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Social media companies have moderation SNAFUs on a near daily basis. Inevitably, the public and the tech press reacts with incredulity, “This company has so much money. How can they still be so bad…
Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...
Maybe now we’re actually in the early stages of a startup bubble. Valuations are trending up again. And no one is talking about a bubble anymore, so it could be happening. Many companies still...
It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy. We’ve written here previously with our thoughts about Dark Mode, now it’s time to talk about iOS apps coming to the Mac. Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few details during last year’s Keynote. We knew that some […]
Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce. This column uses survey data to examine how AI adoption affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour…
We are honored to announce that Epic Games is offering Godot Engine a place on Epic Games' own digital distribution platform, the Epic Games Store.
The problem isn't that people can't think strategically.
So, this is a little case study. I did everything for Dylan. And when I say everything, I mean everything . Here's my resumé: I got e...
Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.
Mailgun has acquired our European Competitor, Mailjet. To learn more about the acquisition, continue reading...
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the war would not last forever, and…
In in a sudden move that will have disastrous consequences for the open internet, the Indian government has notified a new regime for intermediary liability protections.
Programmers are expensive and difficult to control; here are a few tricks to keep them underpaid and happy, for a while.
I thought Elsevier was already doing all it could to alienate the authors who freely donate their work to shore up the corporation’s obscene profits. The thousands of takedown notices sent to…
My Pluralsight courses get pirated all the time. I used to have Google alerts for them but frankly, the flood of emails I’d get each day just didn’t justify the “return” I’d get by forwarding them on to the Pluralsight piracy folks. I ended up rationalising it
Happy 2017! As a kid, I just sort of took for granted that stuff got better every year—TVs got bigger and then thinner, cars got a little faster, and computers got unbelievably better on an exponential curve. As an adult, I realized that the future is not guaranteed to be better. The default is that things stay the…
Discover the user offboarding tactics used by Adobe and how to design a great subscription cancellation flows without relying on unethical dark patterns.
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Nearly three years ago, I got involved with Apress to contribute to two books. The experience went disastrously wrong. It was a profoundly unpleasant experience and I want to warn any other prospective authors to avoid this publisher, and encourage readers to buy from other publishers. Warning: this post is…
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