Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar have given their verdicts on how they think Red Bull will perform this weekend in the British Grand Prix after a recent upturn in form.

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Can you remember what you were doing on 1 March 2006? Perhaps you were at Anfield, watching England beat Uruguay 2-1. You might have seen Switzerland put three goals past Scotland at Hampden Park.

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Meta is introducing a subscription for expanded access to advanced smart-glasses features. According to Wired, "[U]sers will need the Meta One Premium Plan to unlock expanded access to some features for their smart glasses, whether it's the Ray-Ban, Oakley, or Meta-branded version." They'll still be usable with a subscription, but "certain features will be limited," the report says. From the report: Specifically, a feature called Conversation Focus, which boosts the audio of the person you're speaking with so you can hear them better in loud environments. You'll get three hours per month without a subscription, but if you want to use it more often, then you'll need to pay up. Though even then, you're still capped at 15 hours. Subscribing also nets you "Premium Device Support," where you'll get faster access to what Meta says are "human experts" trained on the smart glasses' features, should any problems arise. Guess humans are better at some things after all.

A Meta spokesperson tells WIRED that this is "not an AI rate limit." Rate limits are common on other AI platforms -- users get free access to a feature until they hit a certain cap, then they'll need to subscribe to use it more until the limit resets at the end of the month. However, the Conversation Focus feature runs on-device, meaning it doesn't need to head to Meta's servers for AI processing. There's no real-time way to monitor how many hours you've used Conversation Focus, but you'll receive a notification when you get near the limit.

"The subscription supports that ongoing work and gives power users expanded access along with premium device support," the spokesperson says. "We're going to start testing new optional subscription plans that offer more premium features and advanced capabilities for those who want to unlock more from our apps and AI glasses."

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This July 4th marks the 250th Anniversary of America’s adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Throughout that time, photography, artwork, storytelling, music and other forms of art have captured this country’s history and told its story from its beginning to today. This milestone anniversary does not exist within a vacuum. Photography from institutions like the US National Archives, Smithsonian and the Library of Congress show a wide expanse of experiences, triumphs and failures, loss and community building and everything in between. Each moment documented is an important part of this great experiment. 

250 years of dreaming big, searching for justice, searching for freedom and documenting it all for those who come after us. That is what photography does. From pivotal moments in American history to quiet ones, a place, a person, a fleeting scene, these are images of what it has looked like to live in a country many of us call home, across 250 years. 

Raising the first flag at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, circa 1776-77.  Copy of a painting at US National Archives

Unratified California Treaty K, 1852 Installation at National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian

Stereograph of Independence Hall, 1875. Library Company of Philadelphia

Theodore Roosevelt at the Army War College, 1903. DC Public Library Commons

Two Boys in Front of a Tipi, documentation of the Flathead Irrigation Project, 1911. US National Archives

On Ellis Island, circa 1900. US National Archives

Votes for Women A Success, 1914. Schlesinger Library

Uncle Sam’s Birthday. 1776- July 4th 1918. 142 Years Young and Going Strong. US National Archives

Abraham Lincoln Statue Installation in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. 1920. US National Archives

Basic and Advanced Flying School, Tuskegee, Alabama, 1941. US National Archives

This is America, Where you vote as you please, 1945. US National Archives

D.C. Grocery store owned by Mr. J. 1942. US National Archives

Young Woman at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. 1963. US National Archives

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. at the Reflecting Pool, 1963. US National Archives

The Reagans and Michael Jackson at the White House, 1984. US National Archives 

Crewmember in SPACELAB wearing the Acceleration Recording Unit and Collar, 1993. NASA

In Peace Shall She Wave, 2009. Photo by David Goehring

People’s Climate March, NYC, NY, 2014. Photo by Guano

First Family joined others to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 2015. Photo by Lawrence Jackson

Chicago, IL, 2017. Photo by Alek S.

From the Library of Congress: COVID-19: American Experiences project, 2021.  Photo by Diane Krauthamer

Honoring the 31st Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities act with activist Tyree Brown in the Rose Garden, July 26, 2021. Photo by Adam Schultz

Robert Morris, George Washington, & Haym Salomon, 2025, Chicago. Sculptor: Lorado Taft. Photo by Don Sniegowski

NASA Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch, 2026. NASA

The Story Continues

From the very beginning to today, photography has captured America’s history and told the stories along the way, the struggles, the triumphs, the importance of community. The experiment continues and we hope you’ll keep documenting it. Get out there, take those photos and share them with us on Flickr. It’s a story that deserves to be told and your experiences are part of it. We can’t wait to see it unfold. Happy 250th, America!

Want to see more photos from the community featuring their points of view photographing America?  Enjoy this gallery!

Photo by Don Sniegowski

MHKBB posted a photo:

Camera: Hasselblad 503CW
Lens: Zeiss Planar T* 2.8/80 C
Film: Ilford XP2 Super
Lab: Prolab, Stuttgart

Mr Mikage (ミスター御影） posted a photo:

Vanaf schepen op de Noordzee stegen Russische drones op om kwetsbaarheden rond kritieke infrastructuur in kaart te brengen, stellen de onderzoekers. Europese landen wisten zich er nauwelijks tegen te verweren.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn met een gemengd beeld een extra lang weekend ingegaan. Verliezen voor techaandelen drukten op de graadmeters, hoewel nieuwe banencijfers de aandelen van veel andere bedrijven juist hoger zetten.

De breed samengestelde S&P 500 sloot nagenoeg vlak op 7483,24 punten. De door techbedrijven gedomineerde Nasdaq zakte 0,8 procent tot 25.832,67 punten. De Dow-Jonesindex won juist 1,1 procent tot een nieuwe recordstand van 52.900,07 punten.

Beleggers reageerden op het banenrapport van de Amerikaanse overheid, dat wees op een zwakkere groei van het aantal banen in de Verenigde Staten dan verwacht. Aanvankelijk zorgde het voor een winst voor de S&P 500, omdat dit voor de Federal Reserve een reden kan zijn om voorzichtig te zijn met renteverhogingen.

Later drukten met name chipbedrijven op de graadmeter. Zo gingen AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Nvidia en Intel tot 5,5 procent omlaag. Op de Europese en Aziatische beurzen stonden chipfondsen ook al onder druk, na stevige koerswinsten in de afgelopen maanden.

on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:

AI leads to job losses, or so the conventional wisdom goes. But a new survey of over 21,000 US firms implies the exact opposite: When companies invest in AI, they add positions, but not immediately. According to Ramp, an AI finance biz, and Revelio Labs, an HR biz, companies making a significant financial commitment to AI add jobs at a higher rate than low-intensity adopters. But job gains don't appear until six to 12 months later. One might be tempted to interpret this as the amount of time it takes to assess the resources required to clean up after AI mistakes, but the Ramp study argues that the lag reflects the time required for best practices to filter through organizations. "Firms that adopt AI grow headcount 10.2 percent over the two years following adoption, but these gains are entirely driven by high-intensity adopters," Ramp's report on the subject claims. "Low-intensity adopters see no statistically significant change." High-intensity adopter here means average per-employee AI spending of about $33.67 per month in the first three months of adoption (and rising over time), compared to low-intensity adopters spending just $2.78 per employee. That's far less than the roughly $86,000 in severance and restructuring charges Oracle incurred for each of the 21,000 employees laid off last year as a wage-shedding counterbalance to its AI capex costs. In a social media post, Ara Kharazian, lead economist at Ramp, cautioned that some skepticism is warranted because companies adopting AI are already faster growing. But he insists that the analysis accounts for that by comparing early adopters against firms that haven't adopted yet, where the growth trajectory is assumed to be more similar. "Entry-level headcount grows even faster, 12 percent over two years," said Kharazian. "This is our first evidence that high-AI-adopting firms are hiring different kinds of employees. "We believe they are selecting for a new set of skills, specifically, people who know how to use AI and use it well. Entry-level workers, especially recent graduates and college students, are a natural place to look." That may be the case at the companies surveyed, but other sources suggest that the trend hasn't really improved the lot of those entering the job market. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates in March 2026 was 5.6 percent, compared to 4.3 percent for all workers, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US unemployment rate remained essentially flat since May, when it was 4.3 percent. "Both total nonfarm payroll employment (+57,000) and the unemployment rate (4.2 percent) changed little in June," the Labor Department said. While Ramp's data may suggest some upside to investing in AI, some businesses appear to be having second thoughts, based on concerns about cost and control. In a recent CNBC interview, Palantir CEO Alex Karp argued that military and private sector enterprises share similar skepticism about the way frontier model companies like OpenAI and Anthropic do business. Technical customers, Karp said, want "control over their compute, their models, their data stack, and their (investment) alpha. They want to know they own the means of production." Karp argues that the AI industry needs to rebuild trust, which will require answers to basic questions like who owns the data, where it is stored, and whether prompts are secure. Karp acknowledges that's a self-interested argument because Palantir is pushing a combination of mobile, application layer, and compute. But he's also correct in identifying an unresolved problem with frontier model providers. Government organizations and enterprises can't afford to be beholden to a capricious service provider, particularly if its AI models may not be available due to government restrictions, if its AI model may refuse to respond to what's asked of it, or if the price becomes excessive. When companies invest in AI, they add a job for model providers – make AI available, controllable, affordable, and worthwhile. That work still needs to be done. ®