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Sources: Elon Musk told potential investors in his Twitter deal he plans to stage an IPO of the company in as little as three years after taking it private — Tesla chief has been speaking to investors including private-equity firms about participating in deal
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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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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
NonFungible: NFT sales fell 92% to a ~19K daily average this week from a ~225K peak in September 2021; active wallets fell 88% to ~14K from a November 2021 high — Is this the beginning of the end of NFTs? — 1x — The NFT market is collapsing. — The sale of nonfungible tokens …
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Twitter tests Twitter Circle, a 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.| Matt Milano / Android Authority: |
Samsung unveils Universal Flash Storage 4.0, claiming double the speed of UFS 3.1, making it ideal for 5G phones, and sets mass production for Q3 2022 — 5G smartphones are about to get much faster. — TL;DR — Samsung's UFS 4.0 flash storage will offer twice the performance of 3.1.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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 …
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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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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. slumped 26% after it gave a forecast for the current quarter that missed analysts' estimates as the company plans …
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Filing: Didi says it is cooperating with the SEC's investigation into its $4.4B US IPO in June 2021, “subject to strict compliance” with the Chinese law — The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission is investigating Didi Global Inc (DIDI.N) over its $4.4 billion initial public offering …
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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.
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Interview with Shopify's Alex Danco, who heads its blockchain team, on how Web3, crypto, and NFTs can reshape commerce, making Shopify “wallet-aware”, and more — Alex Danco Joins to Explain NFTs and How Shopify is Becoming Wallet-Aware … Today's Not Boring is brought to you by... Mighty Networks
Tweets: @mylesudland, @packym, and @caseynewton
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
LottieFiles, which develops plugins for app developers to create, edit, and test JSON-based Lottie animations, raises a $37M Series B led by Square Peg Capital — Lottie animations are everywhere. The JSON-based file format, first introduced as an open source library by Airbnb engineers … Sponsor Posts
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