A look at Open Connect, Netflix's in-house CDN that launched a decade ago and spans 17,000 servers across 158 countries
As hundreds of thousands of households worldwide tapped into Netflix's Squid Game last month, viewers may have taken something fairly extraordinary for granted.
WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO's defense against Pegasus project claims
Clubhouse launches in beta on Android in the US, after more than a year of iOS exclusivity, but will remain invite-only
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Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other
Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue
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A look at Remember the Internet, a series of pocket-sized books dedicated to immortalizing subcultures and combating the ephemerality of being online
often because the people in charge cast things off on a whim https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf : “We really thought we were doing something revoluti...
Jeff Bezos departs as perhaps the best CEO in tech history, having created three huge businesses: Amazon.com, AWS, and Amazon's marketplace/fulfillment services
irreversible decisions — and two-way doors, @bradstone writes. His exit today will test the theory. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Marty Cagan / @cagan : terrific product-perspectiv...
Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year
eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020
eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020
When we look back at 2020 in the business world, we'll remember it as the year online shopping stopped being the future of retail and became the present.
Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for six categories, including news, companies, and government officials, and asks for feedback
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Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for six categories, including news, companies, and government officials, and asks for feedback
Twitter announced today it's planning to relaunch its verification system in 2021, and will now begin the process …
A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US
At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs.
A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US
At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs. Tweets: @alexismad...
Nonparent staffers at companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Salesforce are increasingly voicing grievances over the extra benefits for parents working from home
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children.
Nonparent employees are increasingly voicing their grievances over the extra benefits companies like Facebook extend to parents working from home
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children.
A look at how Saudi Arabia's gaming scene has dramatically evolved, especially for women, as the country loosens gender restrictions on esports
Mehr Nadeem / Rest of World : Tweets: @mehrnadeem3 , @ahmed , @mehrnadeem3 , @telliotter , @mehrnadeem3 , @moncherrriii , @mehrnadeem3 , @cengizyar , @mehrnadeem3 , and @mehrnadee...
Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, recent House antitrust hearing, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal
The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”
How Tim Cook turned Apple into a corporate colossus and delivered one of the most lucrative business successions in history
The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs's creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions in history
Signal's new feature that allows users to store certain data on their servers for recovery purposes has some security experts threatening to stop using the app
The popular encrypted app is now going to store your contacts in the cloud. Experts are worried this compromises users' privacy. Tweets: @4thanon , @ahmed , @abortu , @drfranksaue...