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We discuss touchscreens in cars, text to speech, and gail.com. A rant about cross platform libraries is included free of charge. Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements Building an internet-scale meme search engine Text to Speech: VALLE Text to Speech: Apple Books Text to Speech: This voice does not exist Gail dot com

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