Anna P. Kambhampaty / New York Times:
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets — On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages.
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A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets (Anna P. Kambhampaty/New York Times)
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Three European food delivery stocks, Delivery Hero, Just Eat, and Deliveroo, lost a combined $23.7B, more than half their market value, in the first quarter (Henry Ren/Bloomberg)
Henry Ren / Bloomberg:
Three European food delivery stocks, Delivery Hero, Just Eat, and Deliveroo, lost a combined $23.7B, more than half their market value, in the first quarter — In a market gripped by concerns over rising interest rates and soaring inflation, investors are avoiding European food delivery companies …
A look at the eclectic group of pro-crypto lawmakers in Washington, from libertarians to tech utopians, who were galvanized by the recent infrastructure bill (Kiran Stacey/Financial Times)
Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:
A look at the eclectic group of pro-crypto lawmakers in Washington, from libertarians to tech utopians, who were galvanized by the recent infrastructure bill — A bipartisan mix of libertarians, business champions and tech utopians is uniting on legislation to help the sector grow
Facebook bug exposed entire News Feed to potential "integrity risks": Report
E3 2022 gets entirely cancelled, to return next year
Facebook-owner Meta plans to expand reach of WhatsApp chatbot in India
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger earned $178.6M in 2021, far above Intel's initial $110M estimate; Intel stock is down 15% since his appointment, lagging the industry (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger earned $178.6M in 2021, far above Intel's initial $110M estimate; Intel stock is down 15% since his appointment, lagging the industry — Bonus for taking helm at struggling US chipmaker was far more than company initially calculated
Indonesia's GoTo raises $1.1B in its IPO, selling shares for $0.024, representing a projected $28B market cap after the offering (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Indonesia's GoTo raises $1.1B in its IPO, selling shares for $0.024, representing a projected $28B market cap after the offering — GoTo Group, Indonesia's largest tech company, raised 15.8 trillion rupiah ($1.1 billion) in one of the world's largest initial public offerings this year.
TSMC chairman Mark Liu says consumer demand for smartphones, PCs, and TVs is slowing down, especially in China, as the cost of components and materials rises (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia:
TSMC chairman Mark Liu says consumer demand for smartphones, PCs, and TVs is slowing down, especially in China, as the cost of components and materials rises — Rising costs could be passed on to consumers, chairman of tech titan warns — Taiwan tech titan TSMC says demand for consumer electronics …
Sources: Masayoshi Son tells SoftBank leadership that the company needs to slow investments, amid the Ukraine war, falling tech stocks, and China's crackdown (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Sources: Masayoshi Son tells SoftBank leadership that the company needs to slow investments, amid the Ukraine war, falling tech stocks, and China's crackdown — SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has warned his top executives of the need to slow down further investments, as the world's largest …
How to enable dark theme in Microsoft Excel
Cairo-based Khazna, a "financial super app" that offers BNPL services and more, raises a $38M Series A in debt and equity led by Quona Capital (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Cairo-based Khazna, a “financial super app” that offers BNPL services and more, raises a $38M Series A in debt and equity led by Quona Capital — In a country where 50% of its 100 million people are active smartphone users, two out of every three individuals have little or no access to formal financial services in Egypt.
Sources: Apple is seeking to diversify memory chip suppliers, potentially using China's Yangtze, after Japanese supplier Kioxia lost a batch to contamination (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is seeking to diversify memory chip suppliers, potentially using China's Yangtze, after Japanese supplier Kioxia lost a batch to contamination — Apple Inc. is exploring new sources of the memory chips that go into iPhones, including potentially its first Chinese provider …
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Google adds expanded Markdown support to Docs on the web, off by default, as part of its autocorrect feature (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Google adds expanded Markdown support to Docs on the web, off by default, as part of its autocorrect feature — ## An alternative to keyboard shortcuts — Google is adding Markdown support to Google Docs on the web, letting you format your document using text shortcuts rather than keyboard ones.
A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
Tripp Mickle / New York Times : A look at Jony Ive's work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF's Jackson Square and could...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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It’s that time of year, Silicon Valley’s investor technocrati and advice-giving Twitter celebrities descended upon Pier 48 in San Francisco ...