The very nature of the human race is about to change. This change will be radical and rapid beyond anything in our species’ history. A chapter of our story just ended and the next chapter has begun. This revolution in what it means to be human will be enabled by a new genetic technology that goes by the innocuous…
Vili Lehdonvirta is an expert on the politics and economics of digital platforms. His current research focuses on the geopolitics and geoeconomics of digital infrastructures.
Any regulation, including those around net neutrality, should be put to a cost-benefit analysis. In this case regulation advocates come up short.
When you shop online, you want to find the products you’re looking for quickly and easily. And merchants want to promote those same products. That's why Google shows sho…
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JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the web. With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript engine and enable better performance on real sites. In this post, we’ll walk you through some new features coming to…
Your device’s MAC address can be used to track you across the WiFi networks you connect to. That data can be shared and sold, and often identifies you as an individual. It’s possible to limit this tracking by using pseudo-random MAC addresses.
An American being held without charges by the U.S. military in Iraq has asked for an attorney, the ACLU finally learned last night following an extraordinary court hearing . The government is resisting our efforts to make contact with the man so he can challenge his detention, in an outrageous violation of the basic…
In my article detailing the command line utilities available for configuring and troubleshooting network properties on Windows and Linux, I mentioned some Linux tools that, while still included and…
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One of the first things you learn when you start programming is that, just like any craftsperson, your tools matter. Notepad.exe isn’t going to cut it. A powerful editor and testing pipeline supercharge your productivity. I still remember learning to use Vim for the first time and being able to zip around systems and…
You and your friend have watches which are synchronized to the second, and the proctors are used to him often finishing exams quickly and won't be suspicious if he leaves early. What is the largest value N such that you can guarantee that you answer at least N out of the 23 questions correctly?
Monitor agents, cron jobs, websites, APIs, and everything in between. Jobs, uptime checks, heartbeats, status pages and analytics in one tool.
In 2006, a new entry popped into my idea journal: take my college notes and put them on a learning site. What should I call it: My name? Stuff explained…
