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See the red supergiant star Antares shine with the crescent moon at sunset on Sept. 27

September 29, 2025
Heads up stargazers! The moon will shine close to the bright star Antares at sunset on Sept. 27, while some lucky viewers — and plenty of penguins — will witness the lunar disk pass directly in front of the red supergiant, hiding it from view. Look 15 degrees above the southwestern horizon at sunset on Sept. 27 to find the waxing crescent moon. Antares will glow less than 3 degrees to its…
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How developers are using Apple’s local AI models with iOS 26

September 29, 2025
Earlier this year, Apple introduced its Foundation Models framework during WWDC 2025, which allows developers to use the company’s local AI models to power features in their applications. The company touted that with this framework, developers gain access to AI models without worrying about any inference cost. Plus, these local models have capabilities such as guided generation and tool…
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How to create Actions in Affinity Photo 2 to enhance your landscape photographs

September 29, 2025
There are some things you always tweak when editing landscape photos. Sure, you’ve straightened the horizon and cropped that dodgy looking bloke out of the corner of the photo, but the color, contrast and sharpening adjustments tend to be very similar, making them ideal to implement as macros. That’s just the start though, because whatever ideas you can come up with, you can create and save a…
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Battery boom: 5.6 GW of US energy storage added in Q2

September 29, 2025
The US battery storage market just had its biggest quarter ever. In Q2 2025, a record 5.6 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity came online, according to the latest US Energy Storage Monitor report from the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Wood Mackenzie. Image: Wood Mackenzie Utility-scale storage leads the charge Most of that Q2 growth came from utility-scale projects, which added 4.9 GW…
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