Good morning and welcome to Monday. Have you ever wondered what a black hole sounds like?

Well you don’t have to anymore, thanks to NASA. Take a listen.

If you pay close attention, you’ll notice it sounds a lot like Dory speaking whale. Ipso facto, whales are aliens. 

We always knew there was something sneaky about those blowholes...

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"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become."

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

🇷🇺 ...one of the most important holidays on the Russian calendar, with an annual parade in Moscow to mark the anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

• The festivities this year will take place amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine, which President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly called a continuation of Russia’s WWII fight against Nazis and fascism.

🪖 A deeper dive… Moscow has scaled down this year’s parade by roughly 35%, according to Forbes, which reported that some of the troops and equipment usually featured in the celebration are currently deployed in Ukraine.

• Some Western analysts predict Putin will use his Victory Day speech to formally declare war on Ukraine and order a national mobilization, allowing reserve Russian troops to be called up for active duty; Moscow has publicly denied these claims.
• Others suggest Russia could use this occasion to declare ‘victory’ in Ukraine, portraying its new land bridge connecting the mainland to the Crimean Peninsula as a triumph.

🇺🇦 Zoom out: ​​Ukraine’s deputy prime minister confirmed on Saturday that “all women, children and elderly people'' have been evacuated from the besieged steel plant in Mariupol, which houses the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the city. Also over the weekend, local authorities in the Luhansk region said a Russian airstrike is believed to have killed 60 people sheltering in a village school.

+In the know: Putin takes Russian anniversaries seriously; his invasion of Ukraine earlier this year came the day after Defender of the Fatherland Day, a celebration of the country's military achievements. In 2014, Putin took the first step in annexing Crimea on that same occasion.

Cerebral, a SoftBank-backed online mental health startup valued at $4.8 billion, is being investigated by the DOJ for possible violations of the Controlled Substances Act, the company disclosed on Saturday.

💊 What’s going on?... Part of the startup's business involves diagnosing and prescribing meds to treat ADHD. In March, the WSJ reported some of Cerebral’s nurse practitioners felt pressured by the company to prescribe stimulants, and also thought Cerebral’s 30-minute evaluations weren’t long enough to accurately diagnose ADHD. 

A former Cerebral exec also filed a lawsuit last month alleging something similar; the company has denied all claims of wrongdoing.

• On May 2, Cerebral’s preferred online pharmacy, Truepill, stopped filling prescriptions for all stimulants “out of an abundance of caution” – a trend seen across the industry, per the WSJ, which reported that pharmacies including Walmart, CVS and Walgreens have blocked or delayed prescriptions for companies treating ADHD online.
• A Cerebral spokesperson said the startup received a DOJ subpoena on the evening of May 4, hours after the company announced it would stop writing new prescriptions for stimulants that treat ADHD, like Adderall and Ritalin.

📸 Big picture: The number of ADHD drugs dispensed in the US rose at an annualized rate of 6.1% ​​from 2010 to 2013 to reach 80 million prescriptions, according to the latest available data. 

• Roughly 14.5 million Americans have ADHD, including 6.1 million children, according to the National Institute of Mental Health and the CDC.

+Our experience: Anyone else getting overwhelmingly targeted with ADHD ads on TikTok?🙋‍♀️

Doctor Strange ​​In The Multiverse Of Madness earned ~$450 million worldwide at the box office this past weekend, the second-biggest opening of the pandemic era behind Spider-Man: No Way Home ($601 million).

🔮 A deeper dive…

• Premium formats accounted for 36% of ticket sales. DS2’s global haul for IMAX tickets alone was $33 million, a May record. (Context: the film was shot using IMAX digital cameras.)
• Another potential draw: The new 3D trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water is exclusively available in theaters before Multiverse; it’s not yet officially online.

☝️🤔 One interesting thing: The estimated domestic audience demographics were 62% male and 16% under age 18.

📸 Big picture: Box office gross revenues are still down 45% compared to 2019. But Doctor Strange 2 is playing in 4,545 theaters, the widest location count of the pandemic era and the fifth-biggest of all time, a sign that the movie business is emerging from the pandemic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

• While overall attendance is still down compared to “normal” times, moviegoer confidence is at or near all-time highs.

🍿 It’s about to be a hot girl blockbuster summer… All debuting before the end of July: Top Gun: Maverick, Jurassic World: Dominion, Lightyear, Minions: The Rise of Gru, and Thor: Love and Thunder.

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Apple, Google and Microsoft announced Thursday morning that they’ve joined forces to build support for passwordless sign-in across all of the mobile, desktop, and browser platforms that they control in the coming year.

⚙️ How it works… To use a rough analogy, this future login process is like two-factor authentication and password managers on steroids.

• When you sign into a website or app on your phone, all you’ll need to do is simply unlock your phone – no separate password needed. Instead, your phone will store a FIDO credential called a passkey which is used to unlock your online account.
• To sign into a website on your computer, you’ll just need your phone nearby since you’ll be prompted to unlock it for access. But after you’ve done this once, you won’t need your phone again and can sign in just by unlocking your computer.

📝🤔 Bottom line: According to Google, this new process makes signing in far more secure, as it’s based on public key cryptography and is only shown to your online account when you unlock your phone.

• Weak and easily guessable passwords account for more than 80% of all data breaches, per Verizon’s annual data breach report.

• ☝️ Art collector Laura Young purchased this marble bust at a Goodwill store in Austin, TX, for $34.99 in 2018; she eventually discovered it was an ancient Roman bust approximately 2,000 years old that had disappeared after WWII.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 💼 The US economy created 428,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 3.6%, per the April jobs report published Friday.
• 🪙 The price of Bitcoin dropped below $34,000 in trading yesterday, down nearly 50% from its all-time high of $67,802 in November.
• 🛻 Ford is selling 8 million of its 102 million shares in EV-maker Rivian, while another unknown investor is selling between 13 and 15 million shares, sources told CNBC.
• 📉 Shares of Peloton fell to a new all-time low on Friday; the company’s market cap is now less than $5 billion, down from ~$50 billion early last year.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏇 80-to-1 longshot Rich Strike won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, marking the second-biggest upset in the race’s 148-year history.
• 📺 Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa was named as the latest Doctor in the BBC’s long-running sci-fi series Dr. Who.
• 🏎️ Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Miami Grand Prix, with Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr. coming in second and third in front of a sold-out crowd of 82,500 fans.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• ☀️✈️ Solar Impulse 2 is a plane covered in solar panels that could theoretically stay in flight for several months without using conventional fuel.
• 🚀 SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut mission returned to Earth on Friday, 177 days after the four astronauts first launched into space.
• 🫀 A modified pig heart used in a groundbreaking – but ultimately unsuccessful – surgery in January was found to have been infected with an animal virus, suggesting the eventual cause of death wasn’t from the transplant itself, according to the surgeon who performed the transplant. (Background from the DONUT)

EVERYTHING ELSE

• 🇭🇰 John Lee, Hong Kong’s former security secretary who led the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2019, ran unopposed in Sunday’s election to replace the country’s current leader, Carrie Lam.
• 🚢 The FBI said it found evidence incriminating Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov in US crimes onboard his $300+ million superyacht; the vessel was seized by Fijian authorities last Thursday.
• 🇦🇫 The Taliban on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public and to leave their homes only when necessary, with punishments to be enforced on their male relatives. (From the Left | From the Right)

💬 Quoted… “In a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us in half an hour.” ​

• The head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos claimed Moscow could quickly wipe the entirety of NATO off the map should a nuclear war break out, but warned that “we must not allow it” since the fallout would "affect the state of our Earth.”

🍼 Stat of the Day: Nearly 40% of popular baby formula brands were sold out at US retailers during the week starting April 24, according to an analysis by Datasembly.

• +Bonus baby stats: Liam was the most popular name for boys in the US for a fifth straight year, while Olivia took the No. 1 spot for girls for the third year running, according to new gov’t data.

🌏 Around the World: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency for the second time in just over a month amidst widespread public protests over an economic crisis.

🤯 Did You Know?... Dr. Dre reportedly lost $200 million – and the title of ‘first billionaire in hip-hop’ – after a video was posted to actor/musician Tyrese Gibson's Instagram account showing Dre celebrating Apple’s $3 billion agreement to purchase headphone company Beats when the deal had not yet been finalized.

📖 Worth a Read: A Doctor's Struggles with Giving up Sugar → (The Guardian)

Monday: The Phillippines head to the polls to elect President Rodrigo Duterte’s successor

Tuesday: Midterm election primaries in ID, KY, NY, OR and PA; Eurovision kicks off

Wednesday: Senate to vote on codifying abortion into law; April's Consumer Price Index

Thursday: Weekly unemployment claims

Friday: the 13th👻

This adorable ball of smiles is Isa, winner of Gerber's annual photo search contest for the official Gerber Spokesbaby.

👶 🍼 Chief Growing Officer... Isa was born in Edmond, Oklahoma, last September. Mom Meredith Slish describes her daughter as a "strong, amazing little girl... Her smile lights up the room and her laughter is irresistible!"

• Isa is different from most babies, having been born without a femur or fibula in her right leg. Meredith is hopeful her daughter's story will "bring more awareness for limb differences and create greater inclusion for children like her." 

Isa's win marks a special year for Gerber; the company is matching her cash prize for the first time with a $25,000 donation to the nonprofit March of Dimes' maternal and infant health programs. 

Hint: Three are in Asia, one is in South America, and the other is in North America.

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1. Tokyo, Japan (37.4 million)
2. Delhi, India (29.4 million)
3. Shanghai, China (26.3 million)
4. São Paulo, Brazil (21.8 million)
5. Mexico City, Mexico (21.6 million)

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