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The world’s biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, generates first power
When fully operational, Hornsea 2’s 165 8 MW Siemens Gamesa wind turbines will be capable of generating 1.32 GW of clean electricity – taking the title of ‘world’s largest operating offshore wind farm’ from its sibling project Hornsea 1. Together, the two projects will be capable of providing enough power for well…
We're Joining OpenAI
Alex is the ultimate tool for iOS and Swift app development, empowering developers with AI for Xcode to streamline workflows, tackle complex coding challenges, and boost productivity. Discover what makes it an essential asset for modern app creation.
Joining a Different YC
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Y Combinator full-time. My job is to help our companies make hardware people want faster and better than ever before. Fortunately, our alumni are the best resource in the world for this: they’ve built some of the most innovative startups of the last decade. Coupled with our…
The secrets of body language
What can I do to improve my body language with some simple, actionable tips? The latest research reveals the best secrets to improving your body language:
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
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Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
Our goal is to ensure users understand who is advertising to them and why they are seeing specific ads.
37signals invests in The Starter League
Today we’d like to announce that we’ve bought a stake in The Starter League. This is the only investment that 37signals has ever made in another company. What is The Starter League? The Starter League (formerly known as Code Academy) is a small school in Chicago that teaches Rai…
YC Open Office Hours
Earlier this fall, we announced our first Open Office Hours [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-and-hispanic-founders] where founders got to meet one-on-one with YC partners. We piloted the program with Black and Latino founders, over 650 founders applied in under a week, and we were able…
Stripe: Alipay support
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
Things are moving fast for royalty-free video codecs. A month ago, the IETF NETVC Working Group had its first meeting and two weeks ago Cisco announced Tho
Google+ is now available with Google Apps
Posted by Ronald Ho, Product Manager Google Apps fans, today we’re ready to add you to our circles. Google+ makes sharing on the web more l...
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NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.
China is the manufacturing superpower
The US is the world’s sole military superpower. It spends more on its military than the ten next highest spending countries combined. China is now the world’s sole manufacturing superpower. Its production exceeds that of the nine next largest manufacturers combined. This column uses the recently released 2023 update…
We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
We signed a 3 year lease and gave it to an AI
The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data
In late January 2023, almost 45 GB of source code from the Russian search giant Yandex was leaked on BreachForums by a former Yandex employee.
Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.
John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI
Celebrated software engineer & Keen Technologies founder John Carmack partners with Amii's Dr. Richard Sutton to bring greater focus to artificial general intelligence (AGI).
The illegal city of Somerville
Zoning is complicated. It’s complicated on its own, with even small towns having dozens of pages of regulations and acronyms and often-inscrutable diagrams; and it’s complicated as a policy issue, with economists and lawyers and researchers bandying about regression lines and all sorts of claims about the micro and…
Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
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