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I think it’s safe to say the lens manufacturing industry is undergoing a seismic shift<\/a>. 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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interface is restles<\/a>s, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026\u2026 that they can build an Apollo Lunar Module-like lander within 30 months. Amit Kshatriya, NASA\u2019s associate administrator, favors this government-led approach<\/a>, sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good figure from the Nobel Prize Foundation\u2019s Scientific Background<\/a> 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<\/a>; creative destruction in a nutshell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, that era of power transitions<\/a> 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<\/a>, 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\u2014debt, sluggish growth, political dysfunction\u2014but 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

gonna<\/a> go out on a limb and say that 99% of the journalists snarkily-quote tweeting this clip haven\u2019t actually watched it, because what Luckey is saying is not only uncontroversial but basically identical to Toni Morrison\u2019s comments on the same topic circa 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Araque and many other pioneers of next-generation geothermal<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NYC Voting<\/a> Guide for People Who Aren\u2019t Insane:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Look, you can pull statistics<\/a> up but our murder rate has been cut in half.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is part 1 in a 5 part series about challenges and solutions in accelerating heat pump<\/a> adoption across the US. Stay tuned for the next issue!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in June 2024, JupyterGIS<\/a> was introduced as a collaborative, web-based GIS<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026.. but rather because of the single sensible \u2014 if very belated \u2014 thing they have done in recent memory, which was to usher a doddering Joe Biden<\/a> out of the 2024 presidential race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot trust crime stats in America. They have been widely corrupted to serve<\/a> a racist agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs an economist, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a problem that there are different prices for the same (items) across town,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cThat actually makes a lot of sense.\u201d. It might seem concerning at first, he said, \u201cbut when you dig under the hood, it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh yes, there are lots of reasons that could be true.\u2019 It\u2019s a complicated ecosystem of retail and food sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German language has acquired strange new phrases since I emigrated<\/a>. Spend enough time in a different country and your mother tongue moves on without you. One of those modern idioms I\u2019ve never really got the hang of is: \u201cIst das Kunst oder kann das weg?\u201d which loosely and lamely translates as: \u201cIs this art or is it rubbish?\u201d It was first introduced by a comedian and is now frequently used to poke fun at modern art, implying that the piece in question is so abstract that you can\u2019t even tell it\u2019s art and might mistake it for a piece of rubbish to be binned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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