Month: May 2021

After former President Donald J. Trump undermined public confidence in elections, Republican lawmakers are defending voting restrictions by citing a lack of public confidence.

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I feel hungover. No, not in the traditional sense, but in the dizzying way you feel when half of your world is celebrating double vaccinations and no masks, and the other half, across the world, is mourning death and not a shred of light at the end of the tunnel. [CONTINUE READING]

These speculative names are also backed by bullish calls from experts.

The part of our brains with critical thinking skills is turned off – here’s what you can do to activate it at will.

The agreement between SpaceX and Google strengthens its position to compete against the Amazon cloud service and the Kuiper Project, as both go for the cominium of the satellite internet.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good Easter egg out of Google. Not too long ago it felt like someone would discover a new hidden gag in Google’s products every few weeks — the company cranked them out like it was their job. While we haven’t seen as [CONTINUE READING]

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Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that [CONTINUE READING]