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Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to HTC VIVE Devices
Last year, Mozilla set out to build a best-in-class browser that was made specifically for immersive browsing. The result was Firefox Reality, a browser de
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Kubernetes 1.14 released
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.14, our first release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.14 consists of 31 enhancements: 10 moving to stable, 12 in beta, and 7 net new. The main themes of this release are extensibility and supporting more workloads on Kubernetes with three major features moving to general…
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Parallelism in PostgreSQL
Parallelism in PostgreSQL was implemented as part of multiple features which cover sequential scans, aggregates, and joins.
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What to Expect from Marzipan
It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy. We’ve written here previously with our thoughts about Dark Mode, now it’s time to talk about iOS apps coming to the Mac. Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few details during last year’s Keynote. We knew that some […]
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Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out
Today we allocated the last of our contiguous /22 IPv4 address blocks. We still have approximately one million addresses available, in the form of /23s and /24s, and we will continue making /22-equivalent allocations made up of these smaller blocks. Once we can no longer allocate the equivalent of a /22, we will…
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Mailgun Acquires Mailjet
Mailgun has acquired our European Competitor, Mailjet. To learn more about the acquisition, continue reading...
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India will soon overtake China to become the most populous country in the world
Explore data from the United Nations World Population Prospects.
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LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 25mW power
After almost 2 years, the world record of 702 km (436 miles) has been broken. Not once but twice. For a long time this record which was set on 26th of August 20
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From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10
I’ve been working on the FullCalendar for a really long time.
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The IA Client – The Swiss Army Knife of Internet Archive
As someone who's uploaded hundreds of thousands of items to the Internet Archive's stacks and who has probably done a few million transactions with the materials over the years, I just "know" about the Internet Archive python client, and if you're someone who wants to interact with the site as a power user (or were
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We improved Tensorflow Serving performance by over 70%
In this blog, we’ll focus on techniques that improve latency by optimizing both the prediction server and client.
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Frustrations with React Hooks
React Hooks can be frustrating despite their popularity and widespread use. Learn about some of the drawbacks to using React Hooks.
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Making email more secure with MTA-STS standard
Posted by Nicolas Lidzborski, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud and Nicolas Kardas, Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud We’re...
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Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Power Progress Community (PPC), the association behind the creation of a ordenador portátil con procesador PowerPC , in this case the NXP T2080. The PowerPC instruction set has been recently released by IBM as open source and given to the Linux Foundation.
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Pine64 November Update – ANSI Pinebook Pro and PinePhone Preorder
Our core focus for the past month was on getting the manufacturing process and shipping of the Pinebook Pro, PinePhone and PineTime development kits back on track. I will not reiterate the events that led to the delays of those devices in this post, but if you’re interested then read the detailed account of what…
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Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
An in-depth analysis of the journey of a Spectre fix into the upstream LTS kernels that left its users with nothing more than a false sense of security.
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Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
We’ve trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like robot hand. The neural networks are trained entirely in simulation, using the same reinforcement learning code as OpenAI Five paired with a new technique called Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR). The system can handle situations it…
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PureBoot, the High Security Boot Process
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7
In 2010, Google engineers Daniel Peng & Frank Dabek published Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications , which described Percolator: a Google-internal database for random access transactional workloads where low latencies are not required. Percolator uses a global…
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Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park
If you think traffic in city centers is bad now, just wait until self-driving cars emerge on the scene, cruising around to avoid paying hefty downtown parking fees.
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Bjarne Stroustrup Answers C++ Questions
Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. We got a chance to chat with him about the “golden years” of Bell Labs and the top C++ questions on Stack Overflow.