What happened Friday wasn’t the ideal day to be in the oil business. The all-important price of crude tumbled, on the back of general economic worries and a U.S. government decision about its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The performance of bellwether industry stock ExxonMobil (XOM 0.12%) reflected the situation; it closed the day essentially flat … Read more
March 2023. Emirates Stadium. Arsenal vs Everton. The gamesmanship of the visiting defender James Tarkowski gets to me. A shame, says a man one row in front, to see the name of the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky sullied like this. What ensues is a brief exchange about the auteur’s distinguished if ponderous work. I haven’t … Read more
MTN is testing for what it claims to be Africa’s first 5G standalone core, deployed with the cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure. The PoC was constructed with all 5G standalone core elements including the control plane, user plane and management nodes. MTN said the PoC showcased the benefits of a cloud core such as deployment … Read more
RomoloTavani/iStock via Getty Images “Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.” – Dan Quayle. Narrative shift, after narrative shift – that is the road ahead. When we start to look back we realize inflation wasn’t transitory, it’s not going to drop off a cliff and … Read more
Gordon Moore, the Intel co-founder whose theory on computer-chip development became the yardstick for progress in the electronics industry, has died. He was 94. Moore died peacefully surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii on Friday, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation said in a statement. A founder of industry pioneer Fairchild Semiconductor, Moore … Read more