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Drought, not lithium mining, is drying out Chile's largest salt flat

Drought, not lithium mining, is drying out Chile's largest...

Lithium mining has been blamed for the drying out of a region in the Andes where...

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Planets around graveyard star were consumed before Earth was even born

Planets around graveyard star were consumed before Earth...

A strangely cool star that has been dead for more than 10 billion years contains...

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Sources: Elon Musk is weighing adding paid DMs to let users privately message "Very Important Tweeters"; docs: Twitter Blue checks won't require ID verification (New York Times)

Sources: Elon Musk is weighing adding paid DMs to let users...

New York Times:Sources: Elon Musk is weighing adding paid DMs to let users privately...

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PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.85B, vs. $6.81B est., and payments volume up 14% YoY to $337B, vs. $343.2B est.; stock drops 8%+ on lower FY forecast (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)

PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.85B, vs. $6.81B...

Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg:PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.85B, vs....

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Block Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $4.52B, vs. $4.49B est., gross profit up 38% YoY to $1.57B, vs. $1.53B est., and Cash App gross profit up 51% YoY; stock up 12%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Block Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $4.52B, vs. $4.49B est.,...

Kif Leswing / CNBC:Block Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $4.52B, vs. $4.49B est., gross...

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Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 33% YoY to $983M, vs. $972.2M est., 280K+ active customer accounts, and Q4 revenue guidance below estimates; the stock drops 15%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 33% YoY to $983M, vs. $972.2M...

Jordan Novet / CNBC:Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 33% YoY to $983M, vs. $972.2M est.,...

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General Mills and Audi paused Twitter ads, and sources say Pfizer and Mondelez have as well, as concern over content moderation grows (Wall Street Journal)

General Mills and Audi paused Twitter ads, and sources...

Wall Street Journal:General Mills and Audi paused Twitter ads, and sources say Pfizer...

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Sources: Twitter plans to shut down newsletter platform Revue, acquired in January 2021, by the end of 2022, and has paused its four-month-old Notes product (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Sources: Twitter plans to shut down newsletter platform...

Casey Newton / Platformer:Sources: Twitter plans to shut down newsletter platform...

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Sources: Apple paused hiring in October for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and standard hardware and software engineering roles (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple paused hiring in October for many jobs outside...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:Sources: Apple paused hiring in October for many jobs outside...

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Twitter emailed staff to say layoffs begin on Friday with a "Your Role at Twitter" email to their company account if they're employed and their personal if not (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)

Twitter emailed staff to say layoffs begin on Friday with...

Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:Twitter emailed staff to say layoffs begin on Friday...

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PayPal plans to support iPhone's Tap to Pay in its PayPal and Venmo iOS apps "soon", add Apple Pay to its checkout options on merchant platforms, and more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

PayPal plans to support iPhone's Tap to Pay in its PayPal...

Juli Clover / MacRumors:PayPal plans to support iPhone's Tap to Pay in its PayPal...

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Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter's teams to find up to $1B in annual infrastructure cost savings, including reduced spending on cloud services and server space (Reuters)

Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter's teams to find up to $1B...

Reuters:Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter's teams to find up to $1B in annual infrastructure...

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Momento, which offers a "serverless cache" optimized for cloud computing that it claims developers can add with ~5 lines of code, exits stealth with a $15M seed (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Momento, which offers a "serverless cache" optimized for...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Momento, which offers a “serverless cache” optimized for...

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Atlassian reports Q1 revenue up 31% YoY to $807.4M, vs. $806.4M est., and forecasts lower than expected Q2 revenue; stock drops 20%+ after falling 54% in 2022 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Atlassian reports Q1 revenue up 31% YoY to $807.4M, vs....

Jordan Novet / CNBC:Atlassian reports Q1 revenue up 31% YoY to $807.4M, vs. $806.4M...

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Twitter workers file a class-action lawsuit against the company in San Francisco for mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days' notice, per the WARN Act (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)

Twitter workers file a class-action lawsuit against the...

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:Twitter workers file a class-action lawsuit against the...

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AMD unveils the RX 7900 XTX for $999 and the lower powered RX 7900 XT for $899, its first GPUs built on its RDNA 3 chiplet architecture, shipping on December 13 (The Verge)

AMD unveils the RX 7900 XTX for $999 and the lower powered...

The Verge:AMD unveils the RX 7900 XTX for $999 and the lower powered RX 7900 XT...