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Stocks slid Friday after a slate of earnings beats from big banks fueled concerns that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its next two meetings. Still, the major indices gained for the week. The Dow rose 400 points, or 1.2%. The S&P 500 gained 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.3%. JPMorgan Chase […]
First, we cover an update from the BlockFi CEO denying that FTX is buying them for $25N (2:33), and we have a couple more crypto quick hits (5:51) before we touch on Sequoia’s largest investments being down 70% (34:01). Klarna is raising way down at a $6B valuation (45:23), Zoom is looking to expand beyond […]
It’s been a while since we last mentioned anything about Facebook’s Avatar feature. Since Meta is introducing a number of new services and changes, it’s only right Facebook as its main product enhances a number of things starting with avatars. The latter is a way for people to express themselves by choosing their facial features. […]
One challenge when it comes to concurrency on Apple’s platforms is that an app’s UI can, for the most part, only be updated on the main thread. So, whenever we’re performing any kind of work on a background thread (either directly or indirectly), then we always have to make sure to jump back to the […]
While working on a feature for downloading images in my app, I ran into a strange issue where progress notifications were never reaching 100%. Knowing that the framework is usually not wrong, I started suspecting my own skills (as usual). To make matters worse, nobody was able to reproduce the issue in a sample project I shared with other […]