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Telegram: Payments 2.0, Scheduled Voice Chats, New Web Versions
This update brings Payments 2.0 for all Telegram chats, Scheduling and Mini Profiles for Voice Chats, new versions of Telegram Web for your browser, and more.
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Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education
Perspectives is an opportunity for Fellows and others to share their ideas in short, accessible essays. IPE/BC Fellows hold a range of views and interests relative to public education.
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US Cellular Now a Part of Project Fi's Network
With the addition of a third network, Project Fi now gives you more coverage and speed, helping you stay connected wherever you are.
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How to sell if your user is not the buyer
Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer
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Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
Hospitals spent $7.8B on consulting over a decade with no meaningful improvements in finances, staffing, operations, or patient outcomes, a new study finds.
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Fastly acquires Glitch
Fastly is thrilled to announce it has acquired Glitch, with plans to continue fostering one of the most beloved developer communities on the web today.
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Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
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MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified
MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity.
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Stripe Integration for Twilio Pay
Stripe + Twilio <Pay> lets businesses easily and securely accept payments over the phone.
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The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector
Despite aggregate productivity for the US economy having doubled over the past 50 years, the country’s construction sector has diverged considerably, trending downward throughout that period. And this is no slight decrease. Raw BEA data suggest that the value added per worker in the construction sector was about 40…
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Antiviral Molnupiravir Reduces Risk of Hospitalization/Death by ~50 Percent
At the Interim Analysis, 7.3 Percent of Patients Who Received Molnupiravir Were Hospitalized Through Day 29, Compared With 14.1 Percent of Placebo-Treated Patients Who were Hospitalized or Died Merck Plans to Seek Emergency Use Authorization in the U.S. as Soon as Possible and to Submit Applications to Regulatory…
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SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Kraken lays off 30% of staff
Today we’re announcing one of the hardest decisions at Kraken to date. We’re reducing our global workforce by approximately 1,100 people, or 30 percent, in order to adapt to current market conditions. We are extremely grateful for the contributions of those impacted by today’s announcement and we’ll do our best to…
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RIP Good Times (2008)
Back in 2008, Sequoia Capital shared with its portfolio companies tips for surviving the economic downturn. Here's the original RIP Good Times presentation.
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Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
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Coursera and Udemy are now one company
Today, I’m excited to share that we have completed the Coursera-Udemy combination, bringing together two mission-driven companies to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
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Announcing the New AWS Secret Region
The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. AWS customers benefit from data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. AWS supports more classification…
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Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
The lie from ad tech is that there's no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same.
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New Standard Deal
We are changing the standard deal at YC and increasing our investment from $120K to $150K. The $150K investment for 7% will be made on a post-money cap safe. We believe the post-money safe is simpler, making ownership and dilution easier to understand. This new deal will start with our Winter 2019 batch, and replaces…
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We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR
It took us a year to reach the first $400 MRR and then it took us nine months to go from $400 to $10k MRR. Now, ten months after the $10k milestone, we’re at $500,000 ARR.
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Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)
Today I announce the launch of HashiCorp. I am Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator and maintainer of Vagrant, and I am founding HashiCorp to drive Vagrant's development forward. Vagrant has become a trusted tool in the industry in the three years since its release, with users ranging from individuals to entire development…