505 Games buys Ghostrunner IP for €5m

505 Games has added a new franchise to its portfolio in the form of cyberpunk ninja action outing Ghostrunner. The company worked with Polish publisher All In Games on the game's initial release back in October 2020, and now takes full control of the IP as well as "all licenses for the technological solutions used in the game."
Read more: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-03-31-505-games-buys-ghostrunner-ip-for-5m?source=Snapzu

'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

It comes after Amazon's official accounts hit back at criticism of the company.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56581266?source=Snapzu

Ed Sheeran must face plagiarism claim: judge

A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran’s bid to dismiss one of three lawsuits accusing him of lifting his 2014 smash “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic “Let’s Get It On.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-ed-sheeran/ed-sheeran-must-face-plagiarism-claim-judge-idUSKBN2BM2YN?source=Snapzu

Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account

The tweet “;l;;gmlxzssaw", posted to US Strategic Command's Twitter account, causes confusion.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56578544?source=Snapzu

Nike sues rapper Lil Nas X over ‘Satan shoes’ that have real blood in soles

Nike on Monday filed a lawsuit against MSCHF over its controversial “Satan shoes” collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X.
Read more: https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/nike-sues-mschf-for-copyright-infringement-over-satan-shoes-collaboration-with-rapper-lil-nas-x?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk’s new Dragon capsule will let astronauts stick their head out into space

‘Probably most “in space” you could possibly feel by being in a glass dome”, Elon Musk tweeted
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-spacex-dragon-capsule-twitter-b1824501.html?source=Snapzu

Police bust 'world's biggest' video-game-cheat operation

Chinese police seize a collection of luxury sports cars in the raid.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56579449?source=Snapzu

Not Heading To Paris This Summer? The Louvre Has Digitized 482,000 Artworks

One of the world's mightiest museums has made much of its vast collection available online. The Louvre steers digital visitors well beyond marquee works like the Mona Lisa to reveal hidden treasures.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/30/982258972/not-heading-to-paris-this-summer-the-louvre-has-digitized-482-000-artworks?source=Snapzu

Man blames Apple for bitcoin theft by fake app in App Store

Apple has been blamed for enabling a scam app to steal bitcoin worth $600,000 from a man, by listing the fake app that pretended to be by another company in the App Store.
Read more: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/30/man-blames-apple-for-bitcoin-theft-by-fake-app-in-app-store?source=Snapzu

Game of Thrones is heading to Broadway with a new prequel play

Martin’s epic tale is getting a theatrical adaptation.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/30/22358391/game-of-thrones-broadway-play-george-r-r-martin-theater-2023?source=Snapzu

Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency

Visa Inc said on Monday it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of growing acceptance of digital currencies by the mainstream financial industry.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-visa-exclusive/exclusive-visa-moves-to-allow-payment-settlements-using-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN2BL0X9?source=Snapzu

Amazon warehouse workers decide this week whether to unionize

Nearly 6,000 Bessemer workers vote on whether to become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the US.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/amazons-union-vote-what-the-election-at-an-alabama-warehouse-could-mean/?source=Snapzu

Activision Blizzard Hires Former Trump Administration Member Once Decried As ‘Bully’

Today, Activision Blizzard announced the promotion of Blizzard chief commercial officer and the chief operating officer Armin Zerza to CFO of the whole company. What it did not announce to the public is that it has also hired a new chief administrative officer: former Donald Trump administration member Brian Bulatao.
Read more: https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-hires-former-trump-administration-m-1846579115?source=Snapzu

Prosecutors Add Sex Trafficking Charges Against Ghislaine Maxwell

Federal prosecutors in New York filed new charges of sex trafficking a minor and sex trafficking conspiracy Monday against Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/30/982597363/prosecutors-add-sex-trafficking-charges-against-ghislaine-maxwell?source=Snapzu

Big tech and independent shops clash over 'right to repair'

Trade groups representing big tech companies clashed with independent repair shop owners in Monday committee hearing in the Nevada Legislature over a proposal to require hardware manufacturers give repair shops the means to fix devices like computers, phones, tablets and printers.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/legislature-nevada-coronavirus-pandemic-laws-5ade405a7befdf16e9f0107b7e142be3?source=Snapzu

Bitcoin Has Won Over Institutional Investors: Could Governments Be Next?

When Bitcoin surged to an all-time high of $17,000 in late 2017, the cryptocurrency headlined media outlets and financial journals — but not for the right reasons. Analysts and major institutional figureheads bashed and ostracized the promising digital asset, dubbing it a “fraud” and “useless as a payment system.” Not soon after, Bitcoin suffered a major correction, with prices plummeting down 70% in a single year.
Read more: https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-has-won-over-institutional-investors-could-governments-be-next/?source=Snapzu

Dozens of Christian students sue the U.S. Education Dept., hoping to pressure Equality Act negotiations

Elizabeth Hunter says she became suicidal after Bob Jones University administrators grilled the former student about her sexuality for tweeting “happy Pride” and writing a book with lesbian characters. She was fined, sent to anti-gay counseling and removed from her job at the campus TV station. Veronica Penales says she’s told officials at Baylor University, where she is a sophomore, that people leave anti-gay notes on her door, but they don’t investigate. Lucas Wilson said he graduated from Liberty University with “a profound sense of shame” after being encouraged to go to conversion therapy.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/christian-colleges-lawsuit-lgbtq-equality-act/2021/03/29/39343620-90af-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html?outputType=amp#click=https://t.co/vMb23L9QeC?source=Snapzu

Facebook, Twitter and Google CEOs grilled by Congress on misinformation

The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced withering criticism from members of Congress on Thursday about their handling of misinformation and online extremism during their first appearance before lawmakers since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/tech/tech-ceos-hearing/index.html?source=Snapzu

Louvre museum makes its entire collection available online

The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge. As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the world's most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters already labelled with information and pictures.
Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20210326-louvre-museum-makes-its-entire-collection-available-online?source=Snapzu

Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website

Session monitoring scripts prompt dozens of privacy lawsuits against Big Biz, mainly in California and Florida
Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/30/intel_wiretapping_data/?source=Snapzu

First flight on Mars? Ingenuity helicopter preps for takeoff

In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew a plane for 12 seconds, 120 feet in the air, on what is now known as the first powered-controlled flight on Earth. Now, 118 years later, the first powered-controlled attempt at a flight on another planet is about to take place.
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2021/03/26/ingenuity-helicopter-mars-perseverance/?source=Snapzu

Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses

Coming to a warehouse near you in 2022
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/29/22349978/boston-dynamics-stretch-robot-warehouse-logistics?source=Snapzu

N Korea hits Biden’s ‘provocation’, threatens more arms build-up

North Korea threatened a further military build-up on Saturday in response to Joe Biden’s condemnation of this week’s missile launches, a weapons test that marked Pyongyang’s first substantive provocation since the US president took office.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/27/n-korea-hits-bidens-provocation-threatens-more-arms-build-up?source=Snapzu

Ex-boss dumps 91,500 oily pennies in former employee’s driveway as his final $915 pay after resignation

After months of waiting for his final pay check after leaving the job, an auto repair worker finally got the $915 his former employer owed him. Andreas Flaten from Georgia said his ex-boss at AOK Walker Luxury Autoworks dumped 91,500 greasy pennies at the end of his driveway as final wage.
Read more: https://newsbreakforum.com/story/ex-boss-dumps-91500-oily-pennies-in-former-employees-driveway-as-his-final-915-pay-after-resignation/?source=Snapzu

'Pokémon GO' Developer Niantic Teases a See-through Headset

Niantic, the studio behind the popular Pokémon GO, today teased some kind of see-through headset. Following a prototype demonstration of Pokémon GO running on HoloLens 2 earlier this month, Niantic CEO John Hanke today showed a teasing glimpse of a see-through headset the company is apparently working on.
Read more: https://www.roadtovr.com/niantic-ar-glasses-tease-pokemon-go/?source=Snapzu

Hiring is speeding up again and jobs are coming back as the U.S. economy gains steam

Declining coronavirus cases, $1,400 stimulus checks and relaxed restrictions on business can only mean one thing: Jobs are coming back —and so is the U.S. economy.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hiring-is-speeding-up-again-and-jobs-are-coming-back-as-the-u-s-economy-gains-steam-11616788496?mod=home-page?source=Snapzu

How to blur your background in a Zoom call

Let's say you have a Zoom meeting, but your normal work-from-home space is occupied, or worse, a mess. You have no time to clean it up, or find a neutral, privacy-maintaining space to set up, and panic sets in. Don't worry--you have options built right into Zoom to hide the space behind you: background blurring.
Read more: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-blur-your-background-in-a-zoom-call/?source=Snapzu

It’s rarer than gold and critical for green energy — and it’s about to be mined in Utah

One of the least common elements on Earth will soon be recovered at Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon Mine in the Salt Lake Valley through the copper smelting process. Tellurium’s main use is in the manufacturing of solar panels.
Read more: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/3/26/22344673/utah-green-energy-rare-element-for-solar-panels-mined-in-salt-lake-tellurium-rio-tinto?source=Snapzu

Suez canal: Ever Given ship refloated after blocking waterway for six days

Salvage teams on Monday succeeded in freeing a massive container ship that had blocked the Suez canal for the past seven days, clogging up one of the world’s key trade arteries.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/29/suez-canal-attempt-re-float-ever-given-delay-salvage-tugboats?source=Snapzu

Netflix planning to launch 40 anime shows in 2021

New titles include Yasuke and Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/27/22353848/netflix-launch-anime-ragnarok-zeus-resident-evil-streaming?source=Snapzu

Pentagon’s Extremist Handbook Tells Military to Be on Lookout for Pepe the Frog

A guide released by the Pentagon teaches its members to look out for extremist group iconology, in an effort to identify potential infiltrators.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagons-extremist-handbook-tells-military-to-be-on-lookout-for-pepe-the-frog?source=Snapzu

Cern experiment hints at new force of nature

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva have spotted an unusual signal in their data that may be the first hint of a new kind of physics. The LHCb collaboration, one of four main teams at the LHC, analysed 10 years of data on how unstable particles called B mesons, created momentarily in the vast machine, decayed into more familiar matter such as electrons.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/23/large-hadron-collider-scientists-particle-physics?source=Snapzu

Asian American students have a target on their backs thanks to critical race theory

I've been joining a group of parents in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Zoom to discuss our mounting concern over the rising vilification of Asian Americans in the area. But if you think we are worried about nativist hate groups or white supremacist organizations, guess again. The perpetrators in this drama are none other than the very school officials we have entrusted with our children’s education and well-being.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/26/tj-high-school-admissions-race-asian-parents-column/6982183002/?source=Snapzu

University of Birmingham builds UK's first recycling plant for high-performance rare earth magnets

The UK’s first re-manufacturing line for high-performance sintered rare earth magnets for use in electric vehicles, aerospace, renewable energy technologies and low carbon technologies will be developed by the University of Birmingham.
Read more: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2021/03/first-recycling-plant-for-rare-earth-magnets.aspx?source=Snapzu

Trump adviser Jason Miller hid income and misled court to avoid paying child support: report

Miller claimed he lost his job to court but records show he signed a "secret deal" to keep earning $500K per year.
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2021/03/25/trump-adviser-jason-miller-hid-income-and-misled-court-to-avoid-paying-child-support-report/?source=Snapzu

‘Vaccine passports’ are on the way, but developing them won’t be easy

The effort has taken on momentum amid President Biden’s pledge that the nation will start to regain post-pandemic normalcy this summer, and with a growing number of companies saying they will require proof of vaccinations before reopening their doors.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/28/vaccine-passports-for-work/?source=Snapzu

Facebook’s Clubhouse rival looks a lot like Clubhouse right now

Facebook is building a Clubhouse rival, The New York Times reported in February. But what that product will look like or how it will work have been questions that have remained unanswered.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/23/facebooks-clubhouse-rival-looks-a-lot-like-clubhouse-right-now/?source=Snapzu

World's First Plant to Recycle All Forms of Plastic Begins Construction

There is no doubt about it. We have a plastic problem. According to Plastics Europe, 350m tonnes of plastic is produced annually, and only 9% of that plastic is ever recycled. This plastic pollutes our oceans and shows up everywhere as microplastics. More alarmingly, according to the World Economic Forum, this problem is predicted to increase tenfold by 2025 if solutions aren’t found.
Read more: https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-plant-to-recycle-all-forms-of-plastic-begins-construction?source=Snapzu

The Talk: Sharon Osbourne leaves US show after racism row

TV personality Sharon Osbourne has left US chat show The Talk after a heated on-air debate about racism earlier this month. Osbourne defended broadcaster Piers Morgan over his criticism of a high-profile TV interview given by the Duchess of Sussex.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56547718?source=Snapzu

A Dog Who Kept Sneaking into a Dollar General for a Unicorn Toy Gets His Plush and a New Start

The animal control officer who moved Sisu from the Dollar General store to the shelter bought the stray dog his unicorn toy before bringing the canine in.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dog-kept-sneaking-dollar-general-182528034.html?source=Snapzu

William Shatner Reveals He’s Never Seen an Episode of ‘Star Trek’: ‘It’s All Painful’

"I don't like the way I look and what I do," Shatner says about looking back on his performance as Captain Kirk.
Read more: https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/star-trek-william-shatner-never-watched-show-1234626435/?source=Snapzu

Formerly Homeless Man Moves Into the First 3D-Printed Tiny Home

A previously homeless man is the first person to live in a 3D-printed tiny house, built by ICON and New Story.
Read more: https://www.greenmatters.com/p/3d-printed-tiny-home-homeless?source=Snapzu

CBS Critiques Itself Over "Legitimizing" Woody Allen Interview

Viewers of CBS Sunday Morning this week saw something unusual on the broadcast network: A segment critical of its own work.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cbs-critiques-itself-over-legitimizing-woody-allen-interview?source=Snapzu

'Everything is riding on the outcome': Minneapolis braces for Chauvin trial

Prosecutors due to set out their case in heavily fortified building for trial of ex-officer charged with murdering George Floyd
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/28/derek-chauvin-trial-george-floyd-opening-arguments?source=Snapzu

Shanna Swan: 'Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045'

The professor of environmental medicine explains how chemicals in plastics are causing our fertility to decline – and what we can do about it. Shanna Swan is a professor of environmental medicine and public health at Mount Sinai school of medicine in New York City, studying fertility trends. In 2017 she documented how average sperm counts among western men have more than halved in the past 40 years. Count Down is her new book.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/28/shanna-swan-fertility-reproduction-count-down?source=Snapzu

Pope, on Palm Sunday, says devil taking advantage of pandemic

Pope Francis led Palm Sunday services in an almost empty St. Peter's Basilica because of coronavirus restrictions for the second consecutive year and said the devil is taking advantage of the pandemic.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-religion-easter-pope-palmsunday-idUSKBN2BK09I?source=Snapzu

Largest U.S. oil and gas trade group backs carbon price

The industry group representing oil and gas companies including Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp said on Thursday it supports a carbon price as one measure to mitigate climate change risk.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climate-oil-carbon-idUSKBN2BH2SW?source=Snapzu

Zoom's pandemic profits exceeded $670 million. Its federal tax payment? Zilch

"If you paid $14.99 a month for a Zoom Pro membership, you paid more to Zoom than it paid in federal income taxes," Bernie Sanders tweeted.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zoom-no-federal-taxes-2020/?source=Snapzu

Boy finds 480 million-year-old fossil in garden using set he got for Christmas

A six-year-old boy has found a fossil up to 488 million years old while digging in his garden with a fossil-hunting set he received for Christmas. Siddak Sing Jhamat, known as Sid, had been digging in his garden in Walsall, in the West Midlands, "for worms and things like pottery and bricks", he said.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/boy-finds-480-million-year-old-fossil-in-garden-using-set-he-got-for-christmas-12258666?source=Snapzu

U.S. sets new vaccine record with 3.4 million doses administered in one day

The U.S. broke its previous record for most COVID-19 vaccines administered in a single day, with 3.4 million doses reported on Friday, according to the White House.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/vaccine-daily-record-0da0a2d5-e494-4413-af4f-9babea418cbc.html?source=Snapzu