New data highlights how Valorant streams dominated the Amazon-owned Twitch streaming platform last month. Valorant accounted for over a fifth of the total Twitch viewing time, racking up 334 million hours. While impressive, the figures aren’t organic, but synthetically inflated thanks to the enthusiasm for Valorant’s beta access drop system. Last month, Riot Games launched…
Uber drivers are in dire straits amid the coronavirus pandemic. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wants the government to bail freelance workers out, but his plea is anything but altruistic. Firms that depend on independent contractors, including Uber, have fought fiercely against giving gig workers benefits. As the coronavirus pandemic pummels the United States, millions of gig…
The Federal Reserve’s massive emergency rate cut caught Wall Street off guard on Tuesday. Jerome Powell confirmed how serious the economic impact of the coronavirus could be in the U.S. There is barely any stimulus left to help negate a stock market crash. While Donald Trump insists everything is fine in the United States, the…
Donald Trump has pardoned 11 convicts, including Rod Blagojevich and Edward DeBartolo Jr. Trump’s latest pardons once again reveal a bias towards celebrity. His preference for celebrities or celebrity-linked convicts seems to imply that ordinary people don’t deserve forgiveness. Donald Trump is a forgiving man – at least if you can persuade a celebrity to…
Nintendo named and shamed the notorious Pokemon leaker. Not only did they publically torch the source of the leak, but they also blacklisted the website. This is a disproportionate response from Nintendo, which seems to be punching down. Nintendo didn’t just uncover the source of last year’s massive Pokemon Sword and Shield leaks. They named…
Bernie Madoff requested a compassionate release from prison. He’s serving a 150-year sentence for stealing $65 billion from investors. Now Madoff is terminally ill with kidney failure. Not only did he steal $65 billion from investors. But people lost their lives because of what Madoff did. He should serve his sentence. Bernie Madoff has requested…
Elon Musk falsely claims that that hundreds of thousands of people have ordered the Cybertruck. In reality, they’ve only placed $100 refundable deposits. Musk has a reputation for stretching the truth. There have been 146,000 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) Cybertruck orders so far, according to a tweet by Elon Musk. That would be pretty impressive if…
As creator of the modern detective story, Edgar Allan Poe always had a good plot twist up his sleeve. For instance, “The Purloined Letter,” from 1844, takes the reader by surprise: The incriminating letter, thought to be expertly hidden, hasn’t been hidden at all—it’s been hiding in plain sight. The Simplicity of a Mystery That…
The newly unveiled smartphone is a tentative step toward independence from Google We’ve known this day would come for a long time now. Over the past several months, however, it feels like it has arrived in slow motion. Seemingly legitimate concerns over security and sanction violations have been muddled by chest-puffing and braggadocio and large-headed…
