Ten years ago yesterday Amazon evangelist Jeff Barr posted a 222-word post on the Amazon Web Services Blog 1 that opened: Earlier today we rolled out Amazon S3, our reliable, highly scalable, low-late
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One of the most common pieces of advice you'll get as a startup is this: Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success - or failure.
L ast June, the record mogul Jimmy Iovine, legendary for helping launch the careers of artists ranging from Tom Petty to Eminem, appeared on a San Francisco stage to announce that his latest employer,
The New York Times ran a piece about Bernie Sanders Monday, a sort of left-handed compliment of a legislative profile. It was called “ Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years Via Legislative Side Do
Dear Hanin, It seems to me that, in trying to figure out what to do about ISIS, we first have to figure out which ISIS we’re discussing. Perhaps we’re talking about the revolutionary, theocratic/thugo
H illary Clinton’s Super Tuesday speech, delivered before a gathering of supporters in Miami, was a more polished version of a speech I’d heard her give three days earlier in Columbia, South Carolina.
Maurice Sendak had always been obsessed with death. He drew through his obsession, used it. He drew lions that would swallow you; he drew wild things that gnashed their terrible teeth; he drew faceles
Opinion Tricked Into Cheating and Sentenced to Death Credit... Golnar Adili IN August 2009, I was betrayed by both my husband and my country. A few months earlier I had left Iran — for good, perhaps,
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Conrad Roy’s loved ones called him Coco. His grandfather was Conrad Sr.; his father was Conrad Jr., “Co” for short, so Coco was a good fit. He was thin but athletic, with brown hair that was often cov
Artificial intelligence seems to have become ubiquitous in the technology industry. AIs, we’re told, are replying to our emails on Gmail, learning how to drive our cars , and sorting our holiday photo
Credit... Illustration by James Graham The Work Issue What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others f
AltSchool embeds fish-eye lenses in the walls of its classrooms, capturing every word, action, and interaction, for potential analysis. Illustration by Olimpia Zagnoli Seen from the outside, AltSchool
Unstanched haemorrhaging has only one end in all biological systems: death for an organism, extinction for a species. Researchers who study the trajectory of biodiversity loss are alarmed that, within
T he first thing you notice at Donald Trump ’s rallies is the confidence. Amateur psychologists have wishfully diagnosed him from afar as insecure, but in person the notion seems absurd. Donald Trump,
Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a handful of wea
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Jo Marchant asks if we can harness the mind to reduce side-effects and slash drug costs. Marette Flies was 11 when her immune system turned against her. A cheerful student from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
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It “can be quite painful to discover how hooked we’ve become to our digital lives,” David M. Levy writes in “Mindful Tech.” PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MUNDAY Last month, shortly before five in the afternoon
The brain surgery lasted 11 and a half hours, beginning on the afternoon of June 21, 2014, and stretching into the Caribbean predawn of the next day. In the afternoon, after the anesthesia had worn of
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A new book argues that, in a networked world, “moving hundreds of bodies around in large vessels will go out of fashion.” Illustration by Joon Mo Kang I fly an average of twice a month these days, usu
Jim Cramer, who coined the “FANG” acronym as a descriptor for the high-flying F acebook, A mazon, N etflix, and G oogle group of tech stocks that have dramatically outperformed the market, made clear
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Like many of us who adored David Bowie, I’ve had his music in my head lately. In the past month, this has included a “Lazarus”-themed bunch of songs, including “Always Crashing in the Same Car,” “Life
I believe the Era of Humans will end in my organic lifetime. I expect to see the first humans transfer their minds into non-organic vessels (meaning software, maybe robot bodies) within twenty years.
A ship lands on an alien shore and a young man, desperate to prove himself, is tasked with befriending the inhabitants and extracting their secrets. Enchanted by their way of life, he falls in love wi
Though I haven't lived there for nearly three decades, I still consider myself a citizen of Los Angeles. Soy un Angeleño . That means, among other things, I drive. For me, a car is like a suit or a go
AP This post from LinkedIn contributor Gillian Zoe Segal appeared originally on LinkedIn . Advertisement Advertisement For my new book, " Getting There: A Book of Mentors, " I spent 5 years interviewi
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Sarah Koenig. Photo: Ian Allen It was the day after the first episode of the second season of the Serial podcast finally kerplunked into view — along with its subject, a soldier named Bowe Bergdahl, w
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Nestled in the northern Wisconsin woods, Peter Lake once brimmed with golden shiners, fatheads, and other minnows, which plucked algae-eating fleas from the murky water. Then, seven years ago, a crew
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