A very valuable chat app: My colleagues reported that Discord, a messaging app that is popular for group video games, has discussed selling the company to Microsoft. A sale may never happen, but the price that was discussed was more than $10 billion.
Meet Dr. Zoom: Some medical schools have held cadaver dissection by simulation software during the pandemic, and, yes, it’s as weird as it sounds. My colleague Emma Goldberg talked to physicians in training about how they’ve adapted to virtual learning in what is typically very hands-on education.
Want to feel old and irrelevant?! Ryan Kaji is 9. His family generates $30 million in annual revenue from YouTube channels of Ryan opening new toys, exercising and doing craft projects. His family told Bloomberg News that the real money from those videos comes from sales of related merchandise like branded toys and clothes.

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It’s officially spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. Chill out to this stunning video of robins. (This was recommended by The New York Times Cooking newsletter.)

Note: I made a mistake in Monday’s newsletter. I said that e-commerce sales in the United States were about $800 million in 2020. The correct figure was $800 billion. Thank you to the On Tech readers who spotted this.
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