New software enables blind and low-vision users to create interactive, accessible charts A growing number of tools enable users to make online data representations, like charts, that are accessible for people who are blind or have low vision. However, most tools require an existing visual ... 03/27/2024 - 3:01 am | View Link
Apple’s Vision Pro Gets Boost From China’s Media Kingmaker When Apple launched the Vision Pro headset, it leaned heavily on its own streaming app, as well as those of Disney and others, to market the headset’s most compelling feature: an immersive video ... 03/26/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Apple Vision Pro Could Soon Support Apple Pencil, Allowing Air Drawing To Become Reality Apple is reportedly testing a new Apple Pencil version compatible with its Vision Pro headset, potentially transforming surroundings into a virtual canvas. 03/25/2024 - 4:04 pm | View Link
Apple is Secretly Testing a New Apple Pencil for their Vision Pro Headset The first beta of visionOS 1.2 might be available to developers this week, with visionOS 2 expected to be announced at WWDC in June. 03/25/2024 - 7:45 am | View Link
The Apple Vision Pro will potentially reach 9 other countries including China, soon Apple initially launched the Vision Pro spatial computing device in only the US. It was apparently done to cope with the supply chain issues and to simplify the sales process. One notable limitation ... 03/14/2024 - 2:59 am | View Link
On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to 50 years behind bars.
In some respects, Bankman-Fried’s story is familiar. He is hardly the first prominent figure in the financial world to face consequences for some very poor decisions.
After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
No one in human history has ever seen an eclipse quite like the one seen by the crew of Apollo 12 on Nov. 21, 1969. Countless billions of us have seen the moon eclipse the sun, casting its shadow on the Earth; countless billions have seen the Earth similarly block solar light, casting a shadow on the moon.
All animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world. The most basic weakness we have is that our perceptions don’t tell us everything about what’s going on with the world.