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Qwest CEO: NSA Punished Qwest for Refusing to Participate in Illegal Surveillance--Pre-9/11!
When Qwest refused the NSA’s illegal request that it hand over its customers’ data without a warrant, the NSA wasn’t happy. According to former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, the government hit back for the telecom’s refusal by denying them lucrative contracts (log-in required) worth hundreds of...
Firefox 12 released
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux makes updating the browser easier and includes more than 85 improvements to built-in developer tools. We put a lot of wo
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
After Two Startup Accelerators, What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
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Galaxy Nexus now on sale in Google Play
We started shipping Nexus phones more than two years ago to give you a pure Google experience and access to the latest Android updates. Toda...
Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
Technology Academy Finland (TAF) awards the global one-million-euro Millennium Technology Prize and runs associated events and initiatives.
How we run our agile dev process using only Trello and Google Docs
Discover the tools UserVoice is using in 2023 to improve efficiency and boost productivity. Read our latest blog post.
NumPy on PyPy progress report
Hello. A lot of things happened in March, like pycon . I was also busy doing other things (pictured), so apologies for the late numpy statu...
Shouldn't Robots Be Doing My Taxes By Now?
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…
The Slow Web Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) The slow web started as a vague idea framed as a joke. When we put our site out into the world on January 2, 2011, we only proces
Making shit work is everyone's job
“Oh, that’s not my job,” is the sound of doom. Maybe not imminent doom, but doom indeed. It’s the magic inflection point when a company becomes too big (even if only psychologically) for any single employee to give a rat’s ass about job numero uno: Making shit work. …
Physicist Uses Math to Beat Traffic Ticket
Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society