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Kerala, India: A kalaripayattu fighter whirls chains of fire, scattering sparks into the night. A glimpse of an ancient Indian martial art still alive with heat and grace. Photograph: Peter Stern

The Guardian: Readers' best photographs

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Peloton announces founder of Apple Fitness+ Peter Stern as its next CEO

Peter Stern Peloton today announced that Peter Stern, who currently serves as President of Ford Integrated Services and before that held leadership roles at Apple and Time Warner Cable, has been appointed to serve as Peloton’s CEO and President effective January 1, 2025. The company expects to appoint Mr. Stern to the Peloton Board. Jay Hoag, Chairperson of the Peloton Board, made the following…

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Ford taps former Apple exec Stern to shepherd autonomous driving business

Ford Motor Company on Monday named former Apple executive Peter Stern as the president of its newly-formed integrated services unit to help build its autonomous driving business. Stern previously oversaw Apple TV+, iCloud, and Apple News+, will focus at Ford on integrating hardware, software and services across Ford Blue, Model e and Ford Pro. Reuters: Ford is looking to intensify its focus on…

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Apple's VP of Services Peter Stern to depart

Apple’s VP of Services Peter Stern to depart

Apple’s vice president of services, Peter Stern, has informed colleagues that he is leaving the company, Business Insider reported on Monday, citing a source close to the executive. Reuters: Stern, who joined the iPhone maker from Time Warner Cable in 2016, will leave at the end of the month, according to the report. A prominent media executive, Stern oversaw an expansion of Apple’s paid…

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Apple News business chief steps down after slow start

Apple News business chief steps down after slow start

Apple News business chief has stepped down less than a year after launching Apple News+, a subscription service that has struggled to attract subscribers.

Apple News+

The Apple News+ subscription service brings together over 300 popular magazines, leading newspapers and digital publishers into curated experience within the Apple News app. Available in the U.S. and Canada, Apple News+ presents the…

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Meet Peter Stern, Apple’s no-nonsense former cable TV exec leading Apple’s subscription services

Meet Peter Stern, Apple’s no-nonsense former cable TV exec leading Apple’s subscription services

”Peter Stern joined Apple at a moment when its relationships with entertainment companies and publishers were at a low point,” Max Willens writes for DigiDay. “TV and entertainment companies were exasperated by Apple’s tough negotiating tactics. And publishers, who had watched Facebook and Google effectively get between them and their audiences, were bracing for the effects of Apple News, which…

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20 Years of Peter Stern's (bitly) collected wisdom at Webit Conference

Ignorance is not the worst thing - forgetting is; idea isn't everything; so isn't the product; the ceo is not the typical user; you need to be able to explain your product; your product needs to work better than your launch party is; distraction is the enemy!

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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/294/5544/1047.full

Dreams have always fascinated humans, and throughout history there have been numerous hypotheses and speculations concerning their meaning and function. However, only in the second half of the 20th century, after the introduction of electroencephalographic recordings and the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, have these phenomena been the subject of serious scientific investigation. It is amazing that we can make incredibly accurate predictions about the movement or the composition of stars in galaxies millions of light years away while, much much closer to home, many crucial processes in our own heads remain shrouded in mystery. Every human being experiences the phenomena of sleep and dreams, and most people take them for granted without ever questioning what their biological purpose might be. There have always been teleological arguments for why we need to sleep, but they can mostly be dismissed as descriptive without any real explanatory value. Indeed, why do homeothermic animals need to rest and sleep at all, which makes them particularly vulnerable to predators? Wouldn't it be better and more efficient if they were up and running 24 hours a day? So it seems even more mysterious that during sleep we also experience periods of dreaming, with their sometimes bizarre, incoherent, and highly unpredictable contents.

A large body of literature about dreaming has been assembled over recent years. In this special issue of Science, we have tried to take stock and review the present state of our knowledge concerning sleep and dreams and their relation to memory, and we have also tried to indicate the blank spaces on our map. Maquet (p. 1048) reviews the recent literature on the role of sleep for memory formation and puts forward a testable hypothesis concerning the task of experience-dependent reactivation of neuronal populations. Stickgold  (p. 1052) deal with the function of sleep, particularly REM sleep, and dreaming for the consolidation of learning and memory tasks. They outline the requirements that should be expected for a comprehensive theory of dreaming. And finally, Siegel (p. 1058) critically reviews the available literature and questions the REM sleep-memory consolidation hypothesis. There is still a lot of conflicting evidence, as well as methodological difficulties, unproven assumptions, and neglected alternative interpretations. By highlighting the holes in the existing theories, we hope this review will be a challenge for scientists working in this field and will stimulate them to improve their experiments and reassess some assumptions and hypotheses they may have taken for granted. To sleep: perchance to query.

by: Peter Stern