Day: February 8, 2021

SoftBank likens itself to a goose laying ‘golden eggs’ as Vision Fund boasts best results since 2017

What would that make WeWork then? SoftBank’s Vision Fund, the investment vehicle behind Uber and WeWork, is riding high-flying technology stock, posting its biggest profit for years.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


A Modern Homage To The TIL311 Display

Back in the 1970s, there were a huge variety of esoteric LED displays on the market. One of those was the DIP-packaged TIL311 from Texas Instruments, capable of displaying hexadecimal, from 0-9 and A-F. While these aren’t readily available anymore, the deep red plastic packages had some beauty to them, so [Alex] set about making…


See a billion years of Earth plate tectonics movement in just 40 seconds – CNET

Antarctica was “once quite a nice holiday destination.” …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook Says It Plans To Remove Posts With False Vaccine Claims.

Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions that vaccines cause autism or that it is safer for people to contract Covid-19 than to receive the vaccinations. From a report: The social network has increasingly changed its content policies over…


Texas Rep. Ron Wright dies after testing positive for COVID-19 – CNET

He is the first sitting member of Congress to die after being diagnosed with the virus. …read more Source:: CNet


After 7 months and 500 million kilometres, the Emirates Mars Mission has to endure 27 nail-biting minutes of engine burn

Only then will it be known if the UAE’s Hope probe was a success The United Arab Emirates’ “Hope” probe is due to reach Mars orbit tomorrow (9 February) and give engineers and scientists their very own 27 minutes of tension.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Microsoft To Add ‘Nation-State Activity Alerts’ To Defender for Office 365

Microsoft is working on adding a new security alert to the dashboard of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (formerly Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection) that will notify companies when their employees are being targeted by nation-state threat actors. From a report: The feature was added on Saturday to the Microsoft 365 roadmap website. The idea…


Microsoft to add ‘nation-state activity alerts’ to Defender for Office 365

Microsoft has been alerting users of nation-state attacks since 2016. Alerts will now be added to the Defender for Office 365 dashboard so companies can take quicker action. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Facebook to remove more false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines – CNET

Claims such as COVID-19 is manufactured or vaccines are toxic won’t be allowed on the social network. …read more Source:: CNet


Tesla is in hot water with Chinese regulators over Model S, X build quality, report says – Roadshow

The issues seem to be isolated to the US-built flagship models, while Chinese-built 3 and Y cars are A-OK. …read more Source:: CNet