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70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet
Over 65% of the world's population is regularly on the internet, with China and India having the most internet users.
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The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy —
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EFF Defends Public’s Right to Access Court Records About Patent Ownership
The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is...
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P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com, and is now free
P2 powers internal collaboration at WordPress.com — and now it’s free for everyone. As more collaboration is happening remotely and online — work yes, but increasingly also school and persona…
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How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
Learn how Google Cloud ramped up to handle high demand for Google Meet in light of COVID-19
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Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Gitlab Support is no longer processing MFA resets for free users
From August 15th, GitLab Support will no longer be manually removing MFA from free accounts.
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Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
[Download for PDF/printable version of this article] When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that in one study, the effects of physical attractiveness on judges were so influ
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An Email got us $5k in AWS Credits
The story of our company's most valuable email.
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A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law
Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence on US foreign policy).This law closely resembles the Digital Millennium Copyright Act enacted in the US 1998, with a few...
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The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct to investigate Apple
The EU is investigating Apple’s App Store practices for antitrust violations. Here’s why we must all resist abuses by tech giants.
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Google removes all Danish music from YouTube
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Apple reports Q3 results
Apple reported its third quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, July 30, 2020.
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What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
Credit card users today can transact online with peace of mind because card-accepting merchants are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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The harmful impact of Audible-exclusive audiobooks
Amazon's creeping monopoly on the audiobook industry through Audible pushes bookshops and libraries out of audiobook distribution.
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
Microsoft is joining the Blender Foundation's Development Fund as a Corporate Gold member!
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Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law
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Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M
This is my third in a series of quarterly CEO blog posts. I'm excited to share some very positive updates.
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Firefox 79
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In ...
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How to pay your rent with your open source project
A look at the different business and pricing models to fund open source software and make it sustainable.
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Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes
Researchers from the BioFrontiers Institute at CU Boulder have developed a saliva-based COVID-19 test capable of returning results in as little as 45 minutes—no
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A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant
Just a few negative online restaurant reviews can determine early on how many reviews a restaurant receives long-term, a new study has found. The study, published earlier this month in the journal Papers in Applied Geography, also found that a neighborhood’s median household income affected whether restaurants were…
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62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
50% of strong liberals support firing Trump donors, 36% of strong conservatives support firing Biden donors; 32% are worried about missing out on job opportunities because of their political opinions.
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Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
Buy on Google is now zero commission and open to third-party digital commerce providers.
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
We are thrilled to announce that Cognitect is joining the Nubank family of companies. This is the next step in a long relationship, and opens new opportuniti...