In poker, complacency is a quiet killer. It can steal your forward momentum bit by bit, using the warm glow of a winning hand or two to cover the bets you’re not making until it’s too late and you’re out of leverage.  Over the past few years, Apple’s MacBook…

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Abalone once were to California what lobster is to Maine. But we loved them nearly to death. Now scientists are figuring out how to save this endangered sea snail.

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The internet is not just a network of computers—it’s a network of people. We hold great power in deciding its future.

Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. I thought this might happen. And now it has. Fresh off ICANN’s blunder letting Public Interest Registry set whatever price it wants for .org domain names, Internet Society (ISOC)…

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He has released 13 studio albums and been on 19 tours since he started building it 23 years ago.

After years of resisting, Nike launched a pilot in 2017 to sell a limited product assortment on Amazon. Now, it's focusing on selling more directly to consumers.

A year ago Google reported a breakthrough artificial intelligence technology called BERT. BERT, which is used in Google's internet search engine, learns from digitized information like Wikipedia entries, news articles, and old books. This presents

<p>When journalists want to talk among themselves about something difficult, the anonymous Google Doc seems to have become the mechanism. First there was the “Shitty Media Men” document, which was circulated in 2017, and eventually grew into a long list of…

Three physicists stumbled across an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.

The history repeats itself crowd thinks that that there must be a bubble sooner or later. “Now?” they constantly ask, “Is it a bubble now?” as if history has to repeat whate…

Starting this week, I’m moving to a "Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.

I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time.

As for what I...

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Over the past 4 ½ years I've been helping to build a "big" new startup named Brave. It's been a wild ride, far exceeding anything I could have imagined. The company has grown from a team of 2, to over 100 passionate mission-driven teammates. Our user base…

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The legislation violates federal law and would deprive more than 70,000 independent truckers of their ability to work, the association said.

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