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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With the stroke of piano keys, Trevor Gomes has raised big funds for St. Jude.“Tonight is my last stream,” Gomes said. “I’m going big. 5 P.M. to midnight. I’m shooting for $100,000. That was my goal.”Gomes, who moved to Memphis to be closer to the hospital, is one of the thousands of streamers taking part in the St. Jude PLAY LIVE fund-raising campaign this month.He’s raised $68,000, with a goal of $100,000 by the end of the night.He said this event has worked perfectly during the pandemic.“When everything shut down last March, PLAY LIVE did the best it had ever done,” he said. “They were having to cancel things like the marathon but then at the same time you’ve got things like PLAY LIVE that are strictly on the internet, so nothing really changes.”TRENDING: Councilwoman says kids don’t know how to separate video games from real lifeKyle Blessing is another streamer currently bases out of Memphis. This year his campaign will be anchored by a dual-stream with Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former CEO of Nintendo.Blessing reached out to Fils-Aimé to see if he would join him for a game of Mario Party to support St. Jude PLAY LIVE.…

Tribune News Service Ludhiana, May 28 The Deputy Commissioner (DC), Varinder Kumar Sharma, on Friday said vaccination, correct and complete information to the people regarding Covid are crucial to stem the spread of the pandemic. After virtually launching a YouTube channel of CityNeeds, an NGO, the DC appealed to everyone to get themselves vaccinated at the earliest. He said the vaccine not only protects your lives but reduces chances of hospitalisation even if one contracts the virus after vaccination. He said aggressive participation by people in the vaccination drive would build herd immunity and would help to prevent the third wave of infectious disease. Municipal Councillor Mamta Ashu exhorted the youth to come forward and shoulder the responsibility of educating the rural folks about the importance of Covid apt behaviour and vaccination. Dr Bishav Mohan asked the queries of people to the DC, Municipal Councillor and other experts. Dr SB Pandhi from CityNeeds said that the channel has over 200 short videos by 36 prominent doctors of DMCH, CMCH, Civil Hospital and Fortis Hospital addressing most commonly asked questions about Covid. He said the objective is to provide a platform for authentic information and guidance about Covid prevention, treatment and…

Exactly one hour ago, Dianna Agron posted a photo on Instagram of her smooching Megalyn Echikunwoke on the mouth with the caption “I love her, I love her, I love her :balloon emoji:” and I just want to know: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? What does this mean! DIANNA AGRON, WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS PHOTO? Is it gay? Is it a gay photo? Is this a gay kiss? Is this a “friend” kiss? Are you coming out? Do people “come out” anymore? Did TikTok truly turn the entire planet into a queer mob? WHAT IS THIS PHOTO, DIANNA AGRON! TELL ME! Dianna Agron is, of course, most famous for playing Quinn “Pink Hair Don’t Care” Fabray on Glee, and being one half of probably the most famous femslash ship of all time, a lil pairing you might have heard of called Faberry. Megalyn Echikunwoke has done a lot of voice acting, is most known for her role as Edie Palmer on Almost Family, and was seen canoodling with Olivia Wilde on Instagram as recently as two months ago. I am saying that last thing because Olivia Wilde has made a lot of people gay and that’s just a fact…

Combining a SPAC IPO raise of $400 million and a $165-million hedge fund placement, the Irvine, Calif.-based robo-advisor needs a reboot after nearly a decade grew AUM to only anout $5 billionAcorns is raising $565 million to effect an urgent revamp that looks like a mash up of Robinhood, SoFi and a roll-up.The Irvine, Calif., robo-advisor for micro-accounts will get $400 million through an initial public offering by merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The deal values Acorns at $2.2 billion.   Will Trout: Acorns needs to evolve its business model.  A private placement will fund the other $165 million. Combined with previous raises totaling $202 million since its 2012 founding, it will have $767 million to fuel its ambitions.Acorns only realized $71 million in 2020 revenue but projects $126 million this year and $309 million in 2023, The Wall Street Journal reports.  The company also forecast that its user base would surpass 8 million subscribers by 2023 -- up from about 4 million today. See: Mindful of 'Snapchat' dynamic, BlackRock takes big Acorns stake after the micro-robo wins 2.2 million investors in 12 monthsWhen NBCUniversal made its $105 million investment in acorns in 2019, the valuation was at $860 million.Rounding upAcorns launched as a specialist in…

Law360 (May 28, 2021, 7:44 PM EDT) -- More than a decade after Capitol Records first sued online video platform Vimeo for copyright infringement over lip-sync videos, the case is somehow still going — with a federal judge ruling Friday that Vimeo is shielded from many claims but not fully off the hook.U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams ruled that Vimeo itself was not liable for 281 videos that were uploaded by its users, thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor, which shields websites from copyright liability for most content created by users.The ruling was dictated by a 2016 decision by the Second Circuit that Vimeo... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs, petitions, complaints, decisions, motions, etc. Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and so much more! TRY LAW360 FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS

Ever since Ludwig broke the record for most concurrent subscribers on Twitch at a single time earlier this year, arguably the platform's most popular streamer, Felix "xQc" Lengyel, has been planning his own subathon to take the record for himself. And while this subathon was planned to finally kick off next month, xQc has now announced that he'll be pushing it back a bit later than expected.During a recent stream on Twitch held by xQc this week, the former professional Overwatch player said that he won't be starting his own subathon--which is planned to last for 60 days--in June. Instead, he has now said that he'll still be doing it, but it won't transpire until later on in 2021. "I've thought about it I'm not doing it," xQc said in regard to the subathon beginning in June.So why exactly has xQc decided to postpone this event? Well, it's because he wants to make even more money from the streaming marathon. xQc explained on another stream that Twitch's ads are at their biggest and most profitable later on in the year. "My five head thinking is doing it in Q4," xQc said. This would mean that the subathon in question…

May 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment “Social media is kind of the downfall of a lot of things right now,” Gabe Fuentes, a Flagler County Sheriff’s detective, said during an interview with an individual–later exonerated–in a 2019 criminal case that ended in an acquittal today.(Maurizio Pesce) A 14-year-old Flagler Palm Coast High School student, a boy, was arrested and faces a second-degree felony charge of written threats to kill after allegedly threatening to shoot a fellow-student after she’d contacted him and argued with him by Snapchat on Wednesday. School officials became aware of the threat. The school’s threat assessment team met. Such teams are established in every school and serve in part as a means of gauging the sort of threats or security issues that come to light, often resolving the issues internally or administratively, through the school’s own investigations and disciplinary measures. On occasions, the team judges the matter as warranting law enforcement’s intervention, as it did in this case. According to the information the dean passed on to a Flagler County Sheriff’s school resource deputy, the 14-year-iold girl had messaged the boy around noon Wednesday, asking him if he intended to fight another student at…

We're still basking in the afterglow of the HUGE Snap Partner Summit last week, where Snap made Snapchat a much stronger augmented reality platform while also unveiling the AR smartglasses version of Spectacles. This week, we got a peek at how Spectacles AR started and got our hands on Lenses from Lego and Disney featured during the keynote.Undeterred, Facebook made a move to match Snap's masterstroke, with new AR features for creators to integrate into Instagram AR effects.In addition, Volkswagen unveiled a new electric vehicle with some automotive AR features coming along for the ride. Check Out the Spectacles Smartglasses PrototypeWhen Snap CEO Evan Spiegel pulled off the surprise debut of the augmented reality version of Spectacles last week, it was one of the biggest moments in the company's history.In one move, Snap moved from a primarily software-driven social media company to a legitimate hardware player. But how did it come together?Well, it turns out that, just like the HoloLens before it, the new Spectacles also had a noteworthy prototype device that led up to the eventual polished version that we see today. Continue reading to see the early version of the device and find out another way to get…

In the commercial, Disney magic lives in a secret room tucked away inside Cinderella Castle. There’s so much magic in this room, it can’t be contained and is ready to burst through! Along with an EARidescent magic-filled “50th Anniversary” cabinet, this special room also contains a variety of artifacts from beloved Disney stories, characters and attractions.  See if you can find Cinderella’s glass slipper, the Enchanted Rose from “Beauty and the Beast” and 16 other Easter eggs here:

Following in the footsteps of Match Group and Expedia, Vimeo (VMEO) is the latest company to be spun off from Barry Diller’s IAC.The video-software company entered the stock market earlier this week and has made an inauspicious start to life as a public entity, with shares down by 26% already.However, Truist analyst Youssef Squali expects Vimeo to claw back those losses and sees a lot to like about the company often referred to as the “indie YouTube.”Squali initiated coverage with a Buy rating and $54 price target, suggesting upside of ~29% in the year ahead. (To watch Squali’s track record, click here)“We believe Vimeo provides a differentiated offering which caters to both enterprises and self-serve customers,” the 5-star analyst said. “We expect Vimeo to continue to capture share of its large TAM through product innovation and increased enterprise video use cases.”Vimeo is a freemium platform with over 200 million users, and while its business model means it does not generate direct revenue from all its offerings, Squali believes a “vast majority of Vimeo’s value and revenue are built around its tiered priced subscription product.”Using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, the subscriptions are sold to businesses and video content producers – anything…