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Is Gutenberg the End or a New Beginning for WordPress?
Does the WordPress Block Editor deliver on its promise of heralding an exciting future for WordPress development?
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Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Evolving the Firefox Brand
Say “Firefox” and most people think of a web browser on their laptop or phone, period. TL;DR, there’s more to the story now, and our branding needs to evolve. With ...
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Stack Overflow Salary Calculator
Today, we launched the Stack Overflow Salary Calculator , a tool that allows developers and employers to find typical salaries based on experience level, location, specific technologies, and education. We did this because we believe developers should be empowered with more information around job searches, careers, and…
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Change at Buffer: The Next Phase, and Why Our Co-Founder and CTO Are Moving On
We're looking to the future without 2 meaningful leaders and teammates. But we're excited for our vision and the journey ahead. Here's what's next.
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Why ISOC sold .ORG to VCs
It has been widely reported, and generally criticized, that the Internet Society (ISOC) has entered into an agreement to sell Public Interest Registry (PIR) which operates the .ORG TLD, to a VC firm called Ethos Capital for a reported $1.135 Billion dollars. I've disclosed in previous issues of #AxisOfEasy that I…
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Comcast-Owned Vox Runs Commercial for Comcast’s $500M Snapchat Investment
Vox, effectively a Comcast subsidiary, writes a glowing explainer on why Comcast’s $500 million investment is solid and has huge upside, on the same day as the investment.
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Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever
We've reported here often on efforts to ram through Congress legislation that would authorize massive interference with the Internet, all in the name of a fruitless quest to stamp out all infringement online. Today Representative Lamar Smith upped the ante, introducing legislation, called the Stop...
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Windows 365 Cloud PC
Updated on August 2, 2021: Windows 365 is now generally available to businesses of all sizes. Learn more about Windows 365 and experience it today. As some regions begin to make their way out of the challenges and disruption of the past 18 months, we’re seeing a new world of work emerge.
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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
Evolving Programmable Search Engine Programmable Search Engine helps hundreds of partners – from academic institutions to retail websites – ...
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Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa
After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s products throughout…
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Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI
Coefficient has directed over $7 billion in grants since 2014. Our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us.
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Stage win: FinFisher is bankrupt
FinFisher, the Munich-based state Trojan exporter, is bankrupt. For over a decade, a wide variety of international groups, including the CCC, have worked toward its end.
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Why I Walked Away From a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch
Groove is now Helply!
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Reproducibility Initiative gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 cancer studies
Explore the Science Exchange Blog for expert insights on R&D outsourcing, supplier orchestration, and life sciences operations. Discover best practices for managing scientific suppliers, streamlining procurement, and accelerating research with a trusted global marketplace.
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Reddit needs help
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Special projects
Impactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter.
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N8n raises $180M
We just raised $180 million in Series C funding, bringing our total funding to $240 million and our valuation to $2.5 billion. The round is led by Accel, with support from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic and Visionaries Club. Corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm) and T.Capital also
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LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round
LangChain secures $10M seed round from Benchmark to empower developers building AI apps with our open-source framework for data-aware, agentic LLMs.
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Swift Package Index joins Apple
Swift Package Index is now part of Apple. Here's what that means.
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