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How We reduced our Google Maps API cost
Being a highly reliable commute partner to our customers, we at Cityflo take all kinds of measures to ensure high accuracy and predictability of our vehicle tracking system. Showing incorrect arrival time to our users will heavily hamper the experience that our users expect from us.
I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M
tl;dr In the past 6 months I turned down multiple $3-5m offers and failed to close a $5m sale. In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've
Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)
While I was at a family wedding a few weeks ago, one of my aunts asked me, “So, what’s the hardest part about designing a game? It must be coming up with the ideas, right?” I laug…
An update to the Timescale license
Learn how we are building an open-source business in the cloud and why we added the Timescale License. Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.
Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires
Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of…
Nutanix Objects violates MinIO’s open source license
Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
Minimised clearances, active hoods, new materials, new drive technologies – surely modern cars have reached their pinnacle?
Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
We're thrilled to announce that we have raised a Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen championing the deal. We're also sharing that a million users are now using Repl.it. Moreover, our developers have shipped 250,000 websites/apps since our hosting platform launch in March…
Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
Find inspiration for where to go, decide what neighborhood to stay in, and book flights and hotels with more confidence at google.com/travel.
Stripe now supports ACH payments
Stripe Financial Connections is an open banking solution that lets users securely share financial data to streamline ACH payments and payouts, reduce fraud, and underwrite risk.
Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
New $250 Chromebook
As a kid growing up in India, I was fascinated with computers and the endless possibilities they presented. I had to wait until college to f...
Apple Music Sing
Apple Music Sing is an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favorite songs with real-time lyrics and adjustable vocals.
OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
OpenAI and Apple announce partnership to integrate ChatGPT into Apple experiences.
MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U
MIT and Harvard University announced a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company. 2U will transfer $800 million to a nonprofit organization, led by MIT and Harvard, to explore the…
Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
Video codecs remain an area of active research and development. The current generation video codec is H.264 – in widespread usage on the Internet. Cisco