One headline for Thursday Throwback caught my eye.

🐟 + 🤖 If you ever imagined putting something in your ear that would translate languages for you… well, here we are.

Techmeme: Sources: Apple is planning a new AirPods feature as part of iOS 19 that will enable live-translation of in-person conversations (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

By Mark Gurman / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Part of me wonders if Apple will (one day) perfect an organoid intelligence that permits a near permanent insertion of such a novel device.