Feature Digging into stories of 1980s OSes, a forgotten war for the future of computing emerges. It was won by the lowest bidders, and then the poor users and programmers forgot it ever happened. Retr
When I was coming up in tech, the conventional wisdom was that working at or investing in software companies was a great way to make money, while doing so with companies that took on scientific risk o
Cory Doctorow (by Amelia Beamer) Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Franci
Orson Welles once described Harry Lime, his character in The Third Man (1949), as the greatest star part ever written. “It’s where they talk about you for an hour and then you appear,” he explained to
Illustration: The Verge What if you could have a conversation with your notes? That question has consumed a corner of the internet recently , as companies like Dropbox , Box, Notion , and others have
At Google I/O this year we introduced a number of AI-first experiments in development, including Project Tailwind — a new kind of notebook designed to help people learn faster. Today we’re beginning t
36 Hours Oaxaca, Mexico Jump to: Google Map By Elisabeth Malkin Photographs by Luis Antonio Rojas Nov. 23, 2023 Elisabeth Malkin is a journalist who has lived in Mexico for three decades and visits Oa
Features December 04, 2023 A little over halfway through “ Saltburn ”—writer/director Emerald Fennell ’s early aughts-set class study—it’s clear the jig is up. Wealthy golden boy Felix Catton ( Jacob
[Editor’s note: This article contains major spoilers about the plot of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.”] Charlie Kaufman is not a fan of solving movies for his audience. “I’m not really big on explain
Werner Herzog has traveled to the ends of the earth for his art, rolling cameras in places rarely seen by human eyes — from rapids along the Amazon River for 1972’s “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” to the
(Image credit: AWS) Amazon on Tuesday introduced two of its new processors, which will be used exclusively by its Amazon Web Service (AWS) division. The two new system-in-packages are the Graviton 4 p
Discord bluntly describes the mobile app it launched in 2015 as a squished-down version of its desktop platform. But that acknowledgment comes with an announcement that said app is getting a complete
Enlarge Microsoft Windows 10's end-of-support date is October 14, 2025. That's the day that most Windows 10 PCs will receive their last security update and the date when most people should find a way
Welcome back to the CPython internals series . In the previous article we explored the PyObject structure, and its role as the header for all CPython runtime objects. This structure plays a crucial ro
Most programmers have an intimate understanding of CPUs and sequential programming because they grow up writing code for the CPU, but many are less familiar with the inner workings of GPUs and what ma
From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money After staving off collapse by cutting costs, many young tech companies are out of options, fueling a cash bonfire. Credit... Antonio
Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think i
In July, users of the proprietary software app LibreLink, who live inthe UK and use Apple devices, found that the app they depend on tomonitor their blood sugar was not working anymore after the devel
Electronics Accessories By Christine Cyr Clisset Published November 22, 2023 Illustration: Dana Davis; Photo: Michael Murtaugh It’s hard to say when my reading life tanked. Was it having babies? Or ge
Free Software that you can't customise is not truly Free Software Published 8th Dec 2023 One of the most widely touted advantages of FOSS (free and open-source software) is that you have the freedom t
Whether it’s Proud Boys storming the Capitol or Shamed Men penning public apologies for egregious sexual misconduct, men aren’t always making it easy to rush to their defense. Nevertheless, two recent
Editor’s note: This was first published on the author’s Substack, The Education Daly . They’re coming for the kids’ phones. Who is “they”? Governments, for starters. There’s a national U.K. effort to
Art for The Intrinsic Perspective is by Alexander Naughton Another day, another huge new AI model revealed. This time it’s Google’s Gemini. The demo video earlier this week was nothing short of amazin
Think of European tech powerhouses, and you likely imagine London, Berlin, or somewhere in the Nordics. It’s rare that Croatia would come to mind. But those within the tech sector there believe that i
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects 27th March 2023 The thing I’m most excited about in our weird new AI-enhanced reality is the way it allows me to be more ambitious with
In the world of programming, there are many concepts that every developer should understand in order to build efficient and reliable systems. One such vital concept is idempotency, which refers to the
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