| Drake is 'Up All Fortnite' and Theranos gets what was coming to it (or, like, a tiny fraction of what was coming to it, really). All that and more in The Daily Crunch for March 15, 2018. 1. Drake and Ninja broke Twitch records with Fortnite Everyone was watching Drake play popular Battle Royale game Fortnite last night. Well, not everyone, but more people than have ever concurrently watched a live stream on Twitch. The record topped out at over 600,000 concurrent viewers, as Drake played together with streamer and esports pro Ninja, with Drake playing on his PS4 and Ninja on a PC. 
2. Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes hit with SEC fraud charge Unsurprising, but Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, and former company president Ramesh Balwani have all been charged by the SEC for massive fraud, with Theranos and Holmes already agreeing to a resolution. 3. Lyft is building a self-driving platform with Magna Lyft's efforts to build autonomous vehicles has a new partner: Magna, one of the leading tier one automotive suppliers in the world. The ride-hailing provider will work in close collaboration with Magna on a platform designed to be able to be used far and wide by any automaker that wants it. 4. YouTube didn't even give Wikipedia a heads up on its conspiracy fighting plan If you're going to lean on a non-profit organization to clean up your platform's mess, the least you can do is tell them. 5. Google debuts playable in-game ads If an ad is a game in another game, is it still an ad? It is, yes. Google is launching exactly this kind of ad, we'll see where that goes. 6. SpaceX and ULA split lucrative Air Force launch contracts The U.S. Air Force likes the price advantages that SpaceX has to offer with its launch costs, but it needs two strong U.S. launch providers for its national security-related missions. 7. You can now learn Klingon on Duolingo I'll probably try to learn this just so I don't have to watch Star Trek Discovery with subtitles anymore. | 
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