Tumblr is ditching — or, at least, suspending — its plan to migrate over to WordPress. Relatedly, that also means pausing plans of integrating Tumblr into the fediverse.
That news dropped Monday on the Decoder podcast from The Verge. Automattic, which owns Tumblr, announced last year it planned to move Tumblr’s backend of its website to WordPress. But Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg told Decoder that idea was on hold because the company decided it wanted “to focus as much on the things that are going to be noticeable to users and that users are asking for.” That tracks: Changing the backend of a website is a major undertaking but one that isn’t obviously noticeable to most users.
The seemingly temporary shift away from WordPress could have downstream effects. For instance, Tumblr might now be slower to join the fediverse, which is a network of publishing platforms that are interconnected in order to make a decentralized social media landscape. In other words, your following, follows, and posts migrate across all the platforms.
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Tumblr’s migration to WordPress would’ve made integrating the fediverse easy. That’s because WordPress has an ActivityPub plug-in that allows users to connect to other platforms on the fediverse. Now that’s no more.
“That would’ve been a free way to get it,” Mullenweg told Decoder. “And so that was one of the arguments for migrating everything to WordPress.”
A large 15m x 6m installation in a college in Australia
New Features Include Live Feed Background, Usage with Lidar sensors, Enhanced Motion Tracking, and High-Resolution Support
UNITED KINGDOM, June 30, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — Luminvision Ltd. has unveiled AdVis 2.1, the latest version of its cutting-edge interactive projection software. This update introduces several advanced features, including a live feed background feature, Lidar sensor tracking, enhanced motion tracking, and improved high-resolution support, enabling full Immersive experiences that can be created on any floor or wall with up to 8 image’s edge- blended together on one computer using Advis to create a single seamless large interactive display.
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Transforming Any Surface into an Interactive Experience
AdVis is a powerful professional interactive software Platform ,designed to turn standard computers, projectors and LED screens into a full interactive display system. With AdVis 2.1, users can now see themselves on-screen and interact with virtual objects in real-time. The latest update enhances the motion detection system, allowing precise tracking in both bright daylight and complete darkness.
Key Enhancements in AdVis 2.1
● Live Feed Integration: Users can see themselves on-screen and engage with virtual objects, adding a new dimension to interactive experiences.
● Upgraded Motion Detection: Improved accuracy and stability ensure seamless interactions across different environments.
● Multi-Device Compatibility: Supports up to eight infrared tracking cameras and projectors, enabling large-scale interactive installations.
● Edge Blending & Overlap: Advanced algorithms allow for seamless merging of multiple projector images, eliminating the need for costly hardware solutions.
● Real-Time High-Resolution Support: Now supports full HD 1080p and 4K resolutions, ensuring crisp, high-quality visuals.
● Customizable Effects & Sequences: Users can configure movement, interaction settings, and transition timing for personalized installations.
● Standalone Licensing: No ongoing fees or permanent internet connection required, making it cost-effective for long-term use.
● 24/7 Stability: Designed for continuous operation in professional installations worldwide.
Faster Setup and Seamless Content Management
AdVis 2.1 significantly improves installation speed and usability. The software’s intuitive launcher allows for quick configuration, testing, and deployment of interactive effects. Built-in networking functions enable multiple installations to receive updates from a single server, ensuring all content remains current without manual intervention.
A Breakthrough in Education and Sensory Environments
Interactive displays powered by AdVis 2.1 are revolutionizing learning experiences. The software is being widely adopted in immersive sensory rooms, providing engaging educational content for students. Teachers and pupils can interact with projected images, revealing hidden layers and making learning more dynamic. The UK government has allocated £740 million to schools for creating sensory rooms, recognizing their proven impact on student engagement and development (source).
Expanding Global Distribution
Luminvision is actively seeking new distributors and partners worldwide to expand its interactive projection technology into various industries, including education, healthcare, hospitality, and advertising. The company has an impressive portfolio of clients, including Disney, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nike, BBC, Qatari MOTC, NHS UK, Google, and several major airports and retail brands.
For partnership inquiries, visit Luminvision’s official website or contact their team directly.
About Luminvision
Luminvision Ltd. is a leader in Professional interactive projection and LED technology, delivering innovative solutions for immersive environments. With thousands of installations globally, the company continues to push the boundaries of interactivity, transforming how people engage with Digital content.
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Microsoft will soon no longer let you use its Authenticator app to store or autofill passwords. Starting in July, you won’t be able to autofill saved passwords using Authenticator, and you’ll have to use Microsoft Edge or another password management solution instead.
Microsoft also plans on deleting your saved payment information in Authenticator this July before erasing passwords in August. Last month, Microsoft Authenticator stopped accepting new passwords as part of plans to consolidate its password autofilling feature within Edge.
Microsoft will automatically sync saved passwords to your account, allowing you to access them in Edge. You can set Edge as your device’s default autofill provider by finding the option in your device’s settings and selecting Edge instead of Authenticator. If you don’t want to use Edge, make sure to export your passwords to another service by August.
Microsoft Authenticator launched as a multifactor authentication solution in 2016, and it added support for password storage in 2020. Though Microsoft Authenticator is ending support for passwords, it will continue to support passkeys, the solution that lets you use your device’s authentication method to sign into accounts, such as a PIN, fingerprint, or face scan.
You can find more information about how to export your passwords or make Edge your default autofilling provider from Microsoft’s website.
Not so long ago, cyclists heading into the Tour de France were skinny string beans weighing and measuring every grain of rice that entered their body – but that image has not just gone, it’s taken a seismic shift in the other direction.
This year’s riders will be gorging themselves like never before, taking on board the equivalent of a large plate of pasta per hour and even training their stomachs to cope with this influx of food.
“Intake has doubled,” Julien Louis, nutritionist for the Decathlon-AG2R team, told AFP.
In fact, it’s a 180-degree turnaround from the 2010s and the “low carb” fad popularized by four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome’s Sky team.
This method consisted of depriving the body of sugars during training in order to lose weight and encourage the body to use fat for energy.
“Two eggs for breakfast and we were off for five-six hours of training, with water in the bottles. We were exhausted the whole time,” recalls British veteran Simon Yates, winner of the last Giro.
Climber Pavel Sivakov paints an even more dramatic picture.
“Mentally, it was very hard,” he says. “We were starving, with no energy, tapping into our fat.”
Those days are gone.
“When there’s nothing left in the tank the runner switches to using fat,” explains Louis, who used to work for English Premier League side Liverpool.
“It works but it’s much less effective than carbohydrates.”
‘Never Eaten So Much’ – The Modern Calorie Load
One look at the map for the Tour de France – which runs 3,338 kilometers over three weeks from Lille, all the way down south and back up to Paris for the finish – is a giveaway when it comes to a rider’s nutritional needs.
He will burn through roughly 7,000 calories on one of the lung-busting, muscle-crunching mountain stages.
“You have to eat four times as much as a normal person,” says Cofidis rider Simon Carr. “We’ve never eaten so much on a bike.”
Most riders now take in up to 120 grams of carbohydrates per hour while racing, in some cases even more, which is enormous.
“It’s the equivalent of six bananas or around 200 grams of dried pasta per hour,” says Louis.
Until recently, eating such large quantities – mainly in the form of gels and energy drinks – was unimaginable, as it would lead to too much intestinal distress.
“Up until five years ago, 120g of carbohydrates per hour was impossible,” Tadej Pogacar explained in a podcast in September, adding such an intake would have had him in dire need of a trip to the toilet.
‘Gut Training’ – The Hidden Factor Behind Performance
Since then, great progress has been made with energy products, which now contain a combination of two types of carbohydrate.
“For a long time, we thought there was only one kind of carbohydrate transporter in the intestine,” explains Louis.
“Then we discovered that there was a second type that could transport fructose. As a result, by using these two pathways at the same time, we can push through twice as much sugar.”
According to all the parties interviewed by AFP, these advances in nutrition, along with developments in equipment and training methods, help to explain the increasingly high levels of performance in cycling – a sport which has often been associated with doping.
Although products are now better tolerated by the body, making this revolution possible, riders still have to train their stomachs to cope with such quantities.
“Otherwise you can’t digest when you’re asked to eat six gels an hour. Your body just can’t cope,” says Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, this year’s winner of the women’s Paris-Roubaix and gold medalist in the cross-country mountain bike at the Paris Olympics.
She found this out the hard way when she gave up, ill, during the World Championships in September, unused to the longer distances after her switch from mountain bikes.
During winter training, the riders now do “at least one session a week of intestinal training, or ‘gut training’,” says Louis.
“At the very beginning, there may be a little discomfort,” he adds. “But without it, you’re at a huge disadvantage. It’s as if you’re not running on the same fuel.”
Amazon’s Prime Day sale is just over a week away, and iPad prices on the retailer’s website are starting to reflect that.
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Though Apple deals can range from decent to great at Amazon year round, Prime Day tends to bring a higher concentration for deals. Though the sale doesn’t kick off until July 8, the site already marked down every single model of the iPad, from the mini to the Pro.
Below, you’ll find our top picks for each model, but if nothing catches your eye so far, don’t worry — we’ll be updating this list all the way through Prime Day.
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The iPad mini may not be the best tablet for creatives or professionals who need the highest-powered tablet out there. However, for folks who mostly enjoy using their tablet for streaming or reading, this ultra-portable tablet checks the boxes. The 128GB of storage will likely be more than enough for less intensive tasks, and at 8.3-inches, it feels comfortable to hold for longer periods of time. (For anyone not particularly into the tech color e-readers are offering at the moment, this iPad gives a great alternative with some more versatility).
Amazon Prime Day is still a few days away, but I’ve already spotted a pretty tempting saving on one of our favourite five-star pairs of wireless earbuds.
The Sony WF-1000XM5 have been one of our go-to recommendations for quite some time now, and the black finish is now available for £189 over at Amazon. This price isn’t a million miles away from their lowest ever price of £175 and still represents a very healthy £84 saving.
Now, obviously, you can go ahead and buy now if you feel the urge to get the deal done, but this might be one product that is destined to dip a little further when Prime Day actually kicks off on Tuesday, 8th July.
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The Sony WF-1000XM5 are still among the best wireless earbuds in town, despite being around three years old.
Other flagship rivals have been and gone, yet the Sonys are still there, mixing it up with the very best of Bose, JBL, Technics and more.
The XM5 support Sony 360 Reality Audio, Multipoint Bluetooth, Adaptive Sound Control and the brand’s handy Speak-to-Chat feature. The responsive touch controls are also flexible, allowing you to change volume and sound modes simultaneously.
Battery life is eight hours from a single charge, with the carry case adding an extra 16 hours to the equation.
In our Sony WF-1000XM5 review, we said, “There’s an openness which we haven’t really heard from wireless earbuds at this level before, and the definition and texture that shines through is quite exceptional”.
Their sound is balanced and cohesive, with the Sonys boasting a superb sense of timing and rhythmic drive.
Now £189 at Amazon isn’t the lowest price we’ve spotted the Sony WF-1000XM5 at. They hit £175 back in December last year, and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see them drop this low long-term, possibly starting on Amazon Prime Day, which runs from the 8th July to the 11th July.
Could they drop even lower? We’ll have to wait and see.
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Makeup by Mario’s Longwear Cream Eyeshadow collection, “Master Mattes,” is the latest innovation by the makeup-artist-led brand. The weightless, crease-proof line launches today.
Makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic, the brand’s founder, says the new eyeshadow collection features buildable, blendable color with an innovative soft matte finish. “My cream shadows deliver a diffused and softly sculpted eye with a single swipe. It’s my signature eye…an effortless, elevated eye look that lasts all day,” Dedivanovic says.
Packaged in a tube with a doe foot applicator, the line includes colors ranging from nudes to deeper grays and browns, which are perfect for a smoky eye look.
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Makeup by Mario’s “Master Mattes” collection includes 10 skus. Apply one shade to the entire eyelid, or build a look by layering multiple shades.
The formula includes smoothing amino acids with spherical powders to ensure a smooth, silky finish, with staying power.
A Master Mattes Eyeshadow Palette
“Master Mattes” is not only the name of the new eyeshadow line—it’s the name of a palette called “Master Mattes Eyeshadow Palette: The Original.”
Inspired by skin tones and ranging from light to deep, the colors are all Mario’s “ride or die mattes.”
More About Mario Dedivanovic
Dedivanovic is a master makeup artist, known for his “intuitive and architectural approach to the human face,” states Makeup by Mario’s website. “Mario creates balance, symmetry, and harmony using tones observed in nature,” his bio says.
Electrons play many roles in solid materials. When they are weakly bound and able to travel – i.e., mobile – they can enable electrical conduction. When they are bound, or “heavy,” they can act as insulators. However, in certain solid materials, this behavior can be markedly different, raising questions about how these different types of electrons interact.
In a study just published in Nature Physics, researchers working with Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Amir Yacoby at Harvard examined the interplay between both types of electrons in this material, shedding new light on how they may help form novel quantum states.
“Before our work, people could only ask ‘What is the overall ground state’?” said Andrew T. Pierce, one of the paper’s lead authors., Pierce, currently a fellow at Cornell University, was a graduate student in Yacoby’s lab when they began to study this question. What wasn’t clear was the true nature of these different states and how the separate light and heavy electrons joined forces to form them.
Additionally, because of the more obvious role of heavy electrons to drive insulators, light electrons have often been dismissed as “doing nothing” or “being spectators,” said Yonglong Xie, one of the paper’s lead authors. A former Harvard Quantum Initiative Prize postdoctoral fellow in Yacoby’s lab, Xie, now an assistant professor at Rice University, noted that the effect of these light electrons on the overall system was hard to detect.
The interplay between electrons with different masses is believed to drive intricate quantum phenomena. In the novel material known as magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG), where three layers of graphene are stacked together with the middle sheet rotated slightly, electrons with small and large masses coexist. This material supports a plethora of exotic quantum phenomena including superconductivity (i.e. electrical conduction without heating), thereby providing a new setting to address this question.
To understand what was going on in these cases, the researchers used a specialized form of microscopy, known as scanning single-electron transistor (scanning SET), pioneered by Yacoby, to examine tiny “puddles” in the MATTG where electrons are trapped when the MATTG enters an insulating state. The scanning SET indicated that while the heavy electrons enable insulating states, the light electrons remain mobile, suggesting that they should participate in forming the novel states, including superconductivity.
“The heavy electrons form an insulator among themselves, creating the illusion of an overall insulating state, but in reality the light electrons remain free,” clarified Pierce. “This raises the possibility that the light electrons can mediate interactions between heavy electrons.”
This surprising finding underscores how complex the interplay between light and heavy electrons in MATTG can be, the researchers said. They suggested that exploring further methods of “tuning” the ratio of heavy and light electrons in two-dimensional materials will lead to exciting new discoveries. “The problem of coexisting light and heavy electrons in solids is a long-standing one, and we hope our scheme for disentangling their roles gives a new approach to these intriguing materials,” said Pierce.
The research was supported, in part, by the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, and the CIFAR Quantum Materials Program, and the Welch Foundation.
Established in 2022, previous winners include Martin James Bartlett and Ariel Lanyi
The 2025 Prix Serdang Swiss Piano Prize was awarded to 18-year-old German pianist Colin Pütz at the Villa Serdang in Feldbrunnen near Solothurn, Switzerland. Established in 2022, the Prix Serdang is a 50,000 CHF award that supports and invests in the career of a young artist. Previous award winners include Martin James Bartlett, Ariel Lanyi, and Alexandra Dovgan.
Austrian Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder was appointed as the head of the selection process alongside international organizers, festival directors, conductors, and soloists.
Winners of the competition are given performance and recording opportunities, with an upcoming event in August 2025 with pianist Alexandra Dovgan, the 2024 winner, who will perform with the Tonkünstler Orchestra in Austria.
Upon receiving the award, Colin shared, “When I first heard about the award, I could hardly believe it. There are so many outstanding young pianists – many of them are already much better known than I am. The fact that I am the recipient of the Prix Serdang is a great honor and an even greater incentive. It gives me confidence that I might actually be able to realize my dream of becoming a concert pianist.”
The Villa Serdang in Switzerland was built in 1644 and converted into an Art Nouveau villa in 1892. Since 2012, it has operated as a cultural center and home for the Prix Serdang.
“Villa Serdang stands for cultural encounters, artistic exchange, and the promotion of young talent—a special place where promising careers can begin. In this inspiring environment, we are delighted to award Colin Pütz the Prix Serdang. His exceptional musical maturity and expressiveness make him one of the most exciting pianistic personalities of his generation. The fact that he has received this award—which simultaneously represents recognition, encouragement, and support—is thanks in no small part to the expertise of our curator, Rudolf Buchbinder, who has a sure instinct for recognizing outstanding talent. It is an honor for us to accompany Colin Pütz on his journey,” shared Adrian Flury, the initiator of the award.
Born in 2007, Colin Pütz currently studies with Florence Millet at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and holds a scholarship from the International Academy of Music Liechtenstein. He made his debut at festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Ruhr Piano Festival. In 2024, he gave solo recitals at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn and at the Monte Carlo Opera. Recently, Colin signed with Dorn Music, where he will be represented worldwide by Tanja Dorn.
Google on Monday announced a series of updates intended to bring its Gemini AI and other AI-powered tools deeper into the classroom. At the ISTE edtech conference, the tech giant introduced more than 30 AI tools for educators, a version of the Gemini app built for education, expanded access to its collaborative video creation app Google Vids, and other tools for managed Chromebooks.
The updates represent a major AI push in the edtech space, where educators are already struggling to adapt to how AI tools, like AI chatbots and startups that promise to help you “cheat on everything,” are making their way into the learning environment.
School-aged kids and teens today are more likely to ask ChatGPT for help with their homework (or to even do it for them) than they are to ask a teacher to explain the concepts again. In higher ed, meanwhile, colleges are wrestling with whether or not plagiarism detectors can even identify AI-written content.
Amid this disruption, Google is charging ahead with AI tools, saying it thinks that “responsible AI” can help drive “more engaging and personalized learning experiences,” when used in conjunction with human-led teaching.
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Since announcing its plans to bring Gemini to the classroom last year, Google on Monday said that its Gemini AI suite for educators is now available for free to all Google Workspace for Education accounts.
This includes over 30 new features, like the ability for teachers to brainstorm ideas, generate lesson plans, and personalize content for students using AI technology.
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Over the next several months, Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.
Teachers can also create custom versions of the Gemini AI called “Gems,” which will work as AI experts that help students who need extra support or want to better understand the subject.
This is essentially just taking an activity that students are already doing — asking an AI chatbot to explain a topic or answer questions — and redirecting that activity back to Google’s own AI technology, where it’s specifically been trained on the teacher’s own classroom materials.
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Soon, teachers will also be able to offer students real-time support for the AI-powered reading buddy when using the Read Along in Classroom tool.
Google is expanding basic access to its AI-powered video creator, Google Vids, as well, to make it available to all Google Workspace for Education users. Teachers can use the tool to make instructional videos, while students can use Vids for things like book reports or other assignments.
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The company is also rolling out a series of new features designed to track student progress against learning standards and skills, view analytics on student performance and engagement, better secure Gemini user data and data in Gmail, manage who has access to AI tools like Gemini and Notebook LM, have better control over Google Meet waiting rooms, and more.
Plus, along with a handful of updates for managed Chromebooks, Google introduced new teaching mode called Class Tools. This allows teachers to connect directly with their students via Google Classroom and share content to the kids’ screens, like videos, articles, slides, and quizzes. These tools can be adapted to the student’s own language, if need be, and are designed to keep kids focused on learning by restricting browsing to specific tabs.
