💳 Disney is exploring a membership program akin to Amazon Prime

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Disney Explores Amazon Prime-Like Membership Program to Offer Discounts and Perks. Walt Disney is exploring a membership program that could offer discounts or special perks to encourage customers to spend more on its streaming services, theme parks, resorts and merchandise, according to people familiar with the discussions. (Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal)

Jessica Toonkel @jtoonkel

SCOOP: Disney is exploring a membership program akin to Amazon Prime, Commerce Coming to Disney+ w/@sarahbykrouse wsj.com/articles/disne… via @WSJ

wsj.comWSJ News Exclusive | Disney Explores Membership Program Like Amazon Prime to Offer Discounts and PerksThe entertainment giant looks to package streaming, parks and merchandise offerings together. It also aims to add a commerce feature to its Disney+ streaming service.

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What does GPT-3 'know' about me?. Up to that point, like many people, I'd carelessly littered the internet with my data: personal blog posts, embarrassing photo albums from nights out, posts about my location, relationship status, and political preferences, out in the open for… (Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review)

Melissa Heikkilä @Melissahei

Large language models are trained on vast datasets scraped from the internet. This inevitably includes personal data such as addresses, phone numbers and emails. I wanted to know—what do these models have on me?

technologyreview.comWhat does GPT-3 “know” about me?Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?

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Meta is planning more paid features for Facebook and Instagram. Meta is setting up a product organization to identify and build “possible paid features” for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, according to an internal memo sent to employees last week that was obtained by The Verge. The new division… (Alex Heath / The Verge)

Alex Heath @alexeheath

Meta is forming a new division to build paid features for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp VP of Monetization @johnwhegeman tells me that Meta wants paid features to be a bigger part of the biz over time. (No, you won’t be able to pay to turn off ads.)

theverge.comMeta is planning more paid features for Facebook and InstagramNo, you won’t be able to pay to turn off ads.

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FDA authorizes Covid booster shots that target omicron BA.5 variant. The FDA authorized booster shots that target the omicron BA.5 variant. It is the first time the FDA has authorized an updated vaccine formula since the shots started in Dec. 2020. The new boosters are expected to roll out to the public after Labor… (Spencer Kimball / CNBC)

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🌻 @meganranney

Big news!! The new bivalent boosters (with added BA4/BA5-specificity) have been approved by @US_FDA for age 12+ (Pfizer)/age 18+ (Moderna). These are the first new formulations since the OG versions in December 2020.

cnbc.comFDA authorizes Covid booster shots that target omicron BA.5 variantIt is the first time the FDA has authorized an updated vaccine formula since the shots rolled out in December 2020.

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Ticketmaster taps the Flow blockchain to let event organizers issue NFTs tied to tickets. Ticketmaster will now let event organizers issue NFTs (non-fungible tokens) tied to tickets on Flow, a blockchain operated by a16z-backed Dapper Labs. The Live Nation subsidiary said that event… (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

Ticketmaster taps the Flow blockchain to let event organizers issue NFTs tied to tickets tcrn.ch/3AEQQ3v by @IndianIdle

tcrn.chTicketmaster taps Flow to let events issue NFTs tied to tickets – TechCrunchTicketmaster is exploring the possibilities around web3, perhaps as a marketing tool or to see if it helps garner more fan engagement.

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