Evernote is moving all its data, machine learning to Google Cloud
Evernote— the popular note taking and productivity startup with 200 million users — has built its reputation around an app that lets you record and track all your life’s details hold them there, for...
View ArticleUnrealCV
We are actively updating this website. The content is subject to change.UnrealCV is a project to help computer vision researchers build virtual worlds using Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). It extends UE4 with...
View ArticleCommand and Control [video]
"Compelling!" - The Hollywood Reporter"A high stakes documentary thriller" - VICE"A nerve-rattling thriller...delivering one propulsive bombshell after another." - VarietyA chilling nightmare plays out...
View ArticleNeglected Food Bubbles: The Espresso Coffee Foam
1. Illy A, Viani R, editors. Espresso coffee: the science of quality. 2. London: Elsevier Academic Press; 2005. 2. Bamforth CW. Foam: method, myth or magic? The Brewer. 1995;10:396–399.3. Dalla Rosa M,...
View ArticleWhat insights can an LCD display give us about time's arrow?
Time is one of the most fascinating and mysterious subjects in physics. In June, about 60 experts gathered to discuss the nature of time at the Time in Cosmology conference, as Dan Falk reported in...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen on the atomization of AI
Earlier this year, Andreessen Horowitz investor Chris Dixon noted that how challenging it’s become for investors to help groom promising AI startups, given how quickly Facebook, Google, and Amazon are...
View ArticleSwift Playgrounds for iPad now available
Jump-start your creativity with templates.Templates give you a head start on more advanced creations — providing code that helps you take advantage of iPad technologies like Multi-Touch interactions,...
View ArticleExperiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230
[coreboot] Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230Trammell Hudsonhudson at trmm.netMon Sep 12 17:42:08 CEST 2016I'm experimenting with what happens if I remove the ME firmware from from...
View ArticleLogo Pizza: Hot and ready logos for sale
A logo isn't the most important part of your project, but it can be the most special. It's that extra something that you can't quite explain, but you know it when you see it. The logo stands in places...
View ArticleHow I spent two weeks hunting a memory leak in Ruby (2015)
(This post was translated, the original version is in my Russian blog.)This is a story about hunting a memory leak. A long story, because I go into much detail.Why describe my adventures? Not that I...
View ArticleGitLab Master Plan
Sep 13, 2016 Join me live today at 1pm ET / 5pm GMT to learn more about our direction and to ask questions! Today we are thrilled to announce our $20 million Series B funding from investors...
View ArticleShip found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt
The long-lost ship of British polar explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS Terror, has been found in pristine condition at the bottom of an Arctic bay, researchers have said, in a discovery that challenges...
View ArticleQuineDB – A quine that is also a key-value store
README.mdQuineDB is a quine that is also a key/value store.If your database can't print its own source code, can you really trust it?Getting StartedQuineDB consists of the quinedb script in this...
View ArticleTonic is now RunKit, a part of Stripe
For the past year we’ve been taking a radical approach to development tools here at Tonic. Instead of treating IDEs, frameworks, and even languages as the fundamental building blocks for development,...
View ArticleA Soviet scientist created tame foxes
From the richly-plumed red fox to the big-eared fennec fox, foxes look adorable. Because of this, people are sometimes tempted to keep them as pets.However, those who have tried have struggled. Unlike...
View ArticleHipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur
Some interesting consolidation afoot in the travel industry: Concur, the travel and expense platform that was acquired by SAP in 2014 for $8.3 billion, is today making its own acquisition: it is buying...
View ArticleYC Changes
TL;DR:*Michael Seibel will be the new CEO of YC Core, which we are now just going to call "YC".*Ali Rowghani is now the CEO of the YC Continuity Fund.*I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which...
View ArticleAirbnb gets into the property management business
The incredible growth rate experienced by Airbnb and by the whole short term rental economy is attracting more and more people to join the platform and rent out their places.In order to keep pushing...
View ArticleYouTube Community goes beyond video
Community is a special release for us because it represents the deepest product collaboration we've ever done with creators like you. We started by inviting creators in early to develop, in partnership...
View ArticleInsights into a corpus of 2.5M news headlines
[Thanks to Joel Reidenberg for encouraging this deeper dive into news headlines!]There is no guarantee that a news headline you see online today will not change tomorrow, or even in the next hour, or...
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