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There are individuals and companies that create whole new technologies for their own consumption and that sometimes open source them for others to help

The days of traditional banking, and the hegemony of big brand-name banks, are coming to a close as consumers demand more transparent, responsive and honest treatment.

Porn laws in the US are opaque, making them a perfect tool for official harassment by the likes of attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions.

Why have lifespans flattened among middle and upper middle class women?

How European colonialism played a major role in the massive economic inequality we see today.

Watch sunsets and sunrises from a very different vantage point

Editor's Note: For those unfamiliar with the functional differences of using different sorts of fasteners, you may want to read "Why You Should Use Nails, Not Screws" for some background. Up until the mid-19th Century, all nails were either heated in a forge and then shaped, or cut. "Cut" means

Today I was chatting with someone looking for opinions about project management software. It would have been easy to weigh in with a list of reasons why that person should try Basecamp. But what if…

Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician, just became the first woman ever to win the prestigious Fields Medal.

Winton uses alternative data sources to gain an insight into a company's technical leadership

Even before software as a service became a thing, it was pretty common to sell business applications on per-seat pricing. The bigger you are, the more you pay! At Basecamp, we rejected that model f…

Even before software as a service became a thing, it was pretty common to sell business applications on per-seat pricing. The bigger you are, the more you pay! At Basecamp, we rejected that model f…

Even before software as a service became a thing, it was pretty common to sell business applications on per-seat pricing. The bigger you are, the more you pay! At Basecamp, we rejected that model f…

The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Powering connected devices with low-power networks.

Containers helps you distribute, deploy, run, and test your Golang projects.

For a firm often portrayed as “the hypervisor company,” it’s astonishing to see VMware enabling a future for itself in data centers where hypervisors may be completely absent. While VMware’s vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) are designed to work with its ESX hypervisor, its Photon platform addresses the exclusive needs of the new and emerging class of…

Over the last two years, there has been a push for novel architectures to feed the needs of machine learning and more specifically, deep neural networks.

by Jean-Louis Gassée

We investigate the strategic behavior of highly informed agents playing zero-sum games under highly incentivized conditions. We examine data from 3455…

Is it better to count hours or to complete tasks? Learn what value both of them can bring to different parts of your development journey.

HTTP/2 is a rough experience on incompatible browsers. Jeremy Wagner explains the true extent of real-world performance problems, and how to adapt delivery of site assets to a user’s connection.

Depending on your audience’s capabilities, a site optimized for HTTP/2 may be detrimental for a segment of your users. Jeremy Wagner shows us how adaptive content delivery can improve site performa…