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The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018. Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as...

A management book that is refreshingly different

Not long ago, my wife, a composer, asked me if I would ever advise a student from a low-income family to pursue a career in the arts. “What do you mean? Of course.” “Really?” “If that’s what they w…

Chancellor Philip Hammond plans to tax the sales that digital giants generate in the UK.

Prepare pointclouds from aerial LIDAR scans for 3D printing - marian42/pointcloudprinter

A man dubbed the Red Light Robin Hood has been arrested again for cutting the wires to cameras at intersections.

Nature - Cross-disciplinary thinking was key to realizing the potential of an existing technique to resolving structure of tiny organic molecules.

Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index

On a recent Friday, Kristen O’Hara got a major promotion: to become Snap Inc.’s chief business officer. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel made it official by alerting her direct reports, according to people familiar with the matter.

I’m trying to read all the good writing about software design. This is very easy because not very much has been written: it turns out that i...

Pseudo-random ramblings from Fogus.

The first in a series of experiments to see if we can use reddit comments and machine learning to uncover linguistic patterns and meme reproduction cycles.

In a new email, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that he supports the planned "women's walk" to protest issues of sexual misconduct at the company.

The chairman of Apotex and his wife were brutally murdered last year in their Toronto home.