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Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board of Directors
Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, has been appointed to Facebook's board of directors, effective immediately.
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Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs
It’s been a year since the U.S. denied a cable license to the PLCN, creating a chain reaction that disrupted the trans-Pacific submarine cable market.
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InfiniDB goes out of business
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“Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" - nearly double the conversion rate.
The current system of cancer research has failed us. It's time we begin funding the "renegade" blue-chip scientists whose research shows real promise.
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Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second
The third annual Prime Day set another round of records for global orders, topping Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making it the biggest day in Amazon retail history. Over the course of the 30 hour event, tens of millions of Prime members purchased things like Echo Dots, Fire tablets, programmable pressure cookers…
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Consortium launched to build the largest open LLM
The University of Turku and one of Europe’s largest private AI labs Silo AI, with its large language model (LLM) arm SiloGen, are today announcing a large-scale initiative on open and trustworthy L
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Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whole Planet Daily
Today Planet successfully launched 88 Dove satellites to orbit — the largest satellite constellation ever to reach orbit.
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Improved User Profiles
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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6 Credit Card Processing Facts Nobody Tells You
Well, we’ve solved our latest credit card validation problem and it seems like a good time to give a quick recap of the lessons we’ve learned during this whole sordid process. Things that nobody bothers to tell you, not even the people you’re paying to do just that. This is 2008, but credit card processing is a…
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Why we're doing things that don't scale
A few weeks ago, Paul Graham wrote a great essay about doing things that don’t scale. As usual, it’s clearly argued, well written, and full of solid advice. If your first instinct as a product developer or entrepreneur is to automate everything you can, I recommend reading Paul’s …
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Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments
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.
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The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas
The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different.
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Brian Chesky on Ron Conway
A message from Airbnb Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky.
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Short algorithm, long-range consequences
A new technique for solving ‘graph Laplacians’ is drastically simpler than its predecessors, with implications for a huge range of practical problems.
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Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. As a result, we’ve become really good at analyzing and measuring network effects. Whether it’s…