Author: Tech Support

    • LA-based Scalefast raises $22M Series B to help DTC brands launch e-commerce stores in as little as 15 days, bringing its total raised to $32M (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

    Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: LA-based Scalefast raises $22M Series B to help DTC brands launch e-commerce stores in as little as 15 days, bringing its total raised to $32M  —  Digital commerce solution Scalefast announced it raised a $22 million Series B round of funding Tuesday to help brands launch an e-store in as

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    • How Wirecard, a global electronic-payments giant that was once valued at $14B+ and said it processed $140B of transactions a year, fully unraveled in eight days (Paul J. Davies/Wall Street Journal)

    Paul J. Davies / Wall Street Journal: How Wirecard, a global electronic-payments giant that was once valued at $14B+ and said it processed $140B of transactions a year, fully unraveled in eight days  —  Prosecutors are probing whether the electronic-payments giant used fictitious income to inflate its sales and fool investors; a missing $2 billion

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    Hackaday Links: July 5, 2020

    Remember all the hubbub over Betelgeuse back in February? For that matter, do you even remember February? If you do, you might recall that the red giant in Orion was steadily dimming, which some took as a portent of an impending supernova. That obviously didn’t happen, but we now seem to have an explanation for

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    • Facebook partners with CBSE, an Indian government education body, to launch a certified curriculum on AR and digital safety for students and teachers in India (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

    Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Facebook partners with CBSE, an Indian government education body, to launch a certified curriculum on AR and digital safety for students and teachers in India  —  Facebook, which reaches more users than any other international firm in India, has identified a new area of opportunity … Facebook partners with CBSE, an

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    Source: UK to begin phasing out use of Huawei equipment in its 5G network as soon as this year, after report doubted viability of Huawei due to new US sanctions (Bloomberg)

    {$inline_image} Bloomberg: Source: UK to begin phasing out use of Huawei equipment in its 5G network as soon as this year, after report doubted viability of Huawei due to new US sanctions  —  – Officials said to speed up plans to remove Huawei kit  — Decision would reverse green light given to Chinese tech giant

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    The dev career ladder needs reassessing — not all senior developers should be managers

    This article was originally published on .cult by Nadya Primak. .cult is a media platform for untold developer stories, where developers can read content around the softer side of development and watch documentaries about the tech they love. You can read this original piece here. The career ladder for software engineers is often confusing and inconsistent. 

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    Paper receipts are choking the planet. With Foreceipt, you can ditch ‘em once and for all

    TLDR: Foreceipt Receipt Tracker eliminates the need for paper receipts, handling all your expense report and tax-filing receipt work automatically. The world is moving away from paper receipts. And while that’s good news, the bad news is that that transition isn’t happening fast enough. We already know 90 percent of those inconvenient printed receipts don’t

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    • With macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple seems to have lifted a ban on fun, allowing for an expressiveness in visual design that we haven't seen from it in almost a decade (Michael Flarup/Apply Pixels)

    Michael Flarup / Apply Pixels: With macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple seems to have lifted a ban on fun, allowing for an expressiveness in visual design that we haven’t seen from it in almost a decade  —  It’s finally here.  The thing I have been advocating for through my work, writing, videos and talks for

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