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Texas passes a bill distributing $150M/year to movies and TV shows through 2035; the film office can reject incentives for shoots with "inappropriate content" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busi…

Hollywood South? Texas Makes Its Bid With Major Film Incentive Expansion
Texas is slated to give productions $150 million annually across the next decade. The program includes some quirks that will give the film office some say in movies and TV shows that qualify for the cash grant.

#ALMA 2D #SuperResolution imaging survey of Ophiuchus Class I/flat spectrum/II #disks - discovery of new disk substructures: https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/77/3/572/8117664?login=false -> New Super-resolution Imaging Reveals the First Step of Planet Formation after Star Birth / New Insights into Planet Formation from Public Data with New Imaging Technique: https://alma-telescope.jp/en/news/press/cradle-202506.html / https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2025/20250624-alma.html

Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12% to $82.5B (Alphabet)
https://abc.xyz/assets/cc/27/3ada14014efbadd7a58472f1f3f4/2025q2-alphabet-earnin…

The ACT government provides a wide range of grants, funding and other support to individuals, groups, and organisations that benefit Canberrans and the Canberra community.
https://www.act.gov.au/money-and-tax/grants-funding-and-incentives

Raiders HC Pete Carroll Promises Wins: “I Can’t Even Imagine Anything Else” https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/24/raiders-hc-pete-carroll-promises-wins-i-cant-even-imagine-anything-else/

Harmonization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Survey of Acquisition, Image-level, and Feature-level Methods
Qinqin Yang, Firoozeh Shomal-Zadeh, Ali Gholipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16962

Harmonization in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Survey of Acquisition, Image-level, and Feature-level Methods
Modern medical imaging technologies have greatly advanced neuroscience research and clinical diagnostics. However, imaging data collected across different scanners, acquisition protocols, or imaging sites often exhibit substantial heterogeneity, known as "batch effects" or "site effects". These non-biological sources of variability can obscure true biological signals, reduce reproducibility and statistical power, and severely impair the generalizability of learning-based models across datasets.…

🤩 Surgical microscope uses 48 tiny cameras to offer precise 3D imaging
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Surgical microscope uses 48 tiny cameras to offer precise 3D imaging
For over a century, surgeons performing delicate procedures have relied on stereoscopic microscopes to gain a sense of depth. These tools mimic human vision by presenting slightly different images to each eye, allowing the brain to perceive three-dimensional structures—a crucial aid when working with fragile blood vessels or intricate brain tissue. Despite modern upgrades like digital displays and video capture, today's operating microscopes still depend on the same core principle: two views,…

For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year.
But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. 
Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations.
They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance. 
And it’s not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance

Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
Inti Raymi is the most important Indigenous celebration of the Andean countries of South America. And it is a revival of the people’s cultural history. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance.

“Most people spend 10% of their income on food and for poorer people, it might be 15%.”
“But for everyone it’s still less than they pay on rent,
and how much do we talk about ‘rent poverty’?” he says.
“The reason people are poor is because they’re not paid enough
and because housing is too expensive in this country.
All the research suggests that most people, even people on lower incomes, want to feed their families better
and they are prepared to pay a b…

Overall, 77% of Americans said they did not feel “completely financially secure,”
and 32% said they did not think they ever would.
Based on the latest census data, the median U.S. household income in 2023 was roughly $80,000,
but that is the midpoint on incomes, meaning half of U.S. households made even less.

This is how much Americans need to make in order to ‘feel comfortable,’ according to a survey
A new survey revealed how much money Americans need to make to feel "secure."