Ludwig Ahgren breaks world record for highest number of Twitch subscribers

Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren has set the world record for receiving the highest number of Twitch subscribers of all time — beating the pervious one set by Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, which was 269,155 subscribers. In the afternoon of April 13, Ahgren exceeded 270,000 subscribers, with the number still climbing at the time of publication. The […]

Lexon Breaks Company Record with 6 Wins at the Red Dot Design Award 2021

The French brand turns 30 and proves its continuous leadership in innovative product design PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 13, 2021– Lexon today announced that it has received 6 Red Dot Awards for its outstanding product design quality in multiple categories, setting a new company record for the number of awards won in a single competition. Sister company […]

BabyWalk AI breaks complex navigation into simple steps

In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers affiliated with Google, Princeton, the University of Southern California, and Simon Fraser University propose BabyWalk, an AI that learns to navigate by breaking instructions into steps and completing them sequentially. They claim it achieves state-of-the-art results on several metrics and that it’s able […]

VALORANT breaks Twitch record with 34 million hours watched on day one

It’s been a big week for Riot Games. The first day of VALORANT’s closed beta on Twitch was a record-breaking one with 34 million hours watched, Riot Games announced today. “Our hearts, inboxes, and social media DMs are filled to the brim with all of the enthusiasm for the VALORANT Closed Beta,” said Anna Donlon, […]

Valorant Breaks Twitch Single-Day Viewership Record

Riot’s new tactical shooter Valorant is still in beta, but that hasn’t stopped players from flooding to Twitch in order to catch a glimpse of the team behind League of Legends’ next game. Over 1.7 million viewers tuned were watching the game on Twitch at its peak, according to PC Gamer, watching those lucky enough […]

CS: GO Breaks Record With 1 Million Concurrent Users

For the first time in its eight-year history, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has hit 1 million concurrent players. CS:GO is the most popular game on Steam and continues to rise in popularity. This can be attributed to the game being free-to-play since 2018 and the release of a battle pass in 2019. It has been breaking its […]