Master Python's datetime type Python’s datetime library, part of its standard library, provides datatypes and methods for working with dates and times. Dates and times are slippery, inconsistent things, however, and libraries…
Month: April 2023
How to use async and await in JavaScript
How to use async and await in JavaScript One of the nicest improvements to developer experience in recent JavaScript history is the introduction of the async and await keywords, introduced in ES2017. Together,…
Shift happens: Writing about the history of keyboards
Shift happens: Writing about the history of keyboards When the designer and typographer Marcin Wichary stumbled upon a tiny museum just outside Barcelona five years ago, the experience tipped his interest in…
Inmates are using VR to learn real-world skills
Inmates are using VR to learn real-world skills Atorrus Rainer, age 41, is standing in the center of a stuffy, fluorescent-lit room. A virtual-reality headset covers his eyes like oversize goggles. Every…
The air-cleaning qualities of plants get a genetically modified boost
The air-cleaning qualities of plants get a genetically modified boost Neoplants’s marquee product, announced late last year, is the Neo P1, the first houseplant genetically engineered to remediate indoor air pollution. At…
Cheat Codex
Cheat Codex And then I did what an increasing number of us are doing: I turned to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s massively mind-blowing generative AI software, to help me out. After training it on…
Exquisite bullshitters
Exquisite bullshitters Artist Ariel Aberg-Riger is author of America Redux: Visual Stories From Our Dynamic History. Deep Dive Artificial intelligence The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who…
Google is making it much easier to search for tools in Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Google is making it much easier to search for tools in Docs, Sheets, and Slides Google is adding a new feature to some of its Workspace apps that will help users quickly…
Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services
Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services Smile Identity, a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive…
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 could be far thinner while folded
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 could be far thinner while folded Ice Universe, an anonymous Twitter account with a habit of accurately leaking details about unannounced smartphones, has tweeted what they claim…