Five-year-old Beau starts each day being carried by one of his parents to the family’s living room, where his wheelchair awaits in their Beamsville, Ont., home. Diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at 17 months old, Beau is unable to walk independently due to the disease, which damages nerves and leads to severe muscle weakness. Beau’s […]
Hello everyone. <promotion alert> For English language readers here, have you ever felt that it's a travesty that we don't get to read some of the best literature out there in the world, just because they are gatekept by another language? Sure, a few authors like Murakami, Han Kang, Olga Tokarczuk slip through the cracks […]
Few things are as frustrating to a user as when a site won’t respond. Unfortunately, it’s also an all-too-common scenario. Many websites and apps depend on so many elements that one of any number of errors could cause the whole thing to fail. As prevalent as such instances may be, they’re preventable through the practice […]
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Earth Copilot, has been introduced by NASA in collaboration with Microsoft to make Earth-related scientific data more accessible. Designed to summarise NASA’s extensive geospatial information, the AI-powered chatbot aims to simplify complex datasets and answer user queries with ease. By addressing questions like the environmental impact of events or […]
Starting today, developers can access the latest Gemini models via the OpenAI Library and REST API, making it easier to get started with Gemini. We will initially support the Chat Completions API and Embeddings API, with plans for additional compatibility in the weeks and months to come. You can read more in the Gemini API […]
Take SectionHeader as an example. This UI component is used to communicate the structure on the page and group content together. We mark this component to be an accessibility heading in the component code so it is accessible in all screens that contain this component. We invested in automated accessibility testing and linting to run […]