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You no longer have to broadcast to post content on Twitch. The popular livestreaming-video site, a subsidiary of Amazon, revealed during a stage presentation at its TwitchCon fan event today that it has launched video up...

It’s prime time for Hearthstone’s Priest class. On Amazon, that is. Onstage today at TwitchCon in San Diego, Hearthstone art lead Ben Thompson announced that players who sign up for the just-announced Twitch Prime pr...

More people are tuning into Twitch for their livestreaming gaming entertainment than ever before. The Amazon subsidiary averages 622,000 viewers at any one time over the last 12 months, Twitch chief executive officer Emm...

Craft distilling is already becoming a hot trend in the Scotch whisky world.

People love to watching Overwatch. The streaming site Twitch revealed today during the keynote for its TwitchCon event in San Diego that Overwatch has been the most popular 2016 release on the site, meaning that it has a...

GUEST: Chatbots are just a “hi” away. Not like a website that you have to navigate to, or an app that you have to locate and open. But chatbots today lack the ability to provide the visual feedback customers rely on ...

PewDiePie is a host onto himself. As long as he can hold up a brofist, he’s a threat to take over any market he enters. Developer Outermind’s new PewDiePie Tuber Simulator is the most downloaded game on the App Store...

Converged data center hardware company Nutanix today had its first day of trading on the stock market, and its stock closed at $37 per share, up 131 percent from the $16 share price at which it sold more than 14 million ...

Women comprise about half the S&P 500 labor force but represent less than 5 percent of those companies' CEOs. Why? In part, because men project five stereotypical roles onto them.

SPONSORED: Picture a world without the scientific method. There would be no clinical trials, medical journals, or SpaceX rocket test flights. Without the ability to run experiments, the pace of innovation would slow, new...

Millennials will represent 75% of the American workforce by 2025. This statistic is commonly used, but there isn’t much thought put into the implications of that number. The reality of this number will fundamentally ch...

California Hits Wells Fargo Where it Hurts

Google today unveiled a no-brainer update to Google Maps: integration with Google Calendar, Gmail, and Google Contacts. Rolling out gradually worldwide, the new feature means Android users will start to see their Google ...

EXCLUSIVE: There is a general problem with analytics, especially when it comes to understanding your audience — knowing where to find the right data, understanding what questions to ask, and gathering real insights in ...

Yahoo today announced its latest open-source release: a model that can figure out if images are specifically pornographic in nature. The system uses a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, which involves ...

Facebook once tried to buy the company formerly known as Snapchat for $3 billion. After getting rebuffed, the social networking company opted to find ways to compete against the ephemeral messaging app, even repeatedly l...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, teams and figures from the NBA get involved in the esports market, No Man’s Sky loses players, and Ubisoft has high hopes for Nintendo’s NX. Pieces of flair and...

They said her idea was insane. That's when this Millennial realized that if she wanted a different answer, she needed to ask a different question.

It’s going to be a nostalgic Christmas. Nintendo announced new features for the Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition, which launches November 11 for $60. The NES Classic is a mini-version of the original conso...

Mobile ad tech has evolved rapidly in recent years. As advertiser spend has increased greatly, there has been a correspondingly huge growth in tools and platforms to help app publishers earn as much revenue as possible t...

It started on Twitter, but Oincs is now an app that aims to help citizens join together to detect and solve problems.