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Announcing unlimited free private repos
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.
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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
When we came across the Otonomo API documentation we quickly realized it looked oddly familiar. That’s because we wrote it.
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The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)
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UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access
As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC’s key goal: securing universal open access to UC…
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We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
We don’t plan to settle, and if brought into such litigation again in the future, we think we have a pretty good blueprint for how to respond.
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Firefox 70
Firefox 70 is released today, and includes great new features such as secure password generation with Lockwise and the new Firefox Privacy Protection Report, as well as cool additions for ...
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound and ...
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Thank You, Guido
After six and a half years, Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement. From the beginning, we knew Guido would be a great addition to our company. In fact, his contributions to Dropbox date back to day one. Our CEO Drew Houston’s very first lines of code for Dropbox were…
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
“We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company.”
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing…
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Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client
Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer, will depart the company later this year to form an independent design company.
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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps
We're excited to announce that map and address-related searches on DuckDuckGo for mobile and desktop are now powered by Apple's MapKit JS framework.
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Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
As part of its commitment to US economic growth, Apple today confirmed that its newly redesigned Mac Pro will be manufactured in Austin, Texas.
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Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
”We finally got a 3D creation tool like paper and pencil.” The reason why Khara, Inc. started moving to Blender.
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Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API
Learn about Google Nest, account changes, Works with Nest and more
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Ending our Medium integration
Sometime in the past few weeks, Medium abruptly deleted third-party access to their publishing API. There was no warning before, or notic...
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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
Over my 17 years at Amazon, I have seen that my colleagues on the engineering team are never content to leave good-enough alone. They routinely re-evaluate every internal system to make sure that it is as scalable, efficient, performant, and secure as possible. When they find an avenue for improvement, they will use…
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Facebook to ban white nationalist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram.
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The world needs more search engines
There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business model. Or they are so localized and small that they do not offer a credible…
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Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based
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Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
Examine.com was born in 2011 out of our personal frustration with the poor quality of information on nutrition and supplementation available on the Internet, and since then we’ve helped tens of millions of people get health information free from advertorial pressures, miracle cures, and clickbait headlines that tease…
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No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader