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The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016
Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, on behalf of the entire Google Brain TeamThe Google Brain team's long-term goal is to create more intell...
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 551 posts.
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Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
A trade group representing giants of Internet business from Facebook to Microsoft has just endorsed a “compromise” version of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), a bill that would be disastrous for free speech and online communities. Just a few hours after Senator Thune’s amended version...
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Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa
Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today. In this landscape, we see enormous opportunity for the cloud to accelerate innovation, support people across the continent who are working to transform their businesses, explore new entrepreneurship opportunities and help solve some of the world’s…
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Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
Read the latest company announcements, partnership news, and press highlights here.
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Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Read the note to employees from our CEO Sundar Pichai about the memo that was circulated over the past week.
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How much do hedge fund traders earn?
Hedge fund trading may be the highest paying job in the world, so to learn more, we spoke with a former manager at one of the world’s leading hedge funds.
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Announcing the New AWS Secret Region
The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. AWS customers benefit from data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. AWS supports more classification…
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Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology
We added a paywall to Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com/], our video editing startup, two weeks ago. But to help ease the transition, we allowed users to skip the paywall if they wrote an good reason for why they couldn't pay. In this post, I'll share some of the apologies
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Reduce your startup's payroll taxes through the new Federal R&D Tax Credit
Curated resources and advice to help you grow your business and empower your employees. Grow your business with Talk Shop, the Gusto blog.
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How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA
Have you ever looked at your shopping list and tried to optimize your trip based on things like distance to store, price, and number of items you can buy at each store? The quest for a smarter…
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Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten
Even the greatest companies can only do three things well at a time.
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Supporting Hypothesis
Stripe is supporting the development of Hypothesis, an open-source testing library for Python
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Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?
With people spending more time on social media, many rightly wonder whether that time is good for us. Do people connect in meaningful ways online? Or are they simply consuming trivial updates and polarizing memes at the expense of time with loved ones?
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Introducing Oculus Go, Plus Santa Cruz Updates
Today we shared two significant milestones in one of our largest areas of development. Standalone is new category designed to bring more freedom and accessibility to VR. Without a cable or the need for a mobile phone, standalone headsets represent a totally new phase of VR hardware.
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Microsoft Appoints Kevin Scott as CTO
REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 24, 2017 – Microsoft Corp. has named Kevin Scott to a newly created role of chief technology officer (CTO) for the company. This is an expansion of Scott’s new role at LinkedIn as senior vice president of Infrastructure. As Microsoft’s CTO, Scott will drive strategic, cross-company initiatives to…
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AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
Numerai just released 1.2 million Numeraire tokens on Ethereum to build a bridge between artificial intelligence and the stock market.
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Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware.
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