Rim Zrein

Rim is an experienced content writer with a demonstrated history of working in various niche industries.

Sony acquires Crunchyroll, leaving anime fans with unanswered questions

AT&T has officially sold Crunchyroll to Sony, bringing two of the world’s biggest anime streaming competitors in Sony’s hands. For the increasingly growing anime fan base, this is game-changing news. In an attempt to close the company’s $170 million debt, the telco sold its largest anime streaming platform for a sum amounting to $1.175 billion. […]

Bitcoin will unite the world, Twitter’s CEO says

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, took to his personal account to tweet a cryptic message about Bitcoin, suggesting that the cryptocurrency will be behind the unity of the country, and eventually the world itself.  Vagueness shrouds Dorsey’s optimism about Bitcoin’s power leaving many of his followers bewildered of his stance.  However, it doesn’t take two to figure out that the country in […]

Streaming services took over Britons’ households in 2020, report finds

It’s common sense by now that the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic had a hand in increasing the hours people spent glued to the blue hue of their digital devices. However, we now have the exact numbers on how high the surge was for Britons’ households.  Thanks to research from the UK’s media regulator Ofcom, Britons are currently aware that they spent a third of their waking hours (more than 2,000 hours) watching TV or online […]

Twitter spaces upped its game by welcoming co-hosts

Twitter’s take on the Clubhouse-style audio feature is witnessing new upgrades. The micro-blogging site announced that starting this week, Spaces hosts can welcome other users to help them with moderation.  With this new expansion, multiple hosts can now talk at once in Twitter’s Spaces.  Once a user receives an invite to co-host, all the privileges the original host enjoys will be given to the co-hosts. Having the ability to speak, […]

Bill Gates speaks up about his questionable past

In an aired television interview with CNN journalist Anderson Cooper, the Microsoft founder admitted that spending time with the notorious convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a “huge mistake.”  The interview on Wednesday touched up on several controversial topics, including Gate’s alleged workplace sexual misconducts at Microsoft and the future of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in collaboration with his […]

Apple sends female employee home after raising sexist concerns

Ashley Gjøvik, senior engineering program manager at Apple has been coming to work for years complaining about her experiences with sexism, a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, unsafe working conditions, and retaliation.  Her request was simple, she asked Apple to mitigate the hostile work environment while they investigate.  “Initially Apple offered me EAP therapy and medical leave. I told them that made no sense and said they should talk […]

Facebook vs. NYU academics: Who’s in the wrong?

A new controversy is looming over Facebook, as it’s involving academic researchers over their use of unauthorized data from the platform.  The multinational tech company suspended the accounts of academics from New York University’s Ad Observatory Project on Tuesday due to privacy concerns.  Facebook product management director Mike Clark explained the reason behind the unprecedented move, citing that the accounts from the project were disabled “to stop unauthorized scraping and protect people’s […]

Your palm print is worth $10 according to Amazon

The retail and cloud giant is offering $10 in credit if you enroll your palm print in its checkout-free stores and link it to back to your profile.   Amazon introduced its new biometric palm print scanners, Amazon One, last year. Customers were able to purchase their desired products in specific stores by waving their palm prints over one of these scanners.   By February, the company branched out its palm scanners […]

Tencent shares tank by 10% after China media attack

Some of China’s biggest gaming firms experienced a 10 percent decline in shares on Tuesday, after being labelled as “spiritual opium” by a state-owned media outlet. China’s largest social media and video games firm Tencent recorded a plunge of 10 percent during early trade, while NetEase lost as much as 14 percent in Hong Kong; […]