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One of gaming’s biggest video sites is looking at its success during 2015. Twitch revealed its 2015 retrospective today, and the game livestreaming company highlighted its enormous scale and growth as well as its passionate community. The company revealed that it has 550,000 people tuned in on average at any one time — and those […]... →

Video is booming on Instagram with watch time up 40% in 6 months, so now it’s trying to lure the best video makers and marketers from competitors like Vine and YouTube. Over the next few weeks, Instagram will begin showing the view counts on videos where the Like number used to be. though you can still click through to see the heart count. Like on Facebook, 3 seconds counts as a view.… Read More... →

Группа американских фондов Vanguard Group стала владельцем 5,9% акций разработчика софта EPAM. Это следует из информации, размещенной на сайте Комиссии по ценным бумагам США. В настоящий момент одна акция компании EPAM продается за $57 на фондовом рынке. Таким образом, рыночная стоимость приобретенного пакета фондом Vanguard Group составляет $170 млн. Согласно газете «Коммерсант», Александр Добкин, глава и основатель EPAM, на июль 2015 года владел 5,48% акций компании (2,688,119 акций), по данным на 31 дека... →

Геймдизайнер Nival Анатолий Шестов опубликовал в своем блоге перевод шестой лекции курса «Принципы игрового баланса» игрового дизайнера Яна Шрайбера, который работал над такими проектами, как Marvel Trading Card Game и Playboy: the Mansion. Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод с разрешения Шестова.... →

Ubisoft’s most reliable annual franchise is starting to slip, and the company is looking to shake things up moving forward. The French publisher generated $638 million (532 million euros) in sales during its fiscal third quarter, which ran through December 31. Those revenues were down from the $681 million (600 million euros) the company was […]... →

The National Park Service is celebrating its one-hundredth birthday later this year and as a part of its celebration, the agency has teamed up with Google to bring more of its parks into Google Street View and digitize many of the artifacts in its vast collections. Google is launching Street View imagery for 40 national parks today, including Alcatraz, Santa Cruz Channel Island… Read More... →

“We have detected gravitational waves.” David Reitze, LIGO Laboratory Executive Director Today, scientists announced that, for the first time in history, gravitational waves have been detected. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime throughout the universe. What’s truly remarkable about this discovery is that Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational… Read More... →

Boston-based startup DataRobot took in a $33 million investment led by New Enterprises Associates, the startup announced today. The machine learning startup says that with existing offices in Asia, Europe and The U.S., the investment will help fuel global sales and business development. Accomplice, Intel Capital, and IA Ventures also joined the round. DataRobot has […]... →

Когда задержанные отказались выдать пароли от E:\music\, следователь намекнул, что у них могут и запрещенные вещества «найтись»... →

Chartboost has created a marketplace for mobile-game developers to find players and make money. And now it wants to extend that with the acquisition of Roostr, which has created its own marketplace that connects mobile-game influencers directly with mobile-game developers. The move is a recognition of the growing importance of YouTube influencers such as PewDiePie, […]... →

Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Box today announced the addition of a document scanning feature in its Box Capture app for iOS. Box launched the app in September at its annual BoxWorks conference. Document scanning was one use case the company touted, alongside the ability to easily share photos and videos with colleagues, […]... →

It’s tax season in the United States, and financial service startup Digit has launched a feature designed to automate savings from tax refunds. Working with the Duke University nonprofit CommonCents Lab, the company leverages behavioral economics and technology to help you automatically put away a predetermined amount of your tax return. According to the Internal Revenue […]... →

If you’ve ever had trouble determining which photos to upload to your dating profile, Coffee Meets Bagel says it has found a solution. From now on, users can A/B test photos, by uploading two options and letting other users vote on which is best. Coffee Meets Bagel has been polling daters and found that 54% of the time people pass on “bagels,” the reason is photo-related.… Read More... →

If you’re tired of news apps that all look the same, you’ll want to take a look at the iPhone app that Quartz just put out. Read More... →

It looks like the creed really does need a break. While reporting its financial results for the third quarter of 2015-2016, publisher Ubisoft admitted that its Assassin’s Creed franchise is beginning to lose interest from consumers. It also confirmed that the franchise will take a break and not see a main series release in 2016. […]... →

Artificial intelligence startup Diffbot announced today that it scored a $10 million series A round led by Tencent, Felicis Ventures, and Amplify Ventures. The Palo Alto-based company says its technology “uses computer vision and NLP algorithms to extract and structure any web page into the world’s largest structured database… with no human curation or oversight.” Diffbot’s […]... →

HBO’s move to offer a version of its service aimed cord cutters has inspired other premium cable TV networks to do the same, including, most recently Showtime which debuted its standalone streaming service last summer, and later brought it to Hulu. Today, Cinemax is testing the waters, too, and is now making its content available for the first time to those who don’t subscribe to… Read More... →

The latest treasure trove of ancient software to hit the Internet Archive is a swathe of games, shareware, and productivity tools from Windows 3.1. Dating from the early 1990s, Windows 3.1 was a notable step in the evolution of Windows as an operating system, and Software Library: Windows 3.x revives more than a thousand programs […]... →

The mainstream is starting to consume virtual and augmented reality experiences, but we’re only at the start of what will be a long and iterative transition to a new interface. Read More... →