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Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B, and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B, and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit  —  Ride-hailing company posts weaker than expected first-quarter revenues but issues optimistic outlook

Captain America: Civil War took the MCU down the wrong path

The movie itself is plenty fun, but Captain America: Civil War helped bring about the end of the MCU's golden age

The clippening

Earlier this year, after a tumultuous period serving as the former second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino went back to what he is perhaps known best for: video podcasting. After Bongino exited the role in January, he began promotion for the return of his podcast, The Dan Bongino Show. He bought out a billboard in […]

Document: SpaceX proposes a $55B investment to build a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County, Texas, with potential total capital expenditures reaching $119B (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Document: SpaceX proposes a $55B investment to build a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County, Texas, with potential total capital expenditures reaching $119B  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX is proposing to spend $55 billion to begin construction of a new semiconductor production facility in Texas …

Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their available desktop device storage are now discovering that Chrome is installing a 4GB weights.bin […]