Max Q: Another day, another delay
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Pixxel’s new investor Mission delays for Boeing, Rocket Lab News from SpaceX and more Pixxel’s hyperspectral orbital imagery attracts investment from Google Hyperspectral imagery startup Pixxel has closed $36 million in funding as it prepares to roll out new remote sensing and
Read moreAux 2.0: Apple’s SharePlay lets everyone queue up a song in the car
Gone are the days of turning off your iPhone’s Bluetooth at a red light to allow your friend to wirelessly connect to your car and play some tunes. Say goodbye to passing the USB cable to a passenger so they can have a turn streaming their podcast. New Apple SharePlay
Read moreiOS 17 can suggest recipes for similar dishes from a photo on your iPhone
Apple didn’t announce any significant AI updates during its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote today, but it did quietly roll out some minor computer vision upgrades with its latest iPhone software, iOS 17. In addition to now letting users turn their own photos into stickers by cutting out the subject of
Read moreApple’s new headset fails to excite investors, but sends shares of Unity soaring
In case you were not allowed to stop working long enough to tune into Apple’s series of product announcements Monday, let me catch you up: The Cupertino-based technology company has a new device coming out called the Vision Pro. It’s an augmented reality headset that, while it looks pretty spiffy
Read moreApple’s Vision Pro headset seems too good to be real — because it basically is
Apple unveiled its new Vision Pro augmented reality headset today during its annual WWDC keynote, along with visionOS, the operating system that’ll power it. The hardware looked extremely impressive, and if the highly polished demos of how the software will work at all reflect what it’s like to use one
Read moreApple WWDC 2023: Everything announced so far including the Vision Pro AR headset, iOS 17, MacBook Air and more
It’s WWDC 2023 keynote time! Each year Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developer Conference with a few hours of just straight announcements, generally covering things from OS to watchOS to new and updated gadgets. Here’s how to tune in — someone even created a BINGO game. By now, you’ve prepared
Read moreVisionOS is Apple’s latest operating system
VisionOS is the name of Apple’s newest operating system — the OS that powers the Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s soon-to-launch augmented reality headset. Unveiled at its annual WWDC conference, Apple describes VisionOS as “the first OS designed for the ground up for spatial computing” — spatial computing being Apple’s phrase
Read moreChris’ Corner: Scoping
If I were going to argue against @scope, the new CSS feature, I might say that CSS already has scope. Like, every selector is “scope”. If you say .el, you’re saying “scope this bit of CSS to elements that have the class name of ‘el'”. But then someone might tell
Read moreWhat developers with ADHD want you to know
Note: For this article, we spoke with two Stack Overflow software engineers who have been diagnosed with ADHD but who wish to remain anonymous. A few months ago, we wrote about the overlap between people with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and people who code for a living. We noted the plethora
Read moreExtending ROS 2 States: An Overview of AICA’s Libraries for State Representation
Part 2 of a series of articles centered on ROS 2 and the development we made at AICA to develop a Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) frameworkPhoto by Farzad on UnsplashWelcome back to this series of articles centered on the development we made at AICA to develop a Task and Motion
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