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Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers
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Can we protect land for nature and carbon by simply buying it up?
This blog post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: hazel grove, Devon. Land ownership in Britain is highly concentrated and unequal: just 1% of the population own half the land in England, while in Scotlan…
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Biology Is Eating the World
We are at the beginning of a new era, where biology has shifted from an empirical science to an engineering discipline. After a millennia of using man-made approaches for controlling or manipulating biology, we have finally begun using nature’s own machinery—through biological engineering—to design, scale, and…
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Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
Research has confirmed for the first time that people with active gambling accounts who receive regular ‘free bets’ and other direct marketing offers place a lot more bets, spend far more, and suffer greater related harms than gamblers who have opted out of such offers.
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First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
First Light Fusion (First Light), the University of Oxford fusion spin-out, today confirms it has achieved fusion. The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has independently validated the result.
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Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)....
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Sketch 3.7 released
Sketch 3.7 is an important update for Sketch. It introduces an all new version of Symbols and we can’t wait to hear what you think of them.
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Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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One Bad “Policy Change” Email Can Kill Company Culture
We've all received a work email that made us cringe - the ones that sound formal and threatening or vaguely like a punishment for something we're pretty
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Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
You may have heard about instability issues with Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The issue has been gaining more attention as time goes on. I am posting to share what we've experienced here at Puget Systems, and what we're doing about it.
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What developers think when you say "Rock Star"
When you say "rock star" in your job post, you're discouraging the best software developers from contacting you. When you write, "We're looking for a rock star developer." A developer sees, "We...
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AWS Pinpoint Launches Two-Way Text Messaging
Last week Amazon Pinpoint launched AWS Global SMS two-way text messaging and we didn’t get an opportunity to cover the launch. AWS Pinpoint users can now programmaticaly respond to their end-users’ text messages. Users can provision both short codes and long codes (10-digit phone numbers) which send inbound messages…
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Agents built from alloys
Learn how Alloy Agents improve autonomous vulnerability detection, boosting success rates and scaling offensive security testing with AI.
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Our new search index: Caffeine
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Git ransom campaign incident report
This is a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident.
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Planet to Acquire Terra Bella from Google
Planet plans to acquire the Terra Bella busines,s including the SkySat constellation of satellites.
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How YC Has Changed
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money…
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Developer's Guide to SaaS Compliance
This article reviews what kinds of compliance certifications and regulations exist, what they mean for developers, and how to begin the certification process.
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The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup
You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy.
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Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
Among the personalities honoured by the President of the Czech Republic on the occasion of the national holiday on 28 October this year are two graduates of Brno University of Technology. Tomáš Mikolov, a renowned expert in artificial intelligence, and Filip Maleňák, creator of the Záchranka mobile app, received state…
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To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots
Parking lots amplify high temperatures. Why are we still requiring them to be larger than they need to be?
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Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools
Update on pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools for a safer experience for users under 13.
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Trying out this Go thing at Disqus
Disqus has a history of using one tool for the job and hammering through everything. Until now, that tool has been Python. This mentality has been extremely beneficial for us since we are a small team. Everyone is able to jump in to any piece of our stack with minimal effort.