How Ray Tomlinson Picked The @ Symbol For Emails In 1971 That’s Still Widely Used Today
Many of the building blocks of the internet — which we now consider to be a part and parcel of the service —…
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Supabase Says That Access To Its Website Is Fully Restored For Indian Users After Govt Intervention
Supabase is finally back for Indian users. The popular open-source backend platform announced that access to its website, supabase.co, has been fully restored…
Supabase Contacts Ashwini Vaishnaw On X Saying Its Website Is Blocked Across Multiple Indian ISPs Following Ministry Order
Supabase, a popular open-source backend platform used by developers worldwide, has publicly reached out to Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on X, flagging that…
Jeff Bezos Appears To Insinuate That Blue Origin Will Beat SpaceX To The Moon With Tortoise Picture, Musk Responds
Elon Musk had earlier said that SpaceX was dropping its Mars plans in favour of a more immediate moon mission, and this appears…
SpaceX Has Shifted Its Focus From Mars To Building A City On The Moon, Announces Elon Musk
For years, SpaceX has had the goal of taking humans to Mars, but those plans appear to have been shelved — at least…
Adobe Gives All Airtel Users One Year Of Free Access To Adobe Premium In India Push
The top global tech companies are falling over themselves to get their products into the hands of India’s 1.5 billion-strong population. In the…
MySQL and MariaDB Are Named After The Daughters Of Creator Michael Widenius
The most simply-named product names can sometimes have the most surprising of origins. Behind two of the world’s most widely-used database management systems…
“We Screwed Up”: How Warren Buffett And Charlie Munger Regretted Not Investing In Google
Even some of the world’s best investors can get pretty down when they realize they missed an investment opportunity that had been staring…
How Sergey Brin Had Tried Building An Online Pizza Ordering Service Through Fax Machines Before Co-founding Google
Google is now one of the biggest companies that organizes the world’s information, but had things done a little differently, it could have…