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5 million Dropboxes
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist
A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.
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Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
Previous: I'm Briefly Discussing President Obama's Reported Internet Wiretapping Proposal Tonight on "Coast to Coast AM" Radio
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Microsoft acquires Acompli
I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Acompli, provider of innovative mobile email apps for iOS and Android. This acquisition is part of our company-wide effort to help people accomplish more with their mobile devices. This year we brought Office to the iPad and the iPhone, and we recently announced that…
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Hacking the bureaucracy to get stuff done (2020)
The Dangerous Professional finds the seams between the policies, and slips inside them to Get Stuff Done
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Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available
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Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard
Today marks a major milestone, as Microsoft is the first major cloud provider to adopt the world’s first international standard for cloud privacy. It’s another reason customers can move with confidence to the Microsoft Cloud. The standard in question may seem technical, but it has important practical benefits for…
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Apple to acquire digital magazine service Texture
Apple today announced it will acquire Texture, the digital magazine subscription service that gives users unlimited access to their favorite titles.
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Startup Fuck-ups: How we lost 25% of our monthly revenue overnight
The first in a blog series called “Startup Fuck-ups” on turning bad experiences into good practices.
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Aserto: Developer API for permissions and RBAC
No one should build permissions and RBAC on their own. Aserto's authorization-as-a-service platform is here to make sure of it!
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$250k books sold, to save lives
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Payment Request API for Apple Pay
We’re pleased to announce that Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3 now support the W3C Payment Request API for conducting Apple Pay transactions on the web.
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When the bubble bursts
We are clearly not in a steady-state situation. Is this a bubble or a revolution? The answer surely includes a bit of revolution—the fields of vision and speech recognition have been turned over by great empirical successes created by deep neural architectures and more generally machine learning has found plentiful…
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The New Gold Rush? Wall Street Wants Your Data
I invest in early-stage AI, ML, and data startups at FirstMark Capital, and I write about the space here
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How Github has changed the open source world
You've arrived at a unique corner of the web where the spheres of open-source development and theology intersect in fascinating ways.
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The Company Isn't a Family
Whenever executives talk about how their company is really like a big ol’ family, beware. They’re usually not referring to how the company is going to protect you no matter what or love you uncondi…
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Open core companies are not incentivized to make their projects good
Clear upgrades, incidents, CVEs, and tickets with infra agents grounded in production. They run in your environment, and every change lands as a PR you review.
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Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS
Building world-class games is a very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive process. The audience is incredibly demanding. They want engaging, social play that spans a wide variety of desktop, console, and mobile platforms. Due to the long lead time inherent in the game development and distribution process, the…
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Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain
How much is an idea worth? Many normal people assume that ideas are valuable, and that if only they could think of one, they might be able t...