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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Underestimating Elon Musk is not a good idea, says Bill Gates

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes that “rockets aren’t the solution” while talking about sending humans into space and exploring Mars. In an interview with CNBC, Gates was talking about Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and was full of praise for him. “It’s important to say that what Elon did with Tesla is one of the greatest contributions to climate change anyone’s ever made,” Gates said about Musk.

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ByteDance not in preliminary talks to list TikTok on NYSE: Source

The Global Times, published by China's ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily newspaper, said earlier on its Twitter account that ByteDance was in preliminary talks about a NYSE listing.

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Twitter rolls out voice message feature for DMs in India

The feature will allow Twitter users to send voice notes as DMs. Each voice message shall not be more than 140 seconds long. Voice messaging feature for DMs will be available for both Android and iOS users.

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US ITC to investigate Ericsson complaint against Samsung over 5G wireless equipment

Ericsson said the Samsung products infringing on its patents are on the tower side of cellular communications, including antennas, radios and base stations and core network products that wirelessly connect to mobile phones and other cellular equipment.

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WandaVision to Kick Off MCU Phase 4 Docuseries Assembled on March 12

Assembled, a Marvel Studios behind-the-scenes docuseries, kicks off March 12 with Assembled: The Making of WandaVision. More episodes to follow after The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Loki, Shang-Chi, Eternals, Ms. Marvel, and Hawkeye later in 2021.

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eBay-Adevinta Deal: UK Watchdog Voices Concern Over $9.2-Billion Acquisition

Britain's competition watchdog raised concerns over Adevinta's planned acquisition of US e-commerce group eBay's classified advertisements business.

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Amazon Quietly Acquires Australia-Based Shopify Rival Selz

Amazon has quietly purchased the Australia-based e-commerce platform Selz that enables businesses to build their own online stores.

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Moto G30, G10 with 5000mAh battery, quad rear camera setup launched in Europe: Price, specs and more

Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola has launched two budget smartphones — Moto G30 and Moto G10 — in Europe. Both handsets are set to go on sale across Europe later this month.

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Handful of hedge funds bet big on GameStop before its wild ride



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Bitcoin vaults above $50,000 for first time ever

Bitcoin rose above $50,000 to a new record high, building on a rally fuelled by signs that the world's biggest cryptocurrency is gaining acceptance amongst mainstream investors.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX raises $850 million in fresh funding: Report



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Australia says content laws already working after Nine-Google deal reports



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TikTok's US ad business roars back as Donald Trump's threats recede



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Apple makes repairing rear panel of iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini easier

Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has reportedly found a way to fix your iPhone 12 and iPhone mini models without the need for replacing the entire units in case of certain hardware issues. As per a report by MacRumors, the company has informed the Apple Authorised Service Providers that starting February 23, devices experiencing issues with the logic board, Face ID system, or even sporting a cracked rear glass will now get fixed and be returned to customers.

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Realme X7 Pro 5G phone with 8GB RAM to go on sale today via Flipkart at 12pm

Realme X7 Pro 5G is a mid-range smartphone. It is priced at Rs 29,999. The handset packs 8GB RAM paired with 128GB internal storage capacity.

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Elizabeth Holmes resists government efforts to detail her CEO lifestyle

Holmes, a Stanford dropout, had a six-figure salary and a billion dollar stake in Theranos until the company shut down in 2018.

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Amazon app quiz February 17, 2021: Get answers to these five questions and win Rs 10,000 in Amazon Pay balance

Name of the winner of today’s quiz will be announced on February 19

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Flipkart quiz February 17, 2021: Get answers to these five questions to win gifts, discount coupons and Flipkart Super coins

The quiz starts daily at 12am and continues till 12pm

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Bookkeeping App OKCredit on Its Journey of Building 5.5 Million Active Users

OKCredit app is available free of cost on Google Play and App Store both. The company acquired seed capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners recently that should help scale customer base even more.

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When a university decided to include two video games for history class

The University of Tennessee has decided to use Rockstar Studio’s Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2, two popular open world video games, for its class on American History. Tore Olsson, history professor at the university, tweeted about this.

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'We're seeing the winter version of Hurricane Harvey,' Harris County judge on Texas winter storm

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo described multiple tragedies stemming from the historic Texas storms.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion

SpaceX completed another monster raise last week, people familiar told CNBC, sending the valuation of Elon Musk's company to about $74 billion.

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Justice Department seeks more information on Salesforce's $27 billion deal for Slack

A Salesforce and Slack deal would bring together two companies seeking to challenge Microsoft, the largest software company.

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