Tipping is taking over the internet
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Nearly every major social platform has recently introduced some form of tipping, allowing users to directly support their favorite personalities in real time.
Why it matters: Creators have been fueling engagement on social media platforms for years, but only now that the creator economy is maturing are they actually able to make money directly from their fans.
Driving the news:
Twitter is working on adding a “Tip Jar” feature within @TwitterSpaces and on users’ main profiles, software engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered this week. This is in addition to its new Super Follows feature, which allows users to charge followers for special content.
How the European Super League collapsed in spectacular fashion Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
Plans for a European Super League fell apart on Tuesday, just two days after the proposed soccer competition was announced.
How it went down: Manchester City, one of the six English Premier League clubs set to join the 12-team breakaway league, was the first to confirm it was out.
Within hours, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham, and Liverpool announced that they, too, were walking away.
Inter Milan and Atlético Madrid followed, leaving the remaining clubs Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan with little choice but to abandon the proposal.
The all-purpose disease pathogen test
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Faster and cheaper genetic sequencing can give us the ability to test for almost any infectious pathogen provided we use it.
Why it matters: Doctors never identify the causative agents of many infections, leading them to misdiagnose patients and even miss the early emergence of new diseases, but wider use of genetic sequencing promises a future in which no virus will be left behind.
Driving the news: On Friday, the White House announced the federal government would invest $1.7 billion from the American Rescue Plan to improve the detection, monitoring and mitigation of COVID-19 variants, including funding to shore up the country s lagging genomic sequencing efforts.
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Russia is menacing Ukraine’s borders, China is sending increasingly ominous signals over Taiwan and Iran is accelerating its uranium enrichment to unprecedented levels.
The big picture: Ukraine, Taiwan and Iran’s nuclear program always loomed large on the menu of potential crises President Biden could face. But over the last several days, the lights have been blinking red on all three fronts all at once.
Driving the news: Within 24 hours beginning last Sunday, an explosion rocked Iran’s underground nuclear site at Natanz, 25 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan’s air defense zone, and Ukraine announced that the number of Russian troops massing in Crimea and on its eastern border had risen to 80,000.
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