The New Navigation System in SwiftUI
Photo by Dan Chung on UnsplashFor a long time, developers have criticized SwiftUI’s navigation system. Due to the limitations of NavigationView, developers had to use various tricks and even black technology to achieve some basic functions (such as returning to the root view, adding any view to the stack, returning to
Read moreSam Altman’s Worldcoin eyeball-scanning crypto project launches
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s audacious eyeball-scanning crypto startup, has started the global rollout of its services to help build a reliable solution for “distinguishing humans from AI online,” enable “global democratic processes” and “drastically increase economic opportunity.” The startup, which has raised about $250 million altogether and counts Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla
Read more10 Simple CSS and JavaScript Micro-interactions for Buttons
Learn ten simple ways to add micro-interactions to buttons on a web page that help inform users when they've successfully done something. Continue reading 10 Simple CSS and JavaScript Micro-interactions for Buttons on SitePoint.
Read moreHow rare is it to encounter a rare word?
I recently ran across a paper on typesetting rare Chinese characters. From the abstract: Written Chinese has tens of thousands of characters. But most available fonts contain only around 6 to 12 thousand common characters that can meet the needs of everyday users. However, in publications and information exchange in
Read moreHow an LLM might leak medical data
Machine learning models occasionally memorize training data. Under the right prompt, a model could return portions of the training data verbatim. If a large language model is trained on deidentified medical data, along with data that overlaps with the medical data, it could potentially leak details of a person’s medical
Read moreTesla stock falls as margins slip, VanMoof files for bankruptcy, and Aurora sells $820M worth of stock
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Your usual host Kirsten Korosec is still away, so you have me for one more week. Let’s jump in. U.S. policymakers and agencies are
Read moreCan Europe’s cannabis market avoid the US’ mistakes? Investors chime in
When it comes to Europe’s cannabis market, the biggest piece of news this year is what didn’t happen. Contrary to what a lot of people expected, Germany isn’t on the way to legalizing recreational use of marijuana. Instead, the EU’s most populated country watered down its law reform plans after
Read moreElon Musk says an ‘X’ will soon mark the spot where Twitter used to be
Elon Musk has been calling his Twitter acquisition X Corp basically since he bought it, and that is its official legal entity name already, but now it could be the customer-facing brand for the bird app, too. Or soon-to-be-former-bird-app, actually. Musk tweeted late Saturday night that he’d replace the Twitter
Read moreTwitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images Around 12AM ET last night, Twitter owner Elon Musk started tweeting — and did so for hours — about the Twitter rebrand to X, the one-letter name he’s used repeatedly in company and product names forever. It started with a
Read moreGear Patrol’s acquisition of DPReview shows that it can pay to be boring
In March, DPReview announced that parent company Amazon was shutting it down, and the photography world entered a dual state of shock and disbelief. For 25 years, DPReview had served as a consistently reliable and authoritative voice on photography gear. But photography enthusiasts didn’t just go to DPReview to drool
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