One of the many benefits of the Web is its ability to create a unique, tailored experience for the individual user. It’s more engaging to see news from friends and favorite brands when logging into a
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A hand-drawn emoticon ought to be enough to push Silicon Valley over the edge. The goading smiley-face sketch on a leaked NSA slide that pinpointed a weakness in the connection points of Google’s and
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Four Characters A hundred and forty characters doesn’t sound like much, but as Twitter has shown over the course of its short, intense life, they’re enough to aid a revolution, ruin a reputation or di
In his office within the gleaming-stainless-steel and orange-brick jumble of MIT’s Stata Center, Internet elder statesman and onetime chief protocol architect David D. Clark prints out an old PowerPoint talk. Dated July 1992, it ranges over technical issues like domain naming and scalability. But in…
Apple's maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users in the US - despite the roasting that they were given when they first appeared in September 2012. But Google - which was kicked off
The new industrial space lease represents roughly 54% of rentable square feet at the speculatively… Read more The new biomanufacturing industrial facility in the northern Seattle suburb of Everett was
Published in The Airbnb Tech Blog · 10 min read · Nov 11, 2013 -- By Spike Brehm This post has been cross-posted on VentureBeat. At Airbnb, we’ve learned a lot over the past few years while building r
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, details the charges against Liberty Reserve in May (Reuters). Money laundering, that staple of films, both comic and thrill
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I love a good argument. No really! Even ones online. The problem is, so few of them are any good. They tend to go nowhere andoffer nothing of value. They just consist of one side attempting tobrowbeat
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There’s a strain of triumphalism coursing through the blogosphere today, on the grounds that the bonkers wing of the Republican party is going to have achieved exactly none of its own goals, while inf
One in 10 Americans have used a dating site or app, including 38% of people who currently describe themselves as “single and looking,” according to Pew Research Center’s first survey on online dating
Will the usually obscure Internet Engineering Task Force – that open-to-anyone group of engineers who design and keep the ‘net functioning – step up and fight back against mass surveillance? That possibility is now in the air, following a talk in Vancouver today by cryptographer Bruce Schneier (see…
General YC Advice -Ask for help (rather than try to have all the answers) -Everyone is basically scared of everyone else at first -Make a conscious effort to meet everyone in your batch and know his o
By: Brian, Live Free Live Natural. July 29, 2013, a sperm whale was stranded on Tershelling, a northern island in the Netherlands. A rescue attempt was attempted, but unfortunately the whale died. A y
I quit my my last job after a little more than 2 months. Why? Did I jump into a position I was not excited about? No. In fact, I faced major struggles trying to persuade myself NOT to take that offer
Nov 07 2013 At their core, Everpix and Snapchat are both well designed, super hyped software services centered around photography. For the unfamiliar — Everpix is a freemium photo hosting service that
This is probably the most painful bug report I’ve ever read , describing in glorious technicolor the steps leading to Knight Capital’s $465m trading loss due to a software bug that struck late last ye
Julien Nov 3, 2013 Added Flipboard who’s not there yet, but the post valuration of the last round was 850M. fredwilson Nov 3, 2013 that is fine with me because we can and will revisit this list. but i
The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by ov
MongoDB is easy to make fun of. The global write lock (now just a database-level write lock, woo). The non-durable un-verifiable writes. The posts about how to scale to Big Data, where Big Data is 100gb.
It makes more sense when you look at how the underlying storage layer is implemented. Basically,…
Developers seeking to create apps for Google's Glass headset have had limited options so far, but the company will break things wide open during a two-day hackathon -- like the ones held earlier this
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Ron Dollette/Flickr Updated, 4 p.m. This weekend, on a blustery evening, his tummy full of steak and apple tacos, journalist and technologist Dan Sinker embarked on a spiritual journey. Which is to sa
FORTUNE — Pinterest last week announced that it had raised $225 million in new funding, just eight months after raising $200 million. Then came a $60 million raise by Nextdoor, which also had secured capital back in February. And then there is Snapchat, which is seeking new funds a scant four months…
This essay is inspired by this week’s Startup Edition topic, “How do you prioritize?” To do: Respond to support emails Fix bugs Send email newsletter Update pitch deck Write a blog post Update homepag
How to Virally Grow Your Network in 5 Steps I will teach you how to be super connected. 4 min read · Oct 31, 2013 -- Want to be popular online? Want to have a network that is so vast and incredible th
Nokia is switching Dopplr.com off this month (they said 1st November, but as I write, it’s still there…) Marko asked me and Matt B to a pub (somewhere on Charlotte St I think, might have been The Fitz
This is both the craziest and lamest outcome for the three floating mega -vessels covertly assembled by Google. San Francisco's KPIX 5 news team says the barges will serve as private showrooms and floating party zones for rich clientele. A Super-Close Look at Google's Mystery Barge A Super-Close…
Only a few months ago, the tech blogs were marveling at an investment that valued the ephemeral messaging service Snapchat at some $800 million. It's just a silly toy for teens to send naked pictures
WASHINGTON — Government safety rules are changing to let airline passengers use most electronic devices from gate-to-gate.
The change will let passengers read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music — but not make cellphone calls.
The Federal Aviation Administration says airlines can…
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