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Investigation: for $160+, SafeGraph sells a week's worth of data on visitors of 600+ Planned Parenthood locations, including where they came from and went after — It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards.
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Internal documents: the CDC bought the location data of millions of phones in the US to analyze compliance with COVID-19 rules, especially in the Navajo Nation — Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes too.
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Interviews with 30+ people detail Elon Musk's insular circle of ~10 confidants who mostly agree with him and help him execute on his impulses — To a degree unseen in any other mogul, the world's richest man acts on impulse and the belief that he is absolutely right.
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By accepting Elon Musk's bid, Twitter's management and board of directors showed they care more about shareholders than Twitter as a company or as a product — I'm sorry but more Twitter — You can tell a simple story about Elon Musk's pending acquisition of Twitter Inc. that goes like this.
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
In a filing, Twitter says Elon Musk's bid could make it difficult to attract and retain key talent, keep employees focused, and make changes to its business — Twitter Inc.'s $44 billion deal to be acquired by Elon Musk means it risks losing advertisers and employees, who may be concerned about the company's uncertain future.
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Twitter tests a Twitter Circle feature for sharing tweets with up to 150 people, rather than publicly, similar to Instagram's Close Friends sharing option — Twitter today announced that it is testing a new Twitter Circle feature, which is designed to allow people to share their tweets with a smaller crowd.
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The SEC plans to add 20 investigators and litigators to its Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, created in September 2017 to investigate fraud, taking it to 50 staff — Agency to add 20 staffers to help tighten scrutiny of unregulated $1.7 trillion cryptocurrency market
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta's AI lab creates Open Pretrained Transformer, a language model trained with 175B parameters to match GPT-3's size, and gives it to researchers for free — Meta's AI lab has created a massive new language model that shares both the remarkable abilities and the harmful flaws of OpenAI's pioneering neural network GPT-3.
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Chipmakers are asking for preferential access to components, arguing that delivery priority for semiconductor makers could ease the chip shortage — Intel and TSMC are looking to boost chip output amid supercharged demand, but getting the equipment to do so requires increasing patience
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Spotify debuts Spotify Island on Roblox, the first music streaming brand on the service; artists and fans can go on quests, unlock content, and buy merchandise — Spotify announced today it will become the first music streaming brand to have an official presence within Roblox, with the launch of …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vilnius-based kevin., which offers card-less account-to-account payments, raises a $65M Series A led by Accel and says 6K merchants use it across Europe — Payments remains a very fragmented business around the world: depending on where you're buying or selling something … | Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK has shelved plans to empower the CMA's digital markets unit, announced in 2020, hampering the regulator's ability to set rules and impose fines — Government not expected to include legislation to beef up CMA's digital markets unit in Queen's Speech
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| Shuli Ren / Bloomberg: |
After cracking down on its technology giants, China leans on Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan's distribution networks to fill grocery deliveries during lockdowns — The regulatory crackdown on Big Tech that started in China in late 2020 sent stocks reeling. Over the past year … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Graphite, an open-source command line interface and code review dashboard, raises a $20M Series A led by a16z to grow its team of six to 15+ by the end of 2022 — Graphite's founders came from Facebook, Airbnb and Square, three companies where they had access to sophisticated code review tools.
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AMD Q1: revenue of $5.89B, up 71% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.8B, up 33% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $2.5B, up 88% YoY — - AMD reported first quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — AMD's results on Tuesday suggest that the chipmaker …
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Cloud infrastructure access management startup Teleport raises a $110M Series C led by Bessemer at a $1.1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $169M — Cloud infrastructure access management startup Teleport said today it has become Silicon Valley's latest unicorn after closing …
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Airbnb Q1: 102.1M nights and experiences booked, up 59% YoY, vs 100.9M est., revenue of $1.51B, vs $1.45B est., and a $19M net loss, down from $1.2B YoY — - Airbnb is expecting a strong summer as travel continues to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic. — The company beat Wall Street estimates … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based Edge Delta, whose observability service analyzes data locally for more specific and faster results, raises a $63M Series B led by Quiet Capital — Databases are growing at an exponential rate these days, and so when it comes to real-time data observability …
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