Facebook vs Adblock Plus: Just By Fighting, Facebook Wins

On Tuesday this week, Facebook made waves by breaking ad blockers, implementing technology to show ads to people who are using ad blocking technology in their desktop browsers. Within two days the open source ad-blocking community had found a way to defeat Facebook’s technology, and re-enabled ad blocking on the social media giant’s website.

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‘League of Legends:’ Previewing The NALCS 2016 Summer Split Quarterfinals

The League of Legends Champion Series 2016 Summer Split introduced best-of-three series to the North American region, and while the EULCS standings were full of surprises – last year’s World Champion semi-finalists Origen just finished up their promotional games to remain in the league – the NALCS simply affirmed the top organizations in North America.

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CTO of Cloudera: I Absolutely Recommend People Go Into High-Tech Fields

Amr Awadallah is a highly successful entrepreneur whose views on tech issues are in demand in Silicon Valley. Amr came to America planning to earn a Ph.D. at Stanford and then to return to Egypt and become a professor. Instead, he was able to work on visas (J-1 and then H-1B) and became another in a long line of highly successful immigrant entrepreneurs in America. (Read his full story here.)

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