In the beginning was the mainframe. In 1945 the U.S. government built ENIAC, an acronym for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, to do ballistics trajectory calculations for the military; Wor
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Investors hope the Trump administration will make tech acquisition deals easier Nov. 18, 2024 at 5:30 am ET Photo: Emil Lendof/WSJ, iStock Silicon Valley’s venture-capital firms are having an easy tim
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Representative Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created after 9/11 to r
The News Seven years since its launch, the newsletter platform Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business. Now, it’s trying to position itself as something more: a centra
I’m a well-informed Hobbit—a Boffin from Overhill, thank you very much—who is in a kerfuffle about whom to throw my Hobbit-sized support behind. For some, the choice is clear, but for a little guy lik
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I beam with pride when I see companies like Shopify, GitHub, Gusto, Zendesk, Instacart, Procore, Doximity, Coinbase, and others claim billion-dollar valuations from work done with Rails. It's beyond s
Nate Silver, the celebrity statistician who gained notoriety for his FiveThirtyEight election models, is facing backlash over alleged skewing in his new model. Silver left the ABC-owned company and la
I’ll just remind everyone at the start that this is a respectful debate, and DHH and I tried to get on a call but couldn’t because we were both traveling. However, “Automattic is doing open source dir
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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store October 1, 2024 For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere t
Y Combinator is arguably the most successful early-stage VC fund or accelerator ever. The issue, however, is that they never truly grasped the factors behind their success, which is why YC's peak is a
Hursh here, CTO and Cofounder of The Browser Company. We want to let all Arc users know that a security vulnerability existed in Arc prior to 8/25/24. We were made aware of a vulnerability on 8/25, it
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The former Scotto Funeral Home, a landmark of bygone Brooklyn, is reopening after a multiyear renovation and Catholic blessing — as a boutique gym. Listen to this article · 7:18 min Learn more The for
Why Copilot is Making Programmers Worse at Programming posted Wed, Sep 11, 2024 opinion software-development copilot llm ai Over the past few years, the evolution of AI-driven tools like GitHub’s Copi
I don’t really love you anymore That gold mine changed you Manchester Orchestra I am no longer investing in new companies. This isn’t an indictment of investing now, it’s just that my strategy has run
September 2024 At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember. Most founders I talked to afterward said it was the best they'd ever heard. Ron Conway, for t
Nick Chirls is the Founder of Asylum Ventures, a new venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies; treating founders like artists, not assets. Asylum raised $55 million to invest $
Larry David is a writer, actor and television producer. “It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth mo
Image: Sideshow and Janus Films YouYou don’t even have to watch Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist to consider it a conversation-starter: The debate begins with that title, a bold, unlikely state
With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta on Monday, Google suffered a historic antitrust case loss at the hands of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mehta, the judge presiding over
The Democrats have a deep bench of talent Photograph: Getty Images Jun 29th 2024 (updated Jul 22nd 2024) The audio version of this story is available in our app. It has been produced using an AI voice
In the early days of high-performance computing, the major tech companies of the day each invested heavily in developing their own closed source versions of Unix. It was hard to imagine at the time th
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Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times By Mr. Sanders is the senior senator from Vermont. July 13, 2024 I will do all that I can to see th
Tech Fix Putting Mobile Ad Blockers to the Test To block ads or not to block ads on your mobile device? That’s the philosophical dilemma facing consumers since Apple added support for ad blockers to i
Nivi: We spoke earlier about picking a business model that has leverage from scale economies, network effects and zero marginal cost of replication. There were a few other ideas on the cutting-room fl
The documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the end of March, say that the fund will be called a16z Perennial Private Equity Fund, and that it will “invest in the private equit
The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years. I have two takeways from this: The first is that focused and persistent propaganda is able to shift public opinion a
A round 8 a.m. on a cool, clear Monday in mid-November, James Cox Chambers Jr. is in Gresham Park, in southeast Atlanta, bouncing on the balls of his feet, shadowboxing the air in front of him. Dresse
Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Posted 17 May 2024 Tagged with digital-preservation, safari, swift Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I
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Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an encampment on the Main Quad as a form of protest. This particular tactic is now in widespread use at
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister has become the face of the Kennedy family effort to block his candidacy and re-elect President Biden. She has more at stake besides her relationship with her brother. Ke
Nicole Shanahan, a lawyer who was married to Sergey Brin, a Google founder, led a rarefied and sometimes turbulent life in Silicon Valley, according to a Times examination. Nicole Shanahan, a philanth
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