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Canon has unveiled the EOS R8 Mark II, a successor that finally adds in-body image stabilization, one of the biggest gaps in the 2023 original. The camera will launch in late October at $1,899 for the body alone, or $2,099 with a 24-50mm stabilized lens, positioning it between the original R8 and the pricier EOS R6 Mark III.
Jean-Pierre Serre, the French mathematician who won both the Fields Medal and the inaugural Abel Prize, has reached his 100th birthday. His decades-long body of work spans algebraic geometry, topology and number theory, and includes foundational texts such as Trees and A Course of Arithmetic.
A developer who wrote a 174-line PHP polyfill in 2014 as a temporary fix for AOL's content management system has now marked the package as deprecated. The code, originally meant to replace a deprecated function from the pecl_http extension, was shared on Packagist and has since been installed nearly 20 million times, with over 400,000 installs still occurring monthly. It also spread indirectly through WPML, idna-convert, SPIP, and Linux distributions like Debian and Ubuntu.
Actor and entrepreneur Elizabeth Banks joined Archer Roose, a canned wine company, as an investor and chief creative officer. Alongside founder and CEO Marian Leitner-Waldman, she has taken an active role in reshaping the brand's marketing and public image within the traditional wine industry.
Yellowstone National Park officials disclosed that visitors have thrown a wide variety of objects into the park's hydrothermal vents this year, ranging from unusual to unsanitary to inexplicable. The park did not release a complete inventory, but staff described the debris as a mix of the wacky, the yucky, and the puzzling.
At a Fast Company panel moderated by reporter Grace Snelling, executives from Second Rodeo Productions, Maybelline and Sugar23 discussed how marketers are shifting away from conventional 30-second commercials toward original entertainment formats, including microdramas, that audiences seek out voluntarily. The panelists shared perspectives on how their companies are building narrative content designed to engage viewers rather than interrupt them.
iOS 27 adds a small feature to the Phone app that displays a festive fireworks banner animation when a user calls a contact whose birthday is saved in Contacts. The detail, spotted by an X user, mirrors an animation Apple already uses on Apple Watch's midnight birthday notifications and New Year's celebrations.
Prime Video now offers a combined subscription add-on featuring Starz, AMC Plus, BritBox, MGM Plus and PBS Masterpiece for $30 a month. Amazon says the bundle saves subscribers about $19, or roughly 39%, compared to paying for each service separately, and marks the first time these five channels have been packaged together.
J.Crew Group's CIO Danielle Schmelkin and CEO Libby Wadle discussed how the retailer is integrating artificial intelligence into its operations while preserving its creative identity. The conversation, moderated by Fast Company's Elizabeth Segran, framed AI adoption at J.Crew as a cultural undertaking rather than a purely technical one.
Prediction market platform Kalshi reportedly took down a tool tracking AI compute prices after the U.S. Commerce Department raised national security objections. Details on the exact nature of the concern have not been fully disclosed, but the removal followed direct government pushback.
Insomniac Games, known for its expansive Spider-Man titles, took a different approach with its new Wolverine game by building a linear, chapter-based narrative instead of an open world. The game follows Logan through a tight series of locations and personal relationships, prioritizing emotional storytelling over exploration or side content.
A plaintiff calling himself Matthew Schneider sued private torrent trackers including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet and HDBits, claiming they infringed his copyrighted films while seeking to unmask their operators via Cloudflare. The real filmmaker who made the cited films swore he had no connection to the case, and after being pressed to explain, the plaintiff voluntarily dropped the lawsuit rather than clarify the discrepancy.