ChromeOS.dev also has customizable Linux terminals, which have integrated tabs and shortcuts, along with adjustable backgrounds, frames, fonts and cursor colors. Google added full Linux app support to Chromebooks in 2018.

Developers from Google, Chrome OS and the wider community will offer advice on making apps and delve into some challenges of creating them. You’ll find layout and user experience guidelines there, with tips on user interface components and navigation. The project itself is a progressive web app that you can access offline. ChromeOS.dev is also open source, so you can see how the Chrome OS team built it.

It appears to be a useful resource for folks who are just getting started in development, while making Chromebooks a more viable option for making apps for a variety of platforms. ChromeOS.dev is now available in English and Spanish. Support for other languages is on the way.

The data was collected over the span of one year, and it comes from multiple self-driving research vehicles. It includes LiDAR and camera sensor data, GPS and trajectory information, as well as 3D point cloud and ground reflectivity maps. Ford is even sharing a plug-in with data visualization tools.

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While other companies, like Waymo, have shared self-driving vehicle data in the past, the breadth and depth of Ford’s data is unusual. Because it was collected over an entire year, it includes a variety of weather conditions, including rain, sun, clouds and snow. The data was gathered in the Metro Detroit area, so the vehicles experienced dense urban areas, freeways, tunnels, residential neighborhoods, airports, construction zones and pedestrian activity. That should give research access to the kinds of diverse scenarios self-driving vehicles will find themselves in, Ford says.

Plus, while most datasets only offer data from a single vehicle, this data comes from multiple vehicles. That means researchers can explore, for instance, what happens when two vehicles encounter each other. One might be able to detect things that the other cannot “see,” which could lead to development around multi-vehicle communication, perception and path planning.

The data is available through a collaboration with Amazon’s open data program, and more info can be found at avdata.ford.com. The first set of data is available now, and Ford says it will continue uploading the rest of the data logs.

Ford has tested its self-driving vehicles and delivery services in a handful of cities — though it clarified that this data is separate from the work it’s doing with Argo AI to develop a production-ready system. Ford still plans to launch its self-driving car fleet in 2021, but last spring, CEO Jim Hackett scaled back those ambitions. He said the fleet’s “applications will be narrow, what we call geo-fenced, because the problem is so complex.”

Canon confirmed that the EOS R5 would shoot 8K video at 30 fps using the full (not cropped) sensor, beating any other mirrorless camera in terms of resolution and depth of field. It added a bit more detail too, saying that “in all 8K modes the EOS R5 will support Canon’s renowned Dual Pixel CMOS AF (autofocus) system.”

The EOS R5 will also be “a beast for subject detection and tracking performance for animals and people,” Canon said in the press release. The system will recognize dogs, cats and birds, tracking the animals’ eyes, but also the face and body when the eyes aren’t visible.

Other specs remain as promised before, including 12 fps and 20 fps burst speeds with the mechanical and electronic shutter, respectively, in-body stabilization that works in concert with stabilized lenses, automatic image transfers from the device to Canon’s new image cloud platform and dual card slots. We’re still missing key information like the sensor resolution, price and release date, but that will no doubt come in due time.

All that will be possible thanks to a “newly developed CMOS sensor,” Canon said. That will also open up faster shooting speeds, letting you capture bursts at 12 fps with the mechanical shutter and 20 fps using the silent electronic shutter. That will “facilitate shooting of athletes at sporting events and other fast-moving subjects,” said Canon in a read-between-the-lines reference to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The EOS R5 will pack in-body stabilization that will work in concert with lens stabilization, again addressing what was considered to be a serious miss on the first EOS R model. Lastly, you’ll get dual card slots, likely of the high-speed variety, though Canon didn’t specify what kind. It also didn’t mention what type of video codecs and data rates would be available, whether it would crop video, or the sensor resolution. With 8K on tap, however, the latter will be at least 33 megapixels.

Finally, Canon said that it’s working on a total of nine RF lenses to be released this year, including 1.4x and 2x telephoto extenders and an RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM lens that sounds ideal for sports shooting on the cheap. There’s no word on availability or price, but Canon will first flaunt the EOS R5 at the CP+ Camera and Photo show held in Tokyo from February 27th to March 1st.

It’s not clear whether the mysterious project has been canned completely, or if it will be picked up elsewhere. The company is certainly running out of UK options, in any case. PlayStation’s Evolution Studios shut down in 2016, and the Cambridge-based Guerrilla followed suit in 2017.

The decision may well have been made in response to Sony’s recent earnings announcement, which revealed that unexpectedly-low PlayStation and third-party games sales had decreased the company’s entire earnings forecast. Again, though, PlayStation is going through a period of transition as it moves into the next generation of its console. This studio closure may well be part of a longer-term plan.

The in-house switch-up isn’t surprising: iOS 13, the latest version of Apple’s smartphone operating system, was a bug-riddled mess at launch. Engadget’s Chris Velazco observed “a handful” of issues with the standard iOS 13 release across multiple iPhone handsets. These included a camera app that wouldn’t launch correctly and an operating system that couldn’t decide when the flashlight was actually on. Apple released iOS 13.1 less than a week later with an eyebrow-raising 24 bug fixes in the changelog. The next update, iOS 13.2, introduced an overly-aggressive RAM management system that had to be fixed with 13.2.2. Even more bugs were ironed out with version 12.2.3, which was released earlier this month.

The issues haven’t been extensive enough to trigger a mass switch-away from Apple’s ecosystem. They have contributed, though, to a growing sense that Apple-made software and firmware isn’t as polished as it used to be. As Bloomberg notes, this can be partly attributed to the growing complexity of smartphone and iPad software. Customers expect a reliable and responsive operating system, though — especially when they’ve just spent $700 or more on a new device.

According to Bloomberg, the new development strategy will apply to all of Apple’s platforms including iPad, watchOS, macOS and tvOS. The company is already using the new process for iOS 14, codenamed Azul, and has debated pushing some of the update’s features into iOS 15, due in 2021.

You’ll be able to shoot at those speeds for quite a while, as the 1D X Mark III will use CFexpress cards (with speeds up to 1,600 MB/s) and a buffer five times the size of the 1D X Mark II. As a reminder, that model let you shoot up to 170 RAW photos without stopping, so 1D X Mark III owners might be able to shoot 16fps or 20fps bursts for well over 30 seconds at a time. That kind of shooting burns through batteries quickly, but Canon said the 1D X III would eke better life out of the same LP-E19 battery used before.

Along with JPEG and RAW files, users will get a new type of format called 10-bit HEIF (high efficiency image file), with more dynamic range and a wider color palette than JPEG. It’s an option that’s much more compact than RAW, but easier to edit than JPEG. On the connectivity side, it comes with WiFi, Bluetooth LE, GPS, a built-in ethernet connection and an optional wireless transmitter.

Canon also revealed that the 1D X Mark III will be the most video-capable EOS camera it has ever built, with 10-bit 4:2:2 footage at up to 4K 60p, with internal Canon Log recording. It didn’t say whether 4K video would use the full width of the sensor and be supersampled, but the last model had a small 1.3 times crop factor.

As a pro model, it will have “phenomenal” weather-sealing and a very durable magnesium alloy body. Canon didn’t reveal the sensor resolution, price and other important facts, as it’s saving those for the official launch. As a reminder, though, the last model had a 20.2-megapixel sensor and $6,000 price tag.

In other Canon news, the company unveiled two new lenses that will complete its “holy trinity” full-frame EOS R RF-mount lineup. The $2,700 RF 70-200mm F2.8L IS USM is designed for sports, wildlife and event photography, but it’s 27 percent shorter and 28 percent lighter than the EF version. The other model is the $3,000 RF 85mm f/1.2L USM DS. It features a new Canon lens coating called Defocus Smoothing — a vapor-deposited coating on a lens element that improves the look of bokeh. Both of these models showcase the strengths (and high prices) of Canon’s RF mount system.