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Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/exclusive-airpods-ios-26-wwdc-features/…

Exclusive: AirPods to get camera control, sleep detection, new gestures - 9to5Mac
Today, we are sharing a five previously unreported AirPods features that may be announced as early as Monday, during the WWDC25 keynote.

Eagles fans won't appreciate a former Cowboy's prediction about the top QB in the NFC East https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2025/06/28/eagles-news-marcus-spears-jayden-…

Of lynxes and limetrees: New Insights into the Historical Ecology of the Bavarian Forest on the Threshold of Modernity
Bettina Haas, Markus Gerstmeier, Ricarda Huter, Malte Rehbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02512

Of lynxes and limetrees: New Insights into the Historical Ecology of the Bavarian Forest on the Threshold of Modernity
This study explores the historical ecology of the Bavarian Forest at the threshold of modernity through the lens of a large-scale biodiversity survey conducted in 1845 across the Kingdom of Bavaria. Focusing on the Forestry Office of Zwiesel, the article analyses archival records that document the distribution of animal and tree species during a period of administrative rationalisation and early scientific systematisation. These sources include official correspondence, detailed species inventor…

Simple Approximations for General Spanner Problems
Fritz B\"okler, Markus Chimani, Henning Jasper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23638 https://

Simple Approximations for General Spanner Problems
Consider a graph with n nodes and m edges, independent edge weights and lengths, and arbitrary distance demands for node pairs. The spanner problem asks for a minimum-weight subgraph that satisfies these demands via sufficiently short paths w.r.t. the edge lengths. For multiplicative alpha-spanners (where demands equal alpha times the original distances) and assuming that each edge's weight equals its length, the simple Greedy heuristic by Althöfer et al. (1993) is known to yield strong soluti…

Apple was exempted from the EU's Corning deal to end exclusivity terms with OEMs, after finding products designed exclusively for Apple fall outside the market (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/19/apple-exempt-from-cornings-eu-antitrus…

Apple exempt from Corning's EU antitrust probe deal - 9to5Mac
The EC has concluded an antitrust investigation into Corning’s glass supply deals. And for once, Apple just watched from the sidelines.

Would love to have this in a normal-priced car. #carplayultra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlLjVraA9g

Scaling the human niche
Marcus J. Hamilton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20902 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20902

Scaling the human niche
The human niche represents the intersection of biological, ecological, cultural, and technological processes that have co-evolved to shape human adaptation and societal complexity. This paper explores the human niche through the lens of macroecological scaling theory, seeking to define and quantify the dimensions along which human ecological strategies have diversified. By leveraging concepts from classic niche theory, niche construction, and complex adaptive systems, I develop a framework for …

On the methods of reduction of some types of Marczerwski-Burstin measurable functions to continuous functions on products of perfect sets
Waldemar Ho{\l}ubowski, S{\l}awomir Kusi\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06458

On the methods of reduction of some types of Marczerwski-Burstin measurable functions to continuous functions on products of perfect sets
In this paper we provide product-wise generalizations of certain Marczewski-Burstin bases such as sets with (s)-property and completely Ramsey sets. For each of those we prove - as an analog of classical Luzin's and Eggleston's theorems that functions measurable with respect to those families can be reduced to continuous functions on a product of perfect sets. Moreover we also provide a way to reduce sequences of such functions to continuity, providing generalizations to Laver's extension of Ha…

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Marcelo S. Tedesco, Gonzalo Marquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11405 https://

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Persistent economic competition is often justified as a mechanism of innovation, efficiency, and welfare maximization. Yet empirical evidence across disciplines reveals that competition systematically generates fragility, inequality, and ecological degradation, emergent outcomes not of isolated failures but of underlying systemic dynamics. This work reconceptualizes economic ecosystems as real complex adaptive systems, structurally isomorphic with biological and social ecosystems. Integrating c…