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Today the University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Building on UC’s previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this…
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Raspberry Pi just announced their new Camera Module 3, which comes in four variations (standard and wide angle, normal and NoIR for infrared use), and costs $25 for the standard versions, and $35 for wide angle. That's a step up from the older Camera Module 2, which cost $25 and only came in a 'standard' focal length…
COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION 24/06/2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a “global first” by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition. British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wrote a letter to mana
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The central fact about child rearing by my parents was the equal intellectual status of everyone in the family.
There is a widely reported threat to our economy: robots are going to replace human workers. It is nothing new... In 1930, Keynes, the famous economist introduced the term "technological unemployment"... We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they…
Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.
Latest Intel processors deliver world’s fastest desktop frequencies, the world’s best desktop experience for enthusiasts and unparalleled overclocking for incredible performance.
To call what we have now as Capitalism, is just wrong. What we have bears little resemblance to even what I saw as a child in the US, let alone anything like what Adam Smith talks about. What we have is at best crony capitalism, and more likely straight corruption top to bottom, with a fake veneer of something called…
An article came out today in Businessweek about arrogance and Silicon Valley. I thought it was good, but there was one more point I wanted to make. People often accuse people in Silicon Valley...
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My home city of Chicago continues to reel from soaring crime rates. Among the categories of increasing crime is a 135% spike in carjackings. One would think that the legislators would be focused o…
People are often baffled why enterprise software is slow, uses lots of memory, and is generally a pain to work with. Before starting mailbox.my, I did work at a large enterprise software company, so I hope to offer some insights with this post. Most of this actually applies to software in general.
Automobiles have been around for well over a century. During that time, we’ve gotten pretty good at designing and building their basic components and controls: seats, doors, pedals, steering wheels, mirrors, etc. But when today’s automakers decide to make an electric vehicle (EV), they seemingly forget much of what…
Record supply to the market along with rising inflation expectations suggest that the yield curve will steepen materially.
That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering . He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital…
One of the hottest commodities in the military, or even for civilian contractors, is having a vehicle down range when you are deployed in the Middle East. Anyone who is someone has their own Ford
Simon reveals the subtle but powerful ways leaders set themselves apart from managers—and why those choices matter most in times of crisis.
Explore Chess.com’s regional pricing, revealing the cheapest and most expensive countries, and tactics used to prevent price discovery.
“The question that needs to be asked and answered is why hardware.” To Satya Nadella’s credit, he provided not just the answer, but the question as well. And, looked at narrowly, …
Imagining better ways of picking people
