Last week, the wildly popular game “Fortnite” received an update on Apple and Android smartphones that allowed players to bypass the companies’ digital payment systems. Instead of going through Apple and Google, payments went directly to the studio “Fortnite”, Epic Games. In response, Apple and Google pulled “Fortnite” out of …

Amazon has added the first Black member to its prestigious S team, a group of executives advising CEO Jeff Bezos. Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon’s vice president for global customer prosecution, joins the S team – along with John Felton and Dave Treadwell – as consumer chief Jeff Wilke leaves the …

Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris was reportedly immersed in a phone call with some notorious Russian pranksters posing as teen-environmental activist Greta Thunberg offering filth to President Trump. The hoax call between California senator and comedians Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexey “Lexus” Stolyarov came after Harris dropped out of …

Purdue suspended 36 students on Wednesday, Tim Doty, the university’s director of public information and problem management, told CNN on Friday. “Purdue University has been clear and consistent with our messages to students about the Protect Purdue Plan and the expectations they will have to follow when making the decision …

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