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Image Credits:   Leon Neal   /   Getty Images With vaccination rates slowing in the U.S., the White House is getting creative about getting shots in arms. Beyond protecting yourself and others from a deadly disease, the latest incentive to get vaccinated could help you find love (or get laid). CLICK HERE TO EARN MONEY, FOR JUST PUTTING A LITTLE EFFORT The White House COVID-19 response team announced Friday that a number of popular dating apps would offer new perks for users who get vaccinated, with Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, BLK, Chispa, Plenty of Fish and Badoo all participating in the promotional push. The White House hopes to make inroads with the 50 million users across those dating apps where they’re already spending time. On Tinder, anyone who adds a sticker to their profile promoting their vaccination status between June 2 and July 4 will be   gifted a free Super Like . (Proof of vaccination isn’t necessary, but really, you should get vaccinated if it’s available

Snap acquires AR startup WaveOptics, which provides tech for Spectacles, for over $500M Ingrid Lunden @ingridlunden   /   2:30 PM GMT • May 21, 2021 Image Credits:   Snap Snap yesterday announced the   latest iteration of its Spectacles augmented reality glasses , and today the company revealed a bit more news: it is also acquiring the startup that supplied the technology that helps power them. The Snapchat parent is snapping up   WaveOptics , an AR startup that makes the waveguides and projectors used in AR glasses. These overlay virtual images on top of the views of the real world someone wearing the glasses can see, and Snap worked with WaveOptics to build its latest version of Spectacles. The deal was first reported by   The Verge , and a spokesperson for Snap directly confirmed the details to TechCrunch. Snap is paying over $500 million for the startup, in a cash-and-stock deal. The first half of that will be coming in the form of stock when the deal officially closes, and the rem

Ethan Choi is a partner at   Accel , where he invests in SaaS companies that are redefining workflow and collaboration, enterprise automation and e-commerce infrastructure. He also focuses on consumer internet companies and online marketplaces. In 2016, more   than 20 years after Amazon’s founding and 10 years since Shopify launched, it would have been easy to assume e-commerce penetration (the percentage of total retail spend where the goods were bought and sold online) would be over 50%. But what we found was shocking: The U.S. was only approximately 8% penetrated — only 8% for arguably the most advanced economy in the world! We’ve had a close eye on the rate of e-commerce penetration globally ever since. Despite e-commerce growth skyrocketing over the past year, the reality is the U.S. has still only reached an e-commerce penetration rate of around 17%. During the last 18 months, we’ve closed the gap to South Korea and China’s e-commerce penetration of more than 25%, but there is st

Everyone knows by now that Netflix is an absolute beast when it comes to the sheer volume of entertainment it produces from one month to the next, keeping its tens of millions of subscribers busy enjoying tons of new TV and film content. To use   the month of May   as just one example, that new supply of content includes everything from Netflix original series like   Jupiter’s Legacy , the new Netflix original Korean drama   Move to Heaven   and   Love, Death & Robots: Volume 2   to such Netflix original films as   Army of the Dead , starring   Dave Bautista , and   The Woman in the Window   — the latter of which is actually among the top streaming movies across all of the major streaming platforms right now. That distinction comes via the   streaming search engine service Reelgood , which has the Amy Adams-led movie atop its rankings of the most-watched streaming movies for the week of May 12-18. But before you check the movie out, you should probably be aware of a few things firs