December 3, 2025

Accelerating VMware migrations with a factory model approach

In 1913, Henry Ford cut the time it took to build a Model T from 12 hours to just over 90 minutes. He accomplished this feat through a revolutionary breakthrough in process design: Instead of skilled craftsmen building a car from scratch by hand, Ford created an assembly line where standardized tasks happened in sequence,…

Instagram and Facebook will force their checkout experience on Shops soon

April 27, 2023

Meta announced today that it will be phasing out onboarding of new Shops without checkout on Facebook and Instagram enabled. Beginning June 5, onboarding of new shops via Commerce Manager and Shopify will only be with checkout on Facebook and Instagram enabled. By August 10, onboarding of new shops via all other partners will only […]

Instagram and Facebook will force their checkout experience on Shops soon by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Dropbox lays off 500 employees, 16% of staff, CEO says due to slowing growth and ‘the era of AI’

April 27, 2023

Cloud storage giant Dropbox today joined the fray of tech companies announcing layoffs. The company today announced that it would be laying off 16% of its staff, equivalent to about 500 employees, due to slowing growth, and — in the words of CEO Drew Houston — because “the AI era of computing has finally arrived.” […]

Dropbox lays off 500 employees, 16% of staff, CEO says due to slowing growth and ‘the era of AI’ by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

The flawed logic of rushing out extreme climate solutions

April 27, 2023
Early last year, entrepreneur Luke Iseman says, he released a pair of sulfur dioxide–filled weather balloons from Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, in the hope that they’d burst miles above Earth.  It was a trivial act in itself, involving far less of the gas than a commercial airliner releases. But the launch was imbued with meaning,…