure safe charging. It also happens to be much smaller than a standard MacBook charger, which is nice.

The sale extends beyond traditional chargers. There are power stations here with numerous inputs, hubs and, of course, cables to get everything connected. Some of the discounts are pretty steep, up to 50 percent in a couple of cases. Chargers and cables may not be exciting, but they sure are necessary. 

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How to Customize App Icons On Your iPhone in iOS 17.4

Customize App Icons iPhone

Customizing your iPhone’s home screen has become an exciting way to personalize your device, especially with the introduction of the iOS 17.4 update. This new update brings subtle yet significant changes to the process of altering app icons, making it essential for users to understand how to navigate these modifications. If you’re wondering how to […]

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ASUS motherboard BIOS update adds support for 256GB of DDR5 memory

256GB of DDR5 memory motherboard

If you would like to be able to increase your on-board memory to a whopping 256GB of DDR5 memory, you might be interested to know that ASUS has released BIOS updates for its Intel 700 and 600 series motherboards, enabling them to support up to 256 GB of DDR5 memory.  For those who have motherboards […]

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Embracer sells a big chunk of Saber Interactive in a deal worth around $500 million

As expected, the Embracer Group has sold much of Saber Interactive, which is known for the Metro series, Gloomhaven and remakes of classic Star Wars titles. The buyer is a group of private investors under the umbrella of Beacon Interactive, which is run by Saber co-founder Matthew Karch. 

Although Embracer says the deal is worth $247 million, it's actually worth around $500 million once liabilities are factored in, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier. That’s because Beacon is said to have taken up an option to buy 4A Games and Zen Studios (the developers of the Metro and Zen Pinball series, respectively) as well.

As you might imagine given those latter points, the details of the sale are a little convoluted. Along with 4A and Zen, the sale includes all Saber-branded studios, Nimble Giant (Star Trek: Infinite), 3D animation studio Digic, support studio Fractured Byte, PR agency Sandbox Strategies, Mad Head Games (Scars Above), Slipgate Ironworks (Graven), New World Interactive (the Insurgency series) and publisher 3D Realms.

Embracer is hanging onto 34 Big Things (Redout), Shiver (which ported Mortal Kombat 11 to Switch), Snapshot (Phoenix Point) and Aspyr, which is behind the recent remaster of the original Tomb Raider trilogy and Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, which came out on Thursday. The publisher is also retaining Tripwire (Maneater), Beamdog (Mythforce), Tuxedo Labs (Teardown) and Demiurge (Sega Heroes). Embracer-owned publisher Plaion will keep the long-term license and publishing rights for PC and console games in the Metro series too.

Overall, Beacon is scooping up at least 38 ongoing game development projects, along with some proprietary engine technology and game tools. Saber says it will retain 14 games, including Killing Floor 3. According to reporter Stephen Totilo, Beacon is taking on 2,950 workers and Embracer is retaining 800 (it has 14,140 workers overall).

"Embracer is now able to discontinue all operations in Russia, according to a previous board decision, while safeguarding many developer jobs under new independent ownership," Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors said. "At the same time, we keep key companies, valuable IPs and future publishing rights."

Embracer bought Saber for $525 million four years ago and it slotted some later purchases, including Demiurge and New World Interactive, into that division. Since last summer, Embracer has been on a major cost-cutting drive after an expected investment of $2 billion (reportedly from a group backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund) fell apart. The company has shuttered several studios, and it laid off 1,387 people in the second half of 2023. It also canceled 29 unannounced games over a six-month period last year. It's believed that Gearbox (of Borderlands fame) may be set to leave Embracer too.

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What can we expect from ChatGPT-5?

ChatGPT-5 features and strengths

Igor Pogany has recently given a presentation focusing on the anticipated advancements and capabilities of future iterations of language models like ChatGPT-5, as well as strategies for individuals and businesses to prepare for and leverage these advancements. The presentation embedded below provides more insight into what we can expect from ChatGPT-5  and how it will […]

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Vivo Y03 Android Smartphone Unveiled

Vivo Y03

Vivo has added a new Android smartphone to its range with the launch of the new Vivo Y03 and the handset comes with a 6.56-inch IPS LCD display with a 90Hz refresh rate, offering a smoother visual experience than standard 60Hz screens. This feature is particularly beneficial for scrolling through content and playing games, providing […]

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OpenAI CTO reveals possible Sora AI video generator release date

OpenAI Sora AI video generator release date

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of OpenAI, Mira Murati, provided insights into the anticipated release and development challenges of OpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora, during an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Sora text-to-video AI generator is expected to be released by OpenAI within the current year, potentially even within the next few months, which is […]

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Lenovo Legion Tab Android gaming tablet arriving in Asia and EMEA

Android gaming tablet Asia

Lenovo has announced the expansion of the Lenovo Legion Tab, an 8.8-inch Android gaming tablet, to select EMEA and Asia markets. This new high-performance Android gaming tablet is set to hit the markets in EMEA and Asia come March 2024, and it’s got a price tag starting at €599, VAT included. What’s exciting is that […]

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World’s fastest AI chip features 4 Trillion transistors and 900,000 AI cores

Cerebras Systems AI Chips

Cerebras Systems has launched the Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3), the world’s fastest AI chip, featuring 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 AI cores. The WSE-3, built on a 5 nm process, powers the Cerebras CS-3 AI supercomputer, which is capable of 125 petaflops of peak AI performance. This new chip is designed to train large […]

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