At first glance, it looks like just another beautiful... infinity pool on Lake Como. Except it isn’t! This jaw-dropping 40-metre floating pool at the ⁠Mandarin Oriental, Lago di Como wasn't actually built into the shoreline. It was meticulously engineered like a massive catamaran, manufactured in Finland, transported across Europe to Italy, and securely anchored directly to the lakebed! When you pair this engineering marvel with their historic 19th-century villas, a world-class subterranean spa, lush lakefront botanical gardens, and views that honestly don't seem real, it is easy to see why so many people consider this one of the most spectacular luxury hotels in Italy. 🎥 never_unpacking | IGshow more

At first glance, it looks like a highway floating... in the sky. This graceful arc of road across Pingtian Lake in China's Anhui Province is flanked by water so still that it mirrors the clouds above. Now I'm curious what it feels like to drive between the sky and its reflection.show more

I can't believe that Nvidia looked at this "AI... on top of games filter" and said to themselves this is the future of gaming. Like it or not, this is where Nvidia is heading and they're calling it neural rendering with DLSS 5. The examples they've showed reminded me a lot of those AI generated filter videos on top of GTA V, except that now it is supposed to run in real-time. Honestly, I don't like this current look at allshow more

The furniture industry is about to have its ChatGPT... moment This chair wasn't manufactured. It wasn't assembled It wasn't even built in the traditional sense It was printed What's wild is that we're still treating 3D printing like a hobby when companies are already printing real furniture, architectural components, custom products, and entire homes The same pattern keeps repeating First it's a toy Then it's a niche Then it quietly becomes an industry Most people see a chair I see a future where products are downloaded instead of shippedshow more

Stop making assumptions when u weren’t there. Most sets... at the very beginning isn’t full bc people are going from one stage to another. When Enha first started, Charlie XCX had just finished and ppl were still walk to Sahara. They filled up quick tho, and this is what it actually looks like in person.show more

Most stablecoins stay inside crypto. USD1 just stepped outside... of it. World Liberty Financial contributed $250,000 in USD1 to the UFC Freedom 250 bonus pool, with the payouts announced at the White House. This is notable because USD1 was used as a real payment for real athletic performance at a major global event. Earlier this month, USD1 expanded across staking, liquidity, collateral, and trading products. Now it has also entered sports and entertainment. This is not about price action. It is about adoption. The more places people see and use digital dollars, the stronger the bridge between crypto and the real world becomes. $WLFI WLFI #USD1show more

A GIRL BY A VILLA POOL AT NIGHT IS... WHY YOUR $7,000 RESORT SHOOT IS DEAD. Long dark hair. Black lace bikini with string ties. Small earrings. She stands with her back to the camera in front of a glowing turquoise pool. A villa with warm wall lights behind her. She turns slowly. Looks over her shoulder. Smiles. Keeps turning until she faces you. Ten seconds. One take. Zero crew. The whole thing looks like someone flew a model to Bali and lit a pool at midnight. Nobody flew anywhere. Nobody got paid. The pool light is the tell nobody catches. Turquoise from the water below. Warm amber from the villa behind. Two sources hitting her skin from different angles. AI faces under flat studio light look generated. AI faces under mixed night lighting pass. That is the line between a render and a real booking photo and this clip crossed it. HERE'S WHY THIS FORMAT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONE TO FAKE. Night pool content is the highest-converting visual in vacation rental marketing. Every listing with a night shot outperforms daylight by 40% on click-through. A real shoot like this: villa rental $3,000, model $1,500, photographer with a night rig $2,000, retouching $500. One night. One girl. Maybe ten usable frames. One operator now generates these for boutique hotels. Five properties a week. $900 per set. The monthly is $18,000 and the overhead is a GPU. Pause at 0:04. She's mid-turn. The pool glow catches her collarbone and the villa light hits the other side of her face. That is not flat lighting. That is dual-source night rendering and it passes. Watch it again. Look at the pool. Look at the villa. Look at her. That is $18,000 a month and the girl in the bikini was never there.show more

Interviewer: "This tournament is 1 v 1... Who do... you like to play 1 v 1 the most?" Luka: "At practices we play a lot. One that I played with and it was really something unbelievable was Kyrie. He is really the kinda of 1 v 1 player who don't exist in the world. So with him was most beautiful to play" Source:show more

If there is a place in Texas that looks... like it was borrowed from heaven for a little while... this might be it. The Upper Nueces River is one of the most breathtaking hidden treasures in the entire state. Crystal-clear spring water, towering limestone bluffs, ancient cypress trees, and scenery so beautiful it almost doesn't seem real. It's the kind of place that reminds you just how incredible Texas truly is. If you've been here, you already know. If you haven't... it deserves a spot at the very top of your bucket list. Hat tip to texas.explorer 🤠show more

Some people criticise me for calling it the Woke... Right but I genuinely don't understand how they don't see it. The woke left claimed that America, one of the most racially tolerant countries in the world, was the most racist country ever. The woke right claims America, one of the best governed countries in the world, treats its citizens worse than any other. It is true that there are racists in America and it is true that America has problems when it comes to living up to its ideals on things like free speech. But this is just victimhood for clicks and it's frankly pathetic, unpatriotic and silly.show more

Sitting here watching my Cybertruck charge with the mountains... of Utah in the background, it hit me again… I really believe this is the most beautiful Tesla ever made. Every angle is different. It looks futuristic without trying too hard, and it fits just as well in the middle of a city as it does surrounded by nature like this. What makes this truck special is so much more than just the stainless steel or design. For me it’s how capable and practical it is. Long road trips, hauling gear, camping, tough weather, and FSD… it feels like THE one vehicle built to do almost everything. I’ve owned and driven many Teslas over the years, and every one has been amazing in their own unique way, but the Cybertruck is the first one that genuinely makes me stop and look back every time I park it. Driving across the U.S. in this beast has only reinforced that feeling. And to me, the Cybertruck is the best vehicle Tesla has ever built.show more

Gavin Newsom destroyed California “This is what Third Street... Promenade in Santa Monica looks like now on a Saturday. It used to be so vibrant and so fun and now it's just a lot of vacant stores, not very many people walking around, just sad.” This shopping center in Downtown Santa Monica was once one of the most popular shopping areas. It is just blocks from the beachshow more

This is quite funny. We're visiting Kamakura in Japan... and we came across a large group of Chinese tourists in a place that, at first glance, looked nothing special. Turns out that this very spot is one of THE most iconic locations in Japan for Chinese people who grew up in the 1990s. Why? Because in the 1990s there was this Japanese basketball manga called "slam dunk" that every kid was watching in China, and the opening credits featured an image of this very spot: a railroad crossing on a small street leading to the beach in Kamakura. Apparently this place is so popular with Chinese tourists that they had to cordon it off at some point. Now it's obviously reopened with 3 guards assigned to handle the traffic. And now that they've heard about it, it's my daughters' turn to be hooked on the series so maybe in 20 years' time they'll be perpetuating the passion and come back to this "Slam Dunk" shrine ☺️show more

Blake Lively’s Met Gala Moment Was Deeply Tone-Deaf Blake... Lively showing up at the Met Gala this year, smiling like nothing happened, honestly felt surreal. Not in a good way. More like… are we all just expected to pretend the last two years didn’t happen? Because that’s what it looked like. A reset. A clean slate. As if everything that went down with Justin Baldoni just evaporated the moment she stepped onto that carpet in a Versace gown. And I’m sorry, but it doesn’t work like that. You don’t get to be at the center of a situation that serious, with that much damage done to someone’s reputation, and then just reappear in full glamour mode like it was all some minor inconvenience. Whether people want to admit it or not, that whole situation left a mark. On him, on the project, and on how people see her now. What makes it worse is the timing. Walking into one of the most visible events in the world right after everything wrapped up just feels… off. There’s no reflection in that. No pause. No sense that any of it actually mattered beyond being something to get past. And then there’s the bigger issue. When something tied to a story about domestic violence turns into this kind of public spectacle, it cheapens it. It stops being about the message and starts being about ego, control, and image. That’s the part that doesn’t sit right. You can call it strategy, you can call it PR, but to a lot of people it just reads as tone-deaf. Versace dressing her? That’s their choice. But let’s not pretend fashion houses don’t pick sides when they do that. They know exactly what kind of attention it brings. Same with the Met Gala. They don’t “accidentally” invite people. Every name is a decision. So yeah, people are going to question it. They should. Because this didn’t feel like a comeback. It felt like someone stepping right back into the spotlight without acknowledging the weight of what just happened. Like the expectation is that the audience will move on simply because she has. Not everyone will. And honestly, they shouldn’t have to. PS: That’s the only soundtrack that actually fits that red carpet. moment.show more

A chaotic scene inside a McDonald's a man in... clear distress shouting and stumbling as customers look on in confusion. At first glance, it seems like just another “crazy moment caught on camera,” but the reality behind scenes like this runs much deeper. Across cities everywhere, addiction, mental health struggles, and homelessness are colliding into a crisis that’s hard to ignore. Thousands of people are falling through the cracks untreated, unsupported, and left to spiral in public spaces. This video isn’t just about what happened in a restaurant it’s about what’s happening around us every day. The system isn’t built to handle the scale of mental illness and substance abuse on our streets, and the result is scenes like this becoming “normal.” It’s heartbreaking. And if this doesn’t wake people up to how serious the issue has become, what will?show more

The people dunking on SPECS aren't wrong - the... world's best social computer is being sold as a personal one you use alone in your room I always imagined walking around my city stumbling onto photos and art other people left behind. the invisible world we never get to see made visible in the places it matters most I realized that experience wasn't going to be there day one so over the weekend I built the map and bought a pair of SPECS to explore it this Fall Put yourself on the map today:show more

You point at the mess and say "clean this."... That is the whole manual. Matic just shipped this. No app, no map to draw, no menu. The robot listens in more than 70 languages, watches where your hand points, and drives to that spot. Say "follow me" and it trails you into the next room. All of it runs on the robot itself, so it works with the WiFi off. Nine years of work for one thing: a machine you talk to like a dog that actually listens. Matic Robotsshow more

A half eaten apple, the cross that was placed... on their clothes, and their name that was finally carved together. #TicketToHeavenEP4 ☆ That apple reminds me of the apple in Adam and Eve story. It's like a symbolic way of how they gave in to something that was considered as 'forbidden' ☆ The cross. I saw the hesitation in Tanrak's eyes when he took it off. It didn't feel like he removed it simply because he was afraid of losing it. Instead, it was as if guilt was gnawing at him, like if he kept it on, he would feel the heavy weight of God watching him. Taking it off was like the choice to let go of that guilt and judgment ☆ The names on the tree. Carving their names into the tree feels like their permanent vow. As if a physical mark that Tanrak chose Barth, for now. To accompany him, to face the world with him // I genuinely didn't know what they actually trying to convey, it's just my personal point of view when I saw thisshow more

Iman Shumpert told Out The Mud Podcast the story... of his double alley-oop with JR Smith "While it was coming in the air, I remember looking at his feet like 'Why you acting like you going off the glass with this motherfucker?' I felt like maybe I can't see and he finna catch this off the glass to himself. When I caught it I'm like, 'If I wait a second, he ain't gon' catch this.' so I tap it back to him. Shorty catch that bitch and boom it."show more