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Copyright, AI, and Provenance

O'Reilly

If we published someone’s currency conversion software in a book or training course and our language model reproduces it in response to a question, we can attribute that to the original source and allocate royalties appropriately. But Google has the best search engine in the world.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

DRM-free, of course. Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. DRM-free, of course. DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook. Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping , starting late December. Get the eBook.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Feature phones all use proprietary and little known operating systems developed by the makers of the phones, as opposed to prevalent ones like Android or iOS. These are big numbers, and if considered part of the tablet market, since they are touch-first, mostly Android machines, Google would own over 70% of that. Get the eBook.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out. The ways of working are radically different.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

Partly as a result of this campaign, Google announced last year that for the first time it had purchased enough renewable energy to match 100% of its global consumption for operations. For example: Are we loading the whole of jQuery for some basic DOM operations? Could we achieve the same ends with pure JavaScript ?

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. We’ve seen the reaction to news that Amazon’s Echo and Google Home send recordings of conversations back to the server. I have 30 or 40 GB of photos.