Here are today’s 6 verified tech & science stories, covering Tech & Apps, AI Tools and Science & Space.
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The TLDR
- Tech & Apps: Apple brings live MLB games to Vision Pro
- AI Tools: Meta’s Glimmer AI model hints at Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ plan
- Science & Space: A small companion galaxy may be slowing Andromeda’s star formation
Tech & Apps
Apple brings live MLB games to Vision Pro
Apple will stream Friday Night Baseball live in its Apple Immersive Video format on Vision Pro starting August 28, when the Red Sox face the Yankees in the first game shown this way. The broadcasts are captured in 8K with a 180-degree field of view and include dedicated commentary, replays, and floating stat graphics for Vision Pro owners with an Apple TV subscription, per The Verge.
Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products over Salmonella risk
Taylor Farms has recalled salsa, guacamole, and other jalapeño-based products sold at major retailers including Walmart and Target across 26 states after a supplier’s jalapeños were linked to a Salmonella risk. The recall lands while the company is separately dealing with a Cyclospora outbreak tied to other produce, according to Ars Technica. Check your fridge if you’ve bought pico de gallo or guacamole recently.
Meta launches a Facebook Creator Studio app for iPhone
Meta released a new Facebook Creator Studio app for iPhone, described as an AI-powered companion for creators that bundles Meta AI, a customizable Feed, Marketplace, Reels, and search into one place. It’s the latest in a run of standalone iPhone apps Meta has shipped this summer, per 9to5Mac.
AI Tools
Meta’s Glimmer AI model hints at Zuckerberg’s ‘personal superintelligence’ plan
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model licensed under Apache 2.0, built to run AI agents locally on a single consumer GPU rather than in the cloud. It’s a smaller, open counterpart to Meta’s more powerful closed model, Muse Spark, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed it as an early step toward giving people AI they own and run themselves, according to TechCrunch.
Science & Space
A small companion galaxy may be slowing Andromeda’s star formation
A new study finds star formation in the Andromeda galaxy has been declining for roughly 500 million years, dropping from about one solar mass of new stars per year to roughly a fifth of that today. Regions of Andromeda closest to its small companion galaxy, M32, show a more recent decline, though researchers stop short of confirming M32 is the direct cause, according to Space.com.
Astronomers release the biggest 2D map of the universe ever made
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team released a 5.6-trillion-pixel, 2D color map of the universe containing nearly 4 billion stars and galaxies, free for anyone to browse through the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer. Researchers plan to use it to hunt for gravitational lenses, supernovae, and clues about dark matter and dark energy, per Phys.org.
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