Uma das maiores críticas ao iPhone Duo nestes dias de pré-lançamento com certeza é o estado dos aplicativos disponíveis para o dobrável, que nem sempre apresentam uma experiência adaptada ao formato pouco convencional do aparelho.

Muitos desenvolvedores, no entanto, já lançaram atualizações para o dobrável, e a Apple está fazendo questão de destacar isso com novas coleções na App Store, as quais trazem apps e jogos que já foram adaptados para o iPhone Duo. Softwares otimizados para o aparelho também ostentarão o rótulo “Made for iPhone Duo” (“Feito para o iPhone Duo”, em tradução direta).

Susan Prescott, responsável global pelas relações com desenvolvedores da Apple, falou sobre a recepção que o dobrável tem recebido por parte de criadores de apps:

A resposta da nossa comunidade de desenvolvedores ao iPhone Duo tem sido incrível, e estamos inspirados pela rapidez com que eles adotaram a tela maior e as novas formas de interação. Desde assistir a programas e conteúdos populares na tela interna expansiva até realizar multitarefas em várias janelas ou jogar games com qualidade de console, desenvolvedores do mundo todo estão reinventando o que seus apps podem fazer. Mal podemos esperar para que os usuários descubram essas experiências a partir desta sexta-feira, com muitas outras novidades em apps a caminho.

Em um comunicado publicado no seu site oficial, a Apple deu bastante destaque à Netflix, cujo app chegou até mesmo a ser citado na keynote de apresentação do iPhone Duo. Outros apps de streaming, no entanto, já entraram para essa festa, como o Amazon Prime Video, o Paramount+ e as plataformas de transmissões esportivas MLB e PGA Tour.

Entre os apps de produtividade citados pela Apple, temos o Word e o Outlook (ambos da Microsoft), bem como o Zoom, o Slack e o Salesforce (ambos da Salesforce), o Fantastical, o Notewise, o Things e o Bear.

Criadores de conteúdo, por sua vez, já podem aproveitar o Instagram e seu app irmão Edits no iPhone Duo, bem como o app de IA Detail e o editor de vídeos VLLO.

No mundo dos jogos, temos os gigantescos Asphalt Legends e Zenless Zone Zero, bem como o RPG ¹Role-playing game, ou jogo de interpretação de papéis. UnGodly. No Apple Arcade, títulos como Sneaky Sasquatch e Retrocade já foram adaptados para tirar vantagem da tela interna do dobrável.

Outros apps citados pela Apple incluem Deck-Man, NYT Cooking, LTK, Lowe’s, Shop, OpenTable, DoorDash, Yelp, Lyft, American Airlines, United Airlines, Sky Guide, Tide Guide, edjing Mix, Next Shot, iQIYI, WPS Office, Xmind, Weibo, AMap Global, rednote, Taobao, WEBTOON, NAVER SERIES, KakaoPage, BAND, Airmail, Craft, Tiimo e Moises.

A Maçã também citou o SmartGym, o Flighty e o Tripsy, sobre os quais falamos ontem junto com o app Suporte da Apple, que também ganhou suporte ao iPhone Duo.

Mais apps

Além dos apps destacados acima, outros também já abraçaram o iPhone Duo, incluindo os desenvolvidos pela própria gigante de Cupertino, como o TestFlight e o GarageBand.

Entre os adaptados está até mesmo o WhatsApp:

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Como o iPhone Duo ainda está nos seus primeiros dias de vida, é possível que apps não otimizados continuem sendo um problema por mais algumas semanas. No entanto, como pudemos conferir, a situação parece estar melhorando num ritmo bastante interessante.

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iPhone Preview brings everyday PDF tasks into one built-in app, from rearranging pages to preparing a smaller attachment. Introduced with iOS 26, it remains available in iOS 27, whose user guide provides the instructions used here.

Apple’s Preview app can open PDFs directly, reorganize their pages, rotate or crop individual sheets, delete unwanted pages, insert new ones, complete forms, add signatures, protect documents with passwords and export smaller copies for sharing.

It can also scan paper documents directly into a PDF and combine multiple pages into one file.

That makes Preview surprisingly capable for common workflows such as signing a contract, cleaning up a scanned document, reducing an attachment before emailing it or rearranging pages in a report.

Start with the task your document requires. Rearranging pages, adding a signature and preparing an attachment are different from rewriting an existing paragraph or meeting a publisher’s production requirements. Preview’s documented tools cover many routine changes, while more specialized work may require a separate editor.

iPhone Preview Lets You Reorder, Delete and Crop PDF Pages

Page management is particularly useful for scanned documents. A report may contain a sideways sheet, an attachment in the wrong position or an empty page that needs removing before the file is shared.

Open a document in Preview and tap the page count to reveal its thumbnail view.

From there, a page can be moved simply by touching and holding its thumbnail and dragging it above or below another page.

That makes fixing a scanned contract or report straightforward when pages were captured in the wrong order.

To reorganize a document:

Preview > open PDF > tap page count > touch and hold a page thumbnail > drag it into position

The same thumbnail menu can delete a page entirely.

Touch and hold the unwanted thumbnail, then choose Delete Page.

Preview can also insert material into an existing document. The thumbnail menu offers options to add a blank page, import a PDF or image from Files, or scan additional paper pages with the iPhone camera.

That means a form missing one attachment can be repaired without recreating the complete PDF.

Rotation is equally direct.

Open the relevant page, tap the More button and choose Rotate Left or Rotate Right.

Cropping works on a page-by-page basis:

Preview > open PDF > select page > Crop > adjust the blue handles > Crop

This is particularly useful for scanned pages with oversized borders, desk surfaces or other material around the document.

Apple also provides Undo through the More menu, making these edits less intimidating when working on an original file. For documents that cannot easily be replaced, creating a duplicate first remains the safer approach.

Fill Forms, Add Signatures and Lock the Finished PDF

Preview also consolidates several document tasks that iPhone users may already recognize from Markup.

Fillable PDF forms can be completed directly inside the app. Text fields, checkboxes and other supported form elements can be selected and edited without converting the file into another format.

Signatures use Apple’s familiar Markup system.

Open the document’s signature controls and choose Add Signature. When using Markup, tap the Add (+) button first, then select Add Signature. Choose a saved signature or draw a new one with your finger; rotating the iPhone gives you more room.

A saved signature can then be positioned and resized on the document.

For recurring paperwork, that makes Preview useful for forms that arrive through Mail or Files and need to be returned quickly.

Once a document has been completed, Preview can also password-protect it.

To lock a PDF:

Preview > open PDF > Actions menu beside filename > Lock

Enter the same password in the Password and Verify fields, then confirm the change.

Apple automatically enables the password requirement when the file is locked.

This protection prevents someone without the password from opening the PDF normally and helps protect completed work from unauthorized access.

There is an important practical step before doing this: duplicate the document if you want to preserve an unprotected copy.

Preview > Actions menu > Duplicate

A password-protected PDF is only useful if the password itself can be recovered later. Losing it can make the document inaccessible, so the credential should be stored somewhere secure.

Preview Can Compress a PDF Before You Send It

Large PDFs are another problem Preview addresses without requiring a separate compression website.

Open the document, tap the Actions menu beside its filename and choose Export.

When PDF is selected as the output format, iOS 27 offers several options that can reduce file size.

Optimize Images for Screen lowers image resolution for documents intended primarily for display rather than high-quality printing.

Save Images as JPEG can reduce the size of embedded images further by using JPEG compression.

Two other export options serve different purposes. Create Linearized PDF optimizes a document for faster web loading, while Embed Text applies optical character recognition, or OCR, to make image-based content searchable.

Choose those options for loading behavior or searchability, rather than assuming they will produce the smallest attachment. For file-size reduction, the image optimization settings are the relevant controls.

The practical workflow for a smaller email attachment is:

Preview > open PDF > Actions menu > Export > PDF > Optimize Images for Screen > Save

Adding Save Images as JPEG can shrink image-heavy files further when maximum image fidelity is unnecessary.

These image-reduction options can sacrifice detail. Lowering resolution or using JPEG compression may affect small text, fine lines and photographs, so compare the exported copy with the original before sending it.

A document containing mostly text may shrink only modestly. A scan filled with high-resolution photographs can show a much larger reduction.

Preview also exports files into formats including HEIC, JPEG, PNG and TIFF when a PDF needs to become an image instead.

When exporting a PDF to an image format, resolution can be selected manually, giving users additional control over the balance between detail and file size.

Where Preview Still Falls Short of Adobe Acrobat

Reopen the exported file before sending it. Check the page order, orientation, completed fields and signature placement. Zoom in on small text and diagrams, especially if you reduced image resolution. The useful result is a document that remains readable and complete, not simply the smallest file you can create.

Keep the original under a different filename so you can produce another version if needed. A copy prepared for email may not be the best version for printing or archiving. Names such as “Application — Original” and “Application — Email Copy” help distinguish the files when they appear together in Recents.

If the task involves changing existing document text or satisfying a specific submission requirement, confirm that your chosen tool supports it before proceeding. For routine page organization, form completion and sharing, a checked Preview export may be all you need.

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On January 23, 1961, a pair of thermonuclear bombs fell from the sky near Goldsboro, North Carolina. Neither of the weapons was dropped by a foreign adversary—they belonged to the United States, and in a remarkable series of events, they were dropped over American soil after the B-52 carrying them broke apart in midair.

The sobering circumstances that unfolded on that date were just one of several “Broken Arrow” incidents—accidents involving nuclear weapons that, in several cases, demonstrated how catastrophe could arise not from an enemy attack, but from mechanical failure, human error, and chance.

Goldsboro was neither the first nor the last nuclear weapons accident on American soil. More than six decades later, the incident remains a sobering artifact of the Cold War and a reminder of the extraordinary risks that accompanied keeping nuclear-armed aircraft continuously ready for war.

Nuclear Incident Over North Carolina

Early 1961 was a hard time for the B-52 bomber, with several crashes occurring across the United States. Most of these, and even the brief grounding of all B-52s, were minor news stories at the time. Outside the local area, sources like the New York Times gave only brief coverage of what happened in Goldsboro on January 23, 1961. However, the Goldsboro News-Argus placed a dark image of the twisted, flaming wreckage on its front page the next morning, and its ongoing coverage provided some of the only detailed records of how the public viewed the crash. What they didn’t know nearly killed them.

Part of the 4241st Strategic Wing under Strategic Air Command, the B-52G Stratofortress was armed with two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs and flying out of Goldsboro’s Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Its nighttime flight was part of Strategic Air Command’s round-the-clock alert operations. Following an aerial refueling over the Atlantic, the plane began leaking fuel. This led to a dramatic midair breakup 11 hours into the flight, so spectacular that a night watchman eight miles away reported seeing sparks coming off the stricken plane.

During the crash, centrifugal forces became so great that they pulled a lanyard connected to the release mechanism of one of the bombs. This accidental twist of physics armed the bomb as it fell toward Earth.

Nuclear Response in Goldsboro

The plane crashed only a few hundred feet from the home of the Tyndall family, who described the event as looking “like the whole world was on fire.” Homes for miles around shook from the force of the impact. In the mad dash to reach the crash site, one military police officer was involved in a car accident, adding one more bit of destruction.

The Stratofortress, with its 185-foot wingspan, was an enormous plane, and it left behind a massive debris field. The burning wreckage quickly drew not only about one hundred Air Force personnel but also the state highway patrol, local sheriffs, and the fire department. Onlookers attempted to gain access to the site but were held back by military police warning of a potential radioactivity threat. This would be the only time for decades that the military would concede that the crash posed a nuclear danger.

It took seven hours to find the last survivor, one of only three from the eight-man crew aboard the Stratofortress.

After most of the wreckage was hauled away, the Air Force continued excavating the area to recover every piece of the plane and even turned to the public for help locating a lost ejector seat. These continued searches fueled a wave of rumors that the Air Force was looking for missing nuclear weapons and that the town might be evacuated. What the military called “routine” water tests did little to assuage some residents’ fears that they were in danger from whatever had come down. By late February, the Air Force was issuing official denials that anything was amiss in Goldsboro.

Soviet Propaganda

At a time of rising Cold War tensions, the USSR did not let the American crisis go to waste. Soviet propagandists employed “Moscow Molly,” a mysterious figure of the Soviet propaganda machine. Speaking in unaccented English between broadcasts of popular American music, Moscow Molly delivered messages designed to demoralize American, British, and Canadian soldiers. She would sometimes disconcert soldiers on lonely and remote bases by directing messages specifically at them, using personal information reportedly obtained by the Soviet intelligence apparatus. Several women likely played the role of Moscow Molly, but their identities have never come to light.

By January 24, just a day after the event, Moscow Molly was broadcasting over Radio Moscow that the United States hadn’t just inadvertently dropped a bomb on Goldsboro, but that it had gone off, claiming that locals were “incensed.” Soviet propagandists did not stop there, reportedly using ham radio operators to beam the broadcasts into the United States as well.

Their efforts attracted little notice in the United States. The Goldsboro Kiwanis Club drafted an official rebuttal statement to be read over the U.S.-backed broadcaster Radio Free Europe, stating that “The people of Goldsboro are stronger than ever in their belief that the Air Force is a good friend and neighbor.” This statement may have been more than mere propaganda, as hundreds of people attended the funerals of the deceased airmen, demonstrating how the community rallied in the aftermath of the event.

Nuclear Secrets Revealed

The story of rumors, propaganda, and community spirit stood still for decades as the United States continually denied that there had ever been a nuclear close call on US soil. Journalist Eric Schlosser overturned that story while researching his 2013 book Command and Control. One of his Freedom of Information Act requests turned up a document with the rather lengthy title Goldsboro Revisited or How I Learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb or To Set the Record Straight. The title’s parody reference to the film Dr. Strangelove perhaps makes its content even more eerie and surreal.

Sandia Laboratories nuclear weapons safety supervisor Parker F. Jones wrote the report in 1969. In it, he revealed that one of the bombs—the weapon that separated from the aircraft and descended by parachute before becoming entangled in a tree—had come disturbingly close to detonating. The weapon incorporated multiple safety mechanisms intended to prevent an unintended nuclear detonation. When investigators examined it, they found that several steps in its arming sequence had occurred, leaving one crucial low-voltage switch preventing the sequence from proceeding further.

Each Mark 39 carried a yield of several megatons, making the weapons vastly more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II. Had one successfully detonated, the immediate destruction would have been catastrophic, while radioactive fallout could potentially have affected areas far beyond Goldsboro.

History often balances on the head of a pin, and this remarkable close call is just one of many such occurrences in the history of nuclear weapons.

Ryan Whalen covers science and technology for The Debrief. He holds an MA in History and a Master of Library and Information Science with a certificate in Data Science. He can be contacted at ryan@thedebrief.org, and follow him on Twitter @mdntwvlf.

A new analysis suggests that psychological research is rapidly moving from journals into the machinery of U.S. governance, with findings increasingly cited in policy documents addressing education, health, and social justice. The trend highlights how behavioral science is becoming a preferred source for guidance that aims to be evidence-based, testable, and actionable across institutions.

Researchers reviewed how a broad set of psychological studies is referenced in government policy materials and found that citations are not uniformly distributed. Instead, the most frequent appearances cluster around topics where human behavior, motivation, and learning processes can be translated into measurable outcomes, such as classroom achievement, public health adherence, and interventions aimed at reducing inequities.

The study emphasizes that psychology’s influence often comes through research that offers clear mechanisms—how thoughts, beliefs, and social contexts shape behavior over time. In policy language, these mechanisms become frameworks for designing programs, evaluating impact, and justifying resource allocation, even when the original work is not a “policy trial” per se.

A key technical takeaway is the role of systematic constructs from psychology—such as expectancy, self-efficacy, stigma dynamics, and behavioral choice architectures—being mapped onto policy levers. By linking experimental or observational findings to specific policy implementations, document authors can argue that interventions should work for defined populations under defined conditions.

The authors also note that citation patterns can reflect more than scientific quality. They may signal changing editorial norms within policy agencies, increased availability of review literature, and the growing use of structured evidence standards that encourage referencing peer-reviewed work.

Beyond what is cited, the analysis points to how psychological research can travel: through policy briefs, synthesis reports, and cross-disciplinary writing that converts statistical results into guidance. This translation step matters, because policy documents prioritize clarity and generalizability, while academic papers emphasize boundaries and uncertainty.

In a viral science-news moment for researchers, the findings suggest psychology is not merely being used—it is being “operationalized.” That means researchers’ results are increasingly treated as building blocks for frameworks that guide interventions, performance metrics, and stakeholder communication.

Importantly, the researchers call attention to the potential risks of citation without careful fit. If a policy references a study whose populations, settings, or effect sizes differ from the target context, implementation may underperform or misestimate benefits. The work therefore implicitly argues for tighter alignment between evidence and local decision-making.

Overall, the analysis positions psychological science as an expanding influence in U.S. policy, especially where behavior is central and where policymakers want interventions grounded in empirically tested models. As the citation footprint grows, so does the need for rigorous evidence translation and scrutiny.

Subject of Research: Psychological research citations in U.S. policy documents, especially for education, health, and social justice.

Article Title: Psychological research is increasingly cited in U.S. policy documents especially for education, health and social justice issues.

Article References: Yu, CW., Hu, HY., Furnas, A.C. et al. (2026). Commun Psychol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00516-6

Image Credits: AI Generated

DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00516-6

Keywords: Psychological research, U.S. policy, education policy, health policy, social justice, citations, evidence-based interventions