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I am trying to display a list of images from panoramic webcams with following display constraints: rounded corners 16/9 aspect ratio center crop scale type (image is centered and cropped to fill available space while maintaining its own aspect ratio) following what I achieved in my Android app while still learning SwiftUI: AsyncImage( // from Coil library model = webcam.illustrationImageUrl, contentDescription = null, contentScale = ContentScale.Crop, modifier = Modifier .aspectRatio(16 / 9f) .hazeSource(state = hazeState), ) I tried using a combination of resizable, scaledToFill, aspectRatio, clipped followed by either clipToShape or background, but to no avail. For instance, this code:…

– Advertisement – Customers such as CILE, a Belgian public water distribution corporation with a sustainability-focused orientation, are served by them. Cisco and NTT, “the IT infrastructure and services company,” are working together to create and implement IoT-as-a-Service for businesses. The proposed service aims to deliver real-time data insights, enhanced security and decisions, predictive maintenance to reduce costs, asset tracking, and supply chain management. It will rely on NTT’s Edge-as-a-Service portfolio and Cisco’s IoT capabilities. The idea is to combine Cisco’s IoT capabilities, including Low Power Wide Area Networking (LoRaWAN), with NTT’s expertise in managed services, automation at the edge,…

Last night, The Information reported that Apple had delayed the iPhone Air 2 launch, from its original schedule of fall 2026. In a follow-up post, The Information reports the second-generation model is now aiming for a spring 2027 release, which would be alongside updates to the base model iPhone 18 (as Apple is shifting the release of that model to the spring going forward). The reason for the delay is apparently Apple is redesigning the product to address customer complaints, most notably by adding a second camera lens to the back. However, it’s currently unclear if spring 2027 is an…

By measuring an unusual energy gap, scientists at MIT have uncovered how twisted graphene can unlock a new kind of superconducting behavior. MIT researchers observed clear signatures of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG). The image illustrates pairs of superconducting electrons (yellow spheres) traveling through MATTG, as the team’s new method (represented by a magnifying glass) probes the material’s unconventional superconducting gap (represented by the V-shaped beam). Image Credit: Sampson Wilcox and Emily Theobald /MIT RLE The MIT physicists reported that they had discovered new key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in “magic-angle” twisted tri-layer graphene (MATTG), a material…

Latin America (LATAM) is home to around 660 million people in 33 countries, which comprises over eight percent of the global population. The region is rich in energy and mineral resources (including lithium, oil, copper, and iron ore), as well as advanced agricultural exports, such as soybeans, coffee, and beef. In recent years, however, Latin America has gained strong momentum as a software development hub as more companies from the US and Canada turn to the region for nearshore outsourcing. The main reasons for such popularity are evident: Latin American countries like Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia have invested seriously…

Press enter or click to view image in full sizeSprites are a vital part of working on a game in Unity. Part of that is how do you go about slicing a sprite that contains multiple images within it. I’m going to spend some time going through a basic example of how to split a sprite and hook it up to an animation 2D platform game! Let’s get started!To start you are going to need to acquire a sprite sheet from somewhere. Here is a link to where I acquired the platform character for this project.Press enter or click to…

For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic.From the earliest thinking of the Greek physician and philosopher Claudius Galen to the 19th-century British “father of epidemiology” John Snow to the years before the Covid-19 pandemic, recurring, widespread, and uncontrollable illness has been beyond the grasp of the most cutting-edge science. For most of our history, humans have experienced plagues and pandemics as acts of unknowable forces.No longer. In recent decades, scientific and medical advances have made it possible to detect, treat, and stop the pathogens most likely to sweep across continents and cause…

According to Shawn DuBravac of the Avrio Institute, big tech customers need to be more pragmatic, but don’t need to panic. “Companies don’t need to rewrite their strategy, but market volatility is a stress test of AI investment. The large tech companies recognize that the long-term demand for AI infrastructure is very strong. Ilya Rybchin, principal at financial advisory firm BDO USA, said that CIOs shouldn’t be worried  about the technology becoming obsolete or vendors disappearing. “Customers should be worried about the anemic return on their own AI investments, irrespective of how their vendors are performing or what the media…

If you’re looking for a snapshot of the Latin American telecommunications landscape going into 2026, look no further than what’s going on in Brazil. As the largest regional economy, Brazil’s telecom market influences the direction of regional markets—and there’s a lot to take note of.

In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to long-horizon tasks. We can do Reinforcement Learning (RL) based on divide and conquer, instead of temporal difference (TD) learning.