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Skills Ontario hosting summer camp in Ottawa for students
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/from-changing-tires-to-welding-ottawa-students-get-hands-on-at-trades-summer-camp/

Lions' Aidan Hutchinson addresses eligibility for historic extension: 'Been pretty hands-off with the process'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

You know that it's a rough day at #SCOTUS when it hands down a ruling from which *eight* justices dissent (albeit in different parts).
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.soc…

Google unveils $130 Pixel Buds 2A with a Tensor A1 chip, Gemini features, seven hours of battery life with ANC, and a replaceable battery, available October 9 (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/760852/g

Google’s Pixel Buds 2A add Gemini, noise cancellation, and a replaceable battery
The $129.99 Pixel Buds 2a are a bit more expensive, but add active noise cancellation, a Tensor A1 chip, Gemini access, and replaceable batteries.

Challenging Disability and Interaction Norms in XR: Cooling Down the Empathy Machine in Waiting for Hands
Yesica Duarte, Puneet Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15481

Challenging Disability and Interaction Norms in XR: Cooling Down the Empathy Machine in Waiting for Hands
Virtual Reality (VR) is often described as the "ultimate empathy machine," framing disability as an experience to be simulated through such technologies, which can reduce disability to a spectacle of pity or inspiration. In response, we present Waiting for Hands (WfH), an interactive eXtended Reality (XR) installation that critiques this logic by: (1) repurposing interaction norms in XR through the creation of Alternative Controllers, and (2) staging an absurd XR performance using the built con…

DeMeco Ryans compares Derek Stingley Jr.'s hands to Deion Sanders' https://www.nfl.com/news/demeco-ryans-compares-derek-stingley-jr-s-hands-to-deion-sanders

5 Incredible Synthesizer Studios: Get Your Hands on the World’s Rarest Synths
https://www.gearnews.com/5-incredible-synthesizer-studios-synth/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/musicproduction

5 Incredible Synthesizer Studios: Get Your Hands on the World’s Rarest Synths - gearnews.com
You don’t have to buy a Jupiter-8 to play a Jupiter-8. Get access to amazing synths at these mind-blowing synthesizer studios.

"Conservationists raise sharks to restore reefs in waters around Thailand"
#Thailand #Conservation #CoralReef #Shsrks

Conservationists raise sharks to restore reefs in waters around Thailand
KHAO LAK, Thailand — Conservationist Ying Pemika Choovanichchanon holds a small basket in her hands, careful not to disturb the leathery brown pouches nestled inside. When she shines a light underneath, signs of life appear: the pouches are bamboo shark egg cases, and the tiny creatures within them are a key part of a plan […]

Per @epistemiccrisis, #Trump has congestive heart failure. And chronic kidney disease.
▫️Swollen ankles
▫️Only sitting behind the desk
▫️Make up on hands to cover bruising
Sure explains the ramped up timetable for martial law.

Sure, sure, using an exploit (which happens to be only tethered if I remember correctly). But still, if the process of unlocking a bootloader is so hard and convoluted that it’s literally easier to take it to a store and yank it from their hands before it gets locked again maybe we shouldn’t really be calling it unlockable anymore?

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
OPERATOR: Not possible. [Maja hands Varon a brooch.]
VARON: Look, the Justice Department can get a clearance [Places the brooch on the desk] but it takes time.
OPERATOR: This didn't happen, of course.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/285…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Me this morning:
(Unfortunately necessary disclaimer: this has nothing to do with world events)

Donny Little Hands
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: don't have me abducted.
#satire #potus45

I don't think I posted any running photos from the Thom B Trail Runs this May 17th in Hammond Hill State Forest; here's one of the faster runners -- this time I didn't get hypothermia or sunburn or anything
#photo #photography

Caught in a mix-up
When life hands you a melon
You make lemonade.
#dailyhaikuprompt - melon
#haiku
#poem

Rats and Yellow Crazy Ants Eradicated on 6 Polynesian Islands–Now, Birds and Turtles are Flourishing https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rats-and-yellow-crazy-ants-eradicated-on-6-polynesian-islands-now-birds-and-turt…

Rats and Yellow Crazy Ants Eradicated on 6 Polynesian Islands–Now, Birds and Turtles are Flourishing
Residents of Nukufetau Atoll participated in awareness sessions and received hands-on training in eradication techniques.

Blaming #privatised #water for #sewage dumping? Here is a 1976 article from when it was in public hands.

Sonnet 028 - XXVIII
How can I then return in happy plight,
That am debarred the benefit of rest?
When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,
But day by night and night by day oppress'd,
And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain
How far I toil, still farther off from thee.
I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grac…

When I heard the news that the US bombed Iran. I had to remind myself of what I witnessed this past week - millions of people turned out for #NoKings. Three retiree women in a coffee shop planning their resistance. And these fiber art designs in Lanesboro, MN I saw this weekend. (Shout out to Driftless Fiber Arts) Not the kind of town where you'd expect to see resistance art or pride parad…

Oakley Meta HSTN hands-on: the $399 glasses are a fun accessory and sportier, thinner, lighter, and more comfortable than previous models with a solid 3K camera (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress "Hands Off Our WiFi"
(Public Knowledge and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute)
https://www.votervoice.net/PublicKnowledge/Campaigns/128237/Respond

Cowboys front office tying new head coach's hands behind his back, and for what? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/21/cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-tough-position-2025/85764720007/…

Advice to the Players - Frank Bidart
There is something missing in our definition, vision, of a human being:
the need to make.
We are creatures who need to make.
Because existence is willy-nilly thrust into our hands, our fate is to
make something— if nothing else, the shape cut by the arc of our lives.
My parents saw corrosively the arc of their lives.
Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves...

Top Links 777 Standout productivity. China bottoms out. AIDS deaths & the "Californian Ideology"
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

GraspQP: Differentiable Optimization of Force Closure for Diverse and Robust Dexterous Grasping
Ren\'e Zurbr\"ugg, Andrei Cramariuc, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15002

GraspQP: Differentiable Optimization of Force Closure for Diverse and Robust Dexterous Grasping
Dexterous robotic hands enable versatile interactions due to the flexibility and adaptability of multi-fingered designs, allowing for a wide range of task-specific grasp configurations in diverse environments. However, to fully exploit the capabilities of dexterous hands, access to diverse and high-quality grasp data is essential -- whether for developing grasp prediction models from point clouds, training manipulation policies, or supporting high-level task planning with broader action options…

As a geriatric millennial, my joints are inflamed and swollen, making it painful to wave my arms, but the current state of the world compels me to continue waving my hands.

5 Incredible Synthesizer Studios: Get Your Hands on the World’s Rarest Synths
https://www.gearnews.com/5-incredible-synthesizer-studios-synth/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/musicproduction

5 Incredible Synthesizer Studios: Get Your Hands on the World’s Rarest Synths - gearnews.com
You don’t have to buy a Jupiter-8 to play a Jupiter-8. Get access to amazing synths at these mind-blowing synthesizer studios.

I hope that at this moment, #JamesDobson is gargling satan’s blls w/ both hands tied behind his back. I hope he’s not allowed to take even a 5-sec break until Warren Jeffs arrives, & at that time, I hope Jeffs must take over for Dobson, who should then be forced to spend the rest of eternity cleaning the sht out of Rush Limbaugh’s colon w/ his tongue while demons stuff dead, slimy, rotting …

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/458863/supreme-court-nih-public-health-grants-gobbledygook
http://www.memeorandum.com/250821/p138#a250821p138

Trump on Monday began to confront the potential economic blowback from his military strikes on Iran,
which threatens to send oil and gas prices soaring at a moment when U.S. consumers are already facing significant financial strains.
The mere prospect of rising energy costs appeared to spook even Trump, who took to social media to push for more domestic drilling
-- while demanding that companies “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN”; otherwise, they would be “PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS O…

White House Faces Risk of Economic Fallout From Iran Strike
President Trump, aware of how high gas prices could affect his popularity, demanded on social media that the U.S. “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN.”

Medicaid Hands Over Database Of Enrollees To ICE - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/medicaid-hands-over-database-of-enrollees-to-ice/

Ugh, what a dumbass. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3luiljxdpdc2d
And yet, this is slightly better than "we're going to deport Mamdani".. I think?

@… At work, probably at the last mozilla all-hands we attended.

Bei uns könnt ihr heute den Mond und den Mars gleichzeitig berühren! Christian Renggli hat uns heute nachmittag schonmal gezeigt wie's geht.
@…
#ndwgoe #ndwgoemps

‘I wish I could turn back the hands of time’: Ruggs speaks after fatal Las Vegas DUI crash https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/i-wish-i-could-turn-back-the-hands-of-time-ruggs…

My friend Shatini could use some volunteers to help fund raise for families in Gaza.
She has been doing this for a while and could use folks more hands. Please reach out if you can help.
https://techhub.social/@shantini/115064691640087780

Hands-on with Apple's new Speech framework components in the macOS Tahoe beta: the APIs deliver transcription speeds significantly faster than OpenAI's Whisper (John Voorhees/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/hands-o…

Hands-On: How Apple’s New Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Lightning-Fast Transcription
Late last Tuesday night, after watching F1: The Movie at the Steve Jobs Theater, I was driving back from dropping Federico off at his hotel when I got a text: Can you pick me up? It was from my son Finn, who had spent the evening nearby and was stalking me in Find My. Of

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Stereolab:
🎵 Immortal Hands
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/immortal-hands
https://open.spotify.com/track/3a9Gcz1FxNDxeEILkEyBkY

@… *waves magic edit hands* 😅 (thanks!)

One would hope that this actually is a violation of law - There certainly are no exigent issues requiring this abusive treatment. I would feel a lot better if I saw a concerted action from Congress - or at least the #Democrats, in the hope that a few #GOP might join in - to stop this. But I fear that's …

One would hope that this actually is a violation of law - There certainly are no exigent issues requiring this abusive treatment. I would feel a lot better if I saw a concerted action from Congress - or at least the #Democrats, in the hope that a few #GOP might join in - to stop this. But I fear that's …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Daphni:
🎵 Clap Your Hands
#Daphni
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/clap-your-hands
https://open.spotify.com/track/54K9jnCgyW5c6AA5Xy0rpw

Donny Little Hands
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This is satire, not sedition: please don't come after me.
#satire #potus45

For #pridemonth, this classic:
#rats

Dynamic Latent Class Structural Equation Modeling: A Hands-On Tutorial for Modeling Intensive Longitudinal Data
Roberto Faleh, Sofia Morelli, Vivato Andriamiarana, Zachary J. Roman, Christoph Fl\"uckiger, Holger Brandt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12983

Dynamic Latent Class Structural Equation Modeling: A Hands-On Tutorial for Modeling Intensive Longitudinal Data
In this tutorial, we provide a hands-on guideline on how to implement complex Dynamic Latent Class Structural Equation Models (DLCSEM) in the Bayesian software JAGS. We provide building blocks starting with simple Confirmatory Factor and Time Series analysis, and then extend these blocks to Multilevel Models and Dynamic Structural Equation Models (DSEM). Leading through the tutorial is an example from clinical psychology using data on a generalized anxiety treatment that includes scales on anxi…

@… Yes, I agree, and I'd also love to get my hands on these drafts…
The author specifically mentions the angle brackets, which IMHO supports the assumption that the inital SGML working draft still used the GML syntax.

@… Yes, I agree, and I'd also love to get my hands on these drafts…
The author specifically mentions the angle brackets, which IMHO supports the assumption that the inital SGML working draft still used the GML syntax.

Google unveils the $999 Pixel 10 Pro and $1,199 10 Pro XL, with 6.3" and 6.8" OLED displays, Tensor G5 chips, Zoned UFS storage, available on August 28 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/google-pixel-10-pro-xl-seri…

Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL are all about upgrades you can’t see, still starting at $999 [Hands-on]
Google Pixel 10 Pro series doesn't have much in the way of visual updates, but it packs a lot of upgrades under the hood for the same price.

Learning Dexterous Object Handover
Daniel Frau-Alfaro, Julio Casta\~no-Amoros, Santiago Puente, Pablo Gil, Roberto Calandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16822

Learning Dexterous Object Handover
Object handover is an important skill that we use daily when interacting with other humans. To deploy robots in collaborative setting, like houses, being able to receive and handing over objects safely and efficiently becomes a crucial skill. In this work, we demonstrate the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for dexterous object handover between two multi-finger hands. Key to this task is the use of a novel reward function based on dual quaternions to minimize the rotation distance, which outp…

Little Donnie Small Hands
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: cancel the hit squad.
#satire #potus45

This looks very cool.
'OpenAIRE in collaboration with Area Science Park organizes a hands-on workshop titled “Where LEGO Meets FAIR Data,” designed to introduce the principles of FAIR data through a creative, interactive simulation using LEGO metaphors.'
https://www.

Quick! Get that Trump of Doom out of the mouth of that babe!!
Howland Owl shakes the hand of Albert Alligator and says, "Congratulations! Thou art in the hands of a good man. SAFE! Safe until the TRUMP OF DOOM soundeth." Albert replies, "Right coach. 'Til the TRUMP of DOOM." Meanwhile, in the background, a bear holding a trumpet up towards a child, says, "Watch--Even a child...Wanna try the bugle, son?" Churchy La Femme, a turtle, looks on with concern…

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
Yiming Dou, Wonseok Oh, Yuqing Luo, Antonio Loquercio, Andrew Owens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09989

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
We study the problem of making 3D scene reconstructions interactive by asking the following question: can we predict the sounds of human hands physically interacting with a scene? First, we record a video of a human manipulating objects within a 3D scene using their hands. We then use these action-sound pairs to train a rectified flow model to map 3D hand trajectories to their corresponding audio. At test time, a user can query the model for other actions, parameterized as sequences of hand pos…

Google unveils the $1,799 Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with a Tensor G5 chip, a new hinge with a gear-less design, 6.4" outer and 8" inner screens, available October 9 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/762080/google-pixel-10-pro…

The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first fully dust-resistant foldable
Google’s third folding phone is the first to come with full dust protection thanks to a new hinge.

"I built a #QRcode with my bare hands to see how it works" https://youtu.be/w5ebcowAJD8
– about the development and functioning of

So you have lots of questions then, do you? Keep them coming! That was a talk on Mars, many more talks still coming: https://www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-format/vortrag/
@…

White House releases Trump health update after speculation over swollen legs, bruised hands (Emma Colton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-releases-trump-health-update-after-speculation-over-swollen-legs-bruised-hands
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p108#a250717p108

Get ready, Sith and Jedi! Tonight, I'm streaming Star Wars: The Old Republic on Linux, and Twitch drops are enabled! That means you can get your hands on the awesome TF-6 Striker. See you in-game! #SWTOR #Gaming

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Daphni:
🎵 Clap Your Hands
#Daphni
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/clap-your-hands
https://open.spotify.com/track/54K9jnCgyW5c6AA5Xy0rpw

“Individually we are nothing, united we are everything!”
By Akbar Behkalam (1999, oil on canvas)
On the occasion of the merger of IG Metall and the Wood and Plastics Union.

The workers' freedom must be the work of their own hands, the emancipation and liberation of the working class cannot be granted or imposed by external political parties or authorities, but must be achieved through autonomous, collective action and self-organization.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism

"Each card contains the restrained person’s name and description along with the protected individual’s name, birth date, and some basic information about their case.
Hope Card holders can show the cards to law enforcement, employers, school officials and landlords if an abuser is violating an order."
**WA hands out 2,000 ‘Hope Cards’ to people with protection orders in program's first 6 months** • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/wa-hands-out-2000-hope-cards-to-people-with-protection-orders-in-programs-first-6-months/

WIP: Turning Fake Chips into Learning Opportunities
Haniye Mehraban, Saad Azmeen-ur-Rahman, John Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13281 https://

WIP: Turning Fake Chips into Learning Opportunities
This work-in-progress paper presents a case study in which counterfeit TL074 operational amplifiers, discovered in a junior level electronics course, became the basis for a hands on learning experience. Counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) are increasingly common, posing a significant threat to the integrity of undergraduate electronics laboratories. Instead of simply replacing the counterfeit components, we turned the issue into a teaching moment. Students engaged in hands-on diagnostics measu…

Music-Aligned Holistic 3D Dance Generation via Hierarchical Motion Modeling
Xiaojie Li, Ronghui Li, Shukai Fang, Shuzhao Xie, Xiaoyang Guo, Jiaqing Zhou, Junkun Peng, Zhi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14915

Music-Aligned Holistic 3D Dance Generation via Hierarchical Motion Modeling
Well-coordinated, music-aligned holistic dance enhances emotional expressiveness and audience engagement. However, generating such dances remains challenging due to the scarcity of holistic 3D dance datasets, the difficulty of achieving cross-modal alignment between music and dance, and the complexity of modeling interdependent motion across the body, hands, and face. To address these challenges, we introduce SoulDance, a high-precision music-dance paired dataset captured via professional motio…

Den här historien om läckan i Storbritannien blir bara mer och mer bisarr. Nu visar det sig att namnen på ett hundratal brittiska specialtrupper och underrättelseofficerare fanns i dokumentet som påstås ha läckt "av misstag". https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c706jdlr934t

Personal details of UK special forces and spies were included in Afghan data breach
Details of more than 100 British officials were in the data, which may have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.

Literally screaming
#uspol

heise | iPadOS 26 im Hands-on: Neustart für das iPad
Apple bringt MacBook-Funktionen auf das Tablet, Nutzer können mit vielen Fenstern gleichzeitig arbeiten. Kann das iPad damit über sich hinauswachsen?
https://www.

Calamus 37 A leaf for hand in hand!
I continue to have little patience for these Whitman entreaties to American unity. The recitation of place names does little for me. But I do appreciate that he's talking more about loving unity between men than some abstract political message.
You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs! ...
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
That's the gay part there. It's pretty mild, but still seems striking of talking about two boatmen or mechanics walking holding hands. One might even see an appeal to rough trade.
I am beginning to understand this Whitman concept of "adhesiveness", a brotherly love that could unify a nation. I still prefer a more sexual gay reading but I think his poems work in both ways.

Hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's "hyperrealistic" VR research prototype with beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness and contrast, and a narrow field of view (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-tiramisu-hyperrealistic-vr-hands-on/

Meta Tiramisu "Hyperrealistic VR" Hands-On: A Stunning Window Into Another World
At SIGGRAPH 2025, we also went hands-on with Tiramisu, Meta's prototype that combines beyond-retinal resolution, high brightness, and high contrast.

Please help @… if you can. Her and her family are living through hell at the hands of israel.
#israel #genocide

Have you ever looked at clouds or water and tried to understand the complex system of swirls and ribbons?
To take it a step further: Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and its moons still pose puzzles of this kind, which we hope to unravel with the instruments aboard the JUICE spacecraft on its journey there.
Here's a hands-on experiment that explains how the gas giant's cloud swirls are formed.
@…

Hands-on with Boba 3, Meta's prototype PC VR headset with a form factor similar to the Quest 3, featuring an ultrawide field of view of 180° by 120° (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-boba-3-prototype-hands-on-ultra-…

Meta Boba 3 Prototype Hands-On: Ultra-Wide Field Of View Without Compromise
We went hands-on with Boba 3, Meta's practical ultra-wide field of view prototype headset, and it has us more optimistic than ever about the future of VR.

And here's my friend Harry visiting our farm, in front of the garden in which I took that dreamy shot of the false sunflowers
#photo #photography #portrait

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Les McCann:
🎵 With These Hands
#LesMcCann
https://open.spotify.com/track/6abaJPZlBR4Q0MsdLRspUC

Donny Little Hands
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: please don't ruin my life.
#satire #potus45

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Daphni:
🎵 Clap Your Hands
#Daphni
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/clap-your-hands
https://open.spotify.com/track/54K9jnCgyW5c6AA5Xy0rpw

How does the #brain transfer #MotorSkills between hands?
This study reveals that transfer relies on re-expressing the neural patterns established during initial learning in distributed higher-order brain areas,
offering new insights into learning

Transfer of motor learning is associated with patterns of activity in the default mode network
How does the brain transfer motor skills between hands? This study reveals that transfer relies on re-expressing the neural patterns established during initial learning in distributed higher-order brain areas, offering new insights into learning generalization.

emg2tendon: From sEMG Signals to Tendon Control in Musculoskeletal Hands
Sagar Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08269

emg2tendon: From sEMG Signals to Tendon Control in Musculoskeletal Hands
Tendon-driven robotic hands offer unparalleled dexterity for manipulation tasks, but learning control policies for such systems presents unique challenges. Unlike joint-actuated robotic hands, tendon-driven systems lack a direct one-to-one mapping between motion capture (mocap) data and tendon controls, making the learning process complex and expensive. Additionally, visual tracking methods for real-world applications are prone to occlusions and inaccuracies, further complicating joint tracking…

Donny Little Hands
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: no investigating me please.
#satire #potus45

Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/756587/microsoft-copilot-3d-feature-hands-on

Microsoft’s new Copilot 3D feature is great for Ikea, bad for my dog
Microsoft has created a new Copilot 3D feature. It converts 2D images into 3D models that can be used for 3D printing or in 3D editing software.

Modal toccata
- the pipe organ is like a whole orchestra under your hands ... and feet -
#PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
https://

Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients' personal data, including addresses, to ICE (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-medicaid-trump-ice-ab9c2267ce596089410387bfcb40eeb7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p68#a250717p68

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Drone:
🎵 Stuck In Paradise
#Drone
https://droneuk.bandcamp.com/track/devils-hands

Grammy-Winning Gospel Singer Who "Laid Hands" On Trump Accused Of Sexual Misconduct With Three Men - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/grammy-winning-gospel-singer-who-laid-hands-on-trump-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-with-three-men/

Xbox Ally X hands-on: AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme APU, 24GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD, 1080p games run at 60 FPS with no issues, a slimmed down Windows OS, and more (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/hands-on-with-the-xbox-ally-x-…

Hands-On With the Xbox Ally X, the New Gaming Handheld from Asus and Microsoft - IGN
The Xbox handhelds are coming Holiday 2025 and they're impressive, but many questions still remain.

ExoStart: Efficient learning for dexterous manipulation with sensorized exoskeleton demonstrations
Zilin Si, Jose Enrique Chen, M. Emre Karagozler, Antonia Bronars, Jonathan Hutchinson, Thomas Lampe, Nimrod Gileadi, Taylor Howell, Stefano Saliceti, Lukasz Barczyk, Ilan Olivarez Correa, Tom Erez, Mohit Shridhar, Murilo Fernandes Martins, Konstantinos Bousmalis, Nicolas Heess, Francesco Nori, Maria Bauza Villalonga

ExoStart: Efficient learning for dexterous manipulation with sensorized exoskeleton demonstrations
Recent advancements in teleoperation systems have enabled high-quality data collection for robotic manipulators, showing impressive results in learning manipulation at scale. This progress suggests that extending these capabilities to robotic hands could unlock an even broader range of manipulation skills, especially if we could achieve the same level of dexterity that human hands exhibit. However, teleoperating robotic hands is far from a solved problem, as it presents a significant challenge …

Donny Little Hands
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: let's not make entertainment lead to internment.
#satire #potus45

Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code (Dan Shipper/Every)
https://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-openai-enters-the-browser-wars-with-…

Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agent
It’s launching today! Here’s our day-zero, hands-on report.

macOS Tahoe 26 hands-on: Liquid Glass is slick but slightly overwrought, and the new Spotlight search features are nifty and useful, but fall short of Raycast (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apple/685052/appl

Hands on with macOS Tahoe 26: Liquid Glass, new theme options, and Spotlight
macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 1 is here, with our first glimpse at Liquid Glass on the desktop, plus the first glimmers of Spotlight’s big new moves.

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Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Chendong Xin, Mingrui Yu, Yongpeng Jiang, Zhefeng Zhang, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09384

Analyzing Key Objectives in Human-to-Robot Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation
Kinematic retargeting from human hands to robot hands is essential for transferring dexterity from humans to robots in manipulation teleoperation and imitation learning. However, due to mechanical differences between human and robot hands, completely reproducing human motions on robot hands is impossible. Existing works on retargeting incorporate various optimization objectives, focusing on different aspects of hand configuration. However, the lack of experimental comparative studies leaves the…

Google unveils the $799 Pixel 10, featuring a new Tensor G5 chip, 6.3" OLED display, Gorilla Glass Victus 2, and Qi2 support, available on August 28 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/google-pixel-10-qi2-colors-price/

The Pixel 10 is a colorful, Qi2-packed crowd pleaser starting at $799 [Hands-on]
The new Pixel 10 is Google's most affordable device in the new lineup, with a revamped camera, new colors, and Qi2, what's not to love?

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Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: after a few days, it is just a bigger, more powerful Switch, transferring games works smoothly, the new Joy-Cons are great, and more (Andrew Webster/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/nintendo/682661/nintendo-…

A weekend with the Nintendo Switch 2
Nintendo released the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World on June 5th, and the console and game make a strong first impression.

Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more (Michael Teo Van Runkle/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/07/everything-w…

Everything we learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra
CarPlay Ultra takes over the main instrument display as well as the infotainment.

Microsoft and Asus unveil the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X, two gaming handhelds that will run Windows games from multiple storefronts, including Steam (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/rog-xbox-ally-x-microsoft-handhe…

I tried Microsoft’s newly revealed Xbox gaming handheld
I played Gears of War on the upcoming ROG Xbox Ally X. Steam was on there, too. What Microsoft's portable Xbox is all about... the challenges it faces.