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In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here’s the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place.
Chinese tech company shows off its alternative to Android, promises products this year.
But lacking in details…
Err yes, Windows95 runs in Electron now Cal Newport writes about the invention of e-mail and recent studies in the field of distributed systems which suggest that synchronous forms of communication, such as meetings, are more efficient.
Anna Wiener writes on Daniel Gackle and Scott Bell, the content moderators of Hacker News, a popular online tech-focussed forum owned by the startup accelerator Y Combinator.
The number of sites signed up for Brave Rewards, allowing tipping in BAT tokens, has exploded over the last year, increasing by 1,200 percent.
