Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker has finally been solved, according to a study published in Science today. Scientists have designed a computer program, named Cepheus, with a strategy for the game that is so close to perfect that statistical analysis shows it can’t be defeated by a human poker…

• January 7, 2015 • 23 min read • Author Description If you’re a web developer, then you owe your job to HTTP. You should probably know more about it than you do. Note This is the only post to get an onslaught of acute traffic sufficient to actually take this website down. It made the #1 spot on…

The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds. Student and…

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Press enter or click to view image in full size jason 7 min read· Jan 8, 2015 -- There has been a lot of rumbling about firing Dick Costolo from Twitter … on Twitter. While the company continues to become more and more culturally important (think: police protests) and their revenue soars, they’ve…

Carlos Ribas 9 min read· Jan 7, 2015 -- Insights from an indie app developer I was almost two years into a job as Senior .NET Developer when my boss called me into his office. “You should absolutely write some iPhone apps!” This was early 2009. He had just read about Ethan Nicholas striking it rich…

AMP Audio 7 min read· Jan 6, 2015 -- Written by Varun Srinivasan, in collaboration with the Amp team “Why can’t you just turn up the volume?” When Alex and I were pitching SoundFocus as an app that helped people with hearing loss, this was often the first question we got. We’ve decided to write up…

Sarah Lacy’s latest Medium/me critique makes no sense: Medium has been producing some enviable original journalism of late, but Williams is so risk averse that he simply won’t — or maybe can’t — decide if he wants Medium to be seen as a publication or a platform. First of all, is my problem that I’m…

The International CES is now officially underway, so of course I woke up early and made a bee-line for the Oculus booth, which is thoroughly impressive in and of itself. A two story well appointed behemoth, it’s clear that Oculus is a centerpiece at this year’s CES. But enough about the booth, lets…

About five years ago, on a westbound bus rolling across the high and empty plains in the middle of the country, a young woman got so disturbingly wasted that the driver put her off in the little city

DEALS Software Gaming Reviews Guides Hands On Specs Appeal Opinion Windows 11 Write for us? Send news tip When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. SSL certificates exist to increase security and prevent snooping on your browsing sessions.…

Forget contactless point-of-payment… that’s a solved problem. Apple’s use of tokenization is the interesting part [USUAL DISCLAIMER: I have no inside info, these are personal views] I’ve been using a beta version of ApplePay on my iPhone 4 for some time now… My very old, but very effective,…

Genius began life as a website that helped explain what rap lyrics meant. I remember the first time I used it; I wanted to understand what ‘dun-ta-duns’ were, and so I checked: “Dun-ta-duns, are tighty-whities that have super heroes on ‘em. They’re called ‘dun-ta-duns’ because that’s the sound that…

This was just so clear cut, and an orthodoxy: To assign pitched outrage to mundane news items for the sake of clicks. That was the job: to trawl Twitter, and the rest of the internet, for conspiracy and evidence of liberal malice. Then, to repackage these stories or posts or memes for the target…

El Transito is a fishing village that hugs the Pacific Ocean on the coast of north-central Nicaragua. Home to about 2,200 people, it’s reached only by an hour-and-fifteen-minute rumble along a dirt road from Managua. Although relatively unexplored by tourists, the village has a crescent-shaped beach…

Internet: How websites are experimenting on you 1 August 2014Chris BaraniukFeatures correspondent (Auraveda/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Websites are using hidden tricks to make you click or buy without realising, and the way they do it can be both baffling and controversial, finds Chris Baraniuk. The internet…

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TRANSLATIONS: 中文 (UI.cn) | 中文 (CSDN) | 한국어 | ру́сский язы́к This summer, I packed up all my things and moved from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China for work. Through an unlikely chain of coincidences that I don’t entirely recall, I’ve become a product manager on WeChat, a popular messaging app in…

*** The Monday before Thanksgiving, we all came to work. Some people had turned on their computers and were working. At around 8:15 a.m., that black screen of death came on. They shut down the entire network. We couldn’t really work the rest of the week, which seemed OK because it was a holiday…

Chris Green holds an envelope. At least, it looks like an envelope. In reality, it’s a piece of office copy paper that’s been cut and folded into the shape of a Kindle Voyage, the latest in Amazon’s bestselling line of e-readers. Green, the head industrial designer at Lab126, the secret lab where…

It’s Time to Intelligently Discuss Artificial Intelligence I am an AI researcher and I’m not scared. Here’s why. Oren Etzioni 5 min read· Dec 9, 2014 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Some people have long regarded artificial intelligence (AI) as a threat. But lately that view has…

This image was removed due to legal reasons. About two years ago, I wrote a story about a strange phenomenon on the web: in a medium known for its ability to track people—following them around with Za

Andrew Courter: “... there is a pendulum in any creation process, which swings from ‘flare’ to ‘focus.’” —@ev https://t.co/Kq1M1ATujf

Just over a block from where I live in Oakland, California, there are two identical Edwardian cottages – well, almost identical. Their façades are covered in different materials; one has had its small front porch enclosed; one has been raised a few feet to make the basement into a (legally) usable…

Jimmy hands $2 worth of dimes to the conductor and finds a seat at the back of the bus. He settles himself in for what is going to be a long night - taking off his scuffed leather shoes and resting his head against a window opaque with condensation. Jimmy, 47, has had the same routine for the last…

Jake Knapp 6 min read· Aug 31, 2014 -- In 2012, I realized I had a problem. My iPhone made me twitchy. I could feel it in my pocket, calling me, like the Ring called Bilbo Baggins. It distracted me from my kids. It distracted me from my wife. It distracted me anytime, anywhere. I just didn’t have…

Hey China, you're welcome. When you think about your future multi-million dollar shipping moguls, innovative tech giants, and up-and-coming diplomats, please remember a small handful of them probably

It rarely makes sense to take product feedback from all users and it never makes sense to get it all at once. At the outset of a new project, or especially if you’ve recently taken over a product, it’s tempting to survey all your users to appraise where things are. It’s usually a mistake. In fact…

Uber just lost a really good driver. As a mom who had stopped working to raise my child, I decided to try driving for Uber part-time, for flexibility and some extra cash. I am a native English speaker who grew up in my major metropolitan area (San Francisco Bay Area), and these are two big…

wed at TrialPay in 2012, I learned that strongest signal for whether someone would get an offer was the number of typos and grammatical errors on their resume. On the other hand, where people went to school, their GPA, and highest degree earned didn’t matter at all. These results were pretty…

In late 2011, screenwriter Charlie Brooker introduced the television show Black Mirror to the world that had yet to fully embrace smartphones. In fact, in Q3 of 2014 there were nearly as many smartphones sales as the entirety of 2011 when the series was released. The show is a Twilight Zone-like…

Over the last few weeks, billionaire and former tech executive Mark Cuban has become increasingly vocal on the subject of net neutrality. In an interview with The Washington Post yesterday, Cuban said that he was in favor of creating “fast lanes” on the internet that would ensure the quality of…

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