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Adobe Flash is finally gone: The end arrives as Adobe starts blocking Flash content | ZDNet
Adobe Flash is dead after nearly 30 years of dominating media content on the web.
He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.
Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
The Facebook-owned messenger with 2 billion users revamps its privacy policy.
Embed content in Flash SWF files without the Adobe Plugin
Flash is gone, but not forgotten. You can use libraries in modern browsers to emulate the Adobe Flash plugin.
SimilarWeb targeting $2 billion Nasdaq IPO in Q2 of 2021
The market intelligence company joins list of Israeli firms set to embark on a U.S. IPO in the coming months which already includes eToro, ironSource, Monday.com, OrCam, Payoneer, REE, Taboola, and Outbrain
Top 10 Python libraries of 2020 you should know about | Tryolabs Blog
There are so many amazing Python libraries out there that it's hard to keep track of all of them. That's why we share with you our hand-picked selection of some top libraries.
Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe
“What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?” “Umm...that you have to solve this problem at work. But you’re out of ideas, and are looking to interviewees for suggestions”
Oh Great, Telegram's Getting Ads
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app and longtime drug-dealer haven, is planning to monetize in 2021, founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday.
Exclusive: Taboola in talks for ION SPAC merge after Outbrain deal falls apart - Tech News
Israeli online content-recommendation company Taboola may be the perfect match for ION, that raised $260m to merge with private firm valued at over a billion dollars
Blob Opera - Google Arts & Culture
Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills
required ! A machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with
Google Art...
Pornhub: Now Accepting Crypto Only - Decrypt
Read the latest Bitcoin and Ethereum news from Decrypt. Get the latest on cryptocurrency prices, breaking news, and more about Bitcoin and blockchain.
CSS Flip Animation
CSS flip animation effect uses CSS animations (transitions) to show the front and back of an element. The flip effect can be opacity, transitions, or animations.
Only Big Games Like 'Cyberpunk 2077' Can Show Dick on Twitch
You can’t show dicks or nipples on Twitch unless you’re playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’
The dark reality behind Slack’s billion-dollar sale to Salesforce
Slack wanted to stay independent. But in a landscape dominated by tech giants, that proved impossible.
Google Alternatives 2020: Best Privacy Friendly Alternatives
Are you ready to stop using Google products? This guide will cover all the google alternatives to ensure your online privacy.
Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
Anyone can now sign up to use Cloudflare’s new privacy-first Web Analytics -- even without changing your DNS settings.
Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess - Slack Engineering
From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is the present …
An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26 Million | by Sean Kernan | Nov, 2020 | Entrepreneur's Handbook
Her husband, Jerry, was drawing on a notepad. Numbers and formulas danced across his page like a stiff-armed ballerina. This wasn’t unusual for him. Marge laughed and didn’t think much of it. Yet as…
Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs
Apple Inc. is planning a series of new Mac processors for introduction as early as 2021 that are aimed at outperforming Intel Corp.’s fastest.
Is Stencil a Better React?
Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash Intro Recently I went looking for ways to code web components and found this great post - “All the Ways to Make a Web Component - October 2020 Update”. It lists ~30 libraries for creating web components, comparing code style, performance and bundle size. One of the libraries got me i
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M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
The M1 is up *here*, running fast and cool, and all the competing chips from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, and whoever else are down *there*, running hot or running slow, looking around for their recently stolen pants.
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Why scientists are turning to Rust
Despite having a steep learning curve, the programming language offers speed and safety.
