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Sustainability is part of everything we do at Google. We are committed to renewable energy, efficient operations, and using data and information to …
2016 Internet Trends Report
View a PDF of the Report<p>Stay updated. Receive a digest of KPCB’s best blogs, videos, and podcasts.<p>Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) partners …
Venture CapitalDon't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big
"So, how much experience do you have with Big Data and Hadoop?" they asked me. I told them that I use Hadoop all the time, but rarely for jobs larger …
How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest? – 2017 Edition
“How much does it cost to climb Mount Everest?” This is a popular question I get after a speaking engagement. The short answer is a car or at least …
Mount EverestThe Rise of the Fat Start-Up
In 2003, Keith Rabois, a longtime Silicon Valley investor and executive, had an ambitious idea: He wanted to start a website that would instantly offer a fair price for your home. If you accepted the offer, the site would agree to buy your house immediately, closing the deal in a matter of days.<p>To …
Real EstateInside Hillary Clinton’s Surreal Post-Election Life
When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the …
Hillary ClintonSouth Koreans elect liberal Moon Jae-in president after months of turmoil
SEOUL — South Koreans have elected a new president who is wary of the United States and wants to foster warmer ties with North Korea, opening a new and potentially difficult chapter in relations with Washington.<p>Moon Jae-in of the liberal Democratic Party claimed victory Tuesday night after securing …
Korean PeninsulaMacron wins presidency as France rejects Le Pen and her right-wing populist tide
PARIS — France on Sunday shrugged off the siren call of right-wing populism that enchanted voters in the United States and United Kingdom, rejecting anti-E.U. firebrand Marine Le Pen and choosing as its next president Emmanuel Macron, a centrist political neophyte who has pledged to revive both …
FranceCalifornia GOP congressional delegation helps pass Obamacare repeal
Key to the House Republicans’ victory on Thursday in repealing and replacing Obamacare was the support of many of California’s 14 GOP congressional …
How Stripe teaches employees to code
Code is central to Stripe: we build APIs, software tools, and infrastructure that are in turn used by other software engineering-driven businesses. …
ProgrammingFrom Burning Millions to Turning Profitable in Seven Months — How HotelTonight Did It
<i>This article is by</i> <i>Sam Shank, CEO and co-founder of</i> <i>HotelTonight. At First Round’s CEO Summit, Shank shared how his team and he turned the business</i> …
Management38 enterprise startups that will boom in 2017, according to VC investors
2017 is almost here and it's once again time to predict which startups will take the tech industry by storm.<p>Who better to ask than the startup experts, the VCs that watch the industry, guide the startups, hear their pitches, and invest in them?<p>So we reached out to a handful of top VCs and asked …
Big DataTencent steps up AI push with research lab in Seattle
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings said on Tuesday it will open an artificial intelligence (AI) research facility in Seattle in the United States, to be led by former Microsoft scientist Yu Dong.<p>Yu, who has been appointed as deputy head of Tencent's AI Lab …
Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook’s headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway from the marshy salt flats of Menlo Park, Calif. The Frank Gehry-designed building has a pristine nine-acre rooftop garden, yet much …
FacebookJewel in the crown: What China can learn from the Pearl river delta
Special report<p>Jewel in the crownWhat China can learn from the Pearl river delta<p>The Pearl river delta is China’s most dynamic, open and innovative …
Best Undiscovered Beaches in the World: Peru, Caribbean, Greece - Bloomberg
A certain type of New Yorker has complaints about the beaches in Tulum, Mexico, Saint Barth's, or Mykonos in Greece. “Why escape New York,” they …
Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove
Guess what Steven A. Ballmer has been up to for the last several years. (No, not just cheering for the basketball team he owns, the Los Angeles Clippers.) It’s a novel project, and he plans to take the wrapping off it Tuesday.<p>But first the back story, which is a valuable prelude to a description of …
Steve BallmerWhy Dataproc — Google’s managed Hadoop and Spark offering is a game changer.
Why Dataproc — Google’s managed Hadoop and Spark offering is a game changer.<p>So far I’ve written articles on Google BigQuery (1,2,3,4,5) , on …
Cloud ComputingHalf Dome Cables Tips
The Hazards of Half Dome: Surviving the Cables<p>The approach to Half Dome is steep and difficult. The last 400 vertical feet (130 meters) up the …
Unsupervised sentiment neuron
View CodeRead Paper<p>Our system beats other approaches on Stanford Sentiment Treebank while using dramatically less data.<p><i>The number of labeled examples</i> …
Machine LearningSenate confirms Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court
The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, capping more than a year of bitter partisan bickering over the ideological balance of the nation’s highest court.<p>On a vote of 54 to 45, senators confirmed Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
U.S. Supreme CourtHacking DNA: The Story of CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive
The very nature of the human race is about to change. This change will be radical and rapid beyond anything in our species’ history. A chapter of our …
Howard University campus to open at Google’s headquarters
Silicon Valley’s leading tech companies have long been stumped over how to diversify. Despite efforts to recruit and retain black and Latino …
The 52 startups that launched at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 1
Today was Y Combinator’s 24th Demo Day, where the accelerator shows off its fresh companies to investors. International, AI and hardware products were the emergent themes of the 52 companies that launched on Day 1. You can check out our picks for the top 7 startups from today.<p>“The international …
Aging while female is not your worst nightmare
I’m going to tell you a story that is so common and so troubling it is effectively split off from the emotional lives of young women, tucked away …
FeminismUber buys stake in Mission Bay Warriors arena office project, but pulls back in Oakland - San Francisco Business Times
<b>Mission Bay growth</b><p>Buying equity in the Warriors office buildings, Beniares said, ensures that Uber will have a long-term presence in Mission Bay, …
An Ambitious New Program Wants To Support the Democrats’ Surge
Ravi Gupta should be traveling the world right now. Last year, he planned to take a break from his role as CEO of a chain of charter schools in …
Identity management company Okta files to raise $100 million in IPO
Okta, a company that provides identity management and single sign-on (SSO) software, today filed an S-1 form kicking off the process for an initial public offering (IPO). The company is initially looking to raise $100 million, according to the filing.<p>Okta will be trading on the Nasdaq under the …
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