Japanese video game director Hideo Kojima recently took home a pair of Guinness World Records for his sizable social media following.

The records-keeping body recently acknowledged Kojima as having the most followers on Twitter for a video game director and the most followers on Instagram for a video game director. As of writing, Kojima has 2.83 million followers on Twitter and 924,000 followers on Instagram (the English versions of his accounts).

In a nutshell: Remember when so many games relied on button mashing? It’s not used quite as much these days, but some gamers still consider themselves experts—though it’s unlikely any are as good as Ludwig Ahgren.

On his Twitch channel , named Ludwig, the streamer used Mario Party 4 to show off his incredibly fast button mashing skills (it includes some NSFW language). Released for the GameCube back in 2002, the interactive board game consists of minigames, one of which,

WTF?! Considering starting a YouTube channel? Maybe you already have one and are trying to add to your subscriber base. If so, here’s some potentially worrying news: The video platform says it can now ban users it deems “no longer commercially viable.”

The strange rule appeared in YouTube’s new terms of service, which it emailed to users over the weekend. It appears in the “Account Suspension & Termination” section under the “Terminations by YouTube for Service Changes” subheader.

The exact

Forward-looking: NASA might be best known for its space missions, but the organization isn’t just about rockets. On Friday, it showed off its experimental electric plane, the Maxwell X-57, at its Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.

As reported by Reuters , the plane, which is adapted from an Italian-made, four-seat Tecnam P2006T plane, has been in development since 2015. Instead of the usual combustion engine, it

In a nutshell: Samsung is the world leader when it comes to semiconductors, but it can still experience manufacturing issues like everyone else. The company says that chemical contamination was discovered at one of its manufacturing plants a few weeks ago, impacting production and costing it millions of dollars.

Business Korea reports that the contamination happened at Samsung Electronics’ Giheung Plant in Korea. A 200mm wafer fab, rather than one that produces more modern 300mm diameter wafers, was impacted. This fab is used to

What just happened? Black Friday and Cyber Monday might bring in billions of dollars, but their combined sales still pale in comparison to Alibaba’s Singles' Day. Its annual 11.11 shopping event, which began at midnight last night, has already passed $25 billion and is on course to beat last year’s $30 billion record.

Alibaba reported that its gross merchandise volume had generated over $18 billion just two hours into the event, and it has now passed $2

Happy Birthday! In the dark days when Internet Explorer had over 90% market share, no one could have predicted the importance that Firefox would have when version 1.0 launched on November 9, 2004. Fifteen years ago Firefox introduced tabs, extensions and good Java support; and today it pioneers security and privacy. In its fifteen years it's had a dramatic impact on the web, despite never achieving the market dominance of its competitors.

Firefox was a smashing success from the moment it first