Tag: tech
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Editor’s Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this… more ›
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In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/ more ›
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In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone “Plastics. There’s a great… more ›
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If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›
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The advent of the mobile internet has massively accelerated the information revolution brewing since the start of the 20th century; the impact on civilization is staggering. https://medium.com/@sergesapiens/5g-unplugged-6cda0f078419 more ›
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Late one Wednesday in March 2015, an alarm sounded in the offices of GitHub, a San Francisco–based software firm. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612638/when-chinese-hackers-declared-war-on-the-rest-of-us/ more ›
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On Saturday, the Coinbase security team noticed something troubling. Someone had made a deep reorganization in the distributed ledger for Ethereum Classic, a smaller spinoff from the Ethereum coin. The… more ›
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There’s a new era of AI consumer-based apps spreading around the world, though starting from China. https://a16z.com/2018/12/03/when-ai-is-the-product-the-rise-of-ai-based-consumer-apps/ more ›
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Few things annoy me more than a random website asking me: “do you want to use the app instead?” Of course I don’t want to—that’s why I use your website. There are people… more ›
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Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand… more ›