You Think Your Favorite Video Game Is Hard? Try Speedrunning It Speedrunning is the quirky subculture dedicated to playing through video games as fast as is humanly possible, exploiting glitches in game code and advanced techniques to barrel ahead.
Can Circuit Breakers Stop Viral Rumors On Facebook, Twitter? False claims that blame left-wing activists for wildfires in Oregon have spread on social media. To stop the rumors, some experts say platforms should take inspiration from the stock market.
Microsoft To Buy Bethesda In $7.5 Billion Deal, Acquiring Fallout, The Elder Scrolls The deal is set to be one of the largest ever acquisitions in the video game industry. Once the deal is finalized, Microsoft will own popular franchises such as Wolfenstein, Quake, and DOOM.
Morning Edition U.S. Blocks Downloads of TikTok, WeChat, Starting Sunday The Commerce Department says it will ban all U.S. business transactions with Chinese-owned apps WeChat and TikTok. The parent company ByteDance is under pressure to sell TikTok to a U.S. company.
U.S. To Bar Downloads Of TikTok, WeChat As of Sunday, no mobile app store in the U.S. will be allowed to distribute or maintain the popular Chinese-owned apps, the Commerce Department says.
Trump Casts New Doubt On Any Deal To Keep TikTok Alive In U.S. Trump also said he's been advised "there is no legal path" for the U.S. to keep a cut of whatever TikTok deal the government approves, an idea he had earlier floated.
Celebrities Boycott Facebook And Instagram For A Day Over Disinformation, Hate Speech Some of the most prominent users of the social media platforms called for a 24-hour boycott to protest Facebook's failure to control disinformation and hate speech.
Bill Gates Sr., Father Of Microsoft Co-Founder, Dies At 94 "My dad's wisdom, generosity, empathy, and humility had a huge influence on people around the world," Gates wrote in a tribute to his father.
Morning Edition Hastings Writes About Netflix's Cultural Reinvention In 'No Rules Rules' Netflix added 26 million subscribers so far this year. Reed Hastings co-founder and CEO of the streaming service credits the company's unorthodox office culture for its meteoric rise.
Long Before Cambridge Analytica And Facebook, Simulmatics Linked Data And Politics In "If Then," author and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore unearths Simulmatics' story and makes the argument that the company paved the way for our 21st-century obsession with data and prediction.
