Ramesh Balwani, the former chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for defrauding investors and patients about the company’s business and technology. Mr. Balwani, 58, and his convicted co-conspirator, Elizabeth Holmes, 38, the founder of Theranos, had […]
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Using Axios timeout to make your application more efficient
Axios is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries to do HTTP requests. It is an HTTP client available for both the browser and Node.js. Setting Axios timeout properly makes your application perform efficiently even when the called API/URL is not responding in a timely manner. In this post, you […]
Tell Us How Your Family Uses Alexa
Amazon has not figured out how to get customers to buy stuff with Alexa, its digital assistant, which is largely a disappointment for the company. But while Alexa has underperformed as a product for Amazon, we want to know how it’s performing for the people who really matter: us. If […]
Twitter Blue costs $11 per month on iOS instead of $8 • The Register
Comment You would have thought that after Twitter chief Elon Musk and Tim Cook schmoozed a bit at Apple’s headquarters, the two would’ve reached some sort of common ground following that little “misunderstanding” last month. Instead, Musk continued his quest to make Twitter Blue unpalatable to as many people as […]
AirPods Pro 2 are Apple’s pocketable AirPods Max
Apple announced the new AirPods Pro 2 early in September. While BGR had the chance to review these wireless earbuds a few weeks after they were released, I could only experience this product recently when I bought them while on vacation. I’m an AirPods enthusiast. Having owned every model since […]
If the FTC blocks Microsoft’s $69B acquisition, the real loser is Activision Blizzard – GeekWire
The red dragon Alexstrasza is one of the major characters in the newest World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight. (Blizzard Image) The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that it intends to sue to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of giant game developer Activision Blizzard. If the FTC is able to […]
FTC Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision
The deal between Microsoft and Activision has been under review by 16 regulators around the world, but the F.T.C. is the first of three key regulators, including in Britain and the European Union, to reach a decision on the acquisition. Microsoft has argued that the deal benefits consumers because Microsoft […]
Microsoft greases skids for data migration to Azure • The Register
Microsoft is introducing a new tool intended to help make migrating files and folders from on-premises systems to the Azure cloud that much easier. The new Azure Storage Mover, a managed cloud storage migration service that is now in public preview, lets IT admins plan, launch, and track the migration […]
What we must do to weather this winter
Since their inception, cryptocurrencies have gone from strength to strength, with widespread evidence that usage of digital currencies is increasing year in and year out. Last year in particular saw a tremendous influx of users to the crypto space, with total unique users increasing by an astounding 178% from 106 […]
Successful End of NASA Moon Mission Shifts Attention to SpaceX
Suspended under parachutes, an astronaut capsule without astronauts made a gentle splash in the Pacific on Sunday, bringing NASA’s Artemis I moon mission to a close. The end of the uncrewed test flight coincided with the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17 on the moon, the last time […]