📸 A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate

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A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate. For $29.99 a month, a website called PimEyes offers a potentially dangerous superpower from the world of science fiction: the ability to search for a face, finding obscure photos that would otherwise have been as safe as the proverbial needle in… (Kashmir Hill / The New York Times)

Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18

When @kashhill started reporting this piece on a facial recognition software, she asked to run a selfie of me to see what it would uncover. It turned up a photo I had never seen before. Here’s me at Coachella 11 years ago posted on a random French blog. nytimes.com/2022/05/26/tec…

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The Collison Brothers Built Stripe Into A $95 Billion Unicorn With Eye-Popping Financials. Inside Their Plan To Stay On Top. Billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison built Stripe into one of the world’s most-hyped, highest valued — and profitable! — startups, worth some $95 billion. Now they must stave off going from disruptor to disrupted. (Alex Konrad / Forbes)

Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad

Exclusive: Patrick and John Collison built Stripe into one of the world’s biggest startups. But they're facing new challenges as they look to “grow the GDP of the internet.” I flew to Dublin to learn more first-hand for my newest @Forbes cover story. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

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First-quarter GDP declined 1.5%, worse than thought; jobless claims edge lower. First-quarter GDP declined at a 1.5% annual pace, worse than the 1.3% Dow Jones estimate and a writedown from the initially reported 1.4%. The pullback in GDP represented the worst quarter since the pandemic-scarred Q2 of 2020. Initial jobless… (Jeff Cox / CNBC)

CNBC Now @CNBCnow

First-quarter GDP declined at a 1.5% annual pace, worse than expected. Initial jobless claims also declined, totaling 210,000, a drop of 8,000 from the previous week.

cnbc.comFirst-quarter GDP declined 1.5%, worse than thought; jobless claims edge lowerThe U.S. economic contraction to start the year was worse than expected as weak business and private investment failed to offset strong consumer spending.

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Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal. Sometimes when there is smoke, there is actually fire. Such was the case with the rumors of Broadcom's interest in VMware this past weekend. It turns out that fire was burning hot and today… (Ron Miller / TechCrunch)

Ron Miller @ron_miller

It's official: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B in a cash and stock deal. Details here: tcrn.ch/3LQrCTb

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Apple Supplier Faces Worker Revolt in Locked Down China Factory. Violent clashes, mounting infections and vacant factory floors: the turmoil that's engulfed tens of thousands of workers at an Apple Inc. supplier in Shanghai is a troubling symptom of China's extreme efforts to keep factories humming during its… (Bloomberg)

Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1

The human story behind some of the "supply chain disruptions" stemming from China that are being reported on countless corporate earnings calls:

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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