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In a week when students walked out, Stephen Hawking passed on and Snapchat outgaffed United Airlines, this also happened:
A tweet from former President Barack Obama got more than 250,000 likes — apparently more than any tweet from President Trump during the week — and Obama got nearly that many more likes for responding to a tweet from former President George H.W. Bush. So what drew all that attention? The ex-presidents’ NCAA basketball tournament brackets.
A French court ruled that Facebook failed to fulfill its contractual obligations by closing the account of a user who posted a photo of a famous 19th century nude painting, but the court also refused to order the company to restore the account or pay damages. The court said the user, a primary school teacher and art lover, didn’t prove any financial harm and there was no need to order the account reopened because he was able to set up a new account immediately.
1 FedEx says it is investing more than $1 billion to modernize its Tennessee hub. Construction is expected to begin in 2019 and be completed by 2025. 1 Grammy Award-winning rapper
Drake helped Twitch break its record for the most-viewed stream by joining gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins to play “Fortnite.” There were 630,000 concurrent viewers at their peak on Wednesday, and they were later joined by rapper Travis Scott and Pittsburgh Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster.
Speaking of gamers, the Golden State Warriors’ new video game basketball team will get the last pick in the first round for the upcoming “NBA 2K” League draft. But all is not lost. Because the draft is arranged in a serpentine order, the Warriors Gaming Squad will at least get the first pick in the second round.