"The map above shows Google's official Street View coverage as of 15 October 2024. The United States, Western Europe, Japan and India among others are all really covered. However, China, most of Africa, and large parts of South America, Canada and Australia are all missing."
"Excel Esports transforms a common office tool into a dynamic sport, bringing together a global community of enthusiasts to compete, learn, and celebrate the power of Excel."
"Outside observers are not as sanguine as Roscosmos. Anatoly Zak, a longtime expert on Russian space activities, said repairing the platform could take up to two years, adding it was unclear if a temporary fix could be implemented to allow launches there to continue in the interim."
"The new set captures all of the major milestones of the first eight and a half minutes of an Artemis mission (with the exception of the jettison of the abort system tower, which on the real rocket occurs before the Orion separates from the core stage)."
"There are many people who think making a web site that passes WCAG 2.2 at Level AA makes it accessible. I've documented many cases where that's not true, as have others, some for years now."
"Attending TPAC allowed me to gather a heap of insight into the process of building things into the web platform - be that via standards, guidelines, or browser features. I left with many seeds of ideas which I hope to plant over the coming months both through my personal work and my work with the Green Web Foundation."
"I've long thought that eventually LLMs would turn into a two company battle, just as operating systems and phones have. And I have long thought that it was just a matter of time until Google emerged as that second company."
"Having the ability to capture power profiles across multiple browsers may even help improve the efficiency of those browsers themselves. Profiles of the same site across multiple browsers might shed light on areas in which the same code uses more or less power depending on the browser it is running in. This might be useful for developers, but I can imagine it also being of interest to those building the browsers."
"An outsized contributor to this bloat comes from growth in JavaScript. Mobile JavaScript payloads have more than doubled since 2015, reaching 680 KiB and 1.3 MiB at P50 and P75 (respectively). This compositional shift exacerbates latent inequality and hurts businesses trying to grow."
"I assume that prefers-color-scheme was introduced way before the color-scheme property was a thing, so that considering color-scheme would have been a breaking change."
"This year is 50th anniversary of starting the NM-75 "STORK" project as a graduation study in Nihon university. On 6 Dec. 2025, Mr. Junji ISHII, who is the chief designer of the "STORK" HPA, will give a lecture about development of the "STORK" 50 years ago in 30th Sky Sports Symposium held in Tokyo."
"people with disabilities don't care if website is passing automatic tests, or even if it is technically conforming to the WCAG. They came to do or learn something, and we, that want more people to do or learn something, we need to bear the responsibility. With AI or without it."