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Material UI v1 for React is out
React components that implement Google’s Material Design.
EC2 Instance Update – C5 Instances with Local NVMe Storage
As you can see from my EC2 Instance History post, we add new instance types on a regular and frequent basis. Driven by increasingly powerful processors and designed to address an ever-widening set of use cases, the size and diversity of this list reflects the equally diverse group of EC2 customers! Near the bottom of…
Evolving Chrome's security indicators
Previously, we posted a proposal to mark all HTTP pages as definitively “not secure” and remove secure indicators for HTTPS pages. HTTPS us...
Binary SMS – The old backdoor to your new thing
A Accenture oferece oportunidades que surgem a partir da disrupção tecnológica em todas as indústrias, em todos os países, todos os dias. Saiba mais!
A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities
The new Xbox Adaptive Controller will make gaming accessible to people with a broad range of disabilities.
How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy?
How many deaths make a natural disaster newsworthy?
Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training
Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research ScientistsStandard machine learning approaches require centralizing the training data on one ...
AI and Compute
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law
Speaking on CBS This Morning today with Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell and John Dickerson, Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff called for a national
How a domain registrar can kill your business
In this post we will write about recent domain incident we suffered, who is responsible and what we did to minimize the damage.
What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M
The next generation of powerful technology for independent publishers.
California’s next bold step on climate should be building near transit
While the impetus for State Senator Scott Wiener’s proposed SB 827, which would allow apartment construction near transit lines was addressing housing affordability, the measure should also be a cornerstone of our efforts to tackle climate change.
I Got Catfished by a Candidate
What follows is a true story. Names, places, and companies have been changed to protect the innocent (or not so innocent). I was catfished by a candidate. And not just during a phone screen. This g…
WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May
What do you do when you want to look up the owner of a domain name? You probably perform a "WHOIS search" to find out the owner's name and contact information. The WHOIS system, which makes certain domain registration data publicly available, is an invaluable research tool for trademark owners a...
HTTP headers we don't want
HTTP headers are an important way of controlling how caches and browsers process your web content. But many are used incorrectly or pointlessly, which adds overhead at a critical time in the loading of your page, and may not work as you intended.
GCP opening a third zone in Singapore
Our third zone in Singapore is the 46th GCP zone globally. Now all 15 GCP regions have three or more zones.
No, PGP is not broken, not even with the Efail vulnerabilities
Recently, news broke about potential vulnerabilities in PGP, dubbed Efail. However, despite reports to the contrary, PGP is not actually broken, as we will explain in this post.
Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system
Recently, AI systems have mastered a range of video-games such as Atari classics Breakout and Pong. But as impressive as this performance is, AI still relies on the equivalent of thousands of hours of gameplay to reach and surpass the performance of human video game players. In contrast, we can usually grasp the…