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U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
A new Science study reveals the U.S. already mines the critical minerals it needs for energy and defense, but they are currently being discarded as mine waste.
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Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft
Waymo is bringing the magic of our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to riders in Nashville, in partnership with Lyft in 2026. Riders will be able to hail via the Waymo app, and as our service grows, riders will also be able to use the Lyft app to match with a Waymo vehicle.
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Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
The latest news, updates, and stories from Waymo.
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PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin
Send and receive money as easily as sending a text, across apps, borders, and currencies.
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PgEdge Goes Open Source
pgEdge is now fully open-source under the Postgres license. What that means for distributed PostgreSQL, the Spock extension, and our enterprise customers.
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Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas
Ride in Zoox’s purpose-built autonomous robotaxi. Now serving Las Vegas. Download the app and ride in a Zoox.
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OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
Supabase is explicitly making available a non-exclusive license of the OrioleDB patent to all OrioleDB users in accordance with the OrioleDB license.
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Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Job mismatch and early career success
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
The Consumer Council keens to be the trusted voice of consumers in striving to build in the market an environment of safe, fair and sustainable consumption.
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1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70
Unlock outstanding performance for I/O intensive applications on Raspberry Pi 5 with our most powerful SSD yet.
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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available
We launch Polars Cloud; the distributed Cloud Architecture to run Polars anywhere
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We're Joining OpenAI
Alex is the ultimate tool for iOS and Swift app development, empowering developers with AI for Xcode to streamline workflows, tackle complex coding challenges, and boost productivity. Discover what makes it an essential asset for modern app creation.
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Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser
Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributors for their enhancements to the Zig project.
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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
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Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Anthropic has completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ, co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed, valuing the company at $183 billion post-money.
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You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.
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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
RubyMine, a JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Rails, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.
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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
Fastly’s survey shows senior developers trust gen AI tools enough to ship 2.5x more AI code, while juniors stick to traditional coding and caution.
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Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Claude Free, Pro, and Max users can now opt in to having conversations used to improve models, with a five-year retention period for participants.
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Mapping connections of anti-offshore wind groups and their lawyers
Today we released a new CDL report: “Legal Entanglements: Mapping Connections of Anti-Offshore Wind Groups and their Lawyers in the Eastern United States,” a deep look into litigation efforts against offshore wind in the Northeast.
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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Starting August 29th, new regulations have come into effect. Both DHL and UPS currently have no working solution, so on their advice, we are temporarily suspending all shipments to the USA effectiv…
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Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
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A bug saved the company
Fortune favors the buggy?
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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.
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Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
Our team is hard at work on Thunderbird Pro. Get the latest developments on Thundermail, Appointment, and Send in our latest update.