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Cloudflare acquired an old Sun Microsystems slogan and I’m feeling nostalgic
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Inside Shopify’s brave API gamble
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Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton on building a computer for industrial users
With its latest model, the Raspberry Pi grows up
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Alibaba is nudging users to be more ethical with its in-app minigames
Four years ago, in a move designed to explore the viability of new offline sales models, Alibaba ran a little experiment. Two of its financial service offerings, Alipay digital wallet and its onboard credit scoring platform Sesame Credit, cooperated in the launch of two unmanned supermarkets. The ...
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GitHub acquires Pull Panda and makes its code review tools available for free
Exactly one year after buying GitHub for $7.5 billion, Microsoft has now purchased Pull Panda to beef up the software development ...
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Why Samsung's virus scans for smart TVs are a UX disaster
Samsung wants you to run a virus scan on your smart TV every few weeks. Here's why that's a terrible idea, and why you shouldn't ...
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Cloudflare's new open-source project helps anyone obtain truly random numbers
How random is random?
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This site makes it ridiculously easy to experiment with Apache Kafka
Because nobody likes wasting time with configuration.
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Developers: Meet your new AI intern
Remember when software was eating the world? The trendy observation these days is that artificial intelligence (AI) is eating software. Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai has talked about software that “automatically writes itself.” And certainly if you consider software development ...
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Why does macOS Catalina use Zsh instead of Bash? Licensing
LREAM: Licensing rules everything around me
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SwiftUI is an expressive UI framework for iOS, MacOS, and more
SwiftUI promises to make it easy to build gorgeous mobile and desktop apps
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Here's how you can apply experience-design to your everyday life
The other day a coworker and I were chatting about our phone’s home screens and the way we organize our app icons. ...
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This game reveals the hidden racial bias of dating app algorithms
It should be no surprise that racial bias factors into swiping matches on dating apps — but algorithms used by these apps ...
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Facebook is so insanely big, it had to design a brand new DHCP server
In awe at the size of that server infrastructure. Absolute unit.
