You can’t fix diversity in tech without fixing the technical interview
Hiring is broken. A brief history of technical interviewing, look at where things standa today, and what can be done.
Jacob Appelbaum Leaves the Tor Project
Transitions: Long time digital advocate, security researcher, and developer Jacob Appelbaum...
Why YC
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
Ruby 2.3.3 released
Ruby 2.3.3 has been released.
Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires
Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)
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Gmail will now support CSS media queries
When you send emails, your recipients might read them on a computer, tablet, or phone—or more likely, all three. However your message might look different on all these devices. Later this month, you’ll be able to use CSS media queries with Gmail and Inbox by Gmail to ensure that your message is formatted the way you…
Start building Actions on Google
The Google Assistant brings together all of the technology and smarts we've been building for years, from the Knowledge Graph to Natural Language Processing. To be a truly successful Assistant, it should be able to connect users across the apps and services in their lives. This makes enabling an ecosystem where…
Computers do better than pathologists in predicting lung cancer type, severity
Automating the analysis of slides of lung cancer tissue samples increases the accuracy of tumor classification and patient prognoses, according to a new study.
A New Threat Actor Targets UAE Dissidents
This report describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by a sophisticated operator, which we call Stealth Falcon. The attacks have been conducted from 2012 until the present, against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents.
Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite Sites
UPDATED TO CLARIFY HOW TO MANAGE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux now lets you choose to receive push notifications from websites if y
Golang’s Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice
How the Golang concurrent GC achieves low latencies in real-time systems: a visualization of the algorithm and an empirical comparison with other languages.
Let's Play a Game – find bugs in popular open-source projects
Find software and development products, explore tools and technologies, connect with other developers and more. Sign up to manage your products.
CockroachDB Stability Post-Mortem: From 1 Node to 100 Nodes
In August, we wrote about our concerted stability effort. Today, we've more than achieved our CockroachDB stability goal of running a 100-node cluster.
Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
IDE for building React Native apps is now free and open source
The best IDE for building React Native apps is now free and open source.
Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
An new app called Spaces lets people get together instantly to share articles, videos and images around any topic.
How to submit an app to Apple’s App Store when it uses encryption
Carousel Apps was the company behind Watu, the application for temporary staffing agencies. It was co-founded by Julian Johnson and Pablo Fernandez. They both since have moved to other things. Julian is working on many projects, but his main one is improving education and quality of life for children in Africa which…
How to use Elm at work
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
My open-source, do-it-yourself cellphone (2013)
Meet an open-source, do-it-yourself cellphone built with Arduino. See how a maker designed and assembled a working phone.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was awarded with one half to David J. Thouless, and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"