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Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
Are GLP-1 drugs the first real threat to the hyper-processed food and alcohol industries?
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"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T
Introducing a series on AI vs. ads
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Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
12 Challenges readers Thandeka Xaba and Toby Mather raised some great points in the comments for yesterday’s Typology piece (thanks so much!).
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Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
Today, OpenAI for Government is announcing a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost.
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Rise of generative AI will be comparable to the rise of CGI in the early 90s
My chat with Cristóbal Valenzuela, Cofounder & CEO of Runway .
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The dire state of WordPress
Software engineer and consultant with >15 years experience. Specializing in product engineering, design systems, and full-stack web development with React and TypeScript.
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My iOS 7 Wishlist
Actually, it's not a list at all. There's just one thing I want from iOS 7.
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Revitalizing US Navy Shipbuilding
The consensus is that the US does not build enough ships, civilian or military. The lack of production raises alarm as tension with China in East Asia rises. And the US will need ships if we choose to fight in East Asia.
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Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage
Saturday, Oct. 25 - 10 a.m. Pacific Time Alaska Airlines’ operations have returned to normal following a significant IT outage on Thursday, Oct. 23, that led to a systemwide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air-operated flights. As of Saturday morning, we have canceled nine flights related to the IT outage recovery…
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Software eats software development
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Are Rotisserie Chickens a Bargain?
Rotisserie chickens are delicious, ready-to-eat, and don't cost any more than an uncooked chicken. Is that combination too good to be true?
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Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8
Microsoft has announced that it is ending the ability to cross-sign drivers, effective 1 July 2021. This will effectively make it impossible to release new or updated drivers for Windows 7, Windows…
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Why Zoom Chose Oracle
This post analyzes why Zoom chose Oracle as its new cloud infrastructure provider.
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Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Transfers
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2018147 points118 commentsTech Industry & Business details
China’s debt problems have emerged so much more rapidly and severely this year than in the past that a growing number of analysts believe that this may be the year that China’s economy breaks. There is no question that China will have a difficult adjustment, but it is likely to take the form of a long process rather…
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Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 detected in London, UK
News originally published on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative website. The Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) has confirmed the isolation of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) from environmental samples in London, United Kingdom (UK), which were detected as part of ongoing disease surveillance.
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What AlphaGo Zero teaches us about what’s going wrong with innovation
It is hard not to be impressed — and perhaps a little alarmed — by the progression. In 1997, IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue beat the world’s greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov. It was a hugely ex…
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Why Phonebloks Will Never Happen
On September 13th 2013 George Hahn wrote a popular blog post titled “Why the PhoneBloks phone will never happen”. Still to this day, PhoneBloks remains only a concept without any concrete plans to go to market.
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The Dropbox Comp
Dropbox has filed its S-1, but comparisons with Box, Atlassian, and Slack demonstrate how difficult it is to tell just how good its business is.
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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
More than 600 new functions in Version 13 plus loads of updates covering: symbolic integration, mathematical functions, PDE modeling, video creation, image stitching, tree constructs, graph coloring, subgraph isomorphism, spatial fields, leap seconds, maps, geometric regions, chemical formulas & reactions, bio…
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