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The LibreRouter project aims to make mesh networks simple and affordable

Posted on: January 22, 2019, in News

In the city, we’re constantly saturated with the radio waves from 10 or 20 different routers, cell towers and other wireless infrastructure. But in rural communities there might only be one internet connection for a whole village. LibreRouter is a hardware and software project that looks to let those communities build their own modern, robust […]

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How open source software took over the world

Posted on: January 19, 2019, in News

Mike Volpi David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images From Open Source to Open Core to SaaS The original open source projects were not really businesses, they were revolutions against the unfair profits that closed-source software companies were reaping. Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others were extracting monopoly-like “rents” for software, which the top developers of the time didn’t […]

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How to get your moneys worth from your startup lawyer

Posted on: January 18, 2019, in News

You will never know as much as your lawyers do about the legal services they provide to you. It is a classic asymmetry of information, where the party that knows less gets the worse deal. In this case, that is you, the startup founder. As an attorney and a co-founder of a venture-backed startup that […]

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Hire faster, work happier: Startups target employment with AI and engagement tools

Posted on: January 17, 2019, in News

Joanna Glasner At present, even AI boosters don’t tout the technology as a cure-all for troubles plaguing the talent recruitment space. While it’s true humans are biased and flawed when it comes to evaluating job candidates, artificially intelligent software suffers from many of the same bugs. For instance, Amazon scrapped its AI recruiting tool developed in-house because […]

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Instagram now lets you regram your posts to multiple accounts

Posted on: January 16, 2019, in News

Instagram is swaying the balance toward simplicity but away from originality. It’s adding the ability to publish feed posts to different accounts you control at the same time by toggling them on within the composer screen. An Instagram spokesperson confirms this option is becoming available to all iOS users, telling TechCrunch, “We are rolling out […]

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A simple bug makes it easy to spoof Google search results into spreading misinformation

Posted on: January 15, 2019, in News

A bug that anyone can easily exploit in Google makes it easy to kick out manipulated search results that look entirely real. The search manipulation bug was documented by Wietze Beukema, a London-based security specialist, who warned that a malicious user could use this bug to generate misinformation. This is done by splicing together values […]

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Coinbase abandons its cautious approach with plan to list up to 30 new cryptocurrencies

Posted on: January 14, 2019, in News

Coinbase is the most conservative exchange in cryptoland, largely because it operates in the U.S. under the watchful eye of the SEC. The $8 billion-valued company trades fewer than ten cryptocurrencies to consumers but on Friday announced it announced a major expansion that could see it list up to 30 new tokens. The company said it is […]

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Q&A with Diversity VCs Check Warner on newly launched Diversity & Inclusion guide for tech companies

Posted on: January 9, 2019, in News

If the last few years has seen a growing consensus that the tech industry has a diversity and inclusion problem, then what is clearly needed next are practical solutions. While most people agree that building a diverse and inclusive company culture is easier to achieve the earlier you set out to do so, for startups […]

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Mozilla promises a faster, prettier Thunderbird with better Gmail support

Posted on: January 8, 2019, in News

Thunderbird, Mozilla’s desktop email client, doesn’t have anywhere near the amount of mindshare of the organization’s Firefox browser, yet even in this age of web-based email services, it still has a sizable user community. For 2019, those users can look forward to a faster and more beautiful application, Thunderbird community manager Ryan Sipes announced today. […]

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Instagram accidentally rolled out tap-to-advance feed, removes it

Posted on: January 7, 2019, in News

Instagram confirms that a bug this morning mistakenly rolled out a massive change to its feed that replaced the traditional scrolling with horizontal tap-to-advance, like with Stories. In October, TechCrunch reported Instagram was testing tap-to-advance for browsing through Explore posts. But many users woke up to a shock this morning when their familiar vertical swipe […]

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