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We're woefully unprepared to deal with orders of magnitude. Ten times as many orders. One-tenth the number of hospital visits. Ten times the traffic. One-tenth the revenue. Ten times as fast. …

The Financial Times' Izabella Kaminska argues that the gig economy is a new form of feudalism.

Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu). Uncanny Magazine Issue Two. Short fiction.

Linux has powerful commands built into your terminal to help you work with dates and times. Learn how to use them in this brief introduction.

The widely-reported sale of a 19.5% stake in Rosneft to Glencore and Qatar looks like a sham transaction.

Airbus has a radical design for swappable plane interiors. Called Transpose, modules can be customized to fit the need of each flight - from gyms to coffee shops and more first class seating.

From The Data Center Journal's archives, read all about Industry Outlook: The Bandwidth Paradox. Published December 6, 2016.

Stupid Unix Tricks: Implementing Pushfilter()

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When you are launching a new application in production, or want to test that a current application works well in production, it is always good to test it in a pre-production environment first. However, performing some specific tests in the production environment can prove to be invaluable in keeping your system safer as well as…

It sounds more like an impossible paradox than a design problem: how do we map a spherical world onto a flat surface? Most people are familiar with the Mercator projection, a mapping technique dating back to 1569 on which many maps are still based today. But that approach developed by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator has

After 2004, measured growth in labor productivity and total-factor productivity (TFP) slowed. We find little evidence that the slowdown arises from growing mismeasurement of the gains from innovation in IT-related goods and services. First, mismeasurement of IT hardware is significant prior to the slowdown. Because the domestic production of these products has fallen, the quantitative effect on productivity was larger in the 1995-2004 period than since, despite mismeasurement worsening for some types of IT—so our adjustments make the slowdown in labor productivity worse. The effect on TFP is more muted. Second, many of the tremendous consumer benefits from smartphones, Google searches, and Facebook are, conceptually, non-market: Consumers are more productive in using their nonmarket time to produce services they value. These benefits do not mean that market-sector production functions are shifting out more rapidly than measured, even if consumer welfare is rising. Moreover, gains in non-market production appear too small to compensate for the loss in overall wellbeing from slower market-sector productivity growth. Third, other measurement issues we can quantify (such as increasing globalization and fracking) are also quantitatively small relative to the slowdown. Finally, we suggest high-priority areas for future research.

For microservices, there is a tension between how we build services and how we approach the data that flows between them. Apache Kafka can help.

Focus on your product and customer experience — and let AWS focus on the undifferentiated heavy lifting

We took a look at some of the more recent (and troubling) threats on the internet, and found that the emerging IoT market is under attack. Internet-connected devices are being churned out of factories and infected by malware, or malicious code, at an alarming rate. Just how big of a problem is this? We did an analysis of the anatomy of an IoT botnet attack — here’s what we found.

Douglas Rushkoff has been observing the Internet’s trajectory since the 1990s, writing 16 influential books about digital culture along the way including Media Virus and Present Shock. Rushkoff’s latest work, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, focuses on the business and investing practices of today’s leading tech companies like Uber and Snapchat, and how they are exaggerating the worst aspects of an economic system that pushes for growth at all costs.

by Elie Steinbock I’ve been running Meteor at scale for a year now. Here’s what I’ve learned.A year ago I wrote an article describing my first experiences scaling Meteor. In short, I created a popular fantasy football website using Meteor. At a certain point, my service

How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.

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Adopting a new business model was just the start of many changes, including higher prices, revamped dishes and shrinking staffs.

Private prisons have been declared a huge stock market winner in Trump’s victory. As his policies come into focus, a look back at one of the incidents that prompted the Justice Department’s resolve to cut ties with the industry.