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A video found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/

Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7...

Apple’s innovating again, y’all!
#Apple

Un artículo muy breve con contenido que casi todas las aquí presentes lo vamos a mirar con cara de "si, lo sabemos, cuéntanos algo nuevo" pero que no deja de ser interesante que salgan publicaciones en las que se cuestiona la forma en la que se han convertido las ciudades en lugares inhóspitos e invivibles y, sobretodo, que no estšn preparados para los eventos cada vez mšs exagerados frute del calentamiento global.

In Mexico we say “estoy mšs exprimido que un limón de fonda” and I think this is beautiful

Nimmt mich ja Wunder, wie Apple sowas Datenschutz-konform umsetzen will. Im Gegensatz zu Meta-Brillen sind AirPods allgegenwärtig, auch in Gyms und Badis …
Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-e…

From Amnesty International
More than 11,300 people have already signed the petition calling for open work permits for migrant workers.
Change happens when people come together.
Add your name today and help us reach 15,000 signatures, sending a clear message to the federal government that people across Canada support migrant workers' rights.
People from all walks of life have come together because we believe in a Canada where everyone is treated with dignity and fa…

🛑 Canada must stop the abuse of migrant workers
Join us in calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to abolish closed work permits, and instead grant open work permits to all Temporary Foreign Workers Program participants. 📷 Photo by Jim Rankin/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Physical Properties of 6.7 Million Galaxies from the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Spectral Fitting and Systematic Tests with Mock Spectra
Niu Li, Hu Zou, Jinfu Gou, Weijian Guo, Wenxiong L, Haoming Song, Jipeng Sui, Xi Tan, Yunao Xiao, Jingyi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19162 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19162 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19162
arXiv:2607.19162v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive analysis of the physical properties of galaxies in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS), based on full spectral fitting of $\sim 6.7$ million galaxy spectra. Using a customized spectral fitting pipeline, we derive key physical parameters including stellar mass, stellar velocity dispersion, stellar population age, dust attenuation, and emission-line properties. To quantify the reliability and systematic uncertainties of our measurements, we construct a large set of mock spectra that closely reproduce the observed properties of DESI data, including realistic noise and spectral features. By comparing the recovered parameters with the known inputs, we assess the performance of the spectral fitting as a function of stellar continuum signal-to-noise ratio (S/N, defined as the ratio of the median continuum flux to its associated error) and redshift. We find that stellar masses can be robustly recovered with negligible bias for spectra with $\mathrm{S/N} \gtrsim 5$, while low-S/N spectra ($\mathrm{S/N} \lesssim 5$) show a mild systematic overestimation of $\sim 0.1$ dex and increased scatter. Similar trends are observed for stellar population parameters, while emission-line fluxes are recovered with high accuracy and minimal bias. We further validate our stellar mass estimates by comparison with independent measurements from photometric spectral energy distribution fitting, finding good overall consistency within the expected systematic uncertainties. The value-added catalog presented in this work enables a wide range of statistical studies of galaxy evolution with DESI, and provides a foundation for future analyses.
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Rumours of mushroom-induced Lilliputian hallucinations have abounded for decades,
but until now scientists dismissed them as fantastical stories.
Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology
has found a fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people
It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in.
Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others known to science

'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.

One of the most important things you learn as an adult is that you can eat ice cream all year long, even when it's cold outside. Nobody checks that!
You can also eat ice cream if you diabetes, as long as you exercise and keep your blood sugar in check. Nobody checks what you eat as long as you get good results!
You can also add frozen aronia to your ice cream, and since aronia is healthy, that makes it a healthy meal.
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