According to The Guardian, the campaign they’re funding is spending over $1 million per day trying to defeat Proposition 40, which would enact a one-time 5 percent tax on California’s billionaires. Google co-founder Sergey Brin is reportedly the biggest donor, contributing at least $102 million, alongside other tech executives: > The donors to the no campaign are a who’s who of Silicon Valley, including the Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, crypto magnate Chris Larsen and several prominent venture capitalists.

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You’ve got to hear both sides?

With public opinion broadly against AI data centers, the Today, Explained podcast from Vox brought on Nicole Thomas, a marketing and PR exec who represents data center companies. The “for” arguments are familiar (tax dollars, not all data centers are XXL-sized hyperscaler AI projects, and that what is needed is more transparency), and they also look at some of the attempts to make data centers friendlier, like Microsoft’s biomimicry camouflage. [Media: https://megaphone.link/VMP8675260688]

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The new Apple TV 4K just got its first (very small) discount

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The new Apple TV 4K just got its first (very small) discount

The electric screwdriver’s half off.

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Analogue is re-releasing its SNES and Genesis consoles with some nice upgrades

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Analogue is re-releasing its SNES and Genesis consoles with some nice upgrades

Analogue’s SNES and Genesis consoles are back with upgrades.

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A fake WhatsApp clone is showing up before the real version on the Play Store

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A fake WhatsApp clone is showing up before the real version on the Play Store

Watch out for impostor apps on the Play Store.

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A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

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A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops

We tested Nvidia’s pricey “superchip.”

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Watch this deep dive into the engineering work that went into the flying Tesla Roadster.

Hagerty’s Henry Catchpool sat down with Tesla VP for Engineering Lars Moravy to talk through the details of last night’s impressive Tesla Roadster demonstration. But behind all the flipping and flying (falling?) stunt work is some impressive engineering — as well as some surprising reveals. (The Roadster is rear-wheel drive?!?) [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22rvpUecLts]

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