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A new approach to China: an update
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Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
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Serious threat to the web in Italy
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Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software Engineer People tell us all the time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by...
Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
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Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
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Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
Today we are excited to announce a collection of high quality open source web fonts in the Google Font Directory , and the Google Font API ...
Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now...
Call phones from Gmail
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Dropbox hits 1.0
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.
The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. Apache has served on the EC for the past 10 years, winning the JCP "Member of the Year" award 4 times, and recently was ratified for another term with support from 95% of the voting community. Further, the project communities…
Google: What We're Driving At
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Opera Mini approved for iPhone
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What is Traitorware?
Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a particularly creepy...
Gtk3 on a HTML5 backend
The last few weeks I've been working on an interesting new idea, hacking out a prototype. The code is not really clean enough for public consumption yet, and a bunch of features are missing. However, its now at the stage where it can be demoed and evaluated. I think the best way to introduce it...
Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
Publishing live election results requires a carefully tuned system: the setup must be able to withstand some of the most intense traffic levels seen all year at NYTimes.com. We decided to center our elections app on the simplest of all caching strategies: the flat file.
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