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Good morning. ICYMI: Saturday Night Live announced Elon Musk will be hosting the show on May 8, making him the first Twitter comedian to achieve such a coveted gig.
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*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 9:00pm ET.
Here's what these numbers mean.
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Markets: Are we in a bubble? “The
price of lumber has shot up to all-time highs. Residential home sales in
the US are at levels last seen in 2006, before the housing bubble
collapsed. And stocks are on a tear,” writes the WSJ. Suppose we’ll find out.
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Covid: Americans who have been fully vaccinated
will be able to travel to EU countries this summer, the president of
the European Commission told the NYT. Can't wait to put all the new
languages we learned over the pandemic into practice.
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This week, Apple is rolling out its iOS 14.5 software update for iPhone users, including...
- The ability to unlock phones with your face while wearing a mask
- 217 new emoji to express emotions you didn’t even know you had
- Support for the new AirTag Bluetooth device tracker
But there’s
one particular iOS 14.5 update that’s less “oh neat!” and more “this
could shake up the $105 billion mobile ad industry.”
It’s called App Tracking Transparency
With this
new feature, apps will be required to ask for your permission to track
your activity across the internet. That data is crucial to advertisers
who want to use your internet history to show you ads you’re more likely
to click on.
- Problem for advertisers is, when you ask someone whether they want to be tracked or not, the majority say no.
So why is Apple doing it? It’s part of CEO Tim Cook’s push to add more privacy features to Apple’s ecosystem. Here’s Cook at a privacy conference in January:
- “Technology
does not need vast troves of personal data, stitched together across
dozens of websites and apps, in order to succeed.”
- “If a
business is built on misleading users, on data exploitation, on choices
that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve our praise. It
deserves reform.”
Sound like a business you know?
Facebook took to App Tracking Transparency like a foot to a stray Lego piece. In a PR blitz following Apple’s announcement, it argued
that small businesses would be hurt without the ability to send users
targeted FB ads. Whether Facebook’s ad biz will be dinged as much as it
says it will is unclear, but other apps like Snap and Bumble have warned that Apple’s moves could be harmful.
Bottom line: Apple’s
aggressive privacy measures are putting competitors on the back foot,
but they could also invite even more antitrust scrutiny to its dominance
of the app economy.
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After taking a mostly “not my problem” approach to India’s brutal second wave of the coronavirus, yesterday the US said help was on the way.
It pledged to send therapeutics, rapid diagnostic test kits,
ventilators, and PPE, as well as the raw materials required to produce
AstraZeneca’s vaccine.
- Other countries including the UK, France, Germany, and Pakistan are also sending supplies.
The situation is desperate: On Sunday, coronavirus cases in India climbed to a record high for the fourth straight day.
Reports describe patients dying in hospitals due to lack of oxygen and
funeral pyres lighting up the sky. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the
second wave, fueled by the variant B1617, had “shaken the nation.”
One action the US has not taken is to send India the AstraZeneca vaccines it had stockpiled. Yesterday, Dr. Fauci said releasing those vaccines, which are not yet approved in the US, is going to be “something that is up for active consideration.”
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Last night, the 93rd Academy Awards gave us an awkward moment to nearly rival Adele Dazeem or the La La Land/Moonlight mixup.
What happened: While
typically the Best Picture category closes out the show, the producers
swapped the order so that Best Actor would go last. The late Chadwick
Boseman was the odds-on favorite to win the award, in which case the
event would close on a poignant note. But he didn’t win—Anthony Hopkins
did—and Hopkins wasn’t even in attendance. So the entire show ended as
abruptly as a Zoom meeting.
Of course,
that wasn’t the only notable thing about last night’s Oscars, which was
hosted in a number of locations including Union Station, LA’s iconic
transportation hub.
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Nomadland had a big night. It won Best Picture and Chloé Zhao
became the first woman of color to win Best Director. Zhao is only the
second woman ever to win the award, after Kathryn Bigelow earned it for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
- Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson became the first Black women to win an Oscar for makeup and hairstyling for their work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Zoom out: Typically,
Oscar season means big box office bumps for nominees and winners, but
with many movie theaters under Covid restrictions the eight Best Picture
nominees’ total earnings have barely hit $35 million.
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Quote: “So, what’s up, Eden Park?”
Singer Matiu Walters of the band Six60 addressed a crowd of more than 50,000 in New Zealand Saturday night, the largest concert anywhere since the pandemic started.
Stat: Almost 8% of Americans who received their first Pfizer or Moderna vaccine missed their next shot.
Read: How bitcoin, Ethereum, and other technologies could point the way to new systems of governance. (City Journal)
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Biden watch: On
Wednesday, the president will address a joint session of Congress. He’s
expected to outline his American Families Plan, which will reportedly
be paid for by tax hikes on wealthy Americans’ capital gains.
Fed meeting: Before
Biden speaks, Wednesday afternoon Fed Chair Jerome Powell will hold a
press conference following the Fed’s meeting. No big policy changes are
expected.
Economic data: Watch out for the Q1 GDP number on Thursday and inflation data on Friday.
Earnings: It’s
a monster week, with a third of the S&P 500 reporting results for
the previous quarter. Highlights include Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet,
Apple, Boeing, Facebook, Amazon, McDonald’s, and Twitter.
Everything else:
- The NFL Draft is on Thursday. And good news, everyone: Commissioner Roger Goodell has been fully vaccinated and can hug the players who attend, per Adam Schefter.
- Friday is Biden’s 100th day in office.
- And on Saturday…
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President Biden
officially declared the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman
Empire a “genocide.” The declaration is expected to test the US’
relationship with Turkey.
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11 astronauts
are now on the International Space Station after a SpaceX capsule
docked on Saturday. It’s the biggest ISS population in more than a
decade.
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At least 82 people were killed at a Covid-19 hospital in Baghdad after an oxygen tank exploded and set the building on fire.
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The CEO of Cameo on the new game of fame.
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The Battle of the Joshes was fought in Lincoln, NE, over the weekend.
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