Month: April 2023

As Revolut and other “e-money” companies grow in the EU and the UK, customers complain of inadequate customer support, leading to a UK FCA warning in March 2023 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: As Revolut and other “e-money” companies grow in the EU and the UK, customers complain of inadequate customer support, leading to a UK FCA warning in March 2023  —  Regulators crack down after complaints mushroom about digital money services  —  In early 2023, John started …

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How to use the unit of work pattern in ASP.NET Core

In most any business application, you will store and retrieve data from a data store by performing CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete). In this regard, there are several technologies and tools you can use. For example, you can choose from the available ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework, Dapper, or NHibernate. However, the

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A look at Russia’s tech industry decline, accelerated by the country’s war against Ukraine, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation (Masha Borak/MIT Technology Review)

Masha Borak / MIT Technology Review: A look at Russia’s tech industry decline, accelerated by the country’s war against Ukraine, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation  —  Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family’s belongings, canceled the lease …

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Sundar Pichai says Google plans to add generative AI to Search, dismissing the threat to its ads business, and more work is needed to become 20% more productive (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Sundar Pichai says Google plans to add generative AI to Search, dismissing the threat to its ads business, and more work is needed to become 20% more productive  —  ‘More work left to do’ in efficiency drive, chief executive says  —  Google plans to add conversational artificial-intelligence features …

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission cancels Binance Australia’s derivatives license, giving the exchange until April 21 to close all positions (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: The Australian Securities and Investments Commission cancels Binance Australia’s derivatives license, giving the exchange until April 21 to close all positions  —  ASIC has been conducting a targeted review of Binance’s businesses, the press release said.  —  The Australian Securities …

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A look at Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022, and the FTX deal for a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022, and the FTX deal for a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022  —  On Jan. 31, Anthony Scaramucci sat onstage at a hedge fund conference in Miami, answering questions about, among other things …

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Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and other South African mobile networks scramble to stay online as the power grid crumbles, spending millions on alternative power sources (Nqobile Dludla/Reuters)

Nqobile Dludla / Reuters: Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and other South African mobile networks scramble to stay online as the power grid crumbles, spending millions on alternative power sources  —  On a recent Friday morning north of Johannesburg, the head of South Africa’s largest telecoms company surveyed the arsenal …

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Research: Chinese officials and state media pushed back on a US TikTok ban on Twitter, echoing the Huawei defense, showing Beijing’s investment in TikTok’s fate (New York Times)

New York Times: Research: Chinese officials and state media pushed back on a US TikTok ban on Twitter, echoing the Huawei defense, showing Beijing’s investment in TikTok’s fate  —  The company has tried to distance itself, but the information push shows just how deeply invested Beijing is in its fate.

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Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations  —  After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.

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Sensor Tower: US advertising on TikTok grew by 11% in March despite the threat of a ban, with Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon, and Apple among the top spenders (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sensor Tower: US advertising on TikTok grew by 11% in March despite the threat of a ban, with Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon, and Apple among the top spenders  —  Digital advertising on the Chinese-owned video app grew by 11% in March  —  Advertisers are increasing their spending on TikTok …

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Printing Antennas on Circuit Boards

Yagi-Uda antennas, or simply “Yagis”, are directional antennas that focus radio waves to increase gain, meaning that the radio waves can travel further in that direction for a given transmitter power. Anyone might recognize an old TV antenna on a roof that uses this type of antenna, but they can be used to increase the

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