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A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
Treezor migrated a legacy PHP application from servers to serverless on AWS Lambda. They gained increased scalability, faster response times and fewer production incidents.
2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 was awarded to Claudia Goldin "for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes"
Cement's future could be a combination of carbon capture and electrification
Cement is an industry where capturing carbon emissions may be necessary. A combination with process heat electrification could be better than CCS alone.
TEMU Is Cleverly Hidden Spyware That Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S.
Analysis of PDD’s app software by multiple experts is showing all the signs of red-flag concern. The calls to outside device data and functions that violate users’ privacy are far more aggressive than any well-known consumer shopping app.
The Advice SaaS Startup Founders Would Give Their Younger Selves
Discover the top advice SaaS startup founders would give their younger selves. Learn valuable insights and actionable tips for success in this blog post.
The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
RISE: Accelerate the development of open source software for RISC-V
Enabling commercial-ready software for application processors using RISC-V architecture for segments including mobile, consumer electronics, datacenter, and automotive
It's easy to underprice your product (2009)
What’s the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it’s apparently $0. And it’s also $1 million. What? Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these…
Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
The Liberty Phone
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Canon Nanoimprint lithography semiconductor manufacturing system (5nm)
On October 13, 2023, Canon announced today the launch of the FPA-1200NZ2C nanoimprint semiconductor manufacturing equipment, which executes circuit pattern transfer, the most important semiconductor manufacturing process.
Krita is now available on the macOS store
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
2000Ad announces retirement of John M. Burns
Earlier this week, John M. Burns, one of Britain’s great comic artists, whose work has thrilled and amazed for more than six decades, announced his retirement from comics. John M. Burns is, without a doubt, a legendary British comics creator. His extensive body of work across the last six decades and more has brought…
More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com
After decades as the default, dot coms are no longer used by most new startups, and alternative TLDs are the new default.
Generative AI and The Future of Work
Unexpected ways generative AI will change how you work forever
How Big Pharma reaps profits while hurting everyday Americans (2019)
The pharmaceutical industry leverages Washington’s culture of corruption to increase profits while everyday Americans suffer from high drug prices.
Treating documentation like a product
The most popular ecommerce project on GitHub. Medusa provides open-source ecommerce backend infrastructure in NodeJS.
SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple
Simula is raising institutional capital for the mass production of our headsets. We're also soliciting angel investors who might be interested in alpha testing our Review Unit headsets (helping us form a bridge to our institutional round). More details on this below.
Google's 25th Birthday
For Google’s 25th birthday, we’re celebrating alongside our users with a special Doodle and some surprises in Search.
Winner’s Curse: Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid
Imagine that at the beginning of class, a professor produces a jar full of coins and announces that he is auctioning it off. Students can write down a bid, he explains, and the highest bidder wins the contents of the jar in exchange for his or her bid.
Generative AI's Act Two
One year ago, we published a hypothesis that generative AI would become a profound platform shift in technology. Then came the firestorm.
DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise
We developed a safety mitigation stack to ready DALL·E 3 for wider release and are sharing updates on our provenance research.