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macOS 27 Lets You Resize iPhone Mirroring in New Aspect Ratios

macOS 27 Lets You Resize iPhone Mirroring in New Aspect Ratios

Published by skeptic

macOS 27 Golden Gate brings a major improvement to iPhone Mirroring, allowing users to resize the window beyond the iPhone’s fixed aspect ratio for the first time. Until now, iPhone Mirroring has been limited to the iPhone’s native aspect ratio in a small window. Users could adjust the window’s overall size somewhat, but its proportions remained locked. With ‌macOS 27‌, users can now change the aspect ratio of the iPhone Mirroring window itself, offering dramatically more flexibility for workflows that rely on the feature. The update was revealed in Apple’s Platforms State of the Union address. Several fixed aspect ratios appear to be available rather than free-form resizing, meaning the system snaps to the nearest supported shape. Depending on the chosen aspect ratio, iPhone Mirroring renders either an adjusted version of the app’s iPhone layout or its iPad layout, when one is available. Aspect ratio adjustments are currently limited to iOS 27-compatible apps, which at present means only native iOS apps. ‌macOS 27‌ also adds Control Center to iPhone Mirroring, joining the Home Screen, App …

Finger length ratios offer clues to how the womb shapes sexual orientation

Finger length ratios offer clues to how the womb shapes sexual orientation

Published by José Betancourt

A recent analysis of over two hundred thousand people reveals that the relative lengths of a person’s index and ring fingers are linked to their sexual orientation. The research suggests that the hormones a fetus is exposed to in the womb shape both physical development and whom that person is attracted to later in life. These results were recently published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Before birth, developing fetuses are exposed to different levels of sex hormones. These hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen, play a central role in shaping physical differences in the body. They also help regulate how genes are expressed in the developing brain. Testing exactly how these early chemicals affect human development is difficult. It is not ethical to alter hormone levels in pregnant women to see what happens to their children. Instead, researchers look for physical traits that act as biological markers of the environment inside the womb. One widely studied marker is the ratio between the length of the index finger and the length of the ring finger. …