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Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica plan AI-powered smart glasses under Oakley and Prada brands; they will be aimed at athletes, and the Oakleys may cost ~$360 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/meta-oakley-prada-smart-glasses-luxottica.html

Meta to release smart glasses with Oakley and Prada, extending Luxottica partnership
Meta plans to release new smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence that carry the Oakley branding, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.

Meta kündigt mit Oakley neue smarte Brille an
Noch in diesem Monat soll eine neue Brille von Meta erscheinen – diesmal in Kooperation mit Sportartikelhersteller Oakley.
https://www.he…

An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Bloomsday is also
Before Sunrise day.
https://bsky.app/profile/darach.bsky.social/post/3lrploo5cz22c

A Point Cloud Completion Approach for the Grasping of Partially Occluded Objects and Its Applications in Robotic Strawberry Harvesting
Ali Abouzeid, Malak Mansour, Chengsong Hu, Dezhen Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14066

A Point Cloud Completion Approach for the Grasping of Partially Occluded Objects and Its Applications in Robotic Strawberry Harvesting
In robotic fruit picking applications, managing object occlusion in unstructured settings poses a substantial challenge for designing grasping algorithms. Using strawberry harvesting as a case study, we present an end-to-end framework for effective object detection, segmentation, and grasp planning to tackle this issue caused by partially occluded objects. Our strategy begins with point cloud denoising and segmentation to accurately locate fruits. To compensate for incomplete scans due to occlu…

Add some swag to your ggplots, with fontawesome symbols and colors: #rstats

Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2} | Nicola Rennie
Adding social media icons to your data visualisation is a great, concise way to put your name on your work, and make it easy for people to find your profile from your work. This blog post explains how to add social media icons to {ggplot2} charts.

A Spintronic Battery with Reversible Modulation of Spin Polarization through Li Charge/Discharge: A First Principles Computational Modelling Case Study for an Antiperovskite System
Sk Mujaffer Hossain, Vinila Bedekara, Priyanka Yadavb, Ram Janay Chudhary, Satishchandra Ogale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14401

A Spintronic Battery with Reversible Modulation of Spin Polarization through Li Charge/Discharge: A First Principles Computational Modelling Case Study for an Antiperovskite System
A key notion defining the progress of the emergent fields of modern electronics, renewable energy, and smart systems is charge storage, which is primarily embodied in various battery chemistries and systems. In addition to the charge property, the electron also has the spin property, which is exploited in the field of spintronics to access novel magnetically controlled device actions that are not accessible to conventional electronics. An interesting question is whether the two can be fruitfull…

Me (to myself): Get in to work early this morning, with no messing about on the way in. Just 'a to b', fast and efficient!
Also me: [Leaves very late, grabs a unicycle and proceeds to cycling in via the following route]
🤷
https://www.strava.com/activities/14824892

#NowPlaying - and rainy sunday hootenannying with the not-quite (grateful) dead boys, live in 1981. was very honored to write liner notes for this, owsley's last time mixing/recording the band before moving to australia in advance of the oncoming ice age. @…

The #oslo #airport refuel application is using an #Android application written in @… says