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Mark Zuckerberg announces steps to make Meta a better technology company and improve our financial performance.

Projects on GitHub Mobile is now generally available

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

Contributed by When the Star Trek: Discovery trailer was first announced, I almost didn't want to watch it. I'm a lifelong fan of the franchise — I grew up on The Next Generation and Star Treks II–VI and I'd followed every up and down of the…

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Spotify is launching a feed that will help you discover new artists, podcasts, and audiobooks.

The pervasive amount of news media criticism in the U.S. has intensified the erosion of trust in American journalism, but such discussion can be seen as a sign of democratic health.

Brett and Jeff fend for themselves as the conversation turns to microdosing, extensible software, Electron woes, and technology past and present.

Setup Home Assistant to post (Toot) to Mastodon via an automation

Meta is planning on joining the fediverse. There are early plans on making a decentralized network with ActivityPub, so that it connects to the fediverse. This lead to a lot of different reactions within the community. This article documents some of the different types of responses.

If you bought a Remarkable 2, the price is probably fine.

The pleasure-seeking behind today’s righteous causes

If you use a Chromebook as your daily computer, there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts you can use to ramp up your productivity. Here are some of our favorites.

Airship technology has been around for over 150 years, but fell out of favor in the 1930s. Now, interest in the low-emission, lighter-than-air transport is reviving as a sustainable solution for logistics across the globe.

For many years now, I’ve talked about why so many of the problems that face the current internet could be understood by looking at how we moved from an internet dominated by open protocols to…

Bloomberg Technology reports on the self-destruction of a Silicon Valley icon in the podcast Foundering: The John McAfee Story.

Audio company reveals new details about its big plans for video

Emily M. Bender, Alexander Koller. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020.

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

To divine what will happen to Twitter, just look to other social networks that changed under new owners.

Today I’m featuring Sindre Sorhus and celebrating the One Year Anniversary of Indie Dev Monday.

A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.

DuckDuckGo's new DuckAssist tool launched in beta Wednesday, bringing ChatGPT powered results to users of its apps and browser extensions. DuckAssist's answers are limited to sources like Wikipedia to avoid the AI insanity we've seen from similar tools.