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Apple Highlights 50+ iPhone Apps That Have Already Been Optimized for the Duo

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Apple Newsroom: New editorial collections for iPhone Duo apps and games will go live on the App Store this Friday, with additional app updates rolling out throughout the year. Apps optimized for iPhone Duo are easy to identify with a Made for iPhone Duo badge on product ...

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Updates to My iPhone Duo Review

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Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I’ve made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review. I’m calling them out here, so that if you’ve already read it, you can see the changes. If I make more, I’ll add them to the top. Regarding the camera, ad...

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Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-...

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Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...

Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.

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This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....

This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison. “None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did. The men serving life without parole feel the same way.”

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Quoting Armin Ronacher

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins.

— Armin Ronacher

Tags: security, generative-ai, armin-ronacher, ai, ai-security-research, llms

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The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards

The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic photography in the world. Alan Taylor at the Atlantic shared some of his favorites and I shared some of mine above. Starting at the top, photos by Xuecheng Liu, Shimon Perlstein, Tomás Sánchez Ruiz, Preeti & Prashant Chacko, and Daniel Viñé Garcia. P.S. In case you were wondering about the aspect ratio of panoramic images: according to the submission rules, the image’s longest side needs to be at least twice the length as the shortest side. Tags: best of · best of 2026 · photography

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The Dominican Baseball Factory

"Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it."

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“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...

“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet.”

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The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....

The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever. I don’t know if that is true, but oh my god does it look dangerous to go this fast on a mountain bike through the streets of Genoa. (It looks slightly less nuts in the non-POV, but not by much.)

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Ibrahim Said Nods to Ancient Islamic and Egyptian Pottery Traditions in ‘Shaping Time’

Ibrahim Said Nods to Ancient Islamic and Egyptian Pottery Traditions in ‘Shaping Time’The artist's solo exhibition at Yossi Milo delves into traditional craft with a contemporary twist.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Ibrahim Said Nods to Ancient Islamic and Egyptian Pottery Traditions in ‘Shaping Time’ appeared first on Colossal.

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Apocalypse Now and Then

"Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination."

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Charnel Heart

Watercolor drawing of royal coat of arms made of human bones and skulls with pile of skulls background. Kostnice Church in Kutna Hora.
A bone chapel promised to teach me about mortality. It took a life-threatening illness for me to learn.

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The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435

Explanation: Star light, star bright: is there a green star out tonight? Other than the Sun, all stars are so far from Earth that they appear as points in the sky. They are mostly white, but sometimes noticeably red or blue. This color typically relates to the temperature: ...

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A Lost Passport in Berlin… and Baku… and Baghdad

Co-host Kelly McEvers has lost her passport – more than once. A lot more than once, actually. And all those mistakes led to some big life moments. And if you want to hear more about Kelly’s encounters with Zora, check out her story from This American Life. 


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Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine

Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way for subscribers to share paywalled articles with friends and followers. These are commonly referred to as gift link...

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★ The iPhone Duo

The very nature of the iPhone Duo raises numerous obvious questions about what it’s like to use. Does it not feel thick and heavy, awkward both to pocket and unpocket? Doesn’t the outer (cover) screen feel small and cramped, with an unfamiliar squat-rather-than-tall layout f...

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“A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and...

“A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and start its cell cycle all over again. But this cell is made by people, created from lifeless ingredients.” Um, what?

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Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,...

Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix, stretch and/or squish them.” E.g. Nervous Sans: “Arial is stacked five times, pseudo-randomly twitching out of line.” I quite like Impacter.

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Bernie Taupin discusses writing “Your Song” with Elton John

Bernie Taupin discusses writing“Your Song” with Elton John