Even if you aren’t a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the Kansas City Chiefs, you can get into the Super Bowl fun, starting Tuesday in “Fortnite.” In advance of the big game Sunday, gamers can check into a Verizon 5G Stadium within the popular video game “Fortnite” starting Monday and play four football-inspired games and find some other hidden perks. Then on Tuesday and Friday, NFL players including Tua Tagovailoa and Kyler Murray will join pro gamers Myth and KittyPlays on a livestream… Source link

The Guardian Claim of anti-conservative bias by social media firms is baseless, report finds New York University study: algorithms amplify rightwing voicesTwitter, Facebook and YouTube banned Trump for incitement Senator Ted Cruz questions Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, CEOs of Facebook and Twitter respectively, on the US Senate judiciary committee in November 2020. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Republicans including Donald Trump have raged against Twitter and Facebook in recent months,… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The name is a byword for power on Wall Street. But suddenly, there it was, in the White House Briefing Room, too: “Citadel.”Given the wild stock-market spectacle involving GameStop Corp., the question last week for the new press secretary was this: would Janet Yellen, now Treasury secretary, recuse herself from the matter given the hundreds of thousands of dollars she’d collected in speaking fees from Citadel?For people outside financial circles, the answer — Yellen is… Source link

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Monday, February 1, 2021 Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe The GameStop saga is somewhere between a low and high risk event The massive surge in GameStop (GME) shares, the role of the r/wallstreetbets community, and everything else connected to the ongoing ordeal has attracted attention from Wall Street to Main Street and everyone in between. Regulators and even celebrities are chiming in. The story is dominating headlines as it… Source link

Price of silver rose by more than10% on Monday. Photo: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters The price of silver (SI=F) rocketed more than 10% to its highest since February 2013 on Monday, briefly trading over the $30 (£ ) per ounce mark, as retail investors piled in on the commodity. It became the latest target after a retail frenzy last week saw the likes of heavily-shorted GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment (AMC) surge in revolt to large institutional investors. Recently amateur traders have been… Source link

Monday brings a packed schedule in the NBA consisting of 10 games. There are some great matchups among them, including the Mavericks hosting the Suns. As you work through building your DFS lineups, here are some players to consider, as well as some to possibly avoid. GUARDS LaMelo Ball, CHA at MIA ($26): Ball went off against the Bucks on Saturday, posting 27 points, five rebounds, nine assists and four steals. The key was that he logged 31 minutes, which was partly because Terry Rozier… Source link

One sports fan cashed in on Tom Brady a week before he competes for his seventh Super Bowl ring. A signed Tom Brady rookie card from 2000 was auctioned off last week for $555,998. The card, from Brady’s first season with the New England Patriots in 2000, was rated as a PSA Gem Mint 10 — meaning the card is essentially in perfect condition. The sale, which occurred on Jan. 25, was run through PWCC market and was sold through eBay. While the nearly $600,000 price tag is impressive, the buyer… Source link

There are five games in the NHL on Monday with three being the second matchup of a mini series. Tampa Bay, Washington and Pittsburgh all won Game 1 on Saturday. The two North Division contests have Montreal hosting Vancouver, and Calgary visiting Winnipeg. Tampa Bay and Montreal are the largest favorites on the docket with the other three games projected to be close.  GOALIE Carey Price, MON vs. VAN ($27): The salary is reasonable, and Price has turned away 46 of 50 shots through his past two… Source link

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian prime minister says Microsoft is confident it could fill the void if Google carries out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia. A Google executive told a Senate hearing last month that it would likely make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he… Source link