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.NET 5.0 – New APIs
Get started with the new exciting APIs introduced with .NET 5.0. Understand the intention of engineers that added them.
Swift on Windows
The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.
Americans don't feel they can get justice when wronged by their ISP – survey
More than 20 million U.S. households had unresolved complaints against their ISPs last year. Despite wanting justice, many didn't pursue.
New JSX Transform
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Although React 17 doesn’t contain new features, it will provide support for a new version of the JSX transform. In this post, we will describe what it is and how to try it. What’s a JSX Transform? Browsers don’t understand JSX out of the…
Tables: Tracking work for teams
Tables, the newest tool from Area 120 by Google, beta launches in the U.S. to help teams easily track and automate work.
Firefox 81.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
Designing Up Banking
A deep-dive on the design journey of the Up app. A collaboration between product, design, engineering and our growing base of Upsiders.
A Picture of Java in 2020
This year Java hit an incredible milestone and reached the grand old age of 25 years. We celebrated its jubilee by running a special online Java day event, where lots of expert speakers shared their e
Things we learned running Postgres 13
Learn about smaller indexes with B-Tree Deduplication, Extended Statistics Improvements, Parallel VACUUM, improved WAL Usage Stats in Postgres 13, and more.
Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%
The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.
The future of .NET Standard
Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.
Pricing Low-Touch SaaS
How to approach pricing and packaging a new SaaS app, by example
I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)
It’s 15:10 pm on April 18, 2018. I’m in the Privacy International office, reading a news story on the use of facial recognition in Thailand. On April 20, at 21:10, I clicked on a CNN Money Exclusive on my phone.
Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
Today we announced we’re joining the Microsoft family...
Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
If Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is silenced, others will also be gagged either directly or by the fear of persecution and prosecution
Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely available, and by making certificates smaller. Given that we…
Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval
We are thrilled to announce that the State of Wyoming has approved Kraken’s application to form the world’s first Special Purpose Depository Institution (SPDI), called Kraken Bank. Headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Kraken Bank is the first digital asset company in U.S. history to receive a bank charter recognized…
Bevy 0.2
A month after the initial Bevy release, and thanks to 87 contributors, 174 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.…
Who has contributed most to global CO2 emissions?
Our impact on climate change is not just about emissions that occur today. How much we emitted in the past also matters.
GoDaddy and Felons.io – The life of an unregistered domain
GoDaddy never has and never will use customer search data to register domain names. Read on to learn more.
Study shows proof that a safer UV light effectively kills virus causing Covid-19
Researchers offer first proof that Ultraviolet C light with a 222 nm wavelength — which is safer to use around humans — effectively kills the SARS-CoV-2 virus.