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– Source: Julian Zwengel on Unsplash. One of the (few) reasons to switch to macOS 26 Tahoe is the opportunity to use the language model that powers Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence is the final product, natively integrated into the Apple ecosystem, with which we can process text (but also images) directly on our device. For example, by selecting a section of text and right-clicking with the mouse to choose Show Writing Tools, we have at our fingertips a useful tool for summarising those mile-long documents or for rewriting hastily jotted-down sentences.

Among all the Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards I am spending my days with, my favorite is the Raspberry Pi Pico, a small yet powerful microcontroller that can be programmed not only in C/C++ via the Arduino IDE, but also in MicroPython and CircuitPython, two competing Python variants for microcontrollers. Unlike the other Raspberry Pi models, the Pico does not have a dedicated camera interface, but it can use cameras that communicate over an SPI interface,1 such as the Arducam Mini 5MP Plus.