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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. raises $120 million in outside funding

Elon Musk's plan to connect major cities with Hyperloop tunnels is raising the interest of investors. Boring Co. authorized the sale of $120 million in stock today, reported Bloomberg. It's the first outside investment for Musk's infrastructure compa… Source: engadget

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Intelligence Committee releases heavily redacted report on 2016 election hacking

Today the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released Vol. 1 of its report (PDF) on Russian attempts at election hacking in 2016. However, much of the information in it has already been released — like knowledge that hacking attempts reached… Source: engadget

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Amazon Earnings Miss the Mark, Stock Drops $15 in After-Hours Trading

Amazon stock is down about $15, or 1 percent, in after-hours trading after the company missed earnings estimates by 6 percent. The e-commerce giant did manage to beat the revenue estimate by about 1 percent. Results do not include Prime Day. Amazon’s Revenue Now Half of Walmart’s Amazon continues to crush the retail and cloud […]

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Bullies Infiltrate Big-Name Titles, Could Put an End to Multiplayer Games

For anyone who has dived into a multiplayer game recently, the rampant harassment plaguing countless big-name titles is an issue that needs no introduction. Behind the cutesy aesthetic and surface-level family-friendly veneer of games like Fortnite and League of Legends hides an inconvenient truth. Bullying and entrenched harassment, or toxicity as publishers like to call […]

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Pew: YouTube videos with kids or video games get most views

Kids and video games — rather than politics or makeup tutorials — are the most powerful drivers of traffic on YouTube. Pew released a study today that analyzed over 40,000 high-subscriber channels for a week. What they found painted a picture of a… Source: engadget