Leveling Up Through Side Projects in Software Engineering
As a new software engineer, one of my biggest takeaways is realizing the need to be selective and strategic with in-company side projects…Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreFirmware Updates that Don’t Suck
Firmware Updates That Don’t SuckOur Arsenal 2 Firmware Update. Less than 1 minute, 30 seconds “door to door”Since 2017, we’ve shipped over 250,000 Arsenals (an AI photography assistant for DSLR/mirrorless cameras).Being a small company, we didn’t have the customer support resources to walk users through the update process. Updates need to work,
Read moreStarfield review: Guns and ships galore, but a vacuum of wonder
The long-awaited “Skyrim in space,” Starfield, is out today after many years in development over at Bethesda. It’s ambitious and lavishly produced, but despite its size it lacks the sense of wonder and vastness that its pastoral predecessor epitomized. (I and my colleague Darrell both played the game and came
Read moreReed Jobs will discuss his new venture firm at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
You may be more familiar with his father, Steve Jobs, but Reed Jobs aims to make his own impact on the world by making cancer nonlethal. Jobs, who lost his father to pancreatic cancer while a student at Stanford, this year took the wraps off his venture firm Yosemite with
Read moreWithings’ ScanWatch 2 arrives with a temperature sensing
Withings introduced the original ScanWatch in Europe back in 2020, before bringing it to the U.S. the following year, with FDA-cleared features like atrial fibrillation (afib) detection. Announced today during the IFA event in Berlin, the ScanWatch 2 arrives with its predecessor’s features, such as SPO2 (oxygen saturation) measurement, activity
Read moreHow To Run Meta’s New Model SeamlessM4T on MacOS
Running the model on MacOS takes work; it requires several complicated steps to get things to work correctlyContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreLongplay rolls out a big refresh to its album-focused music app
Love listening to full-length albums instead? Longplay, an indie music app from developer Adrian Schoenig that focuses on the album-listening experience, is out today with a significant update that improves on the album-playing app first launched in 2020. While the original version offered a unique music discovery experience by offering
Read moreGoogle now blurs explicit imagery in Search results by default
Google is finished rolling out its new SafeSearch feature that blurs explicit imagery, such as violent or sexual photos, by default. The company announced back in February that it would be rolling out the change later this year, and has now confirmed in a blog post that it is available
Read moreX wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history
Image: The Verge X, the platform previously known as Twitter, is expanding the amount of data it collects on users. The social network has updated its privacy policy to include carveouts for “biometric information” and “employment history,” as spotted by Bloomberg. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use
Read moreIBM promised to back off facial recognition — then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due to concerns about racial profiling, mass surveillance, and other human rights violations. In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests swept
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