"I remember when we made a huge revenue guarantee to AOL to get the account. We did a best-case scenario projection, a middle of the road projection, and a worst-case scenario projection. Worst-case scenario and middle of the road had us going out of business…

When I was first named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, back in the early 2000’s, I was very proud. Really, I was. There was a cohort of smart, generous, and engaged engineers who were…

How Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we create content and how we design.

Google today announced that it has partnered with a number of top open-source data management and analytics companies to integrate their products into its Google Cloud Platform and offer them as managed services operated by its partners. The partners here…

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

Ed Catmull has aphantasia, as do some of the world's best animators at Pixar.

To help get bugs in front of the right Firefox engineers quickly, we developed BugBug, a machine learning tool that automatically assigns a product and component for each new untriaged ...

by ex-googlers, for ex-googlers - a lookup table of similar tech & services - jhuangtw/xg2xg

Older adults did better on a memory test, but real-world benefits are unclear.

Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company’s co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks to bring costs in line with revenue without curbing growth, TechCrunch has…

A new paper quantifies how quickly Southern planter elites recovered from the civil war

Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?

Monotype launches the first redesign in 35 years of the world's most ubiquitous font, Helvetica.

What we'd like to find out about GANs that we don't know yet.

It was cheap beer — and that's how it was presented to consumers.

The received wisdom suggests that Unix’s unusual combination of fork() and exec() for process creation was an inspired design. In this paper, we argue that fork was a clever hack for machines and programs of the 1970s that has long outlived its usefulness…