Lights and Shadows 🔅
光与影 🔅
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ILFORD FP4 Plus, expired 1995
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TIL: On Taiwan TV, the BBC series “Doctor Who” is translated as “何博士”.
博士 is simply the word for doctor (the academic degree, not a medical practitioner). But 何 is both a Chinese surname (transcribed as Ho or Hé) and an interrogative pronoun for “what” or “how”. Clever translation.
BBC and Disney use 超時空奇俠 as the Chinese title which translates as "across-time-space strange hero" and Netflix uses 神秘博士 "Mysterious Doctor". 🤷
eduGAIN is expanding across Africa! 🌍
Five new countries: 🇹🇬 Togo, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇬🇭 Ghana, and 🇹🇿 Tanzania have joined, bringing the total on the continent to 14. 🎉
At the heart of this progress is eduID.africa (by UbuntuNet Alliance & WACREN under #AfricaConnect3), and now more researchers and students can now access global services with one trusted identity.
A look at the rise of $5B unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B club in H1 2025 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ultra-unicorn-startups…
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Wie präsent ist der #Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk?
Eine Analyse zeigt: Themen wie #Hitzeschutz, #Solarenergie und
China unveils its new 'graphite bomb' — here's how they work: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/china-unveils-its-new-graphite.html
Kuo expects Apple to mass produce a Vision Pro with M5 in Q3 2025, a Vision Air in Q3 2027, a Vision Pro with a new design and XR glasses in H2 2028, and more (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/29/apple-working-on-7-head-mounted-products/
Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M (Courtney Albon/Defense News)
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/05/…
Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/robinhood-crypto-cannes.html
Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…