Practical Technology

Opinion GitHub Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-driven, pair-programming service, is already wildly popular. Microsoft broke out GitHub’s revenue and subscription numbers in its latest quarterly report for the first time. GitHub now has an annual recurring…Read More

Even the oldest file-sharing services can fall to a good old-fashioned phishing attack. Back in 2007, Drew Houston, Dropbox’s founder, got sick and tired of losing his USB drive. So, he created the first individual/small business cloud storage…Read More

Earlier this year, when Akamai bought infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform provider Linode for about $900 million, it wasn’t clear how Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN) and security services would work well with Linode’s…Read More

Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, and it appears he’s already failing on his promise not to turn Twitter into a ‘free-for-all hellscape.’ But, I’m not here to talk about his policy blunders. That’s a story for another day. No, I’m here to predict…Read More

It’s a debate that goes all the way back to whether you should tell Fred that Barney gets two more clams than he is as a Bronto crane operator at Slate Rock and Gravel Company: Should you be open with your employees about their salaries — or keep it…Read More

If you’re a programmer, you already know about Stack Overflow. It’s a developer site where questions about all languages and problems are asked and answered. Every programmer uses it and knows jokes about developers who cobble their programs together…Read More