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If social media is any indication, OpenCV AI Competition 2021 participants have really hit the ground running. The competition, sponsored by Microsoft Azure and Intel, features over 1000 developers on over 200 Phase 1 winning teams worldwide and our feeds are already buzzing with awesome videos and photos as teams…
Earlier this week, Mohamed El-Erian was lost for words.
As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest.
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning...
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Unfollow Everything and the need for (good) tech regulation.
A newly formed patent troll is looking for big money from small business websites, just for using free, off-the-shelf login verification tools. Defenders of the American Dream, LLC (DAD ), is sending out its demand letters to websites that use Google’s reCAPTCHA system, accusing them of infringing...
Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...
Remembering the merger of Apple and NeXT and how anxious we …
Mobile OSes and their most successful apps have drained browser choice of meaning for more than a decade. This has lead to confusion for users and loss of control over data. Web developers, meanwhile, face higher costs and reduced ability to escape walled gardens. It's time for the charade to end.
Today, our cofounder and CEO Drew Houston shared the difficult news that we’ll be making reductions to our global workforce. Here is the full text of his email to Dropbox employees:
A curated list of underappreciated open-source creators worth sponsoring on GitHub — maintainers whose libraries quietly power the JavaScript ecosystem.
Because we’ve run the numbers, and shit’s not great.
It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
Reverse-engineering the Spotify Wrapped API to understand how the year-in-review story is assembled from listening data and rendered client-side.
The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.
From the Linux kernel to Firefox and Wordpress, Open Source is changing the world for the better. But how to achieve financial sustainability when you produce something that can legally be copied, by design, at zero cost? Revenue models for Open Source A lot has been written about achieving profitability
This article attempts to reflect back on the most meaningful lessons learned by building electricityMap, Bloom and North at Tomorrow.
Study of almost 3 million Facebook and Twitter posts from US media and politicians shows divisive posts dunking on opponents drives engagement on social media.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Conventional wisdom is: Don’t raise money from a ton of angel investors because it’ll clutter the cap table and be a pain in the butt. I strongly disagree.
