Social networks can keep storing EU user data in the US under new agreement
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The European Union and the US have settled on a new transatlantic data-sharing pact. In an announcement on Monday, the European Commission says the new framework should allow information to flow freely between both locations, easing risks for social media companies that operate
Read moreLongshot Space wants to make space launch dumb — and really cheap
Rockets are among the greatest feats in human engineering, but to Longshot Space CEO Mike Grace, they’re an “overly exquisite solution” to the problem of sending megatons of inert mass to space. “You need something that is dumber and much cheaper, both to build and to operate,” he said in
Read moreIP for startups: It starts with strategy
Intellectual property can be a powerful weapon in your startup’s arsenal. It can protect you from competitors using your tech, and it can drastically improve how valuable your company is: If your IP is stopping a big company from doing what it wants, that could, in itself, be a good
Read moreHow to Showcase Your Value Without Bragging
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Read moreExploring the infrastructure and code behind modern edge functions
At this point, the internet has a fully global reach. If you create a successful web or mobile app, you could have users on every continent (maybe not Antarctica). When they load up your app, they want it to be fast and relevant to them. That’s where edge computing comes
Read moreWrite Clean, Concise, and Debuggable Code in Express.js
Requests and response—Chain of Responsibility — global error handling and logging — you don’t know what you don’t knowExpress is a popular backend framework for Node applications. It’s often one of the earliest frameworks new JavaScript developers will learn to create RESTful APIs. And why not? It’s a powerful tool that seriously cuts down on
Read moreEA to launch single-player Black Panther video game
EA (Electronic Arts) announced Monday that its new studio Cliffhanger Games is developing a third-person, single-player Black Panther game in a joint effort with Marvel Games. Cliffhanger Games claims that the upcoming action-adventure game is designed to give fans of the superhero franchise the ability to explore the expansive world
Read moreSnap is teaming up with Linktree to let users include links in their profiles
Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. The social network is late to allow links in the profiles of creators. Until now, it only allowed brands and Snap Stars —
Read moreHow Lewis Carroll computed determinants
Charles Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, discovered a method of calculating determinants now known variously as the method of contractants, Dodgson condensation, or simply condensation. The method was devised for ease of computation by hand, but it has features that make it a practical method for
Read moreEurope adopts US data adequacy decision
The European Union has adopted a new transatlantic data adequacy agreement with the US. The much anticipated decision means there’s an immediate resolution to legal uncertainty around exports of EU users’ personal data by US companies — a problem that’s affected thousands of business in recent years, big and small,
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