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This past summer we narrowly avoided a major user interface regression on Apple devices. The story ended well, but I think it’s important to look back on the situation and ask a simple question: Why did this happen in the first place? My answer is something I call “consistency sin”. Understanding the cause lets us […]

In 2019, Apple acquired IKinema, an amazing company that produced technology that mimicked full body avatar movements and detailed facial expressions. Our report presents a video of that amazing technology. Yesterday the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple titled "Presenting Avatars in Three-Dimensional Environments." Where the patent gets really interesting is when they describe filming a user (actor) on an animated movie set.

Apple is looking to create an "entirely new application paradigm" for augmented and virtual reality according to a new job listing,...

Understanding structure-property relations is a key goal of materials research, according to Joshua Agar, a faculty member in Lehigh University’s

Surface Laptop 3 users are now receiving the August firmware update that brings general improvements, addresses security vulnerabilities as well as improves stability when using Microsoft accessories.

Waitaminute! A new report from The Information says that Jony Ive, Apple’s former head honcho of design, has “recruited” at least four former colleagues to his new firm. The article says they include: Wan Is, a 16-year Apple veteran; Chris Wilson, a 14-year veteran; Patch Kessler, also a 14-year veteran; and Jeff Tiller, a four-year veteran. Ive and Apple’s relationship Apple announced in June 2019 that Ive was departing the company as an employee to form an independent design company c...

Believe the most likely origin is from an animal species to a human. but i keep an absolutely open mind that if there may be other origins of that, there may be another reason, it could have been a lab leak. i believe, if you look historically what happens in the animal/human interface that, in fact, the more likelihood is that youre dealing with a jump of species. but i keep an open mind all the time. and thats the reason why i have been public that we should continue to look for the origin. th...

Should be explored but shouldnt jump to conclusions before that data and that information is made available. >> right now china is not cooperating, so the united states government says they dont have access to critical data from covids early days. >> you dont want to study bats in fairfax county, virginia to find out what the animals human interface is that might lead to a jumping of species. so we had a modest collaboration. >> republicans are charging its not supposed to be as complicated as d...

Backyard Brains: Innovative products to help kids learn about neuroscience “Once we received our Phase I of our SBIR grant, everything changed … I can say with high confidence that we would not be a company today if it were not for the NIMH SBIR program.” Gregory Gage, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder, Backyard Brains The brain is the most complex part of the human body. This three-pound organ is the seat of intelligence, interpreter of the senses, initiator of body movement, and controller of b...

Mux is how developers build online video. With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming--think Stripe for Video. You dont have to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings, you just go. And with Mux Data, developers realize incredible insights into how their videos perform from platform to platform, place to place, and user to user. Im Ed, and Im an engineer on the DevEx team here - you might have seen me around HN here and there. ;) This is, and I have to stress...