Apple Unveils ‘Liquid Glass’ UI for iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe #1825

Lead story for Monday, June 9. Apple introduces its most extensive design overall with liquid glass, a transparent glass like UI coming to iOS 26, iPad OS 26, macOS, Tahoe 26, and more. Inspired by VisionOS, it adapts to light dark modes and brings real time rendering across apps like Safari camera and FaceTime. Developers get early access to APIs aligned with their dynamic new interface launching later this year. I wanna welcome you to episode 1,825. Of course, I'm your host,

Todd Cochran. Of course, big announcements today at WWDC. I was not able to, listen to the keynote. I just had way, way, way, way too much going on, But Apple is introducing this new liquid glass design, and the video the YouTube video they put up is pretty it's it's pretty impressive. And it's it's just more of a, I guess, the best way to say it is a UI enhancement. It's all about adding transparency and a glass shine effects to Apple's in app interface across all their models.

And they say it's their broadest design update ever. Of course, this is the I think the last time they made a broad design update was many years ago. But for the time, they're introducing a universal design across the platform. And, again, it adds a glass like element through iOS. And they've got some images that they put up online, but I I'll just be be kinda honest with you. The video does a much, much better job

of of showing it. And imagine an app having an interface, and as you're pushing buttons and so it's just those buttons are transparent. You can see through while it hovers on top. So, interesting. And, so liquid glass uses real time rendering and will dynamically react to movement. Apple is using on a button, switches, sliders, text, media controls, and even larger surfaces like

tab bars and sidebars. Now Apple has redesigned its controls, Two bars and navigation within apps that fit this new liquid glass design. Apps like camera, photo, Safari, FaceTime, Apple News, Apple Podcasts have all been updated for Liquid Glass, and Apple has published an updated set of APIs, of course. So, well, we'll see. We'll see what happens here. And this is, again, a big UI update is is what it's gonna look like, not necessarily a, so much of a feature enhancement, although there's

some of that. We'll talk about that later, of course. So, again, Apple's new design language is liquid glass. I wanna I wanna welcome you to episode 1,826. Again, I'm your host, Todd Cochran, and shout out to our incredible sponsors at GoDaddy.

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and it really kinda came to me. I have essentially a duplicate of everything here that I have in my studio in The Philippines. And, this weekend, I caught a little extra time, and, I got the, the Elgato camera off of my teleprompter. Actually, I got the Elgato camera, the teleprompter. I got the, a different, RodeCaster. One is sitting right here. And all the ex all the stuff that I essentially have hooked up there, I hooked

up here to a Mac Studio. I have a Mac Studio I bought, I think it's now I think it's m two or m one a couple of years ago. And, in essence, I wanna see if I could run here without stuff being disconnecting. And, I got everything installed. I got OBS up. I basically put everything in place duplicating, everything I have there minus a different type of Roadcaster. Everything else is duplicated. And I played with it, rebooted it, did all kinds of crazy stuff.

Everything stayed up. So in principle, what I have determined is the Mac Mini definitely does not have enough power on the USB ports. That's seems to be the crux of the issue. The Studio has much more power on the USB three, USB c ports, and, there was no glitching, there was no disconnecting, there was no, oops, I lost the connection, and, matter of fact, it's still seventy two hours in. I'm running it.

And, basically, what I found is if it fails, it would always take me had to unplug the USB port and plug it back in for stuff to come back alive. So when I head out again, what I'm just gonna do is I'm gonna take my Next Studio and put that in the carry on, and I'm gonna take that with me and, use that while I'm there. Call me a little crazy carrying it, back and but, that is essentially, if everything goes right, literally gonna save me several thousands of dollars. So,

that is the plan. Now what's kinda crazy and, of course, you know, the difference between a mini and a studio is, like, 12 or $1,300. I think a brand new studio now today is, like, 2,100 and a mini. So that mini I have there is essentially a new mini. And what's curious is I have two minis behind me that basically runs the, I mean, for for remote interviews, then I'm thinking, yeah, I got one of those that's getting a little long in the tooth. It's not quite there yet.

And, so I'll probably bring both back or maybe just leave the studio there. I don't know. I haven't decided yet, but, that's kind of my plan. And maybe, that number one, I don't have to buy another laptop. Number two, I run what I have currently, with all of my screens and everything. Essentially gets me, you know, kind of a solution here that, should should alleviate my headache. Now the only thing Rogue is the Rode Duo.

So the Rode Duo is kind of my one piece that because I don't have two Rode Duo's. And that Rode Duo was bought specifically to do what it's doing now. And, but I do have one other solution I take with me if the Rode Duo continues to disconnect. I have the ability to put in a different device, and then I just have to record on the studio, which would be fine because it fully be able to support, that type of a load. It's, you know, it should be be be fantastic.

So, anyway so hopefully, that's an update to my tech woes. And, I do have a departure date potentially in mind. I have to do a short run. I just cannot be gone all the way until October. So, we'll keep you guys advised on that when I when I lock in here. But, lots going on in August. Lots going on in September. Madrid, October for a speaking event and podcasting. So, but for now, we're just gonna keep on cranking here. Hey. Thanks everybody for being here.

Thanks for being on the show. Thanks for, coming in here watching, the stream.

Obviously, big Apple event today. The iPad OS 26 removes split view, and that's a view I really I mean, I very, very, very rarely use split view. And it was more often, you know, flipping from app to app. So that's one of the things they're going to do, but they're gonna have a slide over multitasking feature. And iPadOS 26 is gonna be more closer to the Mac than it is to a k a the iPhone. So kind of a shift here of the iPad,

making a move, and it makes sense. I know a lot of people are using iPads, instead of a a laptop. Makes a lot of sense considering the power in those modern iPads as well. Of course, Apple has renamed its operating system. We already, know about that with version numbers now match the year, but not the current one with, everything going to iOS 26. I guess it's gonna be a little easier to remember. I I don't know. But the question I have

and one thing that I did notice that they showed an image here, in the Verge article is they still show show the vision the vision goggles. Does anyone anyone here have one of those? Do you have vision, the vision goggles from Apple? Has anybody spent that kind of money? I'm curious. I just don't I just don't know where it's it's a gimmick and is is is an absolute nerd here. Of course, I'd love to have one. I really

would. You know, let's say you. Have have you been sitting on the fence kinda waiting to see if they revamp it, if they come out with something that's a little cheaper? You know? Where where where do you guys lay on that? [email protected]. Of course, macOS Tahoe, this is the name, iOS 26 coming, this fall. They're getting access to the beta tomorrow. So, again, updates this fall. So we'll see when this when this, gets pushed out, but that's the word from Apple on the

street. Now they've updated and also announced a new games app. This is something I have never I have never opened inside any device. I just don't I'm not a gamer. I know better as a as an individual. If I get in and start gaming, you know, it's it's not gonna be pretty for me from a product productivity standpoint. You just know that, games are very, very, to me at least, very addicting. So, so I don't know a lot about the gaming options, of course, in these devices because I just don't do it.

One thing I do find very interesting is Apple is introducing live translation across, messages, FaceTime, and phone. So that's to me is very exciting. Someone can type something in Japanese or some maybe Spanish, and it just automatically translates it. I need that on a lot of apps. WhatsApp, you know, you have to use a party piece of software to be able to do translations, and it's a little hokey. But if message allows this and, you know, be honest, come on. Let's let's be frank.

Messenger and which is Facebook, obviously, and WhatsApp, those two platforms need this feature. They need auto translation.

I I I think that would be fantastic, especially if you're you know, on the translation app, you can speak English. It'll come out, you know, show Spanish. And a person can speak Spanish, and it'll show up English. It's just a little awkward. But if you can chat with someone and it translate the languages automatically, the whole world changes. Obviously, it's not as, to me, not as impactful because it's in message, iMessage versus in, again, WhatsApp or in Messenger.

That's where it's really that's where it really would be fantastic. So maybe Zuckerberg, will get his act together and, you know, update. There's no reason for them not to. Seems to me like it would be a incredibly smart, feature to have. Now, sadly, a big announcement today, Bill Atkinson, architecture of the Mac's graphical soul, has passed away at 74. He was the creator of Mac Paint,

HyperCard, and pull down menu shaped modern computing. I I remember my exposure to to the Mac to the Macintosh, in the early days and the art. We we use this art program for a lot of crazy stuff. And we really did. I I drew actual electrical drawings in, in McPaint. There was some other stuff out there that we did as well. It was rudimentary for sure, but we're able to get some of that done in those you know, this is this is before AutoCAD or anything like that.

But, yep, passed away from sadly, he passed away from pancreatic cancer. That that is just one that is, it's just brutal. You know, it's folks that get that, it's it's not good. Yeah. Because they usually it's detected late and, you know, it's it's sad. It's it's a very, very aggressive, cancer. US lawmakers are firing back at the president over NASA cuts.

So the detailed proposal from, the the the big beautiful bill has NASA's budget slashed and killing, Artemis three after the, after, I think, the launch. So, you know, it's did away with almost half of the US Space Agency science budget as well. So almost 10,000,000,000 is gonna be made available until 09/30/2032 of which 4,100,000,000.0 is to be spent on SLS

for Artiom Artemis four and Artemis five. 2,600,000,000.0 is to go on the Gateway Space Station orbiting the moon and 700,000,000 on the commercial procurement of a Mars telecommunication orbiter. So other than that, you know, the budget's been slashed significantly. It's, you know, it's the budget is just ugly. It's ugly in all regards. The debt ceiling into the debt interest payments, like, 600,000,000,000 or something like that.

Social Security payments are are what they are, and, you know, here I am now fast approaching decision time on that and, you know, others, you know, that is, you know, something we all have paid in, want to make sure is protected. But then, you know, defense and, you know, Medicare and other stuff just sucks up a huge other portion of that, and I fully get it. I do. But something, I think, is is at some point, it's got to give or we have to make more money as a country.

Microsoft is moving. Stop Indian fake tech support scams. Make sure you stay protected. This is where they call you and say, I'm Microsoft support. But this kinda makes me laugh, and this is an article from TechRadar. So I thought, wow. They're going after this. So it says major tech support scam operation dismantled in India. Now if you've watched any of these scam caller YouTube, channels, you know getting the Indian to conduct a raid

is near impossible. And when they do do a raid, then usually they've been tipped off by someone, and there's no one there. So they did raids at 19 locations and only arrested six people. So don't you think don't you think that they had a heads up notice? Many of these operations have 30 or 40 people working in them, and they raided 19 locations and only arrested six people? Yeah. Good job, India. Good job. Good job for for nothing.

So, this this to me, if you know anything about these scam call centers, it's to me, is this a joke? They only arrested six people, raided 19 locations. They knew they were coming. They cleared out. They took the servers that were important. So India's Central Bureau of Investigation recently conducted

raids, 19 locations across the country. Uh-huh. Yeah. I to me, it's just You know, these YouTubers, if everything was acted on that the YouTubers collect and give information, this stuff would already be gone. These these YouTubers that are real heavy core, hardcore in basically going after scam baiting and trying to get, people from not being, liberated of their money. This is what I keep talking about in the show.

If everyone in this show had told made sure their parents and their grandparents were good and explained to them

what can happen. If someone asked you go go get a gift card, someone asked you go to your bank and withdraw money and change it into Bitcoin, if someone asked you go to your bank and withdraw money and wrap it up in tinfoil, and FedEx is someone if you if you if you explain these scams to your elderly adults and then did seven degrees, you know, we could we could we could shut down a great deal of this just by education.

Now I know you all are protecting your parents and yourselves, but the with these call centers, they're gonna keep calling. They're gonna call about ordering a phone. They're gonna say that you they're part of the IRS. I mean, the scams are just limitless. Now luckily, they're fighting back with, AI calling and a whole bunch of stuff to try to to shut these, systems down, but they're taking millions and millions and maybe even billions of dollars out of elderly folks' bank accounts.

And this isn't even love scheme. This is just I'm calling from Microsoft tech support. Or you purchased something on PayPal and I you know, you you know, it's all scam, and and don't ever don't ever let someone control your computer. Never. Unless you are the one that's initiated the call to and and I I'm just saying be careful. Please be careful out there. What do we got going on here? I just heard the the windows rattle. So, be aware. At the same time, of course, Engadget

they Kirk, we may have to ban Engadget from a from a digital source. YouTube now allows more harmful misinformation on its platform. The internal policy change came shortly after president Trump's reelection. Of course, they're gonna say that. YouTube is following in the potentially dangerous steps of Meta n x by relaxing its content moderation policies.

New internal training materials viewed by the New York Times instruct moderators to leave videos live if up to half of its content if up to half of its content violates YouTube policy and and increase from a quarter of it. The platform introduced new policy mid December. The new guidelines reflect YouTube deems as public interest. These areas include discussing and debating elections, race, gender, immigration, and more, recognizing definition of public interest is always evolving.

YouTube said, we regularly update our community guidelines. Well, they were taking a lot of stuff down. A lot of stuff down that was quote, unquote, misinformation that two years later turned out to be true. So this bias report the news. I'm a podcaster. I can have bias. It's raining. So I wonder if we're still streaming online. Everything looks like we're good. When the when the storms come, Starlink drops. So if I go offline here for the

stream, I I apologize. Meanwhile, if you're watching the streams, please say hello either on Facebook, YouTube, or wherever you may

be. The United States is seeking forfeiture of 7,740,000.00 cryptocurrency tied in North Korean IT workers. Why get it done? So they filed a civil forfeiture complaint, and, NFTs and other digital assets were frozen in connection with the April 2023 indictment in North Korean Foreign Trade Bank. So, go out there and get that money. Sunnova, I don't need I've never heard of this company, files for bankruptcy on residential solar woes. And, they filed for chapter 11.

They're $10,000,000,000 in debt. Company listed as estimated assets and liabilities range of 10,000,000,000 to 50,000,000,000 is total total debt of 10,670,000,000.00. Said last week it would lay off 55% of its workforce. So they said this the reason the reason is because administration is pushing for to maximize oil and gas production. That doesn't change people's wants to to get solar. I know a lot of people that believe in fossil fuels that wanna get solar on

their houses. That doesn't change. So come on now. You know? I'm a big solar proponent. There's a big huge I mean, people in this community are, and my local community are pissed. There's a whole Facebook group that's whining and crying. There's a solar system. Well, what they're bringing is high power transmission lines. And it's about if I if I from where I'm sitting now to the west of me, it's probably four miles. And the farmers

in that zone are getting rich. Now let me let me tell you what's happening. On average, farmland in my area typically rents from a 150 to $200 an acre usually with profit sharing. That's what a farmer pays that doesn't own the land, to farm the land, to put corn, soybeans, whatever crop they wanna put on that. The solar folks are paying, is doing a lease and paying as high I've heard top end is $2,000 an acre a year down to $800 an acre.

Now if if I'm in that zone, if it's coming right through my property and I have the ability to put solar panels on the acreage that we have, put on every damn acre, every acre allowed. And people are mad, mad about it. So, we're not in the zone. So we're gonna continue to rent our land to a farmer. It'll be, you know, my mom's decision, what she wants to do, but we're not in the zone.

But think about the delta there, and they're taking and this township that I'm in have just passed a policy that said we're not gonna allow solar to make up more than 3% of farmland to try to prevent solar from coming in here. And I I'm friends with the people that sit on the township board, and I I don't understand. They're farmers.

But I'm like, someone's gonna come to you and offer you $800 an acre per year per year to have solar panels on there, and you're having a hard time making farming as it is because of the price of corn, etcetera, tell me you wouldn't be tempted. In a minute. In a minute. Alright. So moving on. XFCC chair Jit Pai is now a wireless wireless lobbyist and an enemy of cable company. Surprise.

Surprise. Surprise. Remember, Pai was the FCC commission chair during president Trump's term and then spent several years in a private equity firm. He changed jobs in April becoming the presidency of Wireless Entry Lobby Group. Sure. He visited the White House to discuss wireless priorities and had a meeting with Brendan Carr, the current FCC chairman, who is part of Pai's Republican majority FTC in 02/2021.

So what this is all about is wireless spectrum, aka mobile spectrum, and will they get more spectrum. So keep an eye on this. There's an iMessage zero click attack suspect basically, there's a I zero iMessage zero click attack that's been suspecting and targeting high valuable high value individuals. Must be so high value, it says only seven or eight people have been targeted, putting spyware on their on their iPhones.

The underlying security defect, iVerifyNotes, was seen in devices running iOS versions eighteen one point one and resolved in iOS eighteen point three point one released earlier this year. So it's been patched, but it was out there in the wild for a while. So there you go. IPhones, Windows, Mac machines, they're all capable of being hacked, ladies and gentlemen. Mars or Perseus capture a rare view of an ancient volcano poking above the clouds. So this is kind of a cool image.

You know, so old dead volcano, supposedly. Arissa Moons, Armands, an ancient Martin volcano, was captured before dawn on 05/02/2025 by NASA's 2,001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the red planet's atmosphere, which appears here as a greenish haze. So link will be up in the show notes for those of you interested in the science on that. Cyberattacks on smartphones hit new high. Here's how to stay safe. So, basically, be careful. 12,000,000 phones were targeted.

So let me make sure I get this right. Of course, this is from a company that's currently banned because they're Russian. Mobile statistics report Kaspersky claims the number of detected malware samples increased by more than a quarter, 27% between q one twenty five and q four, '24. That's backwards. When the researcher detected 18,000 180,000 malware samples, mostly on Android devices called Tradia, t r I a d a backdoor. So does it say anything on iPhones? It doesn't. Largely

large the Android devices in this report. So, again, be careful with your phones too. It's National Email Week. Take control of your inbox inbox. So I'm like, okay. I'm we're still using email. Not for company communications, but for, you know, everything else. Everyone's still running on email. And, of course, it's been predicted instant messages would kill off email, but that hasn't happened. You know, we're using Slack, but,

you know, just, you know, make sure you're careful out there. This is a high risk now on email. If you are a, little bit on the, Ophonics side, JBL has debuted bar 1,000 MK two with a unique twist on night mode. Now listen to this. The JBL BAR 1,000 MK two is a flagship Dolby Atmos soundbar with detachable rear speakers and a wireless sub for $1,199. Did is it really worth that much? Is it does it give you that good a sound?

Anyhow, here's talking to the guy that just has a el cheapo soundbar with an el cheapo bass. You know, nothing too fancy for me. There's a good article around, finance.yahoo. They copied it over in Business Insider stating that workers need a mind shift amid the AI revolution. I believe this.

We're we're doing a full a full reboot. And now AI is not gonna replace jobs, but will require employees to rethink how they work. We're asking our workers to determine if AI can handle routine work. We're not doing email yet, but we're doing a lot of stuff with AI with very tight controls on making sure the the the outputs are correct. We have to edit them. But, you know, we're we're thinking we're getting 35% efficiency easily. I know I am personally as well.

So what are you seeing? What are you seeing at your JOB? What are you seeing today, and and what are the policies that your company has set up for AI utilization? I really wanna hear from you. Are you embracing it? Are you using Gemini? Are you using Anthropic? Are you using Claude? Yeah. Same thing. Claude Anthropic. Are you using, ChatGPT?

I've told you I've been using ChatGPT with the pro mode at $200 a month and getting at least two or three projects through that a month using advanced research that is worth every freaking penny. Every penny of the 200. And then, of course, there's all this new stuff with, video generation and all that with I think it's called Neo that, Gemini came out with. Absolutely amazing. Incredible. So how are you today

employing? What are you guys doing? What what are you, you know, how are you using it at work? Are you allowed to use it at work? Are you using it for analysis? Are you helping to write emails? What what is it? Now one thing I've gotta do is we had a delay in getting our emails back from, the podcast show. So I've got the spreadsheet of all the scanned contacts and all the

information related to that person. So I'm gonna dump I'm gonna write a prompt explaining about the five different type of customer types. And, and then we're going to I'm gonna do an experiment and see how personal we can get these emails that I'm gonna send as a follow-up, for the show. It it should be interesting to see how these come out. I've got that on the task list for, tomorrow morning.

But, yeah, it we'll we'll see. I'll let you know how it goes. Chrome extension privacy promise is undone by hardcoded secrets and leaky HTTP. Some Chrome extensions were spotted leaking sensitive router data like API key secrets and tokens via unguarded HTTP transmissions and hardcoded spills. So this is not good. That's why you should never connect to something that's not HTTPS to begin with.

According to Sematech Research and several widely used Chrome browsers, Dual Safe Password Manager and AVAS online security and private extensions are exposing information either through insecure HTTP transmissions or hard coded leaks. So be aware. This is not good. Make sure you're staying connected to HTTPS whenever you're on a website. A little bit of, you know, reorganization news again. Warner Brothers is splitting into two

companies. Separate entities are being created to run Warner Brothers' streaming cable and TV business.

So they basically gonna split itself into two. So Warner Brothers is gonna be one. Discovery is gonna be the other. Isn't this the way they were before? It's like what's old is new again? It's pretty amazing, isn't it? Hey. One Netflix thing I watched, this past weekend was Shaq and Reebok. Have any of you guys seen that, series? I think it's a five session series with, Shaquille O'Neal and, AI, Iverson, the basketball player. I'm not real familiar

with him because everybody knows Shaq is. And they're they're relaunching what they're doing with the Reebok. I I thought that was it's pretty finesse fascinating series, per se. Have any of you bought any of those new Reebok shoes, the engine a? Any I'd love to hear if you have. Again, drop me an email here, [email protected]. I've been a long time Nike guy, just because the shoes fit me, and I have a very narrow foot, so it works out fine.

Getty Images and Stability AI are facing off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry. So, I think this is one of the major ones. So the trial is gonna last about three weeks. We'll see how it goes. This would be a major test, and probably someone's gonna have to pay. We'll we'll see what ends up happening, and where they end up.

Google Pixel's new VIP contacts let you favorite people to bypass do not disturb. I don't I don't have anybody set up to bypass do not disturb. Well, my kids are set up to bypass do not disturb on my iPhone. Really don't have a lot of contacts I talk to with my Android. So, yeah, Google Pixel's new VIP contacts that your favorite people bypass do not disturb. I guess it's only for Google Pixel at this point. So, be aware of that out there. Alright? Oh, yeah. That's a good article over on

the, the register. Floppy disk and paper strips lurk behind US air traffic control. We know about the paper strips, but floppy disk? My god. They've been trying to upgrade the FAA stuff for ten or fifteen years and billions of dollars. Just amazing. Amazing that, it all still works, isn't it? You know, they're loading stuff with floppy disk. Come on.

Pixels are finally about to get a feature to prolong battery longevity, a new battery health feature, helps in optimizing your Pixel's battery lifespan. So keep an eye on that. That update is coming soon to the Pixel. Should've combined that with the other one. Also, Starliner's future plans are still in limbo. They don't know what they're gonna do. They're saying the earliest it will fly is next year, but that is debatable.

So, Lockheed, is kind of, sitting on their thumbs and amongst their failures. So we will see if this gives them enough time to fix it, if they have enough money, where this where this ends up is anyone knows. But, you know, Lockheed has definitely lost their juju quite a bit. Another article about solar energy growth growing slowing US solar energy growth to slow. You know, if you're a solar energy company, unless you're getting a bunch of tax rebates, why why would it slow down?

I guess it's because of tax credits. Yeah. So tax credits are going to be slowing down. Oh, we'll see. Going strong here. That's for sure. The Trump signed an executive order targeting digital identity and sanctions, so I don't fully understand this. But he signed this order aimed at strengthening United States cybersecurity with focus on amending problematic elements of executive orders from both Biden and Obama administrations.

According to fact sheet, the new order aims to improve software development, border gateway, BGP security, post quantum cryptography implementation, AI security, IoT security, the use of encryption sanction policies, as well as prevent the abuse of digital identities.

So there's analysis of the changes that better identical as you press at this point in the White House decision appeal a section of it that strips away inappropriate measures outside of core cybersecurity focus, including moving a mandate if US government issued digital IDs for illegal aliens that would have facilitated the entire that would have facilitated entitlement fraud according to the White House. Okay. Well, there again, it gets political. It's

not all about cybersecurity. It's more about the politics at hand. Of course, in LA, insanity going on. Several Waymo self driving I PACE electric cars were set on fire. At least five of them were burnt to the ground. And, so about $600,000 in loss. So, again, multiple Waymo vehicles were set ablaze. I wonder what their insurance will pay on that if they will if unrest like that burn them to the right the chassis is right to the ground. So, amazing. Like, just absolutely amazing.

Finally, this is a weird one. Salmon. You know, I I've talked about salmon on this show before and how you have to be careful. Salmon is the from a sushi standpoint, it is generally the the fish that goes bad the quickest. You gotta have a lot of tight controls. If you're gonna get, food poisoning at a sushi shop, I guarantee nine out of 10 times is from salmon. Not that you're getting food poisoning from salmon, but lab, yes, lab, lab grown salmon gets FDA approval.

The FDA has issued its ever approval on a safety consultation for lab grown fish. That makes Wild Type only the company to get approval from the regulator to sell sell cultivated animal products. Its cultivated salmon is now available to order from only one Portland restaurant. If anyone's in Portland and you try this, I'd love to know, does it taste like salmon? I'd like to see the process, how this is grown. If this is grown in a lab and there's no fish involved, call me skeptical.

You're definitely not getting a filet from that, are you? So, anyway, little little,

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