This morning, Craig Forman, CEO of McClatchy Company, emailed all staff to say about 10 percent of the newspaper chain's employees would be offered voluntary buyouts. All of the details were not immediately available, though a meeting was called for 2 p.m.…

While Amazon's cloud business was only 11% of its overall sales last year, it delivered more operating income than all other business units combined.

Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play…

I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get
something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens.

A forme...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google became the most-profitable internet company by recruiting talented technologists and inspiring them enough to keep them around. That advantage may be slipping as some workers increasingly doubt the leadership and vision of Chief Executive…

Spotify is in talks to buy podcasting group Gimlet Media, a move that would give a boost to the music-streaming company’s narrative-audio ambitions.

The Touch Bar generation of MacBook Pro always had its quirks, but the thin-at-all-cost design may finally be proving more trouble than it was ever worth. The latest issue to crop up—dubbed “flexgate” by one of our users, Alex—reveals that the compact design…

Quadriga Fintech Solutions Corp., which owns and operates the exchange, is facing a “liquidity crisis” and has only $375,000 in cash while owing the equivalent of more than $260-million to approximately 92,000 users

When a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense and quicker backlash.

Dispatches from the online sex wars

Earlier this month, I read a fascinating story from CPO Magazine and another from ZDNet about the refusal of Zurich American Insurance Company to pay out a $100 million claim from consumer packaged goods company Mondelez, which was one of...

Haskell generally has better safety guarantees than Rust, there are some cases when Rust is safer than Haskell. This post explores when Rust is safe to use.

Over the last few months, Lyft has been in active conversations with the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission about how to most equitably implement the minimum earning standard passed by City Council in August of last year. Today we’re taking legal…

How do you debug an application, library or an entire system with multiple processes? One answer: tracing. An introduction into bpftrace, and an overview of the Linux tracing ecosystem (DTrace, eBPF, uprobes, etc).

 

Photo: Roy Allela 
Twenty-five-year-old Kenyan engineer and innovator, Roy Allela, has created a set of gloves that will ultimately allow better communication between those who are deaf and those