The use of disclaimer labels on digitally enhanced portraits could have unintended social consequences for their subjects, according to a study by a team of McGill researchers.

Researchers at the Laboratory for Attention and Social Cognition used beauty filters on a common social media application to gradually edit a total of 300 images of 60 women (from 0% to 100%, 25% at a time). They randomly labeled half of the images as “edited” and the other half as “unedited,” regardless of their level of editing.

A sample of 76 undergraduate students then reviewed the images. The participants were asked to rate the individual’s attractiveness, but also to imagine the person’s social life and some of their social qualities.

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Young chimpanzees learn their communication style from their mother and maternal relatives, but show little similarity to the communication behavior of their father and paternal relatives, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Joseph Mine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues.

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Microsoft announced that the transcription, dictation, and read aloud features will stop working in older versions of Office 365 applications in late January 2026.

Read aloud lets users hear documents and emails read back, transcription converts speech into text in real-time, and the dictation feature allows for voice-to-text input across Office applications.

The company advised customers to update their Microsoft 365 Office apps to a version higher than 16.0.18827.20202 (released in early July) by the end of January 2026 to maintain access to these accessibility and productivity features.