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The Creator Of The Gif Has Died
Stephen Wilhite, the man widely credited as being the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format image, better known as a gif, has died at the age of 74.
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Twitch Purged Over 15 Million Hate Raid Bots Last Year
A new open letter from Angela Hession, Twitch’s vice president of global trust and safety, details the company’s approach to making its streaming platform a more harmonious place, most notably the deletion of millions of bots in an attempt to stem the site’s hate raid epidemic.
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Twitch’s ‘Pay-To-Win’ Boost Feature Doesn’t Actually Help People, Surprising No One
It seems Twitch’s controversial “pay-to-win” Boost feature is a bust. There was no positive impact for streamers who took part in a test of the Boost feature, according to a data analyst who crunched the numbers.
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Twitch Streamer Amouranth Bought A Petrol Station For -$110,000 Using Rich-Person Maths
Yes, the headline is correct. The popular Twitch streamer Amouranth did in fact purchase a petrol station. Not only did she purchase a petrol station, she claims to have done so while turning a profit through tax deductions. To prove this, she tweeted out a bunch of rich-person maths — which makes my brain hurt.