Rosalie Chan

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Tech Features and Explainers

Everything you need to know about why developers love Swift, the Apple programming language that developers are using to build most new iPhone apps (Business Insider)

Here’s why 8.5 million users love Visual Studio Code, the free software that’s helping Microsoft win over programmers in the cloud wars with Amazon (Business Insider)

Everything you need to know about PyTorch, the world's fastest-growing AI project that started at Facebook and powers research at Tesla, Uber, and Genentech (Business Insider)

Everything you need to know about TensorFlow, Google’s own home-made AI software that’s now helping NASA discover planets and beating champions at Go (Business Insider)

Everything you need to know about React, a project started at Facebook that now helps Twitter, Pinterest, and Asana keep their apps looking good and working great (Business Insider)

Here's why companies like Google, Square, and Atlassian are sprinting to use Kotlin, the fastest-growing programming language according to GitHub (Business Insider)

Quantum computing could change everything, and IBM is racing with Microsoft, Intel, and Google to conquer it. Here's what you need to know (Business Insider)

Everything you need to know about Kubernetes, the Google-created open source software so popular even Microsoft and Amazon had to adopt it (Business Insider)

Investors are betting hundreds of millions of dollars that startups like PagerDuty, GitLab, and CloudBees can change the way software gets made (Business Insider)

Are Sleep Apps Junk Science? Here's What Doctors Think (Inverse)

Investigations

Lambda School is Silicon Valley's big bet on reinventing education and making student debt obsolete. But students say it's a 'cult' and they would have been better off learning on their own. (Business Insider)

NPM, a startup 11 million developers rely on, is tangled in a bitter cultural battle as it tries to actually make money (Business Insider)

Profiles

The former Apple engineer who created the programming language Swift has joined AI chip startup SiFive. Here's what he learned working at Apple, Tesla, and Google. (Business Insider)

A Google engineer had a rare health condition that made it excruciatingly painful to type. Here's how he saved his career by inventing a way to code with his voice and eyes. (Business Insider)

The CEO behind the smash-hit PagerDuty IPO says that she looked at 51 other chief exec roles before she chose to lead the $3.9 billion company (Business Insider)

Meet the programmer-turned-drummer-turned-lawyer who's helping open source startups stand their ground against Amazon's cloud amid a 'clash of ideologies' (Business Insider)

The leader of one of Google's most important cloud businesses explains why it took her 14 years of convincing to join the company (Business Insider)

Scoops

Google Cloud has a new program to assign its best salespeople to go after the biggest customers — but Google employees say it makes it harder for current salespeople to advance (Business Insider)

The Grace Hopper Celebration, the world's largest conference for women in tech, has dropped Palantir as a sponsor over its work with ICE (Business Insider)

Google Cloud has changed how it pays its salespeople, ripping a page out of the Oracle playbook (Business Insider)

Employees at NPM, a startup that provides a crucial service for 11 million software developers, have signed an open letter demanding better working conditions (Business Insider)

Tech Culture

Here's what it's like to work as a white hat hacker who legally hacks into companies like Uber, Starbucks, and Atlassian (Business Insider)

Here's how tech companies like Atlassian, Microsoft, and Red Hat are revamping their interview process for developers today (Business Insider)

Red Hat is getting a new logo ahead of its acquisition by IBM, and six employees have already gotten tattoos of it (Business Insider)

A group of women trying to change the sexist culture of open source software have been harassed online (Business Insider)

This is what a workday looks like for a CEO who runs his entire 40-employee tech company from a farm in New Zealand (Business Insider)

Startups are betting that letting people work from home, an RV, or a New Zealand mountaintop will lure top talent away from Silicon Valley (Business Insider)

Gardening, Sex, and Trolling: Who's in AOL Chatrooms in 2017 (Inverse)

Open Source Software

Here's why open source software startups often get stronger in downturns and recessions, according to executives who navigated the Great Recession (Business Insider)

Software freedom vs human freedom: A surge of activism is rocking open source developers, as programmers fight to stop their software from being used for 'evil' (Business Insider)

Despite the looming threat of Amazon's cloud, some software companies are going all in on free software. Others are fighting back. (Business Insider)

Here's why investors are throwing money at startups that give away their software for free (Business Insider)

Startups are taking on Amazon's cloud with a controversial new plan, but experts warn it could undermine the foundations of open source (Business Insider)

Two software companies, fed up with Amazon, Alibaba and other big cloud players, have a controversial new plan to fight back (Business Insider)

Hakka Youth Cultural Identity in Taiwan

How To Save An Ancient Language Before It Disappears Forever (Narratively)

Demographic shift spells language decline (Taipei Times)

Youth find ways to reclaim Hakka identity (China Post)

Race and Culture

Activists in Oakland Are Pushing For Better Research Around Police Violence and Community Trauma (Pacific Standard)

The Chinese Exclusion Act, Explained (Teen Vogue)

The Midwest's Only Chinese Catholic Church Weathers Its 70th Year (Chicago Mag)

A New Generation Of Therapists Is Fighting Asian-American Mental Health Stigma (The Huffington Post)

Asian Americans Are Undergoing a Silent Mental Health Crisis (Tonic)

Why More Women of Color Than Ever Are Starting Their Own Businesses (TIME)

How a Group of Asian-Americans Is Spreading Support for Black Lives Matter (TIME)

Environment

The 40-Year Fight to Clean Up One of America’s Most Polluted Projects (Tonic)

Teens are Suing the U.S. Government Over Climate Change (Teen Vogue)

Young Adults Are Fighting to Stop the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota (Teen Vogue)

Essays

My Complicated Relationship With a Traditional Chinese Garment (Racked)

What Makes These Chat Apps Popular in Certain Asian Countries (Inverse)

No-hyphen (Skin Deep)

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