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Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% in 2019, highlighting the challenge of net zero emissions

GeekWire

Amazon has pledged to make its retail and cloud-computing operations “net carbon zero” by 2040, but its newly released 2019 sustainability report shows that greenhouse gas emissions rose over the previous year by 15%. (Jordan Stead / Amazon Photo).

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Airbnb valued at $100 billion following blockbuster IPO — equivalent of more than five Expedias

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billion for the same period in 2019. Meanwhile, its net loss more than doubled to $696 million for the first nine months of this year, sparked in part by the decline in the travel business due to COVID-19. By comparison, Expedia Group posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2019. That compared to $3.6 billion.

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What to expect from Tesla’s AI day event

The Verge

A lot has happened between the 2019 event and now. In 2019, Musk teased this “super powerful training computer,” which he referred to as “Dojo.”. Tesla is developing a [neural net] training computer called Dojo to process truly vast amounts of video data,” he later tweeted. It’s a beast!”. It’s a beast!”.

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Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

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With a self-asserted reach of more than 200 million monthly downloads in 2019, Rogan is one of the biggest — if not the biggest — podcaster in the world. To do this, we pulled data from the analytics tool Social Blade to track the Twitter following of every guest who went on Rogan’s podcast between December 2019 and July 2021.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

Rewind the clock back to 2019, and Nvidia’s market value was hovering around $100 billion. Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO and one of its founders, has a personal net worth that currently hovers around $70 billion, an over 1,700 percent increase since 2019. Nvidia is arguably the biggest winner in the AI industry.

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Mixer co-founder on Microsoft pulling the plug, Twitch’s market power, and his startup journey

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I think a lot of people understate how small Twitch is in comparison to YouTube Gaming, not in terms of live content, but if you look at total viewing hours across the platform, Twitch is actually quite small, relatively speaking, actually a pretty niche thing. — Matt (@MattSalsamendi) October 10, 2019.

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Rivian goes public in one of the biggest IPOs ever

The Verge

That gave Rivian an overall valuation of nearly $80 billion and helped it net $12 billion in fresh cash, despite the fact that it only just recently started to make and ship its first electric pickup trucks. In early 2019, it announced a $700 million funding round led by Amazon and then a $500 million investment from Ford.