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Slack Acquires Astro
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
AI-Powered Meeting Scheduler X.ai Raises $9.2M Series A
I invest in early-stage AI, ML, and data startups at FirstMark Capital, and I write about the space here
Qualcomm Centriq 2400: The first 10nm server processor
The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 has launched! Here are the details...
Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
Private antitrust cases are going through the courts
Private antitrust cases against Equifax, Pepsi, American Express, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Corteva are going through the courts. And it turns out, judges get the monopoly problem.
MIT and newly formed company launch effort to build compact tokamak pilot plant
Development of fusion power, a carbon-free, combustion-free source of energy, is now on a faster track toward realization, thanks to a collaboration between MIT and a new private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems. CFS will join with MIT to carry out rapid, staged research leading to a new generation of fusion…
New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India
Visualize global trade data and economic growth opportunities for every country.
Adobe Creative Suite now in subscription form
Enjoy the collection of professional creative software in Adobe Creative Cloud including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere & more on desktop, mobile & web.
Cloud Spanner now with a free trial
Create a 90-day Spanner free trial instance with 10GB storage at no cost. Try Spanner free.
Street fighting engineers vs. martial arts engineers
Street fighters and Martial artists.
ChatGPT is laying you off
(In various voices)
Moving Forward with Firefox
Next month, Johnathan Nightingale will step down as a full time Mozillian after 8 years of distinguished service. We’d like to thank him for his countles
Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)
We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. - While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car…
Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month
This week I finished shutting down my app-detection service, iHasApp . I disabled the signup forms, grandfathered the current users on their plans, sent out emails, and updated the landing page with a message to any new visitors. After all of this, I thought it might be interesting to chronicle what it was, how it…
Adventures in Self Publishing
My journey from an empty text file to a successful book launch, including pretty graphs!