Author: Tech Support

    • After shutting down HipChat, Atlassian says it's selling Jitsi, its chat and videoconferencing tool, to 8X8, a cloud-based conferencing solutions provider (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: After shutting down HipChat, Atlassian says it’s selling Jitsi, its chat and videoconferencing tool, to 8X8, a cloud-based conferencing solutions provider  —  After announcing earlier this year that it planned to shut down HipChat and Stride and sell the IP of both to Slack … After shutting down HipChat, Atlassian says

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    • IBM has bought Red Hat in an attempt to recreate its success in the 90s; it's not clear, though, that the company or the market is the same (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

    Ben Thompson / Stratechery: IBM has bought Red Hat in an attempt to recreate its success in the 90s; it’s not clear, though, that the company or the market is the same  —  The best way to understand how it is Red Hat built a multi-billion dollar business off of open source software is to

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    • StarkWare, which develops privacy-focused blockchain tech, closes $30M Series A led by Paradigm with Intel Capital, Sequoia, Coinbase Ventures among investors (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

    Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: StarkWare, which develops privacy-focused blockchain tech, closes $30M Series A led by Paradigm with Intel Capital, Sequoia, Coinbase Ventures among investors  —  Cryptography startup StarkWare just closed a $30 million equity funding round led by Paradigm and featuring a number of other major investors … StarkWare, which develops privacy-focused blockchain tech,

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    • UK Chancellor announces a new 2% digital services tax that will come into effect in April 2020 for profitable tech companies that generate £500M a year globally (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK Chancellor announces a new 2% digital services tax that will come into effect in April 2020 for profitable tech companies that generate £500M a year globally  —  The UK government has announced a new “digital services” tax of two percent that it plans to start levying on the UK revenues

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    History of White LEDs

    Compared to incandescent lightbulbs, LEDs produce a lot more lumens per watt of input power — they’re more efficient at producing light.  Of course, that means that incandescent light bulbs are more efficient at producing heat, and as the days get shorter, and the nights get colder, somewhere, someone who took the leap to LED

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    • RED Hydrogen One review: unique design and long-lasting battery, but holographic display is poor and blurry, and it falls far short of other $1,000+ phones (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

    Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: RED Hydrogen One review: unique design and long-lasting battery, but holographic display is poor and blurry, and it falls far short of other $1,000+ phones  —  It’s obvious this is RED’s first phone  —  RED’s debut smartphone is such a mess that it made me question what fundamental parts of

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