Tech & Science & Business stories
Stories about tech & scientific endeavours, as well as business ones. People who have done stuff, whether they succeeded or not.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
Google AI
Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021
20+ min read · 2021-01-12 · Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire Google Research community When I joined...
Bloomberg Graphics
Why Making More Chips Is So Hard
2021-05-06 · To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot.
giovanniorgantini.wordpress.com
Il caso AstraZeneca
3 min read · 2021-03-16 · Da qualche giorno è in corso un’isterica reazione alle “notizie” secondo le quali si sarebbero verificate alcune morti “sospette” dopo l’inoculazione del vaccino…
nature
Ten computer codes that transformed science
~15 min read · 2021-01-20 · From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.
MIT Press
Data Science in Times of Pan(dem)ic
2021-02-01 · What are the priorities for data science in tackling COVID-19, and in which ways can big data analysis inform and support responses to the outbreak? It is imperative for data scientists to spend time…
linkedin.com
(1) My 10 Biggest Mistakes As BrewDog's CEO
2020-11-27 · Since Martin and I set up BrewDog in 2007 as 2 wide-eyed 24 year olds, it has been one hell of a ride. The business we set up in a garage now employs over 2,000 team members, has over 100 bars all over the planet, we are the most valuable independent beer brand on the planet and we are embarking on
WIRED
The Women Who Invented Video Game Music
3 min read · 2020-10-05 · Composers like Eímear Noone and Manami Matsumae created some of the most iconic songs in games that have defined the industry.
The Verge
Emotional baggage: inside the toxic work environment at Away
20+ min read · From 2019 · Away promised a company culture of travel and inclusion, but former employees say CEO Steph Korey uses the company values to get people to work harder and longer.
CB Insights
21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos' Annual Letters To Shareholders
20+ min read · From 2018 · Each year, Jeff Bezos writes an open letter to Amazon's shareholders. Over the last two decades, these letters have become an unparalleled source of insight into how the world's richest man — and his…
Motherboard
The Complicated Economy of Open Source Software
20+ min read · From 2019 · A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.
Aeon+Psyche
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
9 min read · From 2018 · More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components…
The New York Times
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
~19 min read · From 2019 · The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
productgraveyard.com
Product Graveyard: Commemorating the most memorable deceased products
5 min read · From 2017 · Commemorating the most memorable products that have gone away. And finding some alternatives along the way. View products <
Ars Technica
Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
~19 min read · From 2017 · Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
The Startup
Let your customers do the work
6 min read · From 2017 · How we built a (free) sales team from thousands of happy users.
Harvard Business Review
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
~20 min read · From 2015 · Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain.
