Source: iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training
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Apple has previewed a suite of new features designed to support people with cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities. These include Personal Voice, which enables users to create a synthesised voice that sounds like them, and streamlined versions of its core apps with high contrast buttons and large text labels enabling lightened cognitive load. There is also a new detection mode in Magnifier to help users interact with physical objects with numerous text labels.
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Source: Index of Ice Experiments on Alcademics
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Camper English’s book, The Ice Book: Cool Cubes, Clear Spheres, and Other Chill Cocktail Crafts, is available for pre-orders. The book covers various ice-related topics from making clear ice to ice care and handling.
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Source: Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
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Cloudflare has modernized its terms of service to eliminate customer confusion by updating its service-specific terms and removing certain constructs that were too broad. Customers can now confidently innovate on the Developer Platform while leveraging the speed, security, and reliability of Cloudflare’s CDN.
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Source: Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights
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Erlang/OTP 26 brings numerous improvements to the shell, including direct function definitions, type/spec/record definitions, and vastly improved auto-completion capabilities.
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Source: Why `fsync()`: Losing unsynced data on a single node leads to global data loss
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Redpanda’s aim is to build a faster, safer streaming data platform. They use the Raft replication protocol, engage with Jepsen, and run daily chaos-consistency testing. Fsync is a method where all recently written data is written to disk. Replication can make fsyncs unnecessary for replicated systems, but data loss may still occur if all nodes lose power or experience simultaneous OS crashes.
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