Articles index July 4 2022 by Jeff Johnson I want to start by saying that I speak only for myself. I don’t speak for other Objective-C programmers, nor do they speak for me. We are not of one mind. The same is true of Swift programmers: some of them seem quite reasonable to me, and

March 30, 2023 Alexander Sandberg is an iOS and macOS developer and a member of the Swift Website Workgroup. Swift 5.8 is now officially released! 🎉 This release includes major additions to the language and standard library, including hasFeature to support piecemeal adoption of upcoming features, an improved developer experience, improvements to tools in the

Transform your text into stunning images with ease using Diffusers for Mac, a native app powered by state-of-the-art diffusion models. It leverages a bouquet of SoTA Text-to-Image models contributed by the community to the Hugging Face Hub, and converted to Core ML for blazingly fast performance. Our latest version, 1.1, is now available on the

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Today’s premium laptops, smartphones, and televisions use organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, screens, and it’s easy to see why. Unlike traditional liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), which use an always-on backlight, OLED panels can control the brightness of each individual pixel. This tech creates near-infinite contrast for a picture that jumps right off the screen, especially in high-dynamic range (HDR) content. Unfortunately, the OLED displays and TVs…

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), legally S.W.I.F.T. SCRL, is a Belgian cooperative society that serves as an intermediary and executor of financial transactions between banks worldwide. It also sells software and services to financial institutions, mostly for use on its proprietary “SWIFTNet”, and ISO 9362 Business Identifier Codes (BICs), popularly known as…

Since 2006, astrophysicists have shown through computer simulations that when two black holes merge, the gravitational waves emitted during this interaction carry linear momentum with them. This, in turn, could potentially impart a large recoil, or “kick,” to the product of that merger: a bigger black hole.Until now, this kick remained strictly theoretical. It could be…