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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed its final prelaunch checks, including a last-look inspection of its 2.4-meter primary mirror and a shake test to ensure it can withstand launch. The mirror performed flawlessly, and the telescope is now being prepared for shipping to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a launch window as early as Aug. 30 or in early September.
Costco is selling a floor mirror that closely resembles a luxury mirror from Anthropologie, sparking a viral craze on social media. Priced at $149.99, the Ravena Floor Mirror quickly sold out at many locations, prompting shoppers to call local stores for availability. Sam's Club also offers a similar mirror, the Azalea Park Filigree Floor Mirror, for $149.98. While some are excited about the affordable dupe, others question the hype over a floor mirror. Costco, Anthropologie, and Sam's Club have not commented on the situation.
A U.K. woman trying on wedding dresses discovered a photo of herself with different poses in each mirror reflection, due to a mistake in Apple's computational photography pipeline. The camera treated the reflections as different people, resulting in three different versions of her. This glitch occurs because the algorithm stitches together multiple images, choosing the best versions for each reflection, but fails to recognize mirrors. This phenomenon has been used by younger generations to create humorous images for social media.
Lululemon is reportedly looking to sell its at-home fitness business, Mirror, and has approached competitor Hydrow as a potential buyer. The fitness startup was acquired by Lululemon for $500 million in June 2020, but has since been weighing on the company's balance sheet. Lululemon has acknowledged the challenges in the at-home fitness market and has begun pivoting the segment away from being hardware-focused. The company plans to launch a new digital fitness app in the summer that will allow consumers to access digital fitness content without hardware and at a lower price point than its current subscription package.
Lululemon's acquisition of connected-fitness platform Mirror for $500 million in June 2020 has resulted in a $442.7 million post-tax impairment charge in the fourth quarter of 2022, almost writing off the business entirely. The athleisure company struggled to integrate Mirror operationally, culturally, and from a sales perspective, and Mirror Founder Brynn Putnam stepped down as CEO in September 2021. Lululemon is now considering a future of no longer producing the Mirror hardware and is pivoting away from the "hardware centric" business model.
Scientists at the City University of New York have created a "mirror" that can reflect an electromagnetic wave backward in time, paving the way for ultra-fast communication and computing applications using light. The mirror temporally reverses waves, reflecting them stretched out and reversed. The team's next endeavor will be to experiment in the hundreds of GHz, but they will still be far from the 400THz frequencies of visible light.