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Patents and innovation
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Hidden warning message found in Samsung’s Galaxy tablet
The authoritative information platform for the semiconductor industry. Learn why TechInsights is the most trusted source of actionable, in-depth intelligence to the semiconductor industry.
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PyPy 1.7 released: widening the sweet spot
We're pleased to announce the 1.7 release of PyPy. As became a habit, this release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements ove...
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New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple supplied...
Hard drives fail. With the new iMac from Apple, when the main drive does fail, there is no DIY replacement option available.
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R.I.P. Ruby Hash Rocket Syntax 1993-2010
Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.
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Realtime image processing in Python
Image processing is notoriously a CPU intensive task. To do it in realtime, you need to implement your algorithm in a fast language, hence ...
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You Guys Are Millionaires Right?
People often ask, “What’s it like to be an independent developer?”, “You guys are millionaires right?”, “Your job sounds awesome, tell me more!”. So let…
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135 Terabytes for $12,000
Sobriety time. Here are all the reasons why you SHOULD NOT roll your own backblaze storage pod.
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Google releases OnePass, a payment system for publishers
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion
Forbes is reporting that Facebook’s Zuckerberg is now richer than the Google’s Sergey and Larry. How did that happen? By using the most naive form of financial extrapolation and calling it fact. Here’s how the financial alchemy works: GSV Capital spent $6.5 million to buy 225,0…
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Fire the workaholics (2008)
Jason Calacanis wants you to save money for your startup, so he has come up with 17 tips on how. The intention is good. Working lean is great and means you probably won’t need outside money. And there’s some good stuff, like don’t buy Microsoft Office and skip the phone system. Bu…
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OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family
On 1 June 2011, Oracle Corporation submitted the OpenOffice.org code base to The Apache Software Foundation. That submission was accepted, and the project is now being developed as a podling in the Apache Incubator under the ASF’s meritocratic process informally dubbed "The Apache Way". OpenOffice.org is now…
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Carrier IQ Tries to Censor Research With Baseless Legal Threat
Last week, security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted an analysis of software produced by Carrier IQ, which describes itself as "the world's leading provider of Mobile Service Intelligence solutions." Eckhart concluded that the software, which comes by default on many mobile devices and runs quietly...
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Instapaper 3.0 is here
Instapaper 3.0 for iPhone and iPad is now available in the App Store, and I’ve updated the Instapaper website to include many of its new features as well. This is the biggest update Instapaper has ever had in one version, and I’m proud to finally show it to you.
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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #1/3
People occasionally ask why LLVM-compiled code sometimes generates SIGTRAP signals when the optimizer is turned on. After digging in, they find that Clang generated a "ud2" instruction (assuming X86 code) - the same as is generated by __builtin_trap().
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Liquefaction from the Sendai earthquake – a remarkable video
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Greedy Register Allocation in LLVM 3.0
LLVM has two new register allocators: Basic and Greedy. When LLVM 3.0 is released, the default optimizing register allocator will no longer be linear scan, but the new greedy register allocator.
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Full Instapaper API now available
The full Instapaper API is now available for developers. See the Full API documentation to get started.
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