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Introducing Cloudflare Registrar
“I love my domain registrar.” Has anyone ever said this? Before Cloudflare even launched in 2010, our early beta customers were literally begging us: "Will you please launch a registrar too?!"
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Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System
We’re excited to usher in the next era of VR gaming with the introduction of Oculus Quest, our first all-in-one VR gaming system. Oculus Quest will launch in Spring 2019 for $399 USD. Offering six degrees of freedom and Touch controllers, Oculus Quest makes it easy to jump right into the action—with no PC, no wires…
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The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare
I don’t own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone. This wasn’t just another product announcemen…
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Oracle’s Java 11 trap
TL:DR; Java is still available at zero-cost , you just need to stop using Oracle JDK and start using an OpenJDK build, such as this one o...
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Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
Launching the most powerful version of Vivaldi yet. Today’s update includes Sync and over 1,500 other improvements since the first version of Vivaldi.
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Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator
"The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding"1 best describes what I felt the first time I derived the Y Combinator (guided by the Little Schemer book). Learning Lisp (by way of Scheme) is how I first came about Paul Graham's essays. Which was, of course, a gateway drug to startups. Since then, Y Combinator (the…
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Telltale Autopsy
So Telltale Games is out of business. Like most of the rest of the industry – including the employees of Telltale – I had no idea this was coming. I looked at the popularity of their breakout hit The Walking Dead and the overall quality of some of their earlier adventure game offerings and just assumed this was a…
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Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
Apple today announced it has completed the acquisition of Shazam, one of the most popular and highly-rated music apps, used by millions worldwide.
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Instagram’s CEO
The surprising resignation of Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger should not, in fact, be surprising: this became inevitable the moment they sold Instagram to Facebook.
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Slack Acquires Astro
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora
Enjoy SiriusXM's channels, podcasts, and articles which are dedicated to bringing you the hottest Celebrity, Entertainment, Music and Sports news.
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App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes
On September 12, 2018, Apple Inc. — you may have heard of them — held a big event at their Cupertino headquarters (Spanish for “ What pert headquarters! ”) to announce the latest models of their utterly beloved nightmare machine: the iPhone XR, the iPhone XS, and the iPhone XS Max. I’m seriously not making up that…
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Postmortem: Azure DevOps (VSTS) Outage of 4 Sep 2018
Today, we’re happy to introduce Azure DevOps service status portal which helps with real time insights into active service events and provides further details o...
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The DeWitt Clause: Why You Rarely See Database Benchmarks
Back in the early 1980s, Dr. David DeWitt – who you might know from past PASS Summit keynotes, formerly of Microsoft (LinkedIn) – was working on measuring database performance. His team wrote a benchmark, ran it against Oracle, and Oracle didn’t fare well in the results. Oracle reacted as one would expect – they were…
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Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple
Addicted To Programming - @asaph's blog
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The European Union versus the Internet
The EU is back to regulating tech companies, and getting the Internet wrong in the process. That, though, helps illuminate an approach that could work.
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What Really Happened to Apple’s Airpower
Read our latest update: What Really Happened to Apple's AirPower?. Visit our site for leaks, news, and reviews for technology and related trends, cars & more.
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Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible
I think Lisa Jackson’s presentation at the September 2018 iPhone launch event was perhaps the most interesting and most profound. Lisa Jackson is Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy…
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The strength of a monopoly can be guessed at by calling customer support
If you were an alien hovering above planet earth on a quick visit and trying to find out quickly which were its most dominant companies, you could probably do worse than try to reach their customer…
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How to Get Rich (1999)
[JARED DIAMOND:] In Guns, Germs, and Steel I asked why history has unfolded differently over the last 13,000 years in Eurasia, in the Americas, in sub-Saharan Africa, and in Aboriginal Australia, with the result that within the last 500 years Europeans were the ones who conquered Native Americans and Aboriginal…
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Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach
Here’s the thing about different people playing the same piece of music: sometimes, they’re going to sound similar. And when music is by a composer who died 268 years ago, putting his music in the public domain, a bunch of people might record it and some of them might put it online. In this...
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The iPhone Franchise
The iPhone is a franchise, a product that will make money in well-defined ways; Apple understands that and is exploiting it more than ever before with the iPhones XS and XR.
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A Proposed Alternative to Corporate Governance and Theory of Shareholder Primacy
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Read our latest post from Pay Governance Partner John R. Ellerman and Managing Partner Ira T. Kay
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Big Debt Crises
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares his unique template for how debt crises work.
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Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.