9 Best Articles in 2021
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · Jan 5th · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
The New York Times
Welcome to the Post-Text Future
The New York Times
~12 min read · From 2018 · The internet was born in text. Now, video and audio are ascendant, writing is being left behind, and everything will be different.
quilljs.com
Quill - Your powerful rich text editor
quilljs.com
From 2014 · Quill is a free, open source rich text editor built for the modern web.
Marvel
Your Body Text Is Too Small
Marvel
~18 min read · From 2017 · Body text is the key component in communicating the main bulk of a message or story, and it’s probably the most important element on a website, even if people sometimes read just the headlines. Why would we limit the effectiveness of body text by minimizing its size to a browser-default that’s now over 20 years old, even on large displays?... Read More ￫
sublimetext.com
Sublime Text 4
sublimetext.com
~14 min read · May 21st · Meet the new Sublime Text - it's faster and smarter than ever with hardware acceleration, Apple silicon support, and more!
The Verge
OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day
The Verge
2 min read · Mar 29th · Text-generation is the next big thing in AI.
medium.com
The Evolution of Material Design’s Text Fields
medium.com
7 min read · From 2019 · How user research reshaped the design of Google’s open-source text fields
Axios
Text-reading AI will do your research for you
Axios
1 min read · Jul 15th · Primer rolls out NLP Engines, AI models that can read and analyze text of all kinds.
trix-editor.org
Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
trix-editor.org
From 2016 · Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is an editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs terse and consistent HTML.
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VICE
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
VICE
5 min read · Oct 4th · Syniverse handles billions of text messages a year, and hackers had unauthorized access to its system for years.
Guardian Tech
The dawn of tappigraphy: does your smartphone know how you feel before you do?
Guardian Tech
8 min read · Nov 7th · Tech companies are seeking to analyse data on the way we tap, scroll, text and call to monitor our mental health
The Washington Post
The full text of the Glasgow climate pact
The Washington Post
20+ min read · Nov 13th · Two weeks of climate talks in Glasgow yielded an agreement that will not put the world on track to avoid catastrophic warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). But officials said it represents a significant step on a path to a safer future.
ScienceAlert
Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy
ScienceAlert
3 min read · Nov 8th · A man paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury he sustained in 2007 has shown he can communicate his thoughts, thanks to a brain implant system that translates his imagined handwriting…
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sublimetext.com
Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
sublimetext.com
2 min read · From 2012 · Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
whoo.ps
Futures of text
whoo.ps
8 min read · From 2015 · A survey of all the current innovation in text as a medium
TNW
This AI-powered text generator is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen — and you can try it
TNW
1 min read · From 2019 · OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on creating human-level artificial intelligence, just released an update to its GPT-2 text generator. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that, after trying it, I’m…
sublimetext.com
Sublime Text 3.0
sublimetext.com
2 min read · From 2017 · Sublime Text 3.0 is out! Compared to the last beta, 3.0 brings a refreshed UI theme, new color schemes, and a new icon. Some of the other highlights are big syntax highlighting improvements, touch…
explainshell.com
match command-line arguments to their help text
explainshell.com
From 2013 · write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument try showthedocs for explaining other languages
Stanford University
Edit video by editing text
Stanford University
4 min read · From 2019 · A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text – copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words.
MIT Technology Review
A new tool uses AI to spot text written by AI
MIT Technology Review
1 min read · From 2019 · AI algorithms can generate text convincing enough to fool the average human—potentially providing a way to mass-produce fake news, bogus reviews, and phony social accounts.
CSS-Tricks
Intrinsic Typography is the Future of Styling Text on the Web
CSS-Tricks
6 min read · Apr 20th · The way we style text hasn’t changed much over the years. There have been numerous advancements to help make things more flexible, like layouts, but in
NPR
Your Technology Is Tracking You. Take These Steps For Better Online Privacy
NPR
8 min read · 2020-10-13 · NPR's Laurel Wamsley talked with the experts about how to better protect your information — from your text messages to your location — while you're on the phone and computer.
