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Processing Piano Tutorial Videos in the Browser

There are a lot of piano “tutorial” videos out there, but most of them aren’t step-by-step walkthroughs. They mostly look like falling raindrops that light up piano keys. These tutorials are often made with a tool called Synthesia. I’ve struggled with these videos because I can’t keep up with the falling notes or figure out the chords I need to play. It’s up to you to keep track of the light bars. For example, I wanted to learn a Telugu song called Samayama, but it only came in video tutorial

Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

Blurs are the basic building block for many video game post-processing effects and essential for sleek and modern GUIs. Video game Depth of Field and Bloom or frosted panels in modern user interfaces - used subtly or obviously - they’re everywhere. Even your browser can do it, just tap this sentence! Effect of "Bloom", one of many use-cases for blur algorithms Conceptually, “Make thing go blurry” is easy, boiling down to some form of “average colors in radius”. Doing so in realtime however, to

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Gemini on Android may soon support the full range of Canvas creation options (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Earlier this year, Google Gemini introduced Canvas for working with documents. Canvas on the web allows you to create things like apps, Audio Overviews, and infographics straight from your docs. Now it looks like Google’s working to bring the same option to the Gemini mobile app. On-device AI models like Gemini Nano are very impressive for what they’re able to do within some serious hardware constraints, but when it comes to AI solutions capable of s

Rethinking DOM from first principles

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HTML Is Dead, Long Live HTML

In either case, there are also some roadblocks. I'll just mention three: text-ellipsis can only be used to truncate unwrapped text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. can only be used to truncate text, not entire paragraphs. Detecting truncated text is even harder, as is just measuring text: the APIs are inadequate. Everyone just counts letters instead. position: sticky lets e

HTML-in-Canvas

We propose new HTML Canvas APIs for rendering HTML content into the canvas for Canvas 2D and WebGL. Status Authors: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson, Khushal Sagar, Vladimir Levin, Fernando Serboncini Champions: Stephen Chenney, Chris Harrelson This proposal is a subset of a previous proposal covering APIs to allow live HTML elements. Motivation There is no web API to easily render complex layouts of text and other content into a <canvas> . As a result, <canvas> -based content suffers in a

Google AI Mode adding Search Live video, Canvas, PDF upload, and more

After adding Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is updating AI Mode with four big features across Search Live (video with Google Lens access), Canvas, and more. In addition to text, you will soon be able to upload images and PDF files to AI Mode on the web. The former is already available on mobile, while the latter will let you “ask detailed questions about those documents and bring that context into your search.” Uploaded files will be analyzed and cross-referenced with “relevant information from the we

Gemini is working to clean up how it handles Canvas previews (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google introduced Canvas in Gemini to aid with creating documents and editing code. So far, previewing code output in Gemini may involve transitioning over to a new Chrome tab. Gemini appears to be experimenting with a revised preview path that allows you to remain right in the Gemini app. Google has been making its case for Gemini going back well over a year at this point, and with all the new tools and upgrades its AI agent has received, at this po

Claude AI now integrates with Canva

Anthropic's Claude can now create and edit designs with visual studio Canva from within an AI chat. This integration is powered by a Canva server that uses Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Claude can use Canvas's tools to generate a design or search for materials within a user's Canva workspace. This functionality requires a paid subscription to Claude, and access also varies based on the user's Canva plan. Multiple artificial intelligence platforms have started using MCP to connect

Anthropic's AI agent can now automate Canva, Asana, Figma and more - here's how it works

CFOTO / Contributor/Getty Claude just gained a little more autonomy. Anthropic, the AI start-up behind Claude, announced Monday that the system can now directly interact with and pull information from a directory of third-party apps and websites, including Stripe, Figma, Prisma, Canva, Asana, and others. The idea is to save users time that would ordinarily be spent transferring information from Claude's outputs into one of those external services, and vice versa. Also: Claude might be my new

Anthropic&#8217;s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs

Canva users can now create, edit, and manage their designs by describing their requirements to Anthropic’s Claude AI. The connection is the latest of several integrations that allow Claude users to access third-party tools and services, including Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma, without having to leave their conversation with the AI chatbot. Starting today, Claude users will be able to use natural language prompts to complete design tasks in their linked Canva account, such as creating presen

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Canva expands from design into analytics with acquisition of MagicBrief

From left, Cliff Obrecht, Canva's co-founder and chief operating officer, and George Howes, co-founder and CEO of MagicBrief, pose for a photo at the Cannes Lions festival in Cannes, France, in June 2025. Canva has grown into a $32 billion startup through its popular design tools used for easily creating images, marketing material and presentations. Now the company, with its 12th acquisition, is buying its way into the analytics market. Canva said on Tuesday that it's buying MagicBrief, whose

This new ChatGPT trick lets you download your Canvas work as a PDF in seconds - here's how

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET OpenAI has updated Canvas, a writing and coding assistant integrated into ChatGPT, allowing users to download and export files directly. In an X post on Thursday, the company announced that Canvas users can now download text files as PDF, DOCX, or Markdown, while code can be exported to the appropriate file extension (.py for Python, .js for JavaScript, .sql for Structured Query Language, and so on). Also: Is ChatGPT Plus really worth $20 when the free version off

I tried Canva’s photo editor to see if it could replace my favorite free app

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been using Canva for years, mostly for simple designs. So when I saw that Canva had rolled out a new photo editing tool, which is more advanced that the simple tweaks you can make in a design, I was interested in trying it out. I stumbled across a useful feature that’s not in my favorite photo-editing app Snapseed, so I wondered if Canva could actually replace the free app’s place in my workflow. I tried out the Canva app’s new tool to see just how effectiv

Running Pong in 240 browser tabs

Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs Finally a use for my unclosed tabs Feb 20, 2025 What do you do with your unclosed browser tabs? I find that they take up a lot of screen space. So this week I figured out how to run pong inside mine. Loading... putting that space to good use That’s 240 browser tabs in a tight 8x30 grid. And they’re running pong! The ball and paddles are able to cleanly move between the canvas in the foregrounded window and all of the tabs above. You can see the (awful) code h