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Month: September 2016
Overcharge adds Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube integration to Twitch’s esports livestreams
A new startup wants to improve the Twitch esports experience with an information-rich platform for competitive gaming fans.
Overcharge is a new platform for watching live esports from Twitch. The site is up now, and it aims to expand how people consume tournament broadcasts by linking Twitter, Reddit, and more into a single hub. Unlike Twitch proper, which only has its own chat, Overcharge wants to provide that chat as well as a live feed from Twitter and other communities related to the competition onscreen. Esports is a growing market worth $493 million before you count any gambling or daily fantasy revenues. Overcharge is expecting to carve out a piece of that business for itself by crafting a viewing experience specifically for esports fanatics.
Stew Houston, who is a former Counter-Strike pro and founder of Overcharge, argues that it is an evolution of Twitch. While that Amazon subsidiary wants to provide a home for both esports viewers as well as people who play games casually or for speedrunning, Overcharge focuses on the competitive gaming. That could help the startup establish a place for itself in the market.
Overcharge works by enabling you to pick the game you want to watch. Choosing Overwatch, Blizzard’s popular team shooter that’s beginning a push into esports, will load up the top livestream featuring the Blizzard shooter. In two sidebars, you can then tune to other channels and participate in Twitch chat while browsing through related Reddit threads, Twitter posts, and YouTube videos.
“With the explosive growth and increasing mainstream awareness of competitive gaming, building the Overcharge platform has not only been a passion project but a business venture that we expect to pay dividends over the next 5 years,” Houston said in a canned statement. “Esports tournaments are now selling out major stadiums, attracting over 10,000 attendees for major events, and online viewership is quickly rivaling that of conventional sports. The League of Legends Championship Series, for example, peaked at over 14 million concurrent viewers on Twitch alone.”
Google embraces the log in, leaving cookies behind in advertising update
Pokémon Go Plus improves the grind, but it can be obnoxious
Pokémon Go mania has calmed-at least for now. Last month, analysts shared that the game had shown a rapid decline in daily users, from a peak of 45 million to more than 30 million at the time, and just this week the game was ousted from the #1 spot on the App Store’s Top Grossing chart by Supercell’s newly-updated Clash Royale. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are still making bank, but the sensation has subsided a bit.
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How Google Code Search Worked
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Zomato acquires Sparse Labs to give restaurants and customers real-time delivery-tracking data
Restaurant search service Zomato has acquired fellow Indian company Sparse Labs, a logistics technology startup specializing in helping restaurants track delivery drivers, allocate orders to the most suitable person based on location, and show customers where their order is in real time.
Founded in 2008, Zomato offers an online search service for 30 million restaurant-seekers in 20 countries, serving up information such as menus, photos, and locations, with users able to submit reviews and ratings. The company has raised more than $200 million in VC funding since its inception, and expanded into the U.S. last year with the acquisition of Urbanspoon. However, some months later news emerged that Zomato was laying off many of its U.S. employees, and was refocusing its efforts on markets where it was already a market-leader and doing well.
Zomato has made a number of acquisitions over the past couple of years, and its previous known deal was for NexTable, a U.S.-based startup that offers a restaurant reservations and table-management platform, similar to OpenTable. But Zomato’s move to acquire a logistics technology company is notable, as it mirrors what other food-delivery companies are already offering. Indeed, companies such as Deliveroo in Europe make it easy for restaurants and customers to view drivers’ location in real-time, meaning hungry customers can always see where their food is on the journey and kitchens can be sure they’re using the nearest driver to deliver the food.
Sparse Labs’ smarts include a web dashboard, APIs, driver apps, customer notifications, maps and more, and is all about letting restaurants optimize their operations to minimize friction between a customer placing an order and receiving it. There is also an additional proprietary GPS tracker built by Sparse Labs which can be fitted to bikes, meaning restaurants can always see where a rider is – irrespective of whether their phone is switched on.
“Joining forces with Sparse Labs will allow us to significantly improve the food ordering experience on the app, by giving users real-time GPS-based status updates on their order,” explained Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal , in a blog post. “While we were already working on making this feature available for deliveries handled by our logistics partners, Sparse Labs will now help us enable delivery tracking for restaurant-owned fleets as well. At the restaurant end, this technology will help make deliveries highly cost- and time-efficient, allowing them to optimize delivery routes and ensuring minimal wait time for riders.”
Following the acquisition, Sparse Labs will be rebranded as Zomato Trace and will be made available to restaurants “soon.”
7 Excellent Ways To Have Some You Time This Week
What to watch, play, read, eat, and more.
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Watch Z Nation.
BuzzFeed user FirstClassKiller offered this up in repsonse to last week’s suggestions, quoting this tumblr post to list the show’s many pros: “Has a POC woman as the leader, [and] a bisexual woman who struggled with PTSD as the second in command. Has an original plot, despite being set in the zombie apocalypse. The kinds of zombies vary. Casts actual Native Americans and Mexicans to be in the show. The humor is actually good and there’s always something in every episode to make you laugh. They make references to actual zombie lore all the time.”
I mean, I’m sold.
Watch it on Netflix.
If you’re not sold, how about catching up or re-watching Orphan Black? “Tatiana Maslany is amazing in it, and she just won an Emmy too,” says Kassy. Kassy is RIGHT. Watch it on Netflix UK.
SyFy
Read The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
This is Elizabeth‘s current read, and should probably be your next one. Listed for Oprah’s book club and generating buzz all over, Whitehead’s newest novel is the epic story of Ceaser and Cora, slaves who escape their Georgia plantation.
Buy a copy here.
If you can’t commit to a book right now, how about this list of completely engrossing Wikipedia pages?
Little, Brown
Listen to Tropical Gypsy by Molotov Jukebox.
Rebecca says: “Like their previous two albums, it’s an absolute banger of Spanish, Balkan, and swing-influenced, genre-defying fun, led by Natalia Tena’s gorgeous accordion and vocals. It will have you packing up your tent and heading for the nearest festival, or at the very least, having a dance underneath a sun you’ll have no trouble conjuring in your imagination thanks to the album’s canopy of tropical sounds.”
Listen on Spotify.
And/or enjoy these excellent songs for autumn.
Malware Evades Detection with Novel Technique
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Snapchat Is Making Sunglasses With A Built-In Camera
If you weren’t addicted enough to Snapchat already, there will soon be a new way to record and share your most memorable moments.
Snapchat announced on Saturday, a brand new piece of hardware called Spectacles ― sunglasses with a built-in camera to record Snaps.
“Imagine one of your favorite memories,” the announcement on the company’s website reads. “What if you could go back and see that memory the way you experienced it? That’s why we built Spectacles.”
The company also changed its name to Snap Inc., a move which CEO Evan Spiegel said reflects the company’s future. “Now that we are developing other products, like Spectacles, we need a name that goes beyond just one product,” he wrote in a blog post. Snap Inc. is described on its website as “a camera company.”
The tiny wireless camera built into the sunglasses will be capable of recording “a day’s worth of Snaps on a single charge,” according to the Spectacles announcement. Recording is as simple as tapping a button near the hinge and, since Spectacles will be wirelessly linked to your smartphone, the Snaps are then automatically added to your Memories.
Since Snapchat has always been limited to smartphone cameras, the new hardware opens up a whole new world. Plus, users will be able to have their hands free, which will lend a more personal, first-person perspective to Snaps.
Though the website says the Spectacles will be available “soon,” it might be a while before you can get your hands on a pair. “We’re going to take a slow approach to rolling them out,” Spiegel told The Wall Street Journal. “It’s about us figuring out if it fits into people’s lives and seeing how they like it.”
The Spectacles will cost $129.99 and will be available in three colors ― black, teal, and coral.
And even if you’re not a Snapchat aficionado, you have to admit that these things look pretty cool.
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Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. A Psychophysical Study (Ig Nobel Winner)
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