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Assisting the last mile with smart glasses: towards user-centric LLM prompt engineering for visually impaired people #AI

Assisting the Last Mile with Smart Glasses: Towards User-Centric LLM Prompt Engineering for Visually Impaired People
The independent mobility of visually impaired people remains limited, particularly on the so-called last mile. Obstacles, a lack of guidance systems, and the absence of visual information make it difficult to navigate public spaces. Existing aids such as white canes...

Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-mls-match-shot…

Apple to Broadcast MLS Match Shot Entirely on iPhone 17 Pro
Apple TV on May 27 will present a special live MLS match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro, the first time the device will be used to shoot the entirety of a major professional live sporting event broadcast.

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Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-mls-match-shot…

Apple to Broadcast MLS Match Shot Entirely on iPhone 17 Pro
Apple TV on May 27 will present a special live MLS match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro, the first time the device will be used to shoot the entirety of a major professional live sporting event broadcast.

Wish Mark Jacobson bridged to mastadon. His commentary on false climate solutions is very helpful.
https://bsky.app/profile/mzjacobson.bsky.social/post/3motamxcayc2h

Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson.bsky.social)
Interesting how widespread subsidies and support for carbon capture and synthetic direct air capture are when not one peer-reviewed paper in the world shows, when the whole system and opportunity costs are considered, either reduces any CO2 from the air. Multiple papers show CC+DAC increase CO2. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Wish Mark Jacobson bridged to mastadon. His commentary on false climate solutions is very helpful.
https://bsky.app/profile/mzjacobson.bsky.social/post/3motamxcayc2h

Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson.bsky.social)
Interesting how widespread subsidies and support for carbon capture and synthetic direct air capture are when not one peer-reviewed paper in the world shows, when the whole system and opportunity costs are considered, either reduces any CO2 from the air. Multiple papers show CC+DAC increase CO2. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The AFC West’s next chapter belongs to its newest faces https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/19/the-afc-wests-next-chapter-belongs-to-its-newest-faces/

It's terrifying that the tech has been taken over by broligarchs who given the Trolley Problem think "we can capture the trolley supply chain, jack up the prices, and get US military pay billions for dual-track double-kill trolleys"

On October 31, 1803 the frigate USS Philadelphia hit a reef and ran aground chasing Barbary pirates near Tripoli, Libya.
All 307 members of its crew were captured and held hostage by the Barbary states.
Rather than pay tribute to the pirates, U.S. President Thomas Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to intervene and free the hostages.
The first of two wars against the Barbary pirates, the scourge of shipping for decades, hastened the building of the U.S. Navy
and began a lon…

The Slow Death of the Global Commons
Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come.

"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
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