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Elon Musk believes Bill Gates had a big short position on Tesla (TSLA) and lost a lot of money Billionaires Musk and Gates don’t always have good words to say about each other, but they do appear to share similar concerns about climate change.

However, Gates made some strange comments about electrification last year, including that electric trucks, like the Tesla Semi, and electric airplanes will “probably never” work.

In a new interview on the Joe Rogan Experience, Musk was asked about those comments from gates.

Tesla’s CEO responded:

“He didn’t know what he was talking about. Probably somebody told him that and he is just not that close to the physics of it. I don’t think he is ill-intentioned here, I just think he doesn’t know what he is talking about.”

He added Tesla already has working prototypes of electric trucks that are transporting cargo – something that we already pointed out in our original report about Gates’ comment, including the fact that not only Tesla has working electric semi truck programs, but also other automakers like Daimler.

But then Musk revealed that he has heard that Gates was betting against Tesla with a large short position:

“I also heard that at one point he had a large short position. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it seems weird. People I know who know the situation pretty well, I asked them “are you sure?” and they said “yes, he has a huge short position on Tesla”. That didn’t work out too well.”

We have reached out to Gates’ foundation to see if we could get a comment on Musk’s claim, and we will update if we get an answer.

Tesla has sometimes been the most shorted stock on the NASDAQ, and people who bet against the electric automaker lost $38 billion in 2020.

Electrek’s Take

This would be surprising to me.

Bill Gates doesn’t seem like the shorting type, but you never know. He did have a weird stance on electric vehicles on occasions, and he doesn’t seem to be a big fan of Elon nor Tesla.

That doesn’t mean that he has been betting against the company though.

I don’t have an actual problem with shorting like Elon and some other people recently with what happened on Reddit and with Robinhood, but when it comes to shorting Tesla, it’s a bit different for me.

I understand if you believe that the company is overvalued and you want to make money on a correction, but I feel that betting against Tesla’s stock is also betting against accelerating the electric transition.

I’d hope Bill Gates wouldn’t do that.

help parents choose what content their kids can see

YouTube is announcing “supervised experiences,” a new set of restrictions that allows parents to better control what content their children can access on the streaming video platform. According to a blog post, YouTube hopes the filters will help parents slowly introduce their older children to age-appropriate content and features outside of the YouTube Kids app. The program will launch first with an early beta, with a wider beta rolling out “in the coming months.”Parents have three levels of strictness to choose from, which determines the content a child is allowed to view on their account. There’s the “Explore” level, which YouTube says is “generally suitable” for kids nine and up’ “Explore More,” which is meant for kids 13 and up; and “Most of YouTube,” which is pretty much everything except age-restricted content. In the US, and most other countries, people over the age of 13 can make their own unsupervised YouTube accounts. isn’t clear exactly what content will be allowed at which levels, but YouTube says the “Explore” level will have “vlogs, tutorials, gaming videos, music clips, news, educational content and more.” As the name suggests, the “Explore More” level will have a wider range of videos, as well as live streams for the aforementioned “Explore” categories. The company says that “Most of YouTube” will contain “sensitive topics that may only be appropriate for older teens.”

For all its promise, YouTube’s supervised experiences is still a system that relies on user input, human review, and machine learning. YouTube knows it won’t be perfect, admitting that it “will make mistakes,” which we’ve seen happen with the Kids app. As such, parents shouldn’t think of it as a “set it and forget it” solution. They’ll still need to remain vigilant.

Nevertheless, the new content options should help parents with children who feel too confined by the Kids app (which YouTube still recommends for younger kids) but are too impressionable to be exposed to the full YouTube experience. YouTube can be a dangerous place full of misinformation and conspiracy, so it’s good to see Google giving parents tools to help ease their children into it.

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Former USA Gymnastics Coach Charged With Abuse Dies By Suicide A former USA Gymnastics coach charged Thursday morning with two dozen criminal charges died by suicide hours later, Michigan's state attorney general has confirmed. 14 counts of human trafficking — forced labor resulting in injury, a 15-year felony

six counts of human trafficking of a minor for forced labor, a 20-year felony

one count of continuing criminal enterprise, a 20-year felony

one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, a life offense felony

one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, a 15-year felony

one count of lying to a peace officer during a violent crime investigation, a four-year felony

Lady Gaga’s Dogs Are Stolen and Dog Walker Is Shot man was shot while he was walking two French bulldogs in Los Angeles on Wednesday night and the dogs were stolen, the police said. The dogs belonged to the singer Lady Gaga, according to a representative.

The shooting took place around 9:40 p.m. local time as the man, whom police did not identify, was walking north on Sierra Bonita Avenue in Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

It was not clear why the man was shot. The man, who is in his 30s, was shot at least once, the police said. The gunman stole the dogs and was seen leaving in a white vehicle, the authorities said. The victim was cradling a third dog as emergency medical workers treated him, according to KABC-TV which had a helicopter over the scene.

HBO Max vs Netflix: Which streaming service is best for you? With HBO Max now live, you may be weighing the differences between HBO Max vs Netflix. The streaming service landscape is getting very crowded now and subscribing to all of them isn't possible for everybody.

HBO Max is the new platform from WarnerMedia that aggregates content from that company's iconic brands, including HBO, DC and Warner Bros. film and television. Netflix, of course, is a pioneer in the streaming space. It's built a huge library of licensed TV shows and movies as well as buzzy originals like Stranger Things, Ozark, The Crown and BoJack Horseman. HBO Max's price is $14.99, which is the same amount as HBO Now. (Confused? Learn more about HBO Max vs HBO Go vs HBO Now.) That price was lowered to $11.99 per month if you preordered a full year, though that deal has expired.

Netflix's price depends on which of the three plans you get. Basic costs $8.99 (standard definition, one stream), Standard costs costs $12.99 (high-def, two streams) and Premium costs $15.99 (HD and 4K, four streams).

Ex-Aide Details Sexual Harassment Claims Against Gov. Cuomo Look, I fought for and I believe a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion and express issues and concerns that she has,” Mr. Cuomo said during a news conference last year. “But it’s just not true.”

On Wednesday, The New York Times spoke to three people who worked in the governor’s office during Ms. Boylan’s time there. The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that while they could not corroborate her allegations, they concurred that the governor would sometimes make inappropriate remarks during work and comment on people’s appearances.

Early Wednesday evening, the governor’s office facilitated a statement to The Times from Ashley Cotton, a former aide to Mr. Cuomo when he was state attorney general, a position he left in 2010.

GameStop (GME) is on the rise once again

WhatsApp will stop working if you do not agree to its new terms and privacy policies WhatsApp is updating its terms of service and privacy policy on February 8, 2021.

Users who do not agree to the new policies will not be able to use the app.

The new policies include information about how WhatsApp manages user data and how it shares information with Facebook companies.

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has started sending an in-app notification to its users, informing them that it is updating its terms and privacy policy, asking users to agree to the new policy.

First 'Spider-Man 3' Images Revealed by Cast, Alongside Wild Joke Titles Okay, I'm just going to be upfront with you: The following are not the real titles for the upcoming Spider-Man 3, the next chapter in Tom Holland's MCU take on the webslinging superhero. I'm telling you this because when I recently looked at Holland and fellow castmate Jacob Batalon and Zendaya's social media accounts and saw their "title announcements," and took them at face value, I nearly fainted at how silly they were. Luckily for us, that's the point; they're goofing with us! And to cut the jokes with some real intel, they've also provided our real, first images from the film's production. Let's tackle the images first. We see Holland, Batalon, and Zendaya together in a pair of shadowy, sepia-toned images. Holland is fully Peter Parker here, no Spider-suit at all. And the three seem to have stumbled their way into haunted looking house or basement, staring off in that kind of terrifying/awe-inspiring wonder you get in a classic Spielberg kinda shot. What are they looking for? What did they find? Is Spider-Man 3 gonna feel like The Goonies? Have they stumbled upon the multiverse-maker? Why is Zendaya's outfit so cool? And now... the fake titles. We've had Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, leading many to believe the third will also have a "home theme." And when Holland posted earnestly it would be called "Spider-Man: Phone Home," my brain just about blew up in "this can't be correct" incomprehensible energy. Batalon's fake title, "Spider-Man: Homewrecker," is at least a little more real-feeling, though it does imply the film will be a '90s domestic thriller about Peter Parker busting up a happy marriage (which, like, let's see that movie!). And in Zendaya's take, we've got the hip "Spider-Man: Homeslice," which is obviously about Peter Parker's old school hip-hop/breakdancing team earning enough money to keep their community center open. All in all, this is a very solid goof, one designed to rile up fans and dorks like me into disbelief and eventual laughter. Check out the first official images from Spider-Man 3 — and the absolutely fake-ass titles — below, courtesy of the cast. As for what Spider-Man 3 will actually be called... I have a feeling we'll find out soon enough.