Author: Vidya Saras
The Paffi portfolio website is a celebration of ten years of exceptional projects crafted by Silvia and Giulia, the two co-founders and brand designers behind Paffi. Our vision for the site had two key objectives: to create a seamless, enjoyable browsing experience and to reflect Paffi’s vibrant, playful design approach. For the homepage slider, we wanted something dynamic and engaging, while keeping the focus on each project’s unique assets. This led us to the idea of a rotating, modular slider that showcases the logotypes and brand colors of each featured project. We named it the “Totem Slider.” It’s likely reminiscent…
SpaceX launched its 100th rocket of the year early Tuesday morning (Oct. 15), and followed it up with another liftoff just hours later.SpaceX’s centenary mission of the year lifted off from Florida, with a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites aloft. The mission launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:10 a.m. EDT (0610 GMT). As usual, the Falcon 9’s first-stage booster came back to Earth safely, touching down on the drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” off the Florida coast about eight minutes after launch.The company followed up that milestone with another…
Humans have been trying to talk to animals ever since we figured out how to form words. In modern times, we turn to technology for the solution—giving our dogs talking buttons to paw at, or trying to use artificial intelligence to help us understand whales.The latest and perhaps most direct approach at human-animal communication is a voice-activated collar that gives your pet the power to talk back to you. Or at least, that’s the idea.John McHale, a self-described “tech guy” based out of Austin, Texas, has a company called Personifi AI. The startup’s goal, as the name implies, is to…
Aroeira, one of the most famous names in Portuguese golf, is ready to embark on a new stage of its prestigious history after undergoing a major rebrand and being given a new identity – PGA Aroeira Lisboa. The renaming of the iconic 36-hole Lisbon venue and its two courses comes at the same time as a major investment in its golf and leisure facilities, creating the only PGA National in Portugal and putting it alongside other leading PGA resorts including the likes of previous Ryder Cup hosts Gleneagles in Scotland and The Belfry in England. Famously nicknamed as…
The UN’s humanitarian office has called for an investigation into an Israeli air strike that killed 23 people in northern Lebanon on Monday.Spokesman Jeremy Laurence said the strike, on the Christian-majority village of Aitou, raised “real concerns” with respect to international humanitarian law.Laurence said that 12 women and two children were understood to be among the dead from the bombing, which destroyed a residential building that had been recently rented out to a family displaced from the south.Rescue workers were still pulling bodies from the rubble in Aitou on Tuesday – far from the focus of the conflict to date…
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If you’ve ever sat in a dentist’s chair, weighed down by an unwieldy, yet oddly comfortable, lead apron, wondering if your sense of time has gone completely haywire—wait, wasn’t I just here, and isn’t it too soon for more X-rays?—take comfort. You may be entirely correct. Some dentists are pushing back against what they see as an overuse of dental imaging technology. Forcing patients to undergo regular X-rays, regardless of any obvious dental issues, is not only harmful, they argue, but goes against the standards set by the American Dental Association (there’s a joke to be made about nine out…
Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)The late muse of director John Waters, Divine delighted in inspiring outrage and disgust on and off screen. However from The Little Mermaid to Chappell Roan, he has left a big impression on popular cultureDivine was a drag queen like no other. In the 1970s and 1980s, long before RuPaul’s Drag Race brought the art form into the mainstream, this outrageous actor, singer and cultural disruptor was blazing a trail that remains highly influential today. “We’ve seen Divine’s work bleed into fashion, music and film, particularly through the trashy aesthetic he pioneered with director John Waters,” says…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Bitcoin investors are still dwelling in excitement in light of a recent breakout towards $66,000. This rally has reignited bullish sentiment across the market, with many traders now anticipating higher highs for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. According to a crypto analyst, this breakout has seen the stochastic indicator print a signal to a rally that could send Bitcoin to the $500,000 price target. Stochastic Breakout To Send BTC Price Above $500,000 Taking to social media platform X, a crypto analyst known as Tarder Tardigrade highlighted an interesting price breakout with the Stochastic Indicator. The…
Barriers and drivers of blockchain adoption in emerging markets: Large-scale text analysis and survey experiments among African regulators and citizensEliza R Oak, Dr. Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah, & Mohammad AbdullahYale, University of Ghana, & UniSZA, MalaysiaTo discern the key drivers and barriers to blockchain adoption across Africa, this project proposes to systematically collate data through digital trace data, surveys, and interviews. By scraping data from social media, news articles, and Google search trends, the project aims to construct a country-level Blockchain Attitudes Adoption Index for all African nations, comparing it with measures of financial sector stability. The research will particularly…