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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
Our e-reader lineup also features a reimagined Kindle Scribe and the fastest Kindle Paperwhite ever.
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Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
On November 30, 2021, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021[1] an omnibus bill introduced by the Progressive Conservatives which amends a number of employment-related statutes. The amendments received Royal Assent on December 2, 2021; however, different parts of the Bill will come into…
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FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet
The FAA delivered September 1 the long-sought approval of an unleaded fuel now cleared to power every spark-ignition engine on any airframe in the general aviation fleet.
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Introducing Increment
As software becomes more important in the world, the practice and art of software is becoming more important too.
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GitLab Master Plan
GitLab announces $20M in Series B funding, and its Master Plan to build an integrated toolset for the modern developer!
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Stripe Open-Source Retreat
We rely on a lot of open-source software at Stripe, and over time we’ve contributed back our own share of patches and projects. We decided we’d like to do more, though, so we’re launching an open-source retreat program.
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Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built “grumbl”, a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issu…
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Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation
Julia Computing wins DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation 1,000x with AI & ML. Discover how Julia's unique capabilities boost US semiconductor competitiveness.
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A million-dollar engineering problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
Compare Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API to Whisper and SFSpeechRecognizer. Real accuracy benchmarks on 5,559 utterances with raw transcripts for rescoring.
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Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.
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Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
Funding negative emissions technology through Stripe's environmental program.
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De-cloud and de-k8s – bringing our apps back home
For the Operations team at 37signals, the biggest effort in 2023 is removing our dependencies on the cloud and migrating our application stacks back into the data center onto our own hardware. We’ve already made amazing progress in a fairly short time — let’s get into some details!
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Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
Since we started shipping bikes eight years ago, here at VanMoof we’ve struggled to find shipping partners that give our bikes the same…
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Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered
To find the cause of the Galaxy Note7 incidents, Samsung examined every aspect of the Gala
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All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He…
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Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
The popular video streaming service Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018—$845 million—on which it didn’t pay a dime in federal or state income taxes. In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal income tax rebate.
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Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will
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The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
A factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand, in half the time of a typical Shenzhen quick-turn shop.
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Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected
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Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it
More and more, people are building products as thin wrappers over other models, especially LLMs. This can cause major issues, and there is a better way.
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Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
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