A number of Twitch streamers have received Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests for alleged music copyright violations in videos posted between 2017 and 2019. Each notice works like a strike against a streamer’s account. Three strikes and the channel could be banned from the Amazon-owned gaming streaming site. Early Monday morning, Twitch Support tweeted …
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Twitch is a popular platform for gamers who want to share their play-throughs and connect with an audience, but open platforms for user-created content require sound moderation policies. Now Twitch is looking to shore things up on that front with a new Safety Advisory Council comprised of online safety experts as well as the platform’s own creators. “When developing this …
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With no March Madness, can I interest you in a bit of April Absurdity? The NCAA basketball tournament is canceled and the NBA season is on hold, but hoop fans can fill the roundball void with a virtual NBA 2K20 tournament. And not just any NBA 2K tournament you might find on Twitch. For one thing, 16 current NBA players, …
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In a typical year, late March is one of the best times of the sports calendar. You have the madness of the NCAA basketball tournament and the start of the baseball season, as the NBA and NHL seasons hit their stretch runs toward the playoffs. All of this fun and these games have been washed away in this most atypical …
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So you want to be the next YouTube influencer or Twitch star, but your laptop’s low-res webcam makes you look like you’re streaming from the AOL era? The all-new Logitech StreamCam may be just the ticket. The accessory giant’s latest add-on webcam captures full 1080p HD video at 60 frames per second, and it automatically handles all of the details …
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And then there were four. Google Stadia, the tech titan’s new service that lets you play video games like you stream the TV show Stranger Things from Netflix, launched this week with high hopes — and immediately took flak for having few features, a poor lineup of games and slow response time. Next year, it’ll have another issue to contend …
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A shooting Wednesday that killed two people outside a German synagogue during one of the most important Jewish holidays was livestreamed for 35 minutes on Twitch. The video has since been removed from the streaming platform, but it was uploaded to other video sites. The shooter failed to enter the synagogue in Halle, Germany, but wreaked havoc before driving away, …
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Donald Trump is spreading his social media wings with the launch of a channel on Twitch. Trump is at least the third candidate for president to create a presence on the video game streaming service. Trump’s account, which has a verification check mark, counts about 7,000 followers but hasn’t posted any content as of this writing, but the move suggests …
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Finally, there’s a reason to pay more for those Tensor cores: that AI-acceleration silicon in Nvidia’s GeForce RTX graphics cards will be able to drive some pretty cool features in game livestreaming software like OBS, thanks to its new RTX Broadcast Engine programming interface. The first, and probably most useful, is the incorporation of RTX Greenscreen that’s debuting in OBS, …
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Twitch is taking an old school approach to Amazon Prime Day by running a two-day TV shopping channel livestream July 15 and 16. Twitch Sells Out: A Prime Day Special Event will showcase gaming, electronics and other products in two 12-hour broadcasts. The first kicks off on its main /twitchpresents channel on July 15 at 10 a.m. PT and runs …
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