🎮 Cyberpunk managers still win big bonuses after shoddy game launch
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Cyberpunk managers still win big bonuses after shoddy game launch. Hi everyone, it’s Jason. Cyberpunk 2077 was the video game industry's biggest flop of 2020. Its myriad glitches fueled the internet's meme machine, and Sony Corp. still refuses to sell the game through its online store. Yet, the executives who run the Polish studio that made the game will nonetheless receive millions of dollars in bonuses this year. (Jason Schreier via Bloomberg)
'Disaster Girl' has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000. Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “Disaster Girl” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000. (Chaim Gartenberg via The Verge)
The Hot-Person Vaccine.I hope we can all agree that “vaccine culture” is a bit depressing. The idea of wearing an evening gown to a COVID-19-vaccine appointment is objectively sad, and speaking from personal experience, taking an hour-long bus ride to a CVS… (Kaitlyn Tiffany via The Atlantic)
Ripple CEO says the U.S. lacks regulatory clarity on cryptocurrency. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said the lack of clarity in U.S. regulation of cryptocurrencies is “frustrating.” Known for the cryptocurrency XRP, the fintech company has been caught in a high-stakes legal tussle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since last year. (Sumathi Bala via CNBC)
Demystifying Bitcoin's Remarkably Accurate Price Prediction Model, Stock-To-Flow. The top question on everyone's mind when it comes to bitcoin is what the price will be in the next two to five years. Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted route to making such an assessment. (Steven Ehrlich via Forbes)
Is the U.S. Student Loan Program in a Deep Hole? One Banker Thinks So. In 2018, Betsy DeVos, then U.S. education secretary, called JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon for help. Repayments on federal student loans had come in persistently below projections. (Josh Mitchell via Wall Street Journal)
Google to offer 40,000 developer scholarships in Africa; continues accelerator program. Google today announced the launch of 40,000 new developer scholarships in Africa. Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. (Tage Kene-Okafor via TechCrunch)
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