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What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology2022442 points881 commentscited by 4Society, Policy & Culture details

From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division. I’ve been working in the software industry for over a decade, and while I’ve often encountered some combination of the words “diversity” and “inclusion,” how those words have been translated into culture and policy has varied dramatically…

Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers

Apple Newsroom2022214 points162 commentsSoftware Engineering details

New series of interactive Q&As and one-on-ones provide developers with direct access to Apple experts.

Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization

Invisible People2022696 points601 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec

Vectis IP2022206 points105 commentsTech Industry & Business details

London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.

U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace

Google Cloud Blog2022295 points350 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.

SmooshGate (2021)

Chrome Developers Blog2022120 points90 commentscited by 7Web & Frontend details

What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.

Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit

NBER2022629 points258 commentsTech Industry & Business details

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.

SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc

SimulaVR Blog2022754 points442 commentsTech Industry & Business details

A few days ago we received a large packet in the mail from Meta's legal team informing us that SimulaVR has been subpoenaed for their antitrust case FTC vs. Meta Platforms , in relation to the government's recent injunction against their acquisition of a VR fitness company.

Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown

Liberty Street Economics2022104 points93 commentsTech Industry & Business details

One of the current puzzles in economics is the recent worldwide slowdown in productivity, compared to the late 1990s and early 2000s. This productivity loss is economically large: if productivity growth had stayed at the same level as in 1995-2004, American GDP would have increased by trillions of dollars. In this…

Splunk IP suit against Cribl

Tesla Vision Update: Replacing Ultrasonic Sensors with Tesla Vision

Steve Yegge Joins as Head of Engineering of Sourcegraph

TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world's most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).

Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown

AdGuard Blog2022736 points627 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?

The next generation of Materialize

Materialize Blog2022146 points41 commentsDatabases & Data details

Today, we’re excited to announce a product that we feel is transformational: a persistent, scalable, cloud-native Materialize.

Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

World’s Largest Fan-Generated Entertainment & Gaming Platform | Fandom Fandom’s brands help fans get more out of the entertainment and games they love,…

Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served

SerpApi Blog2022265 points125 commentsTech Industry & Business details

SerpApi’s Google Search API results serves all the results Google serves to users…But the amount of searches are quite different than what is being told below the search bar.

Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B

Cloud.com2022269 points174 commentsTech Industry & Business details

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy

Google – The Keyword2022352 points8 commentsGames & Graphics details

We’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.

Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023

Chrome Developers Blog2022305 points283 commentsWeb & Frontend details

New details about the plan to move extensions to Manifest V3

DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist

OpenAI Blog2022430 points343 commentsAI & Machine Learning details

New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.

Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (2012)

Stanford Graduate School of Business2022256 points71 commentsCareer & Management details

Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are."

Stop overcomplicating it: A simple guidebook to upping your management game

First Round Review2022174 points72 commentsCareer & Management details

Russ Laraway wades through all of the competing opinions, complex frameworks and advice out there on how to be a better manager, creating a simple, data-backed leadership toolkit.

A CTO should be technical

South Park Commons Blog2022600 points354 commentsCareer & Management details

Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers.

SaaS services behind a startup

Bytebase Blog2022132 points122 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Fly.io makes infrastructure easy for developers

The journey to Nintendo Switch

Factorio Blog2022375 points165 commentscited by 6Games & Graphics details

We have a long history of trying to bring Factorio to other platforms, including consoles and mobile phones (not including April Fools). We even worked with some external companies, but the projects never even got to the point where they would run technically, let alone the complicated part of making the game playable…

On Adobe acquiring Figma

Typogram Blog2022150 points81 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Week 53 of Founding Typogram

Expanding access to the future of work with crypto payouts

Stripe2022104 points136 commentsCrypto & Blockchain details

Stripe now reaches a majority of the globe: 4.4 billion people in more than 110 countries can receive funds in local currencies or crypto.

9M Australians affected by Optus data breach

Optus2022136 points100 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

Optus notifies customers of a cyberattack that has allowed unauthorised access to customers personal information.

MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls

MinIO Blog2022134 points66 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.