National Research Foundation – Virtual Singapore

The programme will support the development of semantically enriched 3D model of Singapore which includes detailed information such as texture, geometry and topology of city objects and terrain attributes. Advanced information and modelling technology will allow dynamic and real-time data to be incorporated on top of static city data. Research funding will be available over […]

Neural Networks in iOS 10 and macOS

Apple has been using machine learning in their products for a long time: Siri answers our questions and entertains us, iPhoto recognizes faces in our photos, Mail app detects spam messages. As app developers, we have access to some capabilities exposed by Apple’s APIs such as face detection, and starting with iOS 10, we’ll gain […]

Elegance – The Future Is Now

Looking at these PCM files gave me a new appreciation for design, and helped me appreciate more how important it is to understand the reason behind design decisions. In a lot of ways this format feels like it should be “bad” design: it’s strange, it’s idiosyncratic, it’s internally inconsistent. But every single detail is carefully […]