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Alexa von Tobel has high hopes for ‘fintech 3.0’

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It’s been 10 years since Alexa von Tobel sold her financial planning startup Learnvest to Northwestern Mutual for $250 million. Since then, von Tobel became Northwestern Mutual’s first chief digital officer, then chief innovation officer, before launching an early-stage venture firm of her own, Inspired Capital, with former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. She’s … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The New Tools Rewriting the Web (6/15/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 15, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Retired After 26 Years in 2022, Russian Spacecraft Vega 2 Landed on Venus in 1985, Charles Goodyear Patented the Process of Vulcanization in 1844, The … Read more

Here’s What You Need to Know About Go 1.22

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Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.22, which you can get by visiting the download page. Go 1.22 comes with several important new features and improvements. Here are some of the notable changes; for the full list, refer to the release notes. Language changes The long-standing “for” loop gotcha with accidental sharing … Read more

How to build the best keyboard in the world

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Ryan Norbauer in his garage / workshop. | Photo: Taeha Kim / Norbauer & Co. The term “endgame,” among keyboard enthusiasts, is sort of a running gag. Endgame is when you finally dial in your perfect layout, case, features, switches, and keycaps, so you can stop noodling around with parts and get on with whatever … Read more

Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy It’s Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Sabrina Carpenter and Khaby Lame and … Read more

Lessons from a Student-Driven Onboarding Experiment

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Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Approach A. Architectural Design B. Proof of Concept Implementation III. Envisioned Usage Scenarios IV. Experiment Design and Demographics A. Participants B. Target System and Task C. Procedure V. Results and Discussion VI. Related Work VII. Conclusions and Future Work, Acknowledgment, and References A. Participants We invited students … Read more

Why Interactive Visuals Are the Next Big Thing in Software Collaboration

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Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction II. Approach A. Architectural Design B. Proof of Concept Implementation III. Envisioned Usage Scenarios IV. Experiment Design and Demographics A. Participants B. Target System and Task C. Procedure V. Results and Discussion VI. Related Work VII. Conclusions and Future Work, Acknowledgment, and References III. ENVISIONED USAGE SCENARIOS Besides … Read more