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MIT and newly formed company launch effort to build compact tokamak pilot plant
Development of fusion power, a carbon-free, combustion-free source of energy, is now on a faster track toward realization, thanks to a collaboration between MIT and a new private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems. CFS will join with MIT to carry out rapid, staged research leading to a new generation of fusion…
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Mozilla’s Servo Team Joining Mixed Reality
Mozilla's Servo team joining Mixed Reality
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TunnelBear Joins McAfee
TunnelBear joins McAfee but will continue to develop the bear-filled products you've come to know and love.
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Ten Hours of Static Gets Five Copyright Notices
Sebastian Tomczak blogs about technology and sound, and has a YouTube channel. In 2015, Tomczak uploaded a ten-hour video of white noise. Colloquially, white noise is persistent background noise that can be soothing or that you don’t even notice after a while. More technically, white noise is many...
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Prove you are not an evil corporate person
Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
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Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet
Before I left Google to work on my own startup, I hadn’t thought much about monetization. I believed that, because so many websites do it everyday, charging people for online services would be straightforward. But as I started growing Kapwing, my video editing website, [https://www.kapwing.com/] with
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From idea to revenue in 5 working days, thanks to HN
I needed to ship something. I was stuck in the midst of several larger projects, both for clients and myself, with no end in sight, and to keep going I needed the confidence boost that only shipping code can provide. So I spent part of my weekend, shifted some priorities around, and got to work on Kismet .
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Lessons from Spotify
Spotify has a marginal cost problem, but while the cause is unique to Spotify, the challenges are more applicable than it seems.
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How Amazon Can Blow Up Asset Management
Amazon’s home page is arguably the most valuable real estate in the world. What happens if that page offers an ASSET MANAGEMENT tab?
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23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
23andMe Granted First FDA Authorization for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
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Updated Request for Startups
The application deadline for YC Summer 2018 is on March 24, and in honor of the deadline, we published an update to our Request for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/] (RFS). While many of the best ideas we’ve funded were ones that surprised us, there are always a collection of ideas we wish more founders would…
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The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO
Spotify's direct listing IPO filing reveals how monthly churn fell from 7.7% to 5.5% as personalization and family plans drove subscriber retention at scale.
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Pitching Your Startup
Tell your company’s story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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Founding Stories Are Myths
Founding Stories Ignore The Most Important Parts of Starting a Business
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Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting
When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flattery. But when Chinese counterfeiters tool up and make copies of your product, send that inventory to Amazon, then overtake the real product's buy box by auto-lo
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Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan
In The Number I provided a model for estimating the number of active Apple devices at any point in time. The relationship between active devices and cumulative devices sold gives us a rule of thumb…
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Opening the code of our X-Pack features
We are doubling down on open and moving our closed source X-Pack code into our public GitHub repos.
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The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002)
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.
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Pricing low-touch SaaS
How to approach pricing and packaging a new SaaS app, by example
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How Much Does a Compiler Cost?
The compiler tool chain is one of the largest and most complex components of any system, and increasingly will be based on open source code, either GCC or LLVM. On a Linux system only the operating system kernel and browser will have more lines of code. For a commercial system, the compiler has to be completely…