🪐 NASA attempt to land rover Perseverance on Mars
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Watch NASA attempt to land rover Perseverance on Mars. NASA is hours away from its most ambitious Mars mission yet, with the U.S. space agency set to attempt to land rover Perseverance after a more than six month trip to the red planet. (Michael Sheetz via CNBC) Also: Bloomberg
IBM Explores Sale of IBM Watson Health. International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a potential sale of its IBM Watson Health business, according to people familiar with the matter, as the technology giant’s new chief executive moves to streamline the company and become more competitive in cloud computing. (Laura Cooper via Wall Street Journal)
Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers downloaded some Azure, Exchange, and Intune source code. Microsoft's security team said today it has formally completed its investigation into its SolarWinds-related breach and found no evidence that hackers abused its internal systems or official products to pivot and attack end-users and business customers. (Catalin Cimpanu via ZDNet)
How America can rid itself of both carbon and blackouts. Texas prides itself on being different. Yet it is in the grip of a winter storm that typifies the Snowmageddon-size problems facing energy in America. (The Economist)
Christie's Auction House Will Now Accept Cryptocurrency. Last October, the digital artist Mike Winkelmann, who goes by Beeple, put a digital artwork in an edition of 100 up for sale. Each work cost $1, and the entire set sold out in less than one second. (James Tarmy via Bloomberg)
The Librarian War Against QAnon. For too long now, shared reality has been fracturing before our eyes. Eli Pariser's concept of the “ filter bubble ” is already a decade old. (Barbara Fister via The Atlantic)
Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on 'wrong data' but blocked fixes over revenue impact, per court filing. Some more internal emails Facebook really doesn’t want you to see: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already known for years there were problems with a free ad planning tool the company offers to marketeers to display estimates of how many people campaigns running on its platform may reach, per newly unsealed court documents. (Natasha Lomas via TechCrunch)
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