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A recent University of Cambridge spin-out company, Paragraf, has started producing graphene – a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick – at up to eight inches (20cm) in diameter, large enough for commercial electronic devices.
Update, 25 March: The Italian, Galician, Asturian, and Catalan Wikipedias have blacked themselves out today to protest the EU Copyright Directive. Other language versions of Wikipedia have chosen to show site banners above their content. Wikipedia’s volunteer editing communities make decisions like this independently…
For nearly a decade, we’ve been in discussions with the European Commission about the way some of our products work. Throughout this process, we’ve always agreed on one …
I’m thinking about this now because Mozilla would like to diversify its revenue in the next few years, and one constraint we have is that everything we do is open source.
If you are a dairy farmer looking for ways to reduce your environmental impact, Hanskamp's CowToilet may be for you. This innovative system is designed to…
When creating your landing page, should you customize a ready-made template or create one from scratch? Results of A/B testing a ThemeForest template against a homebrewed one.
We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.
There was a recent tweet that asked people to share their salary as a means of helping others, so I’ll do that. I don’t think it’s enough, however1. It will give you power in your…
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Announcing a cloud storage solution where you are in control of all your data with client-side encryption and no data or vendor lock-in.
Disclaimer: The events depicted in this story are purely factual and described to the best of my memory. Prelude Many years ago, in the City of London… The Expedia empire reigns. Having conqu…
With an ideal mix of compute, memory, and networking, General Purpose virtual machines are the default choice for reliable performance across most common applications. Whether you’re scaling dev/test environments or hosting production-grade applications, these instances deliver consistent performance and value for a…
At Elastic, our focus is on building great products, form communities around them, and make our users successful.
On February 17, seven Blackwater-like security contractors were arrested in Haiti while driving in unmarked vehicles and transporting illegal weaponry and tactical equipment. They claimed to be on a government mission. Four days later the US “rescued” them. None are expected to face charges. What happened?
Senator Warren’s proposal about how to regulate tech is wrong about history, the source of tech giant’s power, and the fundamental nature of technology itself. That doesn’t mean t…
Founder and co-chair of Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, and Stan Meresman join Cloudflare board
Some airlines and national aviation authorities have grounded their Boeing 737 MAX fleet in the wake of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 (ET302).
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We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.
NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox.
The development team’s capabilities for battling deadlines are fairly restricted, yet they end up committing to them in day-to-day life…
We are happy to announce that the European Commission has awarded €2 million to Proton AG, the parent company of Proton Mail and Proton VPN, to develop a suite of encrypted services.
We have a few updates about YC to share. Things are going well — in the past two years, we launched Startup School [https://www.startupschool.org/], the Series A program [https://blog.ycombinator.com/introducing-yc-series-a-batches/], the YC Growth program [https://blog.ycombinator.com/growth-stage-program/], Work at…
In 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate exceeded Europe’s for the first time in decades. Apologists for European labor market regulation rejoiced, so I publicly bet that European unemployment would exceed U.S. unemployment over the next decade. The original authors I targeted turned me down, even after I offered a 1…
