I think it’s safe to say the lens manufacturing industry is undergoing a seismic shift. As Chinese manufacturers start delivering more and more lenses with a high degree of optical sophistication, they’ll also iterate on the remaining features that are lacking, such as image stabilization and faster autofocus motors. Much of this technology is locked by patents, though, so that is one area where Canon, with its massive patent library, may have an advantage over these manufacturers. I’m not entirely convinced, though, that it’s going to stop the manufacturers for very 

The interface is restless, needy, less predictable, less legible, and constantly pulling focus rather than supporting seamless access to content. Instead of smoothing the path for everyday tasks, iOS 26 makes users relearn basics while enduring a constant parade of visual stunts.

…… that they can build an Apollo Lunar Module-like lander within 30 months. Amit Kshatriya, NASA’s associate administrator, favors this government-led approach, sources said.

A good figure from the Nobel Prize Foundation’s Scientific Background to the Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt Nobel. The figure shows that firm exit rates and job destruction rates are positively correlated with growth in labor productivity; creative destruction in a nutshell.

Now, that era of power transitions is ending. For the first time in centuries, no country is rising fast enough to overturn the global balance. The demographic booms, industrial breakthroughs, and territorial acquisitions that once fueled great powers have largely run their course. China, the last major riser, is already peaking, its economy slowing and its population shrinking. Japan, Russia, and Europe stalled more than a decade ago. India has youth but lacks the human capital and state capacity to turn it into strength. The United States faces its own troubles—debt, sluggish growth, political dysfunction—but still outpaces rivals sinking into deeper decay. The rapid ascents that once defined modern geopolitics have yielded to sclerosis: the world is now a closed club of aging incumbents, circled by middle powers, developing countries, and failing states

gonna go out on a limb and say that 99% of the journalists snarkily-quote tweeting this clip haven’t actually watched it, because what Luckey is saying is not only uncontroversial but basically identical to Toni Morrison’s comments on the same topic circa 1989.

But Araque and many other pioneers of next-generation geothermal tech are undeterred. If humanity can someday economically drill wells more than 6 miles deep, he says, we can tap energy that amounts to more than double all the electricity used on earth today. Others, like researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, have calculated that in the U.S. alone, thousands of times as much energy as Americans use in a year is already available at much shallower depths.

The NYC Voting Guide for People Who Aren’t Insane:

“Look, you can pull statistics up but our murder rate has been cut in half.”

This is part 1 in a 5 part series about challenges and solutions in accelerating heat pump adoption across the US. Stay tuned for the next issue!

Launched in June 2024, JupyterGIS was introduced as a collaborative, web-based GIS environment built on the JupyterLab framework. Its objective is to bring QGIS-inspired workflows into the browser, enabling real-time collaborative editing, seamless integration with notebooks, and support for core geospatial data formats.

….. but rather because of the single sensible — if very belated — thing they have done in recent memory, which was to usher a doddering Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.

We cannot trust crime stats in America. They have been widely corrupted to serve a racist agenda.

“As an economist, I don’t think it’s a problem that there are different prices for the same (items) across town,” Stevens said. “That actually makes a lot of sense.”. It might seem concerning at first, he said, “but when you dig under the hood, it’s like, ‘Oh yes, there are lots of reasons that could be true.’ It’s a complicated ecosystem of retail and food sales.