Written by Prompted by this post from Mario Guzman, I was finally about to put into words what bothers me about Siri – and what I hope Apple’s upcoming A.I.-focused WWDC will improve. We’re over a decade into the industry’s voice assistant experiment, and given the same input, the output doesn’t feel reliably deterministic. Voice is an […]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (8.4MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pandora | Blubrry | TuneIn | Deezer | Youtube Music | The Learn English Through Football podcast explains the language of football: the words, phrases, and cliches used in the game. This week, we look at the word ‘heavy’, and how […]
What’s the recipe for making a historically world-class apex predator? In the case of Alexander the Great, it might be the three Ns: Nature, Nurture, and Nepotism. Source link
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of tennis racquet companies telling me they’ve invented the latest, greatest “technology” that will give you maximum power, control and feel all at the same time thanks to their nano – molecular – hyper – thermal – space age fibers expertly woven into your racquet by magical […]
Etsy features a diverse marketplace of unique handmade and vintage items. It’s a visually diverse marketplace as well, and computer vision has become increasingly important to Etsy as a way of enhancing our users’ shopping experience. We’ve developed applications like visual search and visually similar recommendations that can offer buyers an additional path to find […]
Posted on Friday, June 7th, 2024 at 9:41 am. PT Written by Jim Dalrymple Justin Long is in the news again, this time doing commercials for Qualcomm. Apple is still in the news for uts rumored AI releases at WWDC, but this time it’s for a partnership with Sam Altman and OpenAI to make Apple’s […]
Connected TV continues to see a rise in popularity, and advertisers are already taking advantage of YouTube’s reach of over 150 million monthly viewers in the living room. With the recent launch of the Google TV network, we’re now giving advertisers a way to reach additional viewers on the big screen. Google TV provides targeted, […]
An Emergency Podcast of sorts. The Tailenders assembled last night to react to the USA’s shock win over Pakistan in the Men’s T20 World Cup, this just a few hours after recording the podcast in the afternoon and saying how ‘unexciting’ the tournament was. Plus we’re joined by Olympic Rowers and Tailenders Tom George and […]
tl;dr India’s move towards large-scale digitalisation has necessitated a critical look at law and policy instruments governing the space—which commonly appear to be vague, arbitrary, exclusionary, or fail to place human rights at their core. New laws and digital interventions seem to share the lack of public consultations and stakeholder participation. A spike in public-private […]
As we migrate our apps to Jetpack Compose, we need to ensure that all existing functionality remains intact. This means that not only the way our UI looks, but the way that it behaves when users interact with it. When recently migrating part of an app to Jetpack Compose, I experienced a broken coordinator layout […]