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Browserstack’s incredible story and the world’s most powerful banker

'Big Tech' companies might find themselves in some new trouble in India. Taking lessons from Australia, the Indian government now has plans to make Big Tech companies pay for news that is featured on their platforms to the respective publications.

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The incredible story of Browserstack

Every failed startup attempt brings with it a trove of lessons that serve as a foundation for your next attempt. So, when you go at it again, you no longer start from ZERO but level up to ONE!

Boom Supersonic reveals a new design for its ultrafast passenger jet—with more engines

After seven years in development, the Overture airliner—which is expected to go from Seattle to Tokyo in less than 5 hours—is one step closer to reality.

UX principles for AI art tools like DALL·E

Setting a course for better image-generation tools.

Imaginary numbers are real

These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature.

Researchers zero in on the source of fast radio bursts

Fast radio bursts are exactly what their name implies: a sudden surge of photons at radio frequencies that often lasts for less than a second.

Our empty oceans

Research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life.

Jamie Dimon, the world’s most powerful banker: ‘Things can get much worse. We are facing very serious problems’

He has helmed JPMorgan Chase for 16 years and is the only major bank chief to have survived the 2008 financial crisis. Now he is warning people to brace themselves for what may come.

How football shirts chart the rise and fall of tech giants

Sponsoring a football club is about more than just advertising, it's a status symbol.

Apple Ends Consulting Agreement With Jony Ive, Its Former Design Leader

Three years after promising to work “long into the future” with the man behind its candy-colored computers, Apple and Mr. Ive are through.

Meet the Lobbyist Next Door

What do a Real Housewife, an Olympic athlete, and a doula have in common? They’re all being paid by an ad-tech startup as influencers—peddling not products but ideologies.

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The History of User Interfaces

MIT Researchers on making metal lighter and stronger

A brief history of the numeric keypad

Sound of The Earth

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