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Open Call: Show Garden Competition for Seoul International Garden Show 2027

Seoul International Garden Show 2027 Show Garden Competition ○ Theme: 목멱상화(木覓賞花: Admiring Flowers in Namsan) ○ Announcement: November 10th, 2026 (Tues.) - December 9th, 2026 (Wed.) ○ Registration and Submission: December 7th, 2026 (Mon.) - December 9th (Wed.) 16:00 (Korean Standard Time, GMT+9) ○ Construction Venue: Namsan Park vicinity, Seoul Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea ○ Garden Type: Permanent installaiton (In-situ during and after the garden show)

ArchDaily · EN

Winners of the 2026 Photomicrography Competition

Ok, I’m gonna use the word gobsmacking here because I think it’s completely appropriate. This image of an inkjet printer laying down ink on a piece of paper is gobsmacking. Like what?! You can check out photographer Ole Bielfeldt’s behind-the-scenes process on Instagram ; he built a whole custom rig to capture this composite image. The biggest challenge was speed and lighting. The printhead, in the printer, moves at a very high speed over the paper. Simultaneously, the ink droplets get injected at around 20 m/s. So to capture the ink droplets mid air and get my lens close enough, this required

Kottke · EN

Google Forcing AI on Students Is BS

Google is rightfully facing blowback for forcing K-12 schools to enable AI if they wanted to keep using Google search. The company quickly backtracked and decoupled and turned off the services by default, but made it clear search will continue to be just another AI chatbot. This mandate forces an ultimatum on educators: accept generative AI or de-google your school. Students, teachers, and parents across the U.S. are now years into an argument about how schools should respond to the growth of AI-enabled tools. Google decided to skip this debate and take this choice from schools. In August it a

EFF Deeplinks · EN

Microsoft's Imagine Cup 'Evolves' From Student Competition To AI Startup Contest

theodp writes: That Was Then: The Imagine Cup competition, Microsoft explained in a 2003 press release, "seeks to provide students [aged 16-and-up] around the world with resources to use technology and Web services to solve everyday problems [...] Imagine Cup is about empowering students to apply their creativity and knowledge toward making the world a more-connected place." This Is Now: "Building is Hard. Selling is Harder." begins the "Why Imagine Cup?" promo video for the 2027 Imagine Cup competition, which is pivoting to an AI startup-first focus in recognition that "A new era for founders

Slashdot · EN

Eyeshot 2026 Submissions

Preparing for Eyeshot meant revisiting several years of photographs and making the harder decision of which images were worth submitting for closer scrutiny.

Excited Pixels · EN