Backend developers on hackathons are not needed. You've heard that right. The main goal of the startup hackathons (or any other) is to validate the idea in a limited time that the product you build is needed by people in the room.

A biased and heavily anecdotal ranking of the different types of people who will give you user feedback.

As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we’re updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include private media.

The children's book "New Chronicles of Rebecca" was returned anonymously to a nearby library system. It will now live in a reading room without checkout.

We’re seeing the use of data analytics expanding among new audiences within organizations, for example with users like developers and line of business analysts who don’t have the expertise or the time to manage a traditional data warehouse. Also, some customers…

See how Honeycomb reduced Kafka cost by a total of 87% per megabyte/sec of throughput w/ AWS’s new Amazon EC2 lm4gn instance family and Confluent Tiered Storage.

Recent research in mice turned to the blood-brain barrier for clues as to why Alzheimer's disease occurs and how to stop it.

Pfizer is among the Big Pharma companies trying to block legislation strengthening whistleblowers’ ability to report corporate fraud.

We love to solve difficult problems for our customers! As you have seen through the years, innovation at AWS takes many forms, and encompasses both hardware and software. One of my favorite examples of customer-driven innovation is AWS Nitro System, which…

In mice and in human tissue, a new compound discovered at Princeton disables a key gene that’s implicated in breast, prostate, liver, lung, colon and other cancers.

Elizabeth Holmes's daily schedule Circa 2005–2009

Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble to profit from them.

Global Internet Freedom Threatened by Copyright Ruling Targeting Unrelated DNS Operator

ARLINGTON, Va.—On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit filed by a Texas woman whose home was destroyed by a SWAT team may move […]

Over the years, the articles on this blog have spanned a wide range of audiences, from fun facts (Multiplying Non-Numbers), to undergraduate level (The First Isomorphism Theorem, Intuitively), to graduate level (What is an Operad?), to research level. This…

Some highlights of the Julia 1.7 release.

C Compiler which targets Excel (MS Office). Contribute to mrthefakeperson/Excel-Virtual-Machine development by creating an account on GitHub.