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A truck driver spent 20 years making this astonishing scale model of every single building in New York City

In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken created a miniature replica of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza out of balsa wood.
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The Artists Remaking Everyday Buildings in Dollhouse Scale

Miniaturists are memorializing the architecture of quickly changing cities with meticulous renderings of corner stores, restaurants and even dumpsters. From left: a Brooklyn dumpster (five inches tall ...
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A detailed look at New York’s community of independent and in-house model makers

A display wall at Radii in Hoboken, New Jersey, shows the range of models built by the shop since it opened in 2000. (Christopher Payne/Esto) Amid all of the ways to make an architectural model ...

Nvidia introduces platform for large-scale AI training and inference

Nvidia Corp. today stoked the fires of the emerging artificial intelligence factory trend with the announcement of Dynamo 1.0, an open-source platform the company is positioning as an essential ...