Private Hospital Group Sets Up Task Team In Preparation For South African Covid-19 Vaccines – Life Healthcare has announced the formation of a vaccine task team in preparation for the imminent arrival of South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccines. [btech]

Wine Body Launches Court Action To Lift Liquor Ban In The Western Cape – Vinpro hopes to have prohibition overturned ahead of the busy Valentine’s Day weekend. [mweb]

US Has ‘Moral Imperative’ To Develop AI Weapons, Says Panel – Draft Congress report claims AI will make fewer mistakes than humans and lead to reduced casualties. [guardian]

Biden To Sign Major Executive Orders On Climate Change – President Joe Biden on Wednesday is set to sign several executive orders to tackle climate change and transition the country to a clean energy economy, the White House said. [cnbc]

This Key Graph Shows SA’s Deadly Covid Wave May Finally Have Peaked – The latest data released by the South African Medical Research Council show that the country’s deadly second Covid-19 wave may finally be subsiding – but it’s still too early to tell, definitively. [busins]

Samsung Heir: Sorry I’m In Jail, But Uh, Please Keep Working – Everyone’s had a boss who sent a tone-deaf email but imprisoned Samsung heir apparent Lee Jae-yong has one-upped them all. [giz]

Melania Trump Hires Staff And Establishes Post-White House Office – Former first lady Melania Trump is establishing a post-White House office in Palm Beach, Florida, according to two sources familiar with her plans. [cnn]

Review Of Quench, CartRun And Checkers Sixty60 Shopping Apps – If you can’t be bothered to head to the shops to buy your groceries, there’s an app for that. Actually, there are a few. [here]

Tokyo 2020 Member Says Games Going Ahead ‘Is Up To U.S.’ – WSJ – The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organisers have been increasingly bullish in recent weeks about the prospect of holding the postponed Games, despite dwindling public support and rising coronavirus cases. [mav]

Public Investment Corporation ‘Keeping An Eye’ While Survé Inc Burns Through State Pensioners’ Billions – Controversial newspaper owner Iqbal Survé continues to side-step the state fund manager’s efforts to reclaim the fortune that its former boss threw his way. Meanwhile, ever more of the Public Investment Corporation’s cash is being spent on propping up the Survé empire. [mav]

This Site Published Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Riot Videos – Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6. [mwired]

Staggering Numbers Coming Out Of Apple’s Latest Quarterly Report – Apple is eating Amazon’s lunch and that’s just one way that the company is killing it at the moment. [here]

When Your ‘Pandemic Puppy’ Doesn’t Work Out – People who had been putting off getting a dog because of a lack of time at home suddenly had a glut of it. They saw lockdown as the perfect opportunity to finally raise a puppy. [bbc]

Love The New Bose Frames Even If I Look Like An Absolute Jabroni – The Bose Frames are back, and holy guacamole Batman, this version is fugly. [giz]

Explosive New Book Claims The KGB Began Grooming ‘Young And Vain’ Donald Trump 40 Years Ago – By saving him from financial ruin and turned him into a Russian asset who gave Putin ‘everything he wanted’ as president. [dm]

First look At Kristen Stewart As Princess Diana In ‘Spencer’ – A photo from the upcoming film “Spencer” in which Stewart plays the late royal has been released and it’s a good likeness. [cnn]

Soon-To-Be Divorcée Kim Kardashian West Has A Kanye ‘Exit Plan’ Ready To Go – News of Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West’s split broke at the beginning of this month, but it feels like a lifetime ago. [jez]

Cyberpunk 2077 Bans Unauthorized Keanu Reeves Sex – Have sex as Keanu Reeves, not with Keanu Reeves. [verge]

We Are All Ben Affleck And His Dunkin – The Oscar-winning actor is in his flop era, but what he symbolizes for us is far bigger than an iced coffee. [vice]

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