Microsoft’s platform-based approach to cloud development has allowed it to offer managed versions of many familiar elements of the tech stack, especially within its data platform. As well as its own SQL Server (as Azure SQL) and the no-SQL Cosmos DB, it has managed versions of familiar open source databases, including PostgreSQL and MySQL. Using
Read MoreMany programming languages feature regular expressions—or “regex” for short—which are used to find patterns in strings of text. A regex library is a mini-language for describing patterns, which can be combined with utilities to extract and work with the patterns found in your text. This article introduces you to using regular expressions in your programs.
Read MoreTracy Wen Liu / Wired: TikTok, Amazon, and others struggle to adopt China’s livestream ecommerce model in the US, as experts blame differences between US and Chinese consumer behavior — Selling over livestreams is a $40 billion business in China. But Americans just aren’t responding.
Read MoreApple’s M1 MacBook Pro from 2020 is just £1,199 instead of £1,499 in the Amazon Spring sale!
Read MoreHuge savings on Apple Watch in Amazon UK’s Spring Sale.
Read MoreBloomberg: Perplexity AI, which is building an AI-based conversational search engine, raised a $25.6M Series A led by NEA with participation from Jeff Dean and others — Perplexity AI, which makes a conversational search engine using artificial intelligence, has raised $25.6 million in a funding round led …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Lemon8, ByteDance’s Instagram rival launched in March 2020, hits the US App Store’s top 10; data.ai: the app never ranked in the top 200 overall charts before — As U.S. lawmakers move forward with their plans for a TikTok ban or forced sale, the app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance …
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus OnePlus has announced the OnePlus 11 Jupiter Rock Limited Edition phone. It has a back made out of 3D microcrystalline rock, complete with random textures and flecks. Expect to pay just over $700 for this model in China. OnePlus teased the arrival of a OnePlus 11 variant made with an all-new material earlier
Read MoreIf you wanted to create a VGA card, you might think about using an FPGA. But there are simpler ways to generate patterns, including an old-fashioned EPROM, as [DrMattRegan] points out in a recent video. Generating video signals is an exercise in periodicity. After all, an old-fashioned CRT just scans at a certain horizontal frequency
Read MoreRyan Browne / CNBC: The UK government publishes recommendations for AI and urges regulators to issue practical guidance to organizations on implementing them in their sectors — – The U.K. government has published a white paper for the artificial intelligence industry. — It calls on regulators to come up with …
Read MoreBloomberg: The FDIC tells Signature’s crypto clients that they have until April 5 to close their accounts, as Flagstar’s bid excluded ~$4B in Signature’s crypto deposits — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. informed crypto clients with deposits at the failed Signature Bank that they have until April 5 …
Read MoreFuture of Life Institute: 1,000+ people, including CEOs and researchers, sign open letter urging all AI labs to pause training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months — We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Read MoreMax Goldbart / Deadline: The UK releases its draft Media Bill that could see Netflix, Disney+, and other US streamers fined up to £250K for breaking harmful material rules under Ofcom — The UK government has published its long-awaited draft Media Bill to bring the U.S. streamers under its regulatory framework …
Read MoreJonathan Greig / The Record: Pennsylvania-based NCB Management Services, which purchases debt, says sensitive financial info of 494,969 people was leaked during a cyberattack on the company — Nearly half a million people had their sensitive financial information leaked during a cyberattack on NCB Management Services – a company that purchases debt.
Read MoreFinancial Times: A profile of Swedish gaming company Embracer, whose growth via frantic dealmaking has raised questions of financial performance, accounting practices, and more — Lars Wingefors created Europe’s biggest gaming company with an acquisitive strategy that has attracted short sellers
Read MoreHave you ever watched a movie or a video and really noticed the quality of the camera work? If you have, chances are the camera operator wasn’t very skilled, since the whole point of the job is to not be noticed. And getting to that point requires a lot of practice, especially since the handwheel
Read MoreCredit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority Apple has launched the Apple Pay Later program in the US. It allows Apple users to borrow amounts ranging from $50 to $1,000 and pay them back in six weekly installments. The loans can be used for online purchases wherever Apple Pay is accepted and also for in-app purchases.
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority ASUS ROG Phone 7 specs have apparently leaked online. It looks like the processor and selfie camera are the only major upgrades here. ASUS has launched a new ROG Phone line every year since 2018, bringing plenty of performance, a big battery, and gaming-focused additions. We already know the
Read MoreSantiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government’s adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country — Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country — SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador …
Read More[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors during the 1980s and 1990s. SPARC was initially developed by Sun Microsystems, which most of us associate the SPARC but while most computer architectures are controlled by a single
Read MoreSantiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government’s adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country — Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country — SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador …
Read MoreFor some gamers, having a light fast polling mouse is key. [Ali] of [Optimum Tech] loved his 23-gram mouse but disliked the cord. Not seeing any options for a comparable wireless mouse, he decided to make one himself. Trying to shortcut the process, he started with an existing wireless mouse from Razer weighing in at
Read MoreJeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: Micron reports Q2 revenue of $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., down from $7.79B YoY, and a record net loss of $2.31B due to an inventory write-down of $1.43B — Chip company writes off more than $1.4 billion in inventory as sales get chopped in half and memory-chip market melts down …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge The Communications Workers of America union is alleging that Apple fired five workers in Kansas City, and disciplined another in Texas, in retaliation for organizing. The union has also accused the company of interrogating employees, promising those employees better working conditions if they don’t support the union, and threatening them with worse
Read MoreMalathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation over its Play Store policies — Alphabet Inc.’s Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation …
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