People who drink tea regularly appear less likely to develop heart and vascular disease than people who don’t, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Internal Medicine.
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With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony Weiner to allow film-makers to document their lives. But do they ever come out well?
In You Can See Everything, convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes invites film-makers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into her home in a supposed act of “radical transparency”. Holmes is filmed, along with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two young children, in the weeks before starting a prison sentence for defrauding Theranos investors. “The best way for people to see who she is,” Evans says, “is to give as much access as possible into our daily lives”. It may also be the best way to market “Theranos 2.0”, which the couple are working on during filming. But the documentary questions whether Holmes is presenting her authentic self or a manufactured persona. Fielder speaks for the audience when he asks Holmes in a tense exchange whether she’s “being real” with him. “I’m always being real,” she says.
That question of authenticity is at the heart of documentary film-making. You Can See Everything is as much about the ambiguous relationship between film-maker and subject as it is about Holmes herself. There is often a power struggle over narrative control in documentaries, with both sides of the dynamic wanting different outcomes from the final film. Watching You Can See Everything inevitably prompts the question: why would Holmes, days before she heads to jail, invite the scrutiny of a film crew?
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Plastic can fool nature’s cleanup crew, but one bacterial enzyme knows exactly where to bite.The midterms will be a referendum on the GOP’s alignment with tech overlords over the public they’re meant to serve
Welcome back to How We Win, a Guardian opinion series with leading thinkers, offering bold ideas for America’s political future. Last week, Robert Reich highlighted the link between corruption and affordability. Today’s edition was written by Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit. Sign up for future editions here.
“The world should accept some bad things happening,” Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, said recently, “for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” Like so many things tech oligarchs say, it’s incoherent, since Altman would like to deny the world and the people in it the agency to decide whether or not we should accept his bad things. Surveys show that most Americans would like to pause AI; opposition to AI datacenters is a factor in many races in the midterm elections. People are outraged and anxious about what tech hath wrought, mad enough to fight back in what is coming to seem like a human v machine battle.
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The titanium in iPhone Duo and the camera system in iPhone 18 Pro connect familiar product features to specialized American suppliers. Behind those parts are different kinds of manufacturing: processing metal, producing advanced films, forming protective glass and fabricating miniature lasers.
Apple’s October 20 supplier announcement identifies several of these connections. Read alongside the manufacturers’ own documentation, it provides a partial map of the work behind the devices, rather than a complete account of their global production.
Apple’s broader U.S. manufacturing program brings together businesses with very different specialties. Following individual components reveals how a metal producer, a materials company, a glassmaker and a semiconductor manufacturer contribute to devices sold under the same brand.
Apple identifies Perryman as a titanium supplier for iPhone Duo. The relationship concerns material production; it does not establish that Perryman builds the finished enclosure, hinge or assembled phone.
The geography requires care. Apple’s release groups melting, forging and rolling at Houston, Pennsylvania. Perryman’s facility directory describes a distributed network: melting and ingot breakdown at Coal Center, hot rolling and much finishing at Houston, and intermediate processing at Frackville.
Perryman’s operations therefore span several Pennsylvania locations. Apple has not published a facility-by-facility production route for its titanium orders, so the company’s broader manufacturing network provides context rather than a confirmed itinerary for each iPhone component.
Perryman lists electron-beam and vacuum-arc melting equipment, followed by processes that turn ingots into semifinished and finished material. It also documents laboratory and nondestructive testing capabilities.
In practical terms, the work converts raw inputs into controlled material forms that other manufacturing operations can use. Consistency in composition, dimensions and internal quality matters before a supplier further down the chain shapes a consumer product.
Qnity Electronics has a different role: Apple says it will produce advanced films essential to the iPhone 18 Pro’s variable-aperture camera system.
An aperture controls the opening through which light enters the camera. Changing that opening helps manage exposure and depth of field, meaning how much of a scene appears acceptably sharp.
The announcement links Qnity to materials supporting that system, rather than identifying it as the manufacturer of the entire camera. Apple does not disclose the films’ composition, their exact position within the assembly or the production process.
It also does not name the relevant factory. Delaware is Qnity’s headquarters location, not sufficient evidence of where these particular films are made.
Qnity’s role highlights a less visible side of camera development: the materials that support a mechanism can be as specialized as its optical and electronic components. Apple identifies the films’ connection to variable aperture, but leaves their precise engineering role undisclosed.
Corning’s Harrodsburg, Kentucky, operation supplies specialty glass for Apple, including Ceramic Shield. Apple’s October announcement sets an end-of-2026 target for all iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass, including iPhone Duo, to come from that facility.
Harrodsburg is already operating; the broader production transition remains a dated target. Corning’s account of the plant describes both current manufacturing and development work for future products.
Opened in 1952, Harrodsburg is Corning’s longest-running American plant. Its history includes the development of fusion-draw glassmaking, a process used to create large, thin sheets of glass. Corning describes the site as both a manufacturing operation and a place where teams develop materials for future products.
Protective cover glass is distinct from the panel that generates an image. Manufacturing a transparent protective surface involves different requirements from producing OLED pixels, electronics or the other layers in a display assembly.
The iPhone Duo connection therefore should not be expanded into a claim that Corning supplies its complete folding display. Apple’s statement identifies cover glass, with a specific production goal.
In an August 2025 supply announcement, Coherent identified its Sherman, Texas, facility as the production site for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, or VCSELs, supplied to Apple under a multiyear agreement.
These semiconductor devices emit light from their surface. Coherent connects them to features including Face ID on iPhone and iPad; Apple’s latest announcement specifically associates its technology with iPhone 18 Pro.
Sherman has compound-semiconductor capabilities covering epitaxy, fabrication and device manufacturing. Epitaxy means growing controlled semiconductor layers; fabrication then creates the structures needed for individual devices. This is specialized chipmaking for optical functions, rather than assembly of a complete camera.
The connection described here concerns Face ID and supported Apple devices, with the October announcement specifically naming iPhone 18 Pro. It illustrates why the supplier map differs by model: a component associated with one phone should not automatically be assigned to another.
These suppliers illustrate distinct stages of production. Metal processing prepares structural material; films support a camera mechanism; cover glass protects surfaces; semiconductor lasers contribute to optical sensing. Each requires its own equipment, expertise and quality checks.
Their contributions establish specific American manufacturing connections, not U.S. final assembly or an entirely domestic iPhone. Following the component and its documented production stage provides a more accurate picture than treating every supplier announcement as evidence that the whole device is made in one country.
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Ann Altman, the Open AI CEO’s sister, accused her brother of repeatedly sexually abusing her over two decades ago
A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Sam Altman’s sister against him on Tuesday. Ann Altman accused the OpenAI CEO of repeatedly sexually abusing her more than two decades ago, which he has denied.
In dismissing Ann Altman’s lawsuit, the US district judge Zachary Bluestone wrote that she had refused to appear for an independent medical examination despite warnings that failure to do so would result in the case’s dismissal.
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The ‘love hormone’ oxytocin may rise and fall in tandem in cats and the people who live with them, according to a new study published in the journal iScience.
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A new review paper published in the journal Nutrition Research Reviews points to nutrients in the nut that play roles in sleep biology.
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Vanillin, the compound that gives vanilla its familiar taste, may have a future in treating wounds that refuse to heal, according to a review paper published in August 2026 in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
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