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Carlos Alcaraz, U.S. Open 2025 quarterfinals, on route to a dominant straight sets victory. @carlosalcaraz #photography #tennisphotography #USOpen #tennisplayer #alcaraz

Earthshine. Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.

That iPhone video is the farthest a consumer smartphone has ever been from Earth. Roughly 250,000 miles away, handheld through a docking hatch window, at 8x zoom with no modifications. Apollo 8's Earthrise was shot on a Hasselblad 500EL that NASA had torn apart and rebuilt. Custom lubricants that wouldn't off-gas in vacuum. 70mm Ektachrome film. A 250mm Zeiss Sonnar lens on a bespoke camera body with motorized film advance. 1968 peak-of-engineering, purpose-built for one job. Reid shot his version on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 200mm equivalent focal length at 8x. f/2.8. The same phone shipping to Apple stores this week. The 8x view looks close to the human eye because the tetraprism folds the optical path inside a sensor the size of a fingernail. Apple spent a decade compressing what used to require a 250mm Zeiss barrel into 4mm of stacked glass plus computational denoising. The four astronauts went 252,756 miles from Earth. The device that documented the view sits on your nightstand.

@housemusc @Ishaq66939slrk @astro_reid @Astro_Christina Objects seen through the vacuum of space don’t lose color or saturation from distance. You’re thinking of looking through the atmosphere on Earth when it’s also hazy. Also, the distance between Earth and the Moon is about 240,000 miles; not 100 million.

@Ishaq66939slrk @astro_reid @Astro_Christina You idiots giving him crap DON'T understand how light & color work. Objects farther away have LESS saturation aka LESS COLOR. Something 100 million miles away should have WAY less saturation via camera. This is lesson 101 in CGI. Yet it is perfectly saturated

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Happy belated Caturday from Miguel 🙂 #photography #cats #caturday

27 years ago PBS aired this retrospective on the Apollo program. I've recaptured it in three parts and am putting it here, so as to preserve the interviews with the astronauts and NASA staff especially. Many of whom are dead now. Hear them in their own words. (part 1 of 3)

@aakashgupta They didn’t “shelve” anything or “dissolve the team”; and nowhere has this been written except in your post.

Apple just mass-shelved a $3,500 headset, dissolved the entire team that built it, and is now building glasses that do less than Meta's $299 Ray-Bans. And the math says this is the smartest hardware decision they've made in years. Vision Pro shipped 390,000 units in 2024. Then 45,000 in Q4 2025. Production halted. Marketing cut by 95%. The dedicated Vision Products Group was dissolved and folded into standard hardware divisions. Apple killed the product without saying the word. Meanwhile Meta sold 7 million smart glasses last year. Tripled their entire prior sales in a single year. They're targeting 20 million units by end of 2026. EssilorLuxottica's stock hit record highs. Here's what Apple actually learned from the Vision Pro failure: the market doesn't want a computer on your face. It wants a computer that looks like your face already has something on it. 300 million Americans wear corrective lenses. The addressable market for "glasses that also do AI stuff" is 100x the addressable market for "headset that replaces your monitor." The four frame styles tell you everything. Wayfarer shape, Tim Cook's slim rectangles, large ovals, small ovals. Acetate instead of plastic. Multiple colors. Apple studied how people already buy eyewear and reverse-engineered a tech product into that behavior. The constraint nobody is talking about: these glasses require an iPhone. That's the entire strategy. AirPods made switching from iPhone painful. Apple Watch made it worse. Glasses that see the world through Siri and relay everything through your phone? That's the final lock-in device. Every pair sold is an iPhone retention contract worth $1,000+ per year in services and upgrades. Meta built a standalone product. Apple is building a retention moat you wear on your face 16 hours a day.

@QuriousCat_ @Zamalek2179945 @forallcurious Satellites aren’t the size of huge cities (or even larger). That’s what this picture show. Scale matters. 🙂 Satellites are so tiny that they’re invisible on this scale. Less than invisible.

@Zamalek2179945 @forallcurious If you believe this is also true 🤡

Re-entry of Artemis II crew captured by the astronaut in International Space Station

WHAT!?!?!?!? MacBook Neo Repairability: 1. The battery is fully secured by screws with no adhesive 2. Modular components USB‑C ports, speakers, and headphone jack 3. The keyboard is replaceable as an individual part rather than a full top‑case unit Is this the same company?

@AAPLTree I’m sitting in front of the big Pro Display XDR 32” right now and I like it that size 🙂 I have a 27” iMac next to it and I prefer 32” to 27”. It’s definitely not too big if you’re a photographer or software developer (I’m both) but most people find 27” to be plenty.

@dmiller62 I’d wondered if 32” is too big for prosumer-class and I guess it is even for Pro houses?!? Depends. Apple likes its Pro line. Maybe 32” 6K OLED next?

M5 Pro/Max are just fine for N3P on paper, don’t you think? M6 generation should also be nice. Can’t go wrong now or later, unless it’s suddenly time to bet against Apple Silicon lol

@dominocollege Hilarious given all the social media haters lambasting Apple for making what they claim are “inferior” phones compared to Ti.

Cracks me up that Samsung rushed to copy Apple with the Titanium phones…now in the same product cycle went back to aluminum after Apple did.

@ronsterd89 I’ll guess 1973 because of the touchtone.

Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?

@justinryanio Would this potentially make 8K immersive in the official YouTube app possible on the original M2 AVP’s?

New in visionOS 26.4: Vision Pro now supports NVIDIA CloudXR with foveated streaming. This lets high resolution immersive content stream from powerful NVIDIA GPUs with low latency by rendering detail only where you’re looking. If you know, you know. This is really great news.

@westdecker @SpatiallyMe Same here.

@SpatiallyMe Does anyone else have an issue where videos watched in the app don't show up in your history? I am logged into the same youtube account on safari and in the app but app views don't get shown as viewed.

They finally did it! YouTube is now an official app for Apple Vision Pro and can be downloaded from the App Store. It features 3D, 180 and 360-degree content and an optimised user interface. So far I really like it. Still, it feels surreal that this is actually happening.

@CaryKelly11 And if the CAC scan showed you DO have coronary calcium - typical for your age, not zero, that put you somewhere around the middle percentile - then what would you do?

Someone DM’d me and wanted to know what to say to their cardiologist when told they should be on statins. This is what I have. What do you think? Doctor: Your labs look good overall, but your LDL is elevated. Based on that, I’m recommending a statin. Patient: My HDL is high and my triglycerides are low, so I’m not concerned about my LDL or total cholesterol. Those ratios are better predictors of heart disease risk than LDL alone. Doctor: Statins can still reduce your risk of a heart attack by about 20%. Patient: That’s relative risk. In absolute terms, it’s about a 1–2% reduction over five years. That means treating 50 to 100 people to prevent one event. Those numbers don’t impress me. Doctor: Any reduction in risk is a step in the right direction and serious side effects only affect a small percent of patients. Patient: “Small” still matters when the benefit is small too. Muscle symptoms, increased diabetes risk and cognitive issues aren’t trivial, especially when the intervention is lifelong and targets a number, not an actual disease. Doctor: LDL lowering has decades of evidence behind it. Patient: I’d rather get a CAC scan and see whether there’s plaque in my arteries. I’m not taking statins because you don’t like my LDL. I like my LDL because it plays important biological roles and I’m not suppressing them unless you can show me that doing so meaningfully improves my odds of living longer without risking the quality of my life. I will not destroy my brain to save my heart.

A small community newspaper from a rural area with traditionally conservative leanings lets them have it. caledonianrecord.com/opinion/editor…

@Rainmaker1973 Actually they shrunk almost every port from the older laptops into the USBC/TB ports. And on current pro laptops the SD card slot; and HDMI (non-existent in the old laptops); are on the other side, and there’s still an audio jack on “this” side. Only legacy ports are gone.

«Look what they took from us»

@film_girl You’re exactly right - it’s not for you - and there’s nothing wrong with that. (I also have FCPX, Motion, Compressor purchased and have no need for the subscription.

Like, maybe I'm missing something but the new Apple Creator Studio subscription is really only useful if you don't already own all the Mac apps (I do) and want to use the iPad apps for some reason. I wish the iPad apps were better but they aren't so I don't see why I should pay?

@nandoprince93 For some people it would be useful and a better deal, for others - not. Overall it’s a good thing for them to offer this. Each person who considers it can easily do the math and decide for themselves, it’s far from rocket science 🙂

Apple just launched Apple Creator Studio 👀 A new subscription bundle that includes: Final Cut Pro + Logic Pro + Pixelmator Pro (Mac + iPad) PLUS Motion, Compressor, MainStage (Mac) 💰 $12.99/month or $129/year 🎓 Students: $2.99/month But here’s the real question… Are we getting “just a bundle”… or are creators now paying monthly for extra features inside apps like Keynote/Pages/Numbers? And is this actually a better deal than buying everything outright? 🤔 This subscription isn’t something i would use or need, but maybe others would?