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The Architecture of a Large-Scale Web Search Engine, Circa 2019
Our Journey to Microservices, Kubernetes and beyond.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Ways to reduce the costs of an HTTP(S) API on AWS
Hundreds of articles for game developers and enthusiasts.
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User Agent Changes
Vivaldi is changing how it presents its User Agent in the upcoming release. Here is an explanation of what a User Agent is and what we are doing.
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Better password protections in Chrome
Posted by Patrick Nepper, Kiran C. Nair, Vasilii Sukhanov and Varun Khaneja, Chrome Team Today, we announced better password protection...
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Preventing Tracking Prevention Tracking
This blog post covers enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) included in Safari on iOS and iPadOS 13.3, Safari 13.0.4 on macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra.
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Brave Passes 10M Monthly Active Users, Sees 19% Growth Since 1.0 Launch
Brave 1.0 was released on November 13th and received very positive press reviews, and also saw a surge in user adoption. Brave went from 8.7 million monthly active users in October to 10.4 million MAU at the end of November, a 19% increase across all platforms. This represents a doubling of Brave's MAU in one year…
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Building a Search Engine from Scratch
A whirlwind tour of the big ideas powering our web search
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W3C recommends WebAssembly
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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A New Search Engine
Cliqz Journey
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Firefox 71: A year-end arrival
Please welcome Firefox 71 to the stage! This time around, we have a plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode, log ...
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Firefox 71
Please welcome Firefox 71 to the stage! This time around, we have a plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode, log ...
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Firefox 71
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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The world needs more search engines
There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business model. Or they are so localized and small that they do not offer a credible…
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Scala.js 1.0.0-RC1
Harness the Scala and JavaScript ecosystems to develop robust apps for browsers, serverless, and Node.js.
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If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook JavaScript SDK
With email aliases , you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing.
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Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
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Multi-Value All the Wasm
Multi-value is a proposed extension to core WebAssembly that enables functions to return many values, among other things. It is also a prerequisite for Wasm interface types. Nick Fitzgerald has ...
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The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Python, Flask and Twilio
Create a WhatsApp chatbot using Python & Flask with Twilio's API. Follow our step-by-step guide to build, deploy, & enhance your chatbot. Start building with Twilio.
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Get started with Web Bundles | Web Platform
Web Bundles enable you to share websites as a single file over Bluetooth and run them offline in your origin's context.
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BodyPix: Real-Time Person Segmentation in the Browser with Tensorflow.js
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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PeerTube v2
Thanks to your donations, we have been developing a software to free us all from YouTube & Co for a year. Why have we gone much further than the first release, (crowdfunded in the spring of 2018), you might ask? Well, that's because we sincerely believe in the emancipatory power of PeerTube. This article is...
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Moving towards a faster web
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...
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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Audio Fingerprinting using the AudioContext API
Audio fingerprinting takes advantage of device performance specs to build up an identifying fingerprint of a user. It uses the AudioContext API for this