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Fairchild Semiconductor: 60th Anniversary
Fairchild’s rapid growth in revenue, number of employees, and impact on the local community can be compared to Google 40 years later
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,891 posts.
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Testing Cliqz in Firefox
About a year ago, Mozilla announced a strategic investment in Cliqz GmbH, the Munich, Germany-based provider of search and privacy tools. Today, we want to tell you about an important ...
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Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach
More publishers trust us to engage, grow, and understand their audiences than any other. Build your on-site community with Disqus.
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The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November
[UPDATE: This post was originally said that the SegWit2X fork will happen on November 1. In fact it is scheduled to occur on block 494,764 ...
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Joining Google to better explain search
When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long. That something different has arrived: I’m joining Google as of Monday.
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The License Zero Manifesto
sustainable software in the open
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Backblaze has ordered 100 petabytes of hard drives
Cloud storage continues to grow everyday. Backblaze recently passed 400 Petabytes of data stored in the cloud.
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Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum
Here at Mozilla, we’re extremely excited about next month’s release of Firefox Quantum, with massive speed improvements, a brand new UI, and many Developer Tools upgrades -- available now in ...
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Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher
10/12/17, 8AM PT: Microsoft Edge for Android: Good news; the wait is over for those wanting to test the Microsoft Edge Preview for Android. Starting today, you can go here to download the preview app. We can’t wait to hear what you think of it. Microsoft Launcher for Android: Thank you to those who’ve already
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How To Legally Own Another Person
Even the church had its hippies –Coase does not need math –Avoid lawyers during Oktoberfest –The expat life ends one day –People who have…
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WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
Just over a year ago we presented WaveNet, a new deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms that is capable of producing better and more realistic-sounding speech than existing techniques. At that time, the model was a research prototype and was too computationally intensive to work in consumer products.
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Avoid Vendor Lock-In Risk with Multi-Cloud Deployments
Using CockroachDB means shifting operational thinking from disaster recovery to disaster resilience, and completely side steps the risks associated with vendor lock-in.
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Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
At Mozilla we were born out of, and remain a part of, the open source and free software movement. Through the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program, w
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Paul S. Otellini has died
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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MessageBird raises $60M Series A
Ideas and perspectives from Bird on communications, AI agents and the work of making business radically simpler.
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Y Combinator's Founding Principles
Y Combinator's Principles, as written by its founders.
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IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency
In a remarkably frank talk at a Bank of England conference, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund has speculated that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have as much of a future as the Internet itself. It could displace central banks, conventional banking, and challenge the monopoly of national monies.
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013)
Homer: There's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!
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How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up their phones instead?
“This phone saved me when I was dumped into the back of a car with four other boys and covered in a plastic tent.…this phone is my HERO!”…
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Paint.net is now available on the Windows Store
Version 4.0.18, which I just announced, is now available on the Windows Store! The standard price is currently $8.99, but I’ve put it on sale for $5.99 $4.99 until the end of October. You can also …
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Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
When people ask me for tech career advice I find it helpful to lay out the three paths I’ve encountered most in my career: founder, executive, and employee. I’m leaving out investor because the best path to being an investor that I’ve seen starts with being successful (or failing) at one of these three first. Below…
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Things learned while running your own self-funded startup
Here's a brain dump of the things we've learned while running our business and shipping our first product ( Basis ). My experience at Valv...
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Interview with Mr. Money Mustache
Pete Adeney, more commonly known as Mr. Money Mustache [https://twitter.com/mrmoneymustache], retired at 30 after working as a software engineer for about ten years. He blogs at MrMoneyMustache.com [http://MrMoneyMustache.com] about how he saved money, where he invested it, and how he achieved “financial freedom…
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Blockchain Basics
The SitePen blog gives educational tips for solving big business problems and achieving technical objectives.
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