At I/O 2023, we launched Project Gameface, an open-source, hands-free gaming ‘mouse’ enabling people to control a computer’s cursor using their head movement and facial gestures. People can raise thei

PaliGemma is a vision language model (VLM) developed and released by Google that has multimodal capabilities. Unlike other VLMs, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o , Google Gemini , and Anthropic’s Claude 3 whi

This two-year investigation was produced in collaboration with students at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York who have since graduated. Audrey Carleton,

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SEI) has announced a new leadership structure that puts two people in charge of different parts of its business. Hideaki Nishino, who is currently serving as the SVP fo

MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to live in our own galactic neighborhood. The team spotted the st

Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone. Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5, their deleted photos — some qui

Dragonfly Dragonfly is an innovative, multi-lens array designed for ultra-low surface brightness astronomy at visible wavelengths. Commissioned in 2013 with only three lenses, the array is growing in

Project Decomissioned This project has been decomissioned. I, James Sumners, took it on when it was languishing without any maintenance as it filled a need in the ecosystem and I had built things at

Google has announced that it’s opening up API access to its Google Home smart home platform. This means that any app maker — smart home-related or not — can access the over 600 million devices connect

May 15, 2024 PRESS RELEASE Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced new accessibility featu

Delight — absolute delight — is what I felt when my parents brought home a Compaq Deskpro 386 for us to play with. It was love at first sight, thanks to games like Reader Rabbit, but I fell especially

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Together with University of Turku’s research group TurkuNLP and HPLT, Europe’s largest private AI lab Silo AI is releasing the first multilingual large language model (LLM) for all Nordic languages. V

I like to think of the Bay Area intellectual culture as the equivalent of the Vogons’ in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Vogons, if you don’t remember, are an alien species who demolish Earth to

Summary: Individuals on the autism spectrum are particularly susceptible to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The research demonstrates that even mild stressors, which typically wouldn’t affect o

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Lately, every time I see a job opening for iOS development it’s either React Native, Flutter, or some type of cross-platform stack. I admit that these technologies make sense in many cases. Learning

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Today as part of M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air release day, Harry McCracken at Fast Company published an interview with Apple execs wherein Greg Joswiak shared an interesting detail about Apple’s custom

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Prague Astronomical Clock Simulator This is a simulation of the world-famous Prague Astronomical Clock (Pražský Orloj), a medieval astronomical clock first installed in 1410, and still running today

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We often need to make decisions. Some decisions we can make in our heads — "should I buy 6 eggs or a dozen?". But many decisions we can't — "should I buy a house or rent?" — so we need tools to help u

When Simplicity is Preferrable to Efficiency I recently got back into the development of an open source game I released last summer, You're the OS!. It is a browser game, written in Python and compil

What if you set out to make the worst website you possibly could? So poorly designed and full of frustrating patterns that users would not only hate the experience of using this website, but would als

Despite its 1996 release, the Nintendo 64's original hardware and games have both remained relatively hot-button in enthusiast circles here into 2024. Now, the next frontier of high-end N64 gameplay m

A few months ago, my wife Lisa and I were hosting an event in Richmond, Virginia. She emailed an invitation to Senator Ghazala Hashmi. "Harry, what does SMTP 550-5.7.1 mean and what does it have to d

A while ago we checked out Super Truck II, a Department of Energy program that has been challenging the makers of Class 8 heavy trucks—the ones that haul up to 80,000 lbs (36.3 tonnes) of freight. Tru

As cheesy as the title sounds, I promise it cannot beat the cheesiness of the technique I’ll be telling you about in this post. The morning I saw Mark Ermolov’s tweet about the undocumented instructio

Proteins in the blood could warn people of cancer more than seven years before it is diagnosed, according to research. Scientists at the University of Oxford studied blood samples from more than 44,0

photo cred: my dad Years ago, I wrote a master’s thesis that was so bad I immediately threw it in the trash. But along the way I learned something important, which is how to get seventh-graders to sm

Google I/O introduced an AI assistant that can see and hear the world, while OpenAI put its version of a Her-like chatbot into an iPhone. Next week, Microsoft will be hosting Build, where it’s sure to

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May 14, 2024 Branded types for TypeScript Contents Introduction Branded types in TypeScript enable the creation of new types by affixing a type tag to an existing underlying type. This tag, commonl

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Today’s rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis o