GameStop and BlackBerry shares soar on amateur traders’ fervour

Intense enthusiasm among online message boards jolts a clutch of stocks

Slot machine markets pay out in full

But not everyone is happy.

AMC chief says bankruptcy ‘off the table’ after $917m fundraising

Amount will give cinema operator enough cash to survive until July, assuming no increase in attendance levels

Facebook will let researchers study its election ad targeting data

Facebook is attempting to increase transparency around ads that ran in the lead up to November’s US elections. Starting on February 1st, researchers will have access to targeting data on more than 1.3 million social issues, electoral and political ad...

‘Cyberpunk 2077’ update introduced a game-breaking bug

Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.1 update was supposed to set the troubled game on the path toward redemption. Instead, it seems to have come with its own set of problems. Per Eurogamer, players have discovered a game-breaking bug involving Cyberpunk 2077’s “Down...

Twitter’s new ‘Birdwatch’ experiment crowdsources fact-checking

Twitter is launching a new feature to fight misinformation: Birdwatch, a “community-driven approach” that crowdsources fact checks directly from other Twitter users. The experiment was first spotted last fall, but the company is now officially introd...