#48 Daily Tech: How do other animals see the world?
How do other animals see the world?
Take a look through the eyes of a dog, a spider and three other creatures. By analysing the properties of animals' visual systems, we can model what the world would look like through their eyes.
Around the World in Search of Chocolate
Paul Richardson munched his way around the world and wrote about it in Indulgence: Around the World in Search of Chocolate, part travelogue, part chocolate fetishism, and part British childhood nostalgia. I love reading books like this, and even if information scrutinized from big choc companies isn’t up to snuff anymore since the book is from 2003, working my way through Indulgence left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg Ordered to Testify over Alleged Involvement in Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg will have to provide testimony to a federal court to discuss their alleged involvement in the company’s notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal, over half a decade since it first captured the world’s attention.
Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses
A decade after Google Glass, Google is getting back to testing smart glasses in public again. The company announced its own smart glasses initiative earlier this year at Google's I/O developer conference, a project that's aimed at assistance rather than entertainment. Google's now starting to publicly test those smart glasses, the company announced today, beginning with dozens of pairs in field use and ramping up to several hundred by the end of the year.
The Slow March of Progress in Programming Language Tooling
Last time the developer survey came out, I wrote a post about Green VS Brown languages. In it, I said that when people like a new programming language, they judge it from a biased perspective because new things get used for new development, whereas the older things get used in older projects, which are less exciting. But that misses something big: Language tooling is getting better.
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