MacRumors: Testing the Vision Pro With New Ultrawide Display Option in visionOS 2.2
The first developer beta of visionOS 2.2 came out yesterday, and it includes a much anticipated new feature for Vision Pro users. When using the Vision Pro as a display for a Mac, there are now options to use wide and ultrawide layouts in addition to the standard virtual display.
We thought we’d check out the new display settings for those who might be interested in seeing how this changes the Vision Pro Mac workflow.
ScienceAlert: Sleep Can Actually Help You Make Better Decisions, Research Shows
The author John Steinbeck said: “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
Many others have claimed they formulated breakthroughs and innovations in dreams. Recent studies on the science of sleep suggest these claims are supported by modern science.
A 2024 study suggests that sleep can help us make more rational, informed decisions, and not be swayed by a misleading first impression. To show this, researchers at Duke University in the US had participants take part in a garage-sale game.
The Hill: Judge blocks Louisiana law on Ten Commandments in schools
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) had said he expected the new law to cause a legal battle after he signed it in June.
“Look, when the Supreme Court meets, the doors of the Supreme Court on the backside have the Ten Commandments. Moses faces the U.S. Speaker of the House in the House chamber. He is the original giver of law,” Landry said. “Most of our laws in this country are founded on the Ten Commandments, what’s the big problem? And that’s the part I don’t understand.”
Going from the separation of church & state to a theocracy?
“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT – HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG???” Trump said in a social media post after the law was passed.
“THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY,” he added.
Ironic much?
ScienceAlert: Ghostly Creature Deep in The Ocean Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
It’s a nudibranch, recently discovered swimming freely in the water column lit by a bioluminescent glow, adorned with a billowing hood, by researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in the US.
This is Bathydevius caudactylus, the first known nudibranch of its kind: living not in shallow waters, or on the seafloor, but more than 2,200 meters (around 7,220 feet) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean in the bathypelagic zone, out in open water.
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The research has been published in Deep-Sea Research Part I.
CBC: Is it a tenant’s right to charge an EV at their rental?
One Ottawa man says yes, because electricity is included in rent.
It sounds like neither the landlord nor the tenant is fully in the right on this.
NYT: Archbishop of Canterbury Resigns Over U.K. Church Abuse Scandal
The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, resigned on Tuesday after a damning report concluded that he had failed to pursue a proper investigation into claims of widespread abuse of boys and young men decades ago at Christian summer camps.
Pressure had mounted relentlessly on Mr. Welby, who serves as the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, after the report was published. Helen-Ann Hartley, a senior figure in the church and the bishop of Newcastle, called on him publicly to step aside, while Prime Minister Keir Starmer pointedly declined to back him.
Stuff: How a simple search for an airline phone number cost a passenger $4k
âThe phone number we called was NOT a Delta number, but was listed as Delta and the people answering the phones represented themselves as Delta Airlines.
âThe scammer called Delta pretending to be us and changed the name AT. NO. CHARGE. Then turned around and charged us $2389.32 for doing so (and remember, tried to get $18K to do so!)â
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They had some simple advice: “NEVER trust a phone number from Google.”
The hidden danger of using a general search to get a company’s phone number.
PBS: Top U.S. climate negotiator vows âwe wonât revert backâ after Trump reelection
No matter what kind of U-turn President-Elect Donald Trump will make on climate change, Americaâs clean energy economy wonât reverse into the dirty past, a combative but âbitterly disappointedâ top American climate negotiator said Monday.
During the first day of the U.N. climate talks, COP29, Climate Adviser John Podesta struck a defiant but realistic tone in a press conference. He said Trump will likely pull the United States out of the landmark Paris Agreement and try to roll back many of the Biden Administrationâs signature climate moves, including the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act that included $375 billion in climate spending.
He’s more optimistic than I am.
CBC: As It Happens: This elephant gives herself nice showers with a hose. But another elephant keeps ruining them
Scientists arenât sure if the younger elephant’s hose-kinking behaviour is pettiness or play.
Last Updated: 12.Nov.2024 23:56 EST
