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advertisement advertisement advertisement What would it be like to style your home using the rolodex of a renowned architect? advertisement advertisement Well, now you can find out. Jason McLennan, architect and founder of the Living Building Challenge , has launched an e-commerce site that features furniture and home decor from top interior designers, architects, and sustainable brands. It is the first major attempt to gather a range of certified-sustainable home goods on a single, easy-to-navigate platform. Living Deep , debuted last week and includes prominent eco-brands like Avocado, Jaipur Living, and David Trubridge. As founder of the Living Building Challenge, an organization dedicated to the most stringent sustainable architecture standards, McLennan has helped orchestrate the design and construction of some of the world’s greenest buildings, including a zero-energy straw bale community in Utah and a nonprofit … [Read more...] about Green and gorgeous: This new e-com site sells only the world’s most sustainable home goods

What just happened? Samsung this week announced it has developed what it is calling the industry’s first High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with built-in artificial intelligence. The new processing-in-memory, PIM for short, brings AI computing capabilities directly inside the memory subsystem, accelerating processing within data centers, high-performance computers and AI-enabled mobile apps. As Samsung explains, most computing systems today are based on the von Neumann architecture . This sequential processing approach involves separate CPU and memory units with data constantly being shuffled between them, creating a bottleneck. (A von Neumann architecture scheme, via Kapooht) Samsung’s HBM-PIM puts a DRAM-optimized AI engine inside each memory bank. This enables parallel processing and minimizes data movement, improving performance and reducing power consumption. According to Samsung, when used in conjunction with Samsung’s HBM2 Aquabolt , the architecture can deliver more … [Read more...] about Samsung develops high-bandwidth memory with onboard AI processing

The Central Highlands city of Da Lat is famous for its cool climate, pine-scented air and mountain views. Often referred to as a “city in a forest”, “fog city” or "city of flowers", it is also home to many old religious buildings. A redemptorist monastery with a typical French colonial architecture that is one of the ancient religious buildings in Da Lat. Most of them were built during the French colonial period after the French founded the city as a resort town to get away from the humid, hot climate in the south. Monasteries with arched windows and balconies with large glass doors are European in design, but are also in harmony with the gentle rhythm of the city. Some monasteries are still places of prayer, while the rest have been assigned to state units for maintenance and repair or have been changed to become tourist attractions. New life The most typical of these is the Redemptorist monastery, which is now being used as a biological museum managed by … [Read more...] about Old Da Lat monasteries get second life

The flagship EQS sedan is just the beginning. The 2022 Mercedes EQS has been fully revealed, and with it comes the future of fully electric Mercs. And while some people have mistakenly regarded the new flagship EV as an electric version of the S-Class , it actually isn't as it rides on a totally different platform. The bespoke electric vehicle architecture gave the designers ample liberty to play around the EQS interior and exterior styling – something that we can expect from the upcoming EQE and EQS SUVs, according to Mercedes chief designer Gorden Wagner in an interview with Auto Express . Gallery: Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV Snow Spy Shots 11 Photos In the same vein as the EQS is to the S-Class, the EQE SUV and EQS SUV won't be electric versions of the fuel-burning GLE and GLS. In fact, Wagener touts these two high-riders as the SUVs of the future. With … [Read more...] about Mercedes Says High-Riding EQE And EQS Will Be The SUVs Of The Future

Dozens of residents neighbouring a proposed development on Robert Street East voiced their concerns at a recent planning meeting. Penetanguishene resident Tony Huguenin represented 64 residents who signed a petition requesting specific changes to the subdivision. Some of the concerns he brought forward were around the incompatibility of the proposed development of 33 townhouses with the single-detached houses across the street from it. “The current proposal fails to recognize and respect five decades of living history ‘across the street’ at the properties we and the neighbourhood proudly call our homes,’” he wrote in a letter submitted prior to the meeting. The petition, also submitted as part of the meeting’s agenda, further outlined some of the issues residents in the neighbourhood had. “The street townhouses do not provide an appropriate transition of density with the single-detached houses of our neighbourhood,” stated the petition. “The street townhouses that front onto … [Read more...] about Questions, concerns loom large for Penetanguishene development neighbours