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Details of Apple‘s new smartphone have been leaked ahead of the company’s annual keynote event tomorrow, suggesting it will be named iPhone X and feature an OLED screen, as well as face recognition software.

The news of iPhone X, as well as an iPhone 8 and 8 plus, were revealed by Apple blogger and coder Steve Troughton-Smith yesterday on Twitter.

According to Apple news site 9to5Mac, the iPhone X will be a “nearly-bezel-less” OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen that will have 3D sensors and face recognition capabilities that would replace the touch ID button.

It will also reportedly support wireless charging and a new messaging app named Animoji, which makes use of the phone’s 3D-sensors to make emojis that replicate the user’s facial expressions.

Many are speculating that the iPhone X is Apple’s way of commemorating the iPhone’s 10th anniversary.

If the leaks are correct, it will be released alongside the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models – which are upgrades of the existing 7 handset. Sources are also reporting that a new Apple watch with “cellular capabilities”, and a 4K television will also be revealed.

The spoiler comes amid Apple’s recent efforts to keep details of new products secret. In June, news site Outline reported that former employees at the National Security Agency had been employed by the company in order to keep leakers at bay.

But John Gruber, a well-known Apple blogger, believes this leak was a “deliberate, malicious act by a rogue employee”.

“Someone within Apple leaked the list of URLs to 9to5Mac and MacRumors,” he wrote on his blog, Daring Fireball. “I’m nearly certain this wasn’t a mistake, but rather a deliberate malicious act by a rogue Apple employee.”

“Whoever did this is the least-popular person in Cupertino. More surprises were spoiled by this leak than any leak in Apple history.”

Apple, which ranked at number two on Dezeen’s Hot List of brands and designers, is set to unveil its new products at a conference in the newly-built Steve Jobs Theatre on Tuesday 10am PDT (5pm GMT).

It’s the first conference to take place inside the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Park in Cupertino.

Ahead of its opening, the building received mixed reviews. While Jony Ive described it as “nice“, technology magazine Wired said that it “sucks”, and some reports circulating around Silicon Valley said Apple workers hate the open-plan layout of their campus so much they might quit.

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French architect Manuelle Gautrand has been named as this year’s laureate of the European Prize for Architecture, making her the first woman to receive the accolade.

The annual European Prize for Architecture was set up in 2010 to recognise European architects who have made a commitment to advance “the principles of European humanism and the art of architecture”.

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, the founder of architecture firm BIG, and Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava are among the previous winners of the prize described as the “highest award for architecture”.

Gautrand, who runs Paris-based Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, is both the first female and the first French architect to be named laureate. She was selected in recognition of her “boldness and non-conformity” by the organisers, The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

“All her projects express a specific relationship to the site: a desire to revive it and enchant; a deep commitment to working on the programmes entrusted to the firm, make them even more efficient, more malleable and more unexpected,” said president of The Chicago Athenaeum, Christian Narkiewicz-Laine.

“Her works admirably and poetically fulfil the traditional requirements of architecture for physical and spatial beauty along with function and craftsmanship, but what sets them apart is their approach that creates buildings and places that are both local and universal at the same time,” Narkiewicz-Laine added.

After graduating from The École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Montpellier in 1985, Gautrand worked for six years in Parisian architecture studios before she founded her eponymous studio in Lyons in 1991 with partner Marc Blaising.

The team moved to Paris three years later and has completed a number of cultural facilities such as theatres, museums, and cultural centres, as well as office buildings, housing and commercial spaces.

Among her best-recognised work is the angular Cité des Affaires office building in French city Saint-Etienne. Completed in 2011, the building and is looped around a courtyard and features a bright yellow underbelly.

The firm’s other well-known accomplishments include an extension to the Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut at Villeneuve d’Ascq and the green-hued Hipark Hotel.

Last year, Manuelle Gautrand Architecture completed an orange-toned events building in Saint-Louis comprising 13 blocks.

By awarding its first female laureate, the European Prize for Architecture forms part of a growing focus on gender-equality in the industry.

Earlier this year in an Opinion column for Dezeen, Danish architect Dorte Mandrup called for an end to the term”female architect”, arguing that its use was a step in the wrong direction for equality.

Former laureate Bjarke Ingels also got caught up in the debate after an Instagram post of BIG’s 12 partners featured only one woman.

Sheela Maini Søgaard, the only woman among the team, later spoke out to defend the gender balance and diversity in the firm.

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For so many of us September is just as much the start of a new year as January. And with that fresh start comes many new projects and objectives, from doing well at school, to making a commitment to store holiday gear and summer toys properly, to self-improvement goals.

My husband and I fall into the third category this year. Over the past 18 months we’ve let our weight slide. We love cooking and adore baking so we people over for breakfast, lunch, and dinner all the time. While this has done great things for our social life, it has taken its toll on our bodies. Also in my case, approaching 50 years old means that the weight doesn’t distribute itself all over like it used to and I’ve developed the beginnings of an inside-out hourglass shape.

So, our self-improvement goal is eating better. We refuse to say we’re on a diet because that implies a short-term program that will stop when we reach our desired weight. Instead, by focusing on changing our eating habits in general, we will not only take off the extra weight, but train ourselves to choose healthy options in the future.

There are many things to consider when setting off on a major life-shift like this one. To do it well means being organized about it and planning it from beginning to end (while of course remaining sufficiently open to unknown variables and unexpected challenges).

Over the next few months, I will provide tips on staying organized during habit changes and update you on how our own journey is going.

First off, before starting anything, it’s important to know exactly what to do and how to do it. There are different ways to do that of course. One is reading sites like Unclutterer or reading the Unclutterer books (Never too busy to cure clutter and Unclutter your life in one week). Another is asking a friend who has gone through a similar process for his/her thoughts on the experience and adapt it to your needs.

Then there’s what we did. We didn’t want any fads, gimmicks, or quick-loss schemes so we went to a professional for advice, in our case to a nutritionist who was recommended to us by a friend who saw incredible results. When you are building a house, you don’t start grabbing bits of wood and brick and stacking them together. You go to an architect and draws up detailed plans for the builders to follow. Or if you need your house or business streamlined you hire a professional organizer. For us, working with a nutritionist just made sense.

All too often people say, “Who needs to pay for help? I can do that!” Then when they don’t reach their goals, demotivation sets in, the plans and goals off the rails and it’s even harder to start all over.

When do you think experts should be called? And how have you decided that the professional of your choice is the right one?

Post written by Alex Fayle

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