Zuck made a joke about the privacy of your data and it didn't go over well.
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Bird, recognizing the growing possibility that people will want to own electric scooters rather than share them, is launching a new scooter model available for purchase. Called the Bird One, it will be available for ownership and shared-use cases. Bird is also ditching the Ninebot ES and relying on its own M365 model for monthly personal rentals.
Each year, Warren Buffett writes an open letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Over the last 40 years, these letters have become an annual required read across the investing world, providing insight into how Buffett and his team think about everything from investment strategy to stock ownership to company culture, and more.
Yesterday, Uber raised $8.6 billion in proceeds from its IPO (including a $500 million PayPal investment) at an initial market cap of $75.5 billion, and its fully diluted value just north of $82 billion.
Fortnite creator Epic Games announced this week that it’s acquired the independent game development studio Psyonix, makers of the massively popular vehicular soccer game Rocket League.
Beyond Meat shares popped 163% yesterday on their first day of trading, marking the best IPO day performance since before the financial crisis.
Facebook is introducing a new design to its app and website, and it's all about groups.
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Got a few seconds to spare? Open the Google homepage and search for "Thanos." Then, click the Infinity Gauntlet that appears in the supervillain's Knowledge Graph card.
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If you're a Jeopardy fan like many of us in the Malartu office, you already know this, but for the rest of you let me introduce you to the new Jeopardy "goat": James Holzhauer. During Thursday’s game, he came in first place with a total of $90,812 after he was the only one to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy question.
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Car2go, the free-floating car-sharing service owned by Daimler, temporarily shut down its service in Chicago on Wednesday after dozens of Mercedes-Benz vehicles were stolen using the app.
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Chinese mobile phone maker, Huawei, recently released a phone with 50X zoom capabilities and it's... sparking privacy concerns. And before anyone makes a reference to how "the telescope was invented long ago lol," I want to remind you that a telescope cannot send information to everyone on the planet in less than a minute.
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According to multiple sources, more than half of the startup’s staff signed an internal petition to depose CEO Rus Yusupov, whom they saw as mismanaging the company. But Yusupov then fired some core supporters of the mutiny, leading to a downward spiral of morale that mirrors HQ’s plummeting App Store rank.
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Despite being less than half the size of Pinterest, Zoom is being given a higher valuation in the public markets. Zoom reported revenue in its latest fiscal year of $330.5 million, while Pinterest generated sales of $755.9 million.
Following the second launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, all three of the rocket’s booster cores successfully landed back on Earth. The two outer cores of the rocket touched down on SpaceX’s two concrete landing pads at Cape Canaveral, Florida near the site of the launch. The center core touched down on one of the company’s drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Astronomers released humanity's first image of a black hole Wednesday. The picture reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the "nearby" Virgo galaxy cluster. It looked like a flaming orange, yellow and black ring.
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Snapchat's CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled a new plan this week to let other apps embed the best parts of Snapchat rather than building their own half-rate copies. They're offering this service through a platform called Snap Kit.
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Uber yesterday filed its highly-anticipated IPO registration. You can find it here, and also check out Axios' breakdown of the key numbers.
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Less than two months after playing its first games, and with the postseason just two weeks away, the Alliance of American Football (AAF) has shutdown operations.
By coating the gold nanowire in a type of electrolyte gel, Thai was able to create a circuit that withstood an unprecedented 200,000 charge cycles in the span of three months of testing, during which time there was no loss in performance, nor were any nanowires fractured by repeated use. Mya had just been “playing around” when she made the discovery by applying the gel, says Penner.
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