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Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023
New details about the plan to move extensions to Manifest V3
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Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem. Browsing and searching the web sensibly has become all but impossible. In response, today we are launching the public beta of two essential tools that...
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How to set junior employees up for success in remote
It just gets a bad rap. Here's how to set junior employees up for success in remote.
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Antitrust lawsuit says Apple and Amazon colluded to raise iPhone, iPad prices
SEATTLE – A new antitrust class-action lawsuit accuses Apple Inc. and Amazon.com of colluding to raise the price of iPhones and iPads, according to Hagens Berman, the law firm representing consumers against two of the world’s largest companies in today’s filing.
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U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
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Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK
Running a development team for each mobile platform sucks up resources from other work. Flutter is the most popular way for one development team to build on all platforms.
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I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (2018)
A test that hijacked the Chrome back button to send visitors to a fake Google results page, then to mirrored competitor pages where heatmaps, sessions and typing were recorded. Google de-indexed the whole domain.
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Germany: Crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed
Germany: crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed. The Federal Ministry of Finance has published a document defining tax policies.
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Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms
Researchers from California Polytechnic State University and the University of New Mexico find that stock market investors predict cannabis legalization will reduce conventional pharmaceutical sales by billions of dollars. In their recent study, “U.S....
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Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition
The winner of the 2022 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition was Nona Desalination, which is developing a low-cost, portable water desalination and purification device.
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How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
“Kara sold her software company for $1.33 billion and paid ZERO capital gains taxes. I don’t mean the tax bill was deferred to a later year. I mean the tax
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Request for Startups: Climate Tech
At YC, we believe founders and startups can make a positive impact on climate change and support the transition to a sustainable future. Here are a few areas and ideas we find most interesting, and hope to see founders apply with.
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Calling for Antitrust Reform
Mozilla supports the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). The time for change is now. It’s time for governments to address the reality
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Russian Ruble just lost ~30% of its value
Find information for Russian Ruble RUB/USD Quotes provided by CME Group. View Quotes
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Brave Search passes 2.5B queries, allows users to choose search rankings
Private, independent search engine exits beta phase on its first anniversary, with innovative features that help users de-Google their search
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Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators
On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our…
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Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps
The revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier. Apple must therefore pay another 5 million euros.
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Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam
Our startup was recently the center of an elaborate recruiting scam. What do other companies do if they realize that someone is impersonating them to attack vulnerable job seekers? This article gives advice to job seekers and shares our story.
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Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms
Jura Liaukonyte, associate professor at Dyson, and colleagues tracked ad viewership using tools that, instead of just monitoring the television, measured actual viewer presence in the room, and focal attention on the screen.
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2022 Cloud Report
The 2022 Cloud Report is the only cloud performance report to compare AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
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Employers who violate Colorado’s non-compete laws face stiff new penalties
Employers Who Violate Colorado’s Non-Compete Laws Face Stiff New Penalties, Including Jail
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Scaling a startup from a bunker: founders' story from Ukraine
This is a story of how we survived, relocated a team, and scaled our startup under never-ending missile attacks.
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Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (2016)
Thanks for stopping by 👋🏾 Why not check out our file conversion API – convert 100s of different file formats in just one line of code (we even support PowerPoint files!) This is part one of a series of… Read More Deal of the century? How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14 million
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Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform
A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) and IBM today announced the decision to withdraw the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform.