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Published on: July 2, 2025On iOS 26 we have lots of new ways to reimagine our UIs with Liquid Glass. This means that we can take a look at Apple’s built-in applications and find interesting applications of Liquid Glass that we can use to enhance our understanding of how Liquid Glass components can be built, and to understand what Apple considers to be good practice for Liquid Glass interfaces.In this post, we’re going to replicate a control that’s part of the new maps app.It’s a vertical stack of two buttons in a single Liquid Glass container. Here’s what the component…
Imagine, for a moment, that we’re stepping back five years into the past. Digital twin was just a buzzword. BIM (building information modeling), while discussed for decades, was only just beginning to gain any meaningful traction. Now, here we are today, witnessing an extraordinary rise in all these technologies—and what’s even more exciting is all this momentum will certainly drive new applications and transform business models unlike anything we have ever witnessed before. Now we can confidently say we find ourselves at a thrilling crossroads of technological growth poised to shape the next five years with promising unprecedented transformation. The…
Media3 1.9.0 is out! Besides the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, the latest release also contains four new or largely rewritten modules:We also added caching and memory management improvements to PreloadManager, and provided several new ExoPlayer, Transformer and MediaSession simplifications. This release also gives you the first experimental access to CompositionPlayer to preview media edits. Read on to find out more, and as always please check out the full release notes for a comprehensive overview of changes in this release.Extract metadata and frames outside of playbackThere are many cases where you want to inspect media without starting a playback. For example,…
There is an ever-expanding demand for inexpensive, rapid and reliable diagnostic sensor to simultaneously and accurately detect various biomarkers of clinical significance in human biofluids. Emergence of the powerful metallic nanozymes is the epitome of next-generation biomarker detection field. Such that in the past 7 years, researchers are fully leveraging their distinctive electrocatalytic features and versatility within multimodal and multiplexed detection systems. Multiplexed detection in a biosensor is substantial to diagnose diseases with numerous biomarkers through a small amount of biofluids.Multimodal readouts that combine various methods leads to enhance accuracy, sensitivity, cross-validation and real-time analysis of the targeted biomarkers. All…
Software as a Service (SaaS) and Software as a Product (SaaP) are two distinct software delivery models that businesses can choose from. SaaS refers to a cloud-based software model where users access applications over the internet on a subscription basis. On the other hand, SaaP involves purchasing software licenses installed locally on the user’s hardware. The alternative between SaaS and SaaP can have crucial significance for businesses in terms of ownership, deployment, cost, and customization. Knowing these models and their variations is essential to make an informed conclusion that aligns with your particular requirements. Key differences between SaaS and SaaP SaaS and Saap models differ as the below- Deployment and…
IEEE Spectrum’s most popular biomedical stories of the last year centered both on incorporating new technologies and revamping old ones. While AI is all the rage in most sectors—including biomed, with applications like an in-brain warning system for worsening mental health and a model to estimate heart rate in real time—biomedical news this past year has also focused on legacy technologies. Tech like Wi-Fi, ultrasound, and lasers have all made comebacks or found new uses in 2025.Whether innovation stems from new tech or old, IEEE Spectrum will continue to cover it rigorously in 2026. Georgia Institute of Technology, Icahn School…
A smartphone is all but a necessity in today’s digital world, and getting the phone that’s right for you is critical. Competition between phone makers is fiercer than ever, especially at the premium end of the market. Ultimately, that’s great news for consumers, but with so many mobile phones available, each differentiated by their software, feature set, and price point, there can also be a sense of uncertainty in choosing your perfect handset. Tech Advisor’s team of editors lives and breathes phones every day. We perform in-depth testing for all the top models from the likes of Samsung, Google, Apple,…
By operating on the ground in Kenya, the HOT team brought the human touch. The actual data collection activity was entirely led by locals, from introducing the project to flying the drones, and refugees in the camp helped manually identify features in the area. HOT teams flew drones to capture high-resolution aerial imagery and conduct field validation with refugee mappers. But most importantly, they trained and empowered members of the refugee camp—turning data collection into community engagement. Refugees became mappers, interpreters, and stewards of their own environment, creating ground truth data. Their local knowledge added depth and accuracy, giving them…
Apache Spark Connect, introduced in Spark 3.4, enhances the Spark ecosystem by offering a client-server architecture that separates the Spark runtime from the client application. Spark Connect enables more flexible and efficient interactions with Spark clusters, particularly in scenarios where direct access to cluster resources is limited or impractical. A key use case for Spark Connect on Amazon EMR is to be able to connect directly from your local development environments to Amazon EMR clusters. By using this decoupled approach, you can write and test Spark code on your laptop while using Amazon EMR clusters for execution. This capability reduces…
Can you believe it? We’re nearly at the end of 2025. And what a year it’s been! From re:Invent recap events, to AWS Summits, AWS Innovate, AWS re:Inforce, Community Days, and DevDays and, recently, adding that cherry on the cake, re:Invent 2025, we have lived through a year filled with exciting moments and technology advancements which continue to shape our new modern world. Speaking of re:Invent, if you haven’t caught up yet on all the new releases and announcements (and there were plenty of exciting launches across every area), be sure to check out our curated post highlighting the top…