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Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
A technical look at dynamic resource management behind E2 VM machine types.
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Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator
San Francisco - Attorney Charles Carreon dropped his bizarre lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman today, ending his strange legal campaign against Inman's humorous and creative public criticism of a frivolous cease and desist letter that Carreon wrote on behalf of his client Funny Junk...
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Life Is Driven by Network Effects
Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in … Continue reading…
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Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
We still have a couple of weeks until the holiday season, but here’s an early gift for you: I’m excited to announce our brand new Original Prusa MINI, a smart and compact 3D printing workhorse with all the bells and whistles...
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Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
Eight years after Google initially took a stand against Internet censorship by exiting the Chinese search market, we are disappointed to learn the company has been secretly re-considering an extended collaboration with the massive censorship and surveillance-wielding state. According to an...
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SparkFun À La Carte
Point and click your way to a fully-populated, custom board from SparkFun.
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Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial
Today we learned just how determined the patent troll Lodsys is to avoid a ruling on the merits of its claims. When software security company Kaspersky Lab refused to surrender, Lodsys settled for nothing (yes, you read that right—absolutely nothing) rather than take its claims to trial. First,...
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Why we picked AGPL
ParadeDB has been licensed under AGPL from day one. Here's our thought process and case study on why we picked AGPL.
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Microsoft reorganizes
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast
I don't care about cookies has been acquired by Avast and remains free to use.
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Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE
Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE effective June 7, 2026 This article covers the different ways you can still access EAGLE until it is no longer supported on June 7, 2026. It is recommended to subscribe to Autodesk Fusion for access to the electronics workspace. A subscription to Autodesk Fusion includes…
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GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
Starting on February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payments processor. As such, it will no longer be possible to sponsor individuals or organizations using…
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What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
The 8 October, 2018 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek incorrectly reports that Apple found “malicious chips” in servers on its network in 2015.
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WP Engine is not WordPress
It has to be said and repeated: WP Engine is not WordPress. My own mother was confused and thought WP Engine was an official thing. Their branding, marketing, advertising, and entire promise to cus…
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Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
Be My Eyes’ AI assistant, powered by GPT-4, is rolling out to hundreds of thousands of iOS and Android users over the next several weeks.
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Twilio Functions – Public Beta
Write and run Twilio code without dealing with servers. 10k free invocations every month—$0.0001/invocation after. Now available to everyone in public
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Act-1: Transformer for Actions
AI has moved at an incredible pace in the last few years. Scaling up Transformers has led to remarkable capabilities in language (e.g., GPT-3, PaLM, Chinchilla), code (e.g., Codex, AlphaCode), and image generation (e.g., DALL-E, Imagen).
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Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets
Visit Squarespace Domains to learn more →
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U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
A new Science study reveals the U.S. already mines the critical minerals it needs for energy and defense, but they are currently being discarded as mine waste.
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The magic of small engineering teams
Creating a startup of small teams can help you ship stupidly fast.
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GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
Now in its third year, the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs compares AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) to tell realistic performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.
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Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments
DAYJOB: Tax evaluates AI agents across 50 realistic tax environments, testing their ability to navigate messy records, exercise professional judgment, and deliver reliable tax work.
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How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
Every time Disney’s beloved mouse is about to enter the public domain, U.S. copyright law magically changes. Does he deserve special protection, or should he be relinquished to society?
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LibreOffice 6.0 released
Berlin, January 31, 2018 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 6.0, a major release and a dramatically improved free office suite, which celebrates the 7th anniversary of the availability of the very first version of LibreOffice. Today LibreOffice is more powerful, simple and secure, and offers superior…