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From Head-Mounted Webcam to $970M Exit: The Product Lesson Twitch Teaches Every Founder

Justin Kan wore a camera on his head for a living. That's not a metaphor — in 2007, the guy literally strapped a webcam to his skull and streamed his entire waking life, unedited, to whoever would watch. It was a publicity stunt dressed up as a startup, and it worked exactly as intended: TV crews showed up, curiosity spiked, traffic poured in.

Then reality set in. Watching someone's unfiltered daily routine gets old fast. Justin.tv, the platform born from that stunt, threw its doors open to anyone who wanted to broadcast. What followed was chaos — bootlegged TV shows, aimless lifecasters, digital tumbleweeds. But buried in that mess was a pocket of users behaving completely differently from everyone else: gamers, glued to their own StarCraft II streams for hours, day after day.

That one anomaly became the seed of Twitch — the platform Amazon eventually paid $970 million for,...

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Don’t Get Too Attached to Jimothy

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iBuyPower Gaming PC With Ryzen 9 And RX 9070 XT Drops To $1,799

Can you imagine buying a potent gaming PC at a fair price in this economy? Surprising as it may be, there are actually desktop deals to be had, and not just on systems with previous-generation hardware, either. Over at Walmart, you can choose between a couple of iBuyPower setups that

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OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake

The age of rogue AI hacker agents has arrived—but it didn't have to happen this way. After an OpenAI agent breached the Hugging Face platform earlier this month, the two companies said this week that the hacking spree was more extensive than previously thought and also involved

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Don’t Get Too Attached to Jimothy

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iBuyPower Gaming PC With Ryzen 9 And RX 9070 XT Drops To $1,799

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake