EU regulators, who are preparing to fine the tech giant 500 million euros in March over allegedly favoring its music-streaming app against competitors like Spotify, are also being lobbied to reject Apple’s proposals to satisfy the bloc’s Digital Markets Act. The growing backlash against Apple comes as it is forced to make some of the biggest changes to its business model in years, following concerns over the dominance of its App Store, which forms a large share of the company’s $85 billion-a-year services business. For those who choose to also build apps in alternative stores, Apple said it would cut the highest amount paid by companies using its App Store to sell digital goods and services from 30 percent to 17 percent.
Source: Big Tech is extremely unimpressed by Apple’s EU App Store changes
]]>At Google, we believe in making AI helpful for everyone. We have a long history of contributing innovations to the open community, such as with Transformers, TensorFlow, BERT, T5, JAX, AlphaFold, and AlphaCode. Today, were excited to introduce a new generation of open models from Google to assist developers and researchers in building AI responsibly.
Source: Gemma: Google introduces new state-of-the-art open models
]]>Formats a timestamp as a localized string or as relative text that auto-updates in the user’s browser. This allows the server to cache HTML fragments containing dates and lets the browser choose how to localize the displayed time according to the user’s preferences
Source: github/relative-time-element: Web component extensions to the standard <time> element.
]]>Love, passion, and curiosity – more than money – fuel the majority of posts that show up in my RSS feed every day and I love it.
Source: A Golden Era of Blogging - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Good perspective!
]]>I’ve led infrastructure at a startup for the past 4 years that has had to scale quickly. From the beginning I made some core decisions that the company has had to stick to, for better or worse, these past four years. This post will list some of the major decisions made and if I endorse them for your startup, or if I regret them and advise you to pick something else.
]]>Create cards, lanes and tags in a modern and responsive interface
Source: BaldissaraMatheus/Tasks.md: A self-hosted, Markdown file based task management board
Maybe a bit heavy, but still very interesting
]]>The truth is, if you want to build the most-accessible product possible, you need to use both pixels and ems/rems. It’s not an either/or situation. There are circumstances where rems are more accessible, and other circumstances where pixels are more accessible.
Source: The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility: should I use pixels or rems?
]]>The Voice Input app for Android that respects your privacy.
Source: FUTO
]]>It’s the year 2021. Lots of us are building our websites and apps with components and design systems, perhaps leveraging a JavaScript framework to help glue all the pieces together. The web has matured in the last 5 years and it might be time to start looking at how the Web’s native component system can give our HTML super powers. We’ll talk about how to create, style, and use Web Components in your project today as well as look at how the components you build today may offer a pathway to web standardization and help inform and influence the Web for future generations.
Source: HTML with Superpowers
]]>But it can be found again. Create a new document in Microsoft Word, then click File > Save As. Make sure you save the document as a “Word97-2003 document”, or “.doc”, file.
Source: How to get the retro WordArt back in Microsoft Word - Popular Science
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