Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, Facebook’s Director of Engineering At Facebook, Andrew Bosworth is just known as “Boz.” With his shaved head and tattoos, he looks pretty badass. When he’s not coding new features like News Feed, a once-controversial ticker of updates that’s now the core of the social network, he’s serving as the hardcore drill...
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2 Player Productions, the producers of Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, on Saturday uploaded the documentary to The Pirate Bay. The news comes as a surprise move after an announcement earlier this week that the film is premiering today for free on Xbox Live to Gold subscribers in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,...
A self-proclaimed hacker going by the name TibitXimer on Saturday leaked some 300,000 Verizon Wireless customer records after breaching the company’s security systems. He downloaded an estimated 3 million customer entries from Verizon’s database on July 12, but only leaked a portion of them today after the carrier failed to respond to his inquiries...
On Friday, GitHub had some scheduled maintenance planned, but whatever changes it made appear to have caused some issues. On Saturday, the social coding site confirmed that it is experiencing major service outages across its products. Over on the GitHub status page, the log shows the service started experiencing trouble starting yesterday. After that,...
Ford has caught the DIY revolution and now puts 3D printers at workstations for its engineers. Furthermore, the car company plans to put the smaller Makerbot replicators at every engineer’s desk in the coming months. Ford pitches this as its commitment to engineering, but I see it as the future of distribution if the...
If someone asked which web platform or service wants to organize all of the world’s knowledge, most people would probably say Google — or possibly Wikipedia. Very few would likely put the question-and-answer site Quora in that category, but co-founder and CEO Adam D’Angelo wants to change that: in a blog post at the...
It has been a watershed year in the world of data. Whether it’s technically “big” or not, the technologies, uses and understanding of data analysis have grown a lot. I’ve been lucky enough to spend the year covering the space and writing a lot about it, and I’ve come across some interesting people, companies...
Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here. In the wake of a terrible event like a mass shooting or terrorist attack, it’s inevitable...