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Google's Pixel 4 is here, and we've known what it would look like for months. Now, the design team has shared photos showing concepts and what it could have looked like before they settled on a final design. The photos are packed with goodies like a Pixel 4 that looks like a Galaxy Note 10 Plus, an iPhone 11, and more.

Few vehicles are as iconic and celebrated around the world as the Land Rover Defender. We spoke with the designers that had the difficult task of propelling the Defender nameplate, creating a modern vehicle while keeping it true to its roots as an exceptionally capable vehicle.

Digital Trends has had the same look for over half a decade. We can do better. You demanded more from us. So over the last half a year, we’ve built a new site, rethinking what we do from the inside out to ensure that every widget works, every slider slides, every text box wraps flawlessly.

With its new Legend design language, Alienware has been rapidly launching gaming peripherals, laptops, desktops, and monitors in this science fiction inspired design theme. Alienware's lead designers talk about the challenges and opportunities of bringing the Legend design ID to the Aurora R9 desktop.

Launching June 24, The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 will be a milestone in spaceflight, the first craft to raise its orbit around the planet using just the power of sunlight. We grilled Bill Nye on just how it works, and what it means for the future of spaceflight.

Auto designers have an impossible job. They have to interpret crazy and contradictory input from customers, predict where the market is going, and try to understand what people are going to want years before buyers know they want it. It’s a steep challenge, but that’s the game.

Want a better looking Pixel phone? Google may want to change the way its Pixel hardware looks, and to win plaudits for the design, rather than apprehension based on notches and bezels. A rumor says it's pitting several design teams against each other to come up with the next winning design.

Using machines that resemble jet engines, Climeworks wants to fight climate change by extracting CO2 from thin air. The gas can then be sold to carbonated drink and agriculture companies, or sequestered underground.

In 2013, Boyan Slat crowdfunded $2.2 million to fund the Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization that builds big, floating trash collectors and sets them out to sea, where they’re designed to autonomously gobble up garbage. The organization has since raised over $35 million and a lot of questions from incredulous experts.

The simulation hypothesis, which was famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at MIT. In his book, Virk endeavors to unpack the heady arguments that call our physical world into question.

An almost final prototype of the Huawei P30 Pro was shown behind closed doors at MWC 2019, and we managed to get some quality alone-time with it. We can see what the new smartphone will look like when it's announced next month in Paris, and how Huawei is building a strong family look.

Steam power might be poised to make a comeback. Researchers at University of Central Florida have built an experimental spacecraft that runs on steam — and it’s not nearly as ridiculous as it might sound.

2019 was full of big scientific news and breakthroughs, so we rounded up all of the best headlines for your perusal

Google has been redesigning most of its apps this year, throwing in a ton of white space while removing a lot of color first introduced with Material Design in 2014. Why is Google abandoning color? It's actually limiting it to highlight the product more, and to spotlight key Google actions.

In the tradition of bio-inspiration, a German designer named Max Jürgensen in a labor of love has created a stunning lamp that mimics the appearance and movement of jellyfish. The Jellyfish Motion Lights, now being crowdfunded, are part lamp, part installation, and completely captivating.

Alfa Romeo and Maserati are both over 100 years old, yet they've remained faithful to their heritage through periods of ups and downs. We sat down with Klaus Busse, the head of the Centro Stile responsible for drawing both brands' cars, to learn what it takes to balance tradition while breaking new ground.

Google is about to change how Chrome OS users will see and interact with notifications. In a new redesign, a change to the notification center shows that Google will merge notifications with some system quick settings in a move that mirrors Microsoft's Windows 10 Action Center.

To tackle some of today’s most pressing man-made tragedies, a team of researchers hasnow turned to the leaves of a floating fern, which have strange eggbeater-shaped protrusions.

Levi Strauss is turning to laser technology to make distressed jeans via a new process that reduces the company's impact on the environment.

The domed greenhouses are designed to house 50 people, equipped with open spaces of plants and water harvested from the Martian plains.

The Crowbar is designed to offer crows a tasty treat every time they deposit a cigarette filter -- thereby training them to clean our streets