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- Source: Clubhouse's latest round values the startup at $4B (Elizabeth Culliford/Reuters)
- Sources: Facebook will announce a suite of audio products on Monday, including a Clubhouse-like app, a podcast discovery product connected to Spotify, and more (Peter Kafka/Vox)
- Clubhouse has raised a Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, with DST Global, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil participating (Clubhouse)
- A look at lobbying efforts by Facebook, Apple, Google and others in Connecticut, Texas, and other US states crafting consumer privacy bills (Todd Feathers/The Markup)
- A look back at the netbook explosion of the late 2000s and how iPads, Chromebooks, and appliance-like computers took the netbook's place (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
- A former alt-right YouTuber details how he tailored videos for the "echo chamber", including focusing squarely on confrontations to drive views on YouTube (Cade Metz/New York Times)
- Roblox is working on content ratings for games and on ways to make parental controls easier to find and use, to address sexual content issues on its platform (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
- Charles "Chuck" Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, has died at 81 (Fiona Kelliher/Mercury News)
- Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the "double Irish" tax scheme (Will Goodbody/RTÉ)
- US investigators probing a breach at Codecov, a software auditing company, that affected some of its 29K customers; the breach was in Jan. but detected in April (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
- Company officials, victims, experts, and intel officials discuss the SolarWinds hack, which successfully compromised ~100 companies and a dozen govt. agencies (Dina Temple-Raston/NPR)
- How Aurora, now the owner of Uber's ATG, is moving to bring its self-driving tech to market via deals with Volvo in trucking, Uber and Toyota in taxis, more (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake and give up control to appease Chinese regulators (Julie Zhu/Reuters)
- Twitter says it is "investigating a possible system irregularity currently affecting all Twitter API v2 endpoints" that is causing issues for some users (Kim Lyons/The Verge)
- Big tech whistleblowers describe the severe emotional toll that standing up to gigantic companies takes and how it sets them on the path to advocacy (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
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- Wisdom from a crypto billionaire, plus a risk-free bitcoin trade that could pay double-digit returns
- Nearly two-thirds of Trump voters disapprove of Meghan Markle, while Biden voters overwhelmingly like her: poll
- A fiery Tesla crash killed two people outside of Houston. Authorities say nobody was driving.
- New poll indicates most Americans want to end lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices
- Dramatic video shows World War II-era TBM Avenger making emergency landing next to people on Florida beach
- Watch NASA mission control live as the Ingenuity helicopter attempts to fly on Mars on Monday
- Sen. Ted Cruz accused Rep. Maxine Waters of 'actively encouraging riots and violence' after she protested the police killing of Daunte Wright
- George W. Bush said failing to pass immigration reform was one of the 'biggest disappointments' of his presidency
- John Boehner: The 'so-called America First Caucus' is 'one of the nuttiest things I've ever seen'
- Dr. Fauci responds to uptick in gun violence in the US: 'How can you say that's not a public health issue?'
- WATCH: US regulator released a terrifying video of a child being dragged under a Peloton treadmill to drive home their urgent warning about the equipment
- About a dozen OAN employees have quit in recent months as some staffers don't believe the stories run on air, report says
- Boehner said the Capitol riot was 'one of the saddest days' of his life and he would rather set himself 'on fire than run for office again'
- National security advisor says Russia will face 'consequences' if Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies
- SpaceX's NASA contract has sparked reaction from industry figures seeking details. Blue Origin says it is 'looking to learn more about the selection.'
- Mercedes will bring a compact electric SUV to the US in 2022 - check out the EQB
- Biden golfed as president for the first time on his 87th day in office. Trump played on his 15th.
- 'No personal liberties were taken away': Joe Scarborough blasts Jim Jordan for spreading 'lies' about Fauci
- Fauci says 'kids of any age' should be able to get vaccinated for the coronavirus by the first quarter of 2022
- Fauci hopeful on upcoming Johnson & Johnson vaccine decision: 'We will get it back in some manner or form'
- Insurrectionists who posted social media footage of the Capitol riots are claiming to be journalists in their legal defenses, report says
- Fauci says a COVID-19 booster shot is a 'public health decision' and not up to companies like Pfizer and Moderna
- Nicholas Bloom is America's best work-from-home expert. He says the remote work revolution is 'only halfway through.'
- Software company LifeOmic pays its staff extra cash to sleep well and improve their diet. An employee explains how his health has drastically improved as a result.
- Planned Parenthood CEO calls out founder for her 'association with white supremacist groups and eugenics'
- The recent slew of anti-trans bills shows the GOP brand is built on blocking progress and keeping marginalized people down
- An AI-powered version of Albert Einstein has joined UneeQ's growing lineup of 'digital humans'
- 3 ways officials can improve COVID-19 public health messaging, according to science communication experts
- The top 9 shows on Netflix this week, from 'This Is a Robbery' to 'The Serpent'
- A day in the life of a 23-year-old, 6-figure-earning marketing entrepreneur who started as a waitress at Steak-n-Shake
- I am a Leftist, trans woman living in the rural South and a gun owner. Biden's proposed gun control legislation will only help the far right.
- I'm a millennial who bought a Brooklyn apartment this year, and I was only able to because of the pandemic
- I tried Walmart's grocery pickup and now I'm never going back to shopping in store
- COVID-19 cases in Florida since the spring break have surged and deaths from new variants are mounting
- The 19 electric vehicles you can buy new right now, from Mini's $30,000 hatchback to Porsche's $185,000 super sedan
- Women are taking a 'rain check' on babies, and it could change the shape of the economy
- I flew on Southwest and Alaska, the two airlines competing to be the best of the West Coast and the winner is abundantly clear
- When it comes to China, the US need to figure out which fights are principled, and which fights are petty
- A SpaceX astronaut family: Megan McArthur is about to pilot the spaceship her husband, Bob Behnken, flew last year
- Photos show ancient Egyptian artifacts and skeletons found in a 'lost golden city' built by King Tut's grandfather
- Google cofounder Sergey Brin has been working on a secretive airship company for over 4 years. Here's how the billionaire plans to use the 'air yacht' to deliver humanitarian aid.
- Cops can't be allowed to police themselves if we want real criminal justice reform
- A fintech head breaks down the 'religious' properties that make bitcoin the top cryptocurrency - and says Chamath Palihapitiya and Jack Dorsey are so devout that they ignore other crypto innovations
- Amazon has cancelled its 'Lord of the Rings' multiplayer video game
- CVS is investing in healthy food and Beyond Meat burgers, which could drastically improve quality food choices to Americans in "food deserts"
- Nearly half of Americans are too nervous to invest in stocks right now, new survey shows
- The Archegos meltdown caused huge messes at some of the world's largest banks - but it also proved the post-financial crisis rules made us safer
- I visited the newly renovated AmEx Centurion Lounge at Las Vegas airport and it was the best way to spend a layover in Sin City
- A fight over Trump's SALT tax cap is threatening to derail Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan
- Bitcoin plummets more than 10% in its biggest drop in months, just days after reaching a record high
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