"We’re excited to ship one of your all-time most requested features: you can now add fonts to your web site using only CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)—no JavaScript required. Also, you can now use fonts from Typekit in HTML email campaigns, mobile articles in Google’s AMP format, or anywhere else CSS web fonts are supported."
Google is taking a second swing at augmented reality with a new SDK called "ARCore." The SDK is available for download today, along with a set of ARCore demos.
Fitbit is clearly trying to infiltrate the mindset of Apple's and Google's consumers with the $299 Ionic, but without forgetting its fitness roots in the process.
A very thoughtful article on the MacBook Touchbar. I’ve had mine since launch, and the number of times I’ve wished it wasn’t there vastly out number the amount of times I’m really glad it is. A single touch sensor and a regular row of function keys would be way better than the current setup.
Wikipedia is one of the greatest resources on the internet. If you plan on being offline for any amount of time, or if you want to have a local copy to keep on hand, you should know you can grab a full copy of Wikipedia anytime you want. Go!
Based on the wikipedia page of the same name, Information is Beautiful has an amazing graphic of what will happen to earth as time stretches onward from now.
Google is pushing the sources to Android Open Source Project (AOSP) for everyone to access today. Pixel and Nexus 5X/6P builds have entered carrier testing, and Google expects to start rolling out in phases soon, alongside Pixel C and Nexus Player. Google have also been working closely with their partners, and by the end of this year, hardware makers including Essential, General Mobile, HMD Global Home of Nokia Phones, Huawei, HTC, Kyocera, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp and Sony are scheduled to launch or upgrade devices to Android 8.0 Oreo. Any devices enrolled in the Android Beta Program will also receive this final version.
Bootstrap 4 beta has landed. Here are a few highlights from the official blog:
Moved from Less to Sass.
Flexbox and an improved grid system.
Dropped wells, thumbnails, and panels for cards.
Forked Normalize.css and consolidated all our HTML resets into a new CSS module, Reboot.
Brand new customization options.
Dropped IE8 and IE9 support, dropped older browser versions, and moved to rem units for component sizing
Rewrote all our JavaScript plugins.
Improved auto-placement of tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns
Redesigned and improved documentation.
New build tools
And so much more!
Through the Great 78 Project the Internet Archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of George Blood, L.P.. 78s were mostly made from shellac, i.e., beetle resin, and were the brittle predecessors to the LP (microgroove) era.
Forty years later, the two spacecraft are still sending back data, Voyager I from interstellar space, and Voyager II as it is crossing the the boundary of the solar system. Possibly even more surprising is that NASA engineers are still monitoring the mission.
As Personal Audio began to gain more public attention, the Electronic Frontier Foundation stepped in and said that it would challenge Personal Audio’s US Patent No. 8,112,504, which describes a “system for disseminating media content representing episodes in a serialized sequence.”
Each block in the Bitcoin blockchain - the network's public, shared transaction ledger - is limited to 1 megabyte. That artificial limit prevents the network from processing more than about seven transactions per second.