Trendy coffee roasters including Intelligentsia, Ritual, and Equator have partnered with Cafe X Technologies to create a $25,000 robot barista. The robot, which operates as the sole barista in a San Francisco café, can make any drink you would expect at a…

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PrivateStorage is a joint venture product developed and maintained by Least Authority and Private Internet Access. As firm believers in protection of our customers’ privacy, we joined efforts to offer a private, secure and end-to-end encrypted solution to…

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How to build a free, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

Disclaimer: The events depicted in this story are purely factual and described to the best of my memory. Prelude Many years ago, in the City of London… The Expedia empire reigns. Having conqu…

On the 48th anniversary of the break-in at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Media, Pennsylvania field office, reporter Betty Medsger reflects on the role of whistleblowers in the pursuit of truth and government transparency.

“Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation answers our burning questions about the enigmatic ancient empire.

The small fox became trapped inside a coop with 3,000 chickens when the automatic doors closed.

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According to Spanish investigators, two of the men who broke into the diplomatic headquarters have connections to the US intelligence service

Since the 2015 diesel scandal, Volkswagen has gone from wanting to rule the world to wanting to save it with electric vehicles. What hasn’t changed is the secondary role played by investor interests.

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So now there are 4 independent quasi-/experimental datapoints (me, Pandora, LinkedIn, & Mozilla resp) showing that a standard load of ads vs no ads decreases total consumption/activity by 10–15%. (Maybe I should call this "Gwern's law": 'ads cost you a tenth…