Edible Book Festivals Are for Pun and Food Lovers: Critical Linking, March 28, 2019
Sponsored by The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton. Published by Graydon House Books. The UC Berkeley Library Edible Book Festival, held this year on March 18,...
Here’s what the speed of light looks like at 10 trillion FPS
The speed of light, as you’re probably aware, is pretty darn speedy. But what does it actually look like? This is the question YouTubers The Slow...
What’s new in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1?
It’s been less than a week ago since the release candidate for IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 was announced and now the stable release is here! IntelliJ IDEA...
Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups
Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also...
Finding Asylum: Esmé Weijun Wang’s ‘The Collected Schitzophrenias’
Schizophrenia is a complex disorder that few of us understand. Too often we reduce it to misconceptions and stereotypes—equating it, for instance, with split personality disorder;...
Stephen Colbert tears into NASA for its female spacesuit debacle
In case you needed any evidence that we’re still living in a world that’s built for men, you need look no further than this week’s news...
How cloud-based testing can improve DevOps cycles
For more than a decade, companies large and small have been talking about moving to the cloud. In my conversations with customers and prospects, about 90...
Dakar Network Angels begins startup investments in francophone Africa
The Dakar Network Angels network launched this month, making its first investment in francophone Africa to cleantech venture Coliba. The Ivorian startup—that uses a mobile app...
Suicide deaths of mass shooting survivors have us asking questions experts can’t yet answer
The recent suicide deaths of Sydney Aiello and Calvin Desir, survivors of last year’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, unleashed collective grief online as the public...
Huawei P30 Pro is now available in Canada, and the pricing’s way better than in Europe
Huawei’s latest flagship phone, the P30 Pro, isn’t coming to the U.S. anytime soon. A Huawei rep wouldn’t confirm it outright during my pre-brief of the...
