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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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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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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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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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AMD Q1: revenue grew 71% YoY to $5.89B, including $2.8B from Computing and Graphics, up 33% YoY, and $2.5B from Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom, up 88% YoY — - AMD reported first quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — AMD's results on Tuesday suggest that the chipmaker … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Airbnb Q1: nights and experiences up 59% YoY to 102.1M, vs 100.9M est., revenue up 70% YoY to $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.| 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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Match Group Q1: revenue of $799M, up 20% YoY, vs $794M est., operating income up 10% YoY to $208M, CEO Shar Dubey to step down but stay on board; stock down 5%+ — Match Group's (MTCH.O) Shar Dubey will step down as chief executive officer, the Tinder owner said on Tuesday …
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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 … | Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $875.6M, up 44% YoY, vs $844.5M est., and a net loss of $196.9M, but misses on 17.8M active riders, vs 18M expected; stock down 25%+ — Lyft Inc. reported first-quarter revenue that beat analysts' estimates but recorded fewer-than-expected riders, sending the shares down more than 5% in extended trading.
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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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