Tue. 05/17 – Sigh… More Elon/Twitter Stuff

Now Elon says he can’t move forward with the deal until he gets solid answers from Twitter about the bot issue, even though, we have the paperwork of his original offer and there were no contingencies about bot numbers, and he totally could have written that into the deal. Will Apple use E Ink on their foldable device? Coinbase is slowing hiring, while Microsoft is boosting pay. And a big test of driver assist systems says they’re still not as reliable as we all hope they are.

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Links:

• Elon Musk Says Twitter Must Prove Bot Claims for $44 Billion Deal to Proceed (Bloomberg)
• Apple ‘testing’ foldable with secondary E Ink display, says analyst (The Verge)
• Apple Now Letting Developers Automatically Charge for Some Subscription Price Increases (MacRumors)
• Coinbase Expands Features, Allowing Some App Users to Access Ethereum-Based Dapps (CoinDesk)
• Coinbase slows hiring to help weather market downturn (The Block)
• Satya Nadella details Microsoft plan for ‘significant additional investment’ in employee compensation (GeekWire)
• Report spotlights vast scale of adtech's 'biggest data breach' (TechCrunch)
• Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests (The Register)

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