Designing Dark Mode App Icons

Apple’s announcement of “dark mode” icons has me thinking about how I would approach adapting “light mode” icons for dark mode. I grabbed 12 icons we made at Parakeet for our clients to illustrate some ways of going about it. Before that though, let’s take some inventory. Of the 28 icons in Apple’s preview image…

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Apple Details Its AI Foundation Models and Applebot Web Scraping

From Apple’s Machine Learning Research1 blog: Our foundation models are trained on Apple’s AXLearn framework, an open-source project we released in 2023. It builds on top of JAX and XLA, and allows us to train the models with high efficiency and scalability on various training hardware and cloud platforms, including TPUs and both cloud and…

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The Latest from AppStories and Ruminate

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: For the latest WWDC episode of AppStories, Federico is joined by Myke Hurley to talk about the Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence before John pops up with some AI tidbits and a WWDC vibe check from in and around Apple Park. This episode is sponsored by:…

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Interview Roundup: Apple’s Executives Talk Up Apple Intelligence and WWDC

In what has become a yearly WWDC tradition, Apple executives have been out talking about the big announcements from this year’s conference. Craig Federighi, Greg Joswiak, John Giannandrea, and Tim Cook have given interviews to YouTubers, news sites, and John Gruber on a special edition of The Talk Show streamed live in spatial video. They…

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EU: Strafzölle für chinesische Elektroautos stehen im Raum

Elektroautos aus China sind auf dem Vormarsch. Mit Xiaomi und weiteren sind längst auch weitere Hersteller eingestiegen. Gleichzeitig fassen mit NIO, BYD und Co mehr und mehr Hersteller hierzulande Fuß. Die EU sieht die Importe aus China als schädlich für… Zum Beitrag: EU: Strafzölle für chinesische Elektroautos stehen im Raum Zum Blog: Caschys Blog

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