Waze list the best and worst countries to drive in

Popular navigation app Waze has provided information about the best and worst places to drive in the world. It also goes over other things like the best and worst places to be a driver as well as who has the most traffic.

They took over 50 million user results from 32 countries and rated their experiences. Scoring a 10 means it’s amazing while a 1 is horrible. This information also includes other things like road quality, traffic, driver safety and more.

Those of you who live in the Netherlands will be happy to find out it scored the top spot in the world to drive with a ranking of 7.9. The US came pretty close, but took the third spot with a 7.2. However, you definitely do not want to drive in El Salvador as it only scored a 2.1 “due to frequency and severity of traffic jams, lack of driver services, and poor road infrastructure”.

Waze go over a ton of other information, but one I found interesting was the best and worst places for traffic. The Netherlands again take the top spot with an 8 while the US isn’t far behind with a 7. Although, at a city level, Phoenix has the lightest traffic overall.

Source: Waze

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Fantasy sports staff earned obscene cash by playing on rival sites

Those suspicions that DraftKings and FanDuel employees are profiting from being a little too cozy? Yeah, they’ve just gained some serious credibility. On top of a recent lawsuit accusing the two websites of using insider information to commit fraud, the New York Times has learned that staff at these sites have frequently been raking in huge amounts of cash by playing on each other’s sites. Both DraftKings and FanDuel workers have “regularly” ranked as big winners, possibly by using that insider info to gain an unfair advantage. DraftKings co-founder Paul Liberman even noted that some of his team members have made “significantly more money” from competing at FanDuel than they have working their jobs. Taking that option away might discourage people from staying with the company, he claimed.

The companies are trying to mend their image. They’ve both banned their employees from playing in daily fantasy sports of any kind, and the firms are conducting an independent investigation that should report back within weeks. Even if DraftKings and FanDuel clean up their playing practices, though, neither the inspection nor the lawsuit are likely to represent the end of the story. The sites are operating in a largely unregulated field, and it won’t be surprising if the US government eventually clamps down to make sure that everyday players stand a real chance of winning.

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Via: Deadspin

Source: New York Times

Key and Peele pen TV deal with Vine’s King Bach

When it was announced that Key & Peele were going to wrap up production this year on their self-titled sketch show, comedy fans all around the world were pretty bummed about it. But now Deadline has reported that the two comedy stars will write and produce a new comedy starring Vine‘s Andrew “KingBach” Bachelor. The man who has mastered the social media platform and perfected the six-second loop is no stranger to comedy shows, having already starred in recurring roles in The Mindy Project, House Of Lies and Black Jesus. With the help of Key & Peele writer Alex Rubens, the new show will be loosely based around one of Bachelor’s online personas and follow an undercover cop who goes back to his hometown in order to take out the bad guys who bullied him while growing up.

That’s pretty much all we know about the untitled comedy for now, but with Bachelor being the biggest Vine star with 14 million followers and over 5.1 billion video loops, it’s safe to say that episodes of the new show will be played over again…and again…and again..

When you’re friend is an undercover cop https://t.co/ZyVOe7ACtX

— King Bach (@KingBach) February 28, 2015

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[Image credit: Casey Rodgers]

Source: Deadline

Rand Paul will livestream an entire day from his presidential campaign

Senator Rand Paul’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination isn’t going well — he’s as far down as eighth place, depending on whose polls you trust. And he’s hoping that showing some internet savviness will help him get out of that rut. The politician has announced plans to livestream an entire day from his campaign (October 13th) on both Facebook and UStream. He’ll take questions whenever he can, and hopes to finish after the Democratic debate wraps up in the evening.

It’s a groundbreaking experiment for a presidential hopeful, and it does suggest that Paul is slightly more in tune with tech than some other candidates. However, it’s debatable as to whether or not this will move the needle in a race where the frontrunners are succeeding based more on what they’re saying than how they say it. And as some have already pointed out, there’s an irony to a staunchly pro-privacy candidate putting his life on display for the whole internet to see — especially when this isn’t really the kind of increased government accountability that his supporters might expect.

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Via: Rare, Recode

Source: Rand Paul (Twitter 1), (2)

Two major Twitter accounts suspended after posting GIFs with NFL footage

Twitter accounts belonging to Deadspin (@Deadspin) and SB Nation (@SBNationGIF) were suspended earlier this evening after reusing NFL footage for GIFs and Vines. Both publications were served with multiple takedown notices — issued through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act — by the league, causing Twitter to enforce suspensions.

Here is the league’s statement regarding what went down tonight:

Via: The Verge, Awful Announcing

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