One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as possible, whether it’s a Walkman with a radio tuner or a new class of devices ...

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The Functionalist design philosophy that Dieter Rams brought to Braun from the 50s to the 90s still inspires the look of a few devices, including Apple’s iPod, Teenage Engineer’s synthesizers and ...

Modern art has always been a battleground — and the highly influential Museum of Modern Art has been partisan since its inception. Architectural historian Patricio Del Real discusses two differing ...

This is a simple Python script to download the MP3 pronunciation audio for 119,376 unique English words/terms. They will take around 2 GB on your disk in total. The MP3 sources were obtained from the ...

This project builds upon https://github.com/pyminimp3/pyminimp3 by fixing several bugs which make the latter repo unusable (thanks to an investigation by newdive@ for ...

Guns N’ Roses closed out Appetite for Destruction, their 1987 debut, with… well, a bang. According to rock ‘n roll lore, during sessions in New York for “Rocket Queen,” the band flew in a stripper who ...

Abstract: HW/SW partitioning is an important development step during HW/SW co-design to ensure application performance in embedded System-on-Chip (SoC). This paper formulates the optimization of HW/SW ...

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