San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
DAILY BRIEFING
In a week when Facebook lost the market value of McDonald’s and shrugged, we also learned:
Lego will release its second-biggest set — 6,020 pieces — that will allow fans of the “Harry Potter” books and movies to construct a really big Hogwarts Castle. (The largest Hogwarts set until now included a mere 1,290 Legos.) Entertainment
Weekly revealed that the new one features a slew of rooms, including the Great Hall. Tiny figures include all the characters, from Harry, Ron and Hermione to Voldemort and the Dementors. The $400 set, second only to Lego’s 7,541-piece Millennium Falcon, will be available Sept. 1.
NATO researchers have developed a Facebook game that they believe can help people to be more discerning when sharing news online, NBC reported. Nika Aleksejeva devised “The News Hero,” in which players take on the role of an editor who must decide whether stories are real by checking sources and weeding out sensationalistic or false headlines, most of which appear to be ones posted to Facebook.
Steve Eisman, the money manager featured in “The Big Short” who famously predicted the collapse of subprime mortgages, is raising doubts about Tesla .“Elon Musk isa very, very smart man, but ... he’s got execution problems,” Eisman told Bloomberg
Television. “He’s nowhere in autonomous driving, as far as I can tell, and big competition is coming in his space next year.” Bitcoin slipped below $8,000 last week after the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected a request to list an exchange-traded
fund run by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, right. The twins say they plan to keep trying.
Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates exploited vulnerable software in their JPay tablets to collectively transfer $225,000 into their own accounts.
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