Before fame, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a master's thesis on the shapes of stories for the anthropology department at the University of Chicago.

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As we’re wrapping up 2020, one last large review item for the year is Ampere’s long promised new Altra Arm server processor. This year has indeed been the year where Arm servers have had a breakthrough; Arm’s new Neoverse-N1 CPU core had been the IP designer’s…

I get asked for career advice a lot, and while my "learn deeply" pitch may be good long term advice, it doesn't help breaking in -- being able to write your own tool chain with a hex editor is great and all, but it doesn't add value at most companies. \

Google promised three years of updates at launch but stopped updates after one year.

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Kazakhstan is trying yet again to force its citizens to install a "national security certificate" on every internet-capable device in the country. As a response to the country’s latest attempt to spy on people’s devices, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla…

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A deep dive summary into on of the most interesting books I read this year.

By using a radio telescope array, a Cornell postdoc and an international team of scientists may have detected emissions from a planet beyond our own solar system.

2020 was actually a first-class year for technological innovation, but it will probably also go down in history as the year of the ultimate frustration of disco

Apple M1, the first product from Apple’s chip design team meant for the personal computer line, surpassed many competing microprocessors.

As the first crop of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are being rolled out, we can start to see the light at the end of this pandemic tunnel. Still, in the US alone there will probably be another 200,000 deaths before we reach herd immunity. Further, as fast as this vaccine…

A joint team of researchers at Fermilab and partner institutions have achieved quantum teleportation, teleporting information over a distance of 44 kilometers. The remarkable achievement supports the premise that scientists and engineers can build a workable…

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On December 14, 2020, nurses’ union SEIU Local 121RN, which represents nearly 2,000 workers across three hospitals in Southern California, threatened a

We’re open-sourcing our api-diff tool to help developers confidently iterate on their own search and ranking APIs.

The practice is plainly unconstitutional.

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