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With the beta release of ARKit by Apple, I will be writing a series of articles working through a real world example integrating ARKit in iOS. Every time I publish a new part to this series I will update the links below.

Source: Apple ARKit by Example – Mark Dawson

With Core ML, Apple has managed to achieve an equivalent of PDF for machine learning. With their .mlmodel format, the company is not venturing into the business of training models (at least not yet). Instead, they have rolled out a meticulously crafted red carpet for models that are already trained. It’s a carpet that deploys across their entire lineup of hardware.

Source: Apple Introduces Core ML | Deep Dojo

Design and manufacture a small mobile device that seamlessly combines the functionalities of a cellular phone, a web surfer, an audio/video player and a small PC, and your company will double its market cap and establish a third mass-market computing platform after Windows and Macintosh.

Would you take the bet?

Source: iPhone: The bet Steve Jobs didn’t decline |

A major pre-requisite for many robotics tasks is to identify and localize objects within scenes. Our model-free approaches to scene segmentation employs RGBD cameras to segmented highly cluttered scenes in real-time (30 Hz). To this end, we first identify smooth object surfaces and subsequently combine them to form object hypotheses employing basic heuristics such has convexity, shape alignment and color similarity.

Source: Online 3D Scene Segmentation | Neuroinformatics Group

Get things from one computer to another, safely

Source: magic-wormhole/README.md at master · warner/magic-wormhole

"Flubber" smoothly morphs SVG shapes using "best-guess methods". Can we haz "best-guess methods" in CAShapeLayer? https://t.co/4CJnXp1niD pic.twitter.com/8tC1pqVAie

— Felix Schwarz (@felix_schwarz) July 2, 2017

Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.

Source: President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List – The New York Times

💅 You can now render the exact same styled components, the exact same code, to web, native… and @sketchapp! 😱🎉https://t.co/O6Jr5nVc4l pic.twitter.com/B8ZyYG0Uz0

— Max Stoiber (@mxstbr) June 19, 2017

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