A few months ago I posted some data on this blog that showed the growth of homeschooling in the US with almost 5% of K12 students being schooled at home. I wrote at the end of that post: This is a trend to watch and, possibly, to invest in Well, invest in…

Rick Marsh worked in the car plant in Lordstown his entire life. Now that job is gone. What does that mean for his politics?

Kingdom targeted satirist Ghanem Almasarir with Israeli malware, letter of claim alleges

A year ago, Benjamin “Mako” Hill gave a groundbreaking lecture explaining how Big Tech companies had managed to monopolize all the benefits of free software licenses, using a combinatio…

Yesterday, we were disappointed to learn that The North Face, an outdoor recreation product company, and Leo Burnett Tailor Made, an ad agency retained by The North Face, unethically manipulated Wi…

It’s easy to buy into the ‘overnight success’ story. But in reality, building a venture is a five- to seven-year endeavour. It requires…

Windows might be getting more like Chrome OS

(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday banned apps on its app store that facilitate the sale of marijuana or related products, as part of a change to its content policy.

Our third batch of the YC Series A Program is wrapping up and the companies are kicking off fundraising. As we gear up for those raises, we wanted to share some things we’ve learned.

Interpreting a spoken request isn’t magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible

AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance - dhowe/AdNauseam

Here's how to configure your Google account so all of your data is shared with a loved one or friend, or deleted entirely, after you die.

You don’t need a Nobel to see the similarities between 1999 and 2019

We usually perceive that it costs more to get higher quality, but software internal quality actually reduces costs.

“one may wonder why Pleroma is planning to block Tootdon, the answer is that Tootdon sends a copy of every post it sees to Tootdon's corporate servers.”