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• Meet the 23-year-old engineering detective behind the biggest leaks in tech

  You see it all the time — Facebook's latest feature leaks to the public, and everyone knows about it before Zuckerberg has said a word. But where do these leaks come from? Jane Wong is a 23-year-old studying software engineering at UMass Dartmouth, currently taking a gap year ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• GitHub is down because of data storage issues (Updated)

  Developer platform GitHub is down for several users as it is facing data storage issues. The problem started on 10 PM ET ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Winamp is coming back next year, and I can't wait to slap some skins on it

  My favorite music app is finally getting a major update in 2019, and I'm beside myself with excitement about the prospect ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• GitHub launches Suggested Changes to make it easier to collaborate within pull requests

  Pull requests just got a lot more smart.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Your business needs a style guide — here’s why

  Companies are interesting creatures. In a legal sense, a company is a person, as it has all the rights that you and I do. A company can own property, file lawsuits, pay taxes, and generate profits. That last criteria can be a challenging one. In order to make money, a business ...

  • Anthony Wood

• Researchers have created a font that can boost your memory

  Researchers have created a font that can boost memory. It's more difficult to read than most typefaces, but it encourages ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google releases Android Studio 3.2 with app bundle support

  Google released Android Studio 3.2 today with a bunch of useful new features for developers on, including a new app publishing ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Sublime Merge is a clean code editor for merge conflicts

  Sublime HQ - the folks behind the excellent text editor Sublime Text - has released a code editor for developers that focuses on a clean interface for coding and solving git merges. It's called Sublime Merge, and it's available for free on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Sublime Merge includes ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Designers need to keep old people in mind

  Our population is aging into “demographic time bombs.” The latest headlines constantly warn us of the stark reality of ...

  • Howard Williams

• 4 years later, Google finally explains the origins of its Chrome dinosaur game

  Rawr.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Developer inefficiency is a £76 billion problem (but it's not their fault)

  Brexit isn't helping either

  • Matthew Hughes

• Pusher's new Beams API wants to make push notifications suck less

  Beams brings read-receipts and delivery guarantees.

  • Matthew Hughes