Mobiles don’t change their shape all that much. For years we’ve had clamshells, candy bars, sliders and the like. In fact, most new things get completely blown off by the major players, but sometimes what we see are the cool results that come out of the “10 percent time” of a designer’s schedule. Walking the floor at CTIA, I had the chance to meet with one of the designers from Kyocera....
The history of artificial intelligence has been marked by repeated cycles of extreme optimism and promise followed bydisillusionment and disappointment. Today’s AI systems can perform complicated tasks in a wide range of areas, such as mathematics, games, and photorealistic image generation. But some of the early goals of AI like housekeeper robots and self-driving cars continue to recede as we approach them. Part of the continued cycle of missing these goals is due to incorrect assumptions about AI and natural intelligence, according to Melanie Mitchell, Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute and author ofArtificial Intelligence: A Guide For Thinking Humans....
Google Maps has recentlyaddeda number of cycling features as more people have taken to riding bikes, ebikes, and electric scooters during the coronavirus pandemic. And yet as much as I appreciate some of these updates, as I’ve started to explore other cycling-oriented applications, Google Maps’ limitations have become increasingly obvious. Here are just a few changes that I believe could make Google Maps far more appealing to cyclists. Let me plan and save routes ahead of time I get it, Google Maps is mostly aimed at commuters and people taking the occasional impromptu trip....
4 JavaScript tools to clean up your dirty code Webpack Webpack is a popular module bundler among JavaScript developers. It takes the large collection of JavaScript modules in your application as input and bundles them into one or several JS files that you can easily include in an HTML document. A modern-day web application contains a considerably high number of JS files because of our tendency to use more and more dynamic features in the application....
4 key learnings from an experienced React developer Never stop learning This section won’t sound like a React specific lesson, but it’s essential. So hear me out! Like almost anything in computer science, the only constant is change. As developers, it’s part of our job to stay up to date with the best practices for programming languages, frameworks, patterns, design, etc. When I was starting with React, each component was a class, and we didn’t have any of the “fancy” features such as hooks — and now I can’t think of a project where I’m not using them....
