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Meet the drag queen revolutionizing the streaming world on Twitch

"I wasn't a drag queen .. until I started my Twitch channel," said Deere, who is paving the way for drag video game streamers on Twitch.

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On Twitch, women who stream say their biggest obstacle is harassment

"There's definitely days where I'm like, 'I can't even stream because there's so much mean stuff,'" said Lisa Vannatta, who goes by STPeach on the site.

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Drought exposes long-submerged 'Spanish Stonehenge' monument

Water levels in a manmade lake dropped significantly this summer after record heat and dry conditions.

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A teen's fatal stabbing was filmed: Is social media to blame?

"We see these terrible stories, and they are terrible, and we all immediately wonder, if this were happening to me, would people come to my aid?" one media expert said.

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Climate scientists say Greta Thunberg's efforts are building real momentum

"She is getting people to listen, which we have failed to do," one climatologist said.

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Cannabis research pioneer hopes latest discovery is not overlooked — again

Decades after Raphael Mechoulam linked CBD with treating epilepsy, his latest finding may help develop new drugs for psoriasis, arthritis and anxiety.

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Sinclair CEO says he's pivoted to local news and sports to avoid streaming services 'sea of blood'

The upcoming war among streaming services is going to mean "losses for many years to come for many of those companies who are going to be engaged in a major share battle."

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Social media manipulation outfits now target users with video: report

"Images are often more powerful than words with more potential to go viral," said Samantha Bradshaw, one of the report's author's

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Cocktails and dreams: Industry innovations go on show in Glasgow

The future involves drinks imprinted with selfies and recipes based on the brain's individual response to smells. Bartenders also used machines such as centrifuges and rotavaps to extract flavours.

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Search for 'missing matter' predicted by Einstein's theory closes in

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are studying what happens when particles don't collide, but instead zoom past each other in near misses.

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First astronaut from UAE set to fly to space station

The other two astronauts are from the U.S. and Russia, and all three are scheduled to leave on Wednesday.

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Venus may have been habitable for 3 billion years, before mysterious climate shift

Venus may be a hellish world now, but it's believed that the planet may have once been temperate, with shallow oceans on its surface.

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Changing the world in 17 numbers? There’s an app for that

One group has created a platform to help people across the globe make the world a better, more sustainable place

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How anti-vaxxers target grieving moms and turn them into crusaders

Anti-vaccine advocates find women whose babies have died unexpectedly and convince them vaccines are to blame.

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3D-printed heart tissue could ease organ donor shortage

There are more than 120,000 people in the United States waiting for donor organs to become available.

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Tech startups in Vietnam emerge as beneficiaries of U.S.-China trade war

A long period of peace and stability and a vibrant capitalist culture have helped the country's economy flourish.

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Real-life Atlantis: Lost continent found under Europe is revealing Earth's missing history

Research has turned up lost continents buried beneath Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, and there may be more.

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Six months after Christchurch shootings, videos of attack are still on Facebook

Platforms increasingly face a battle with bad actors organizing on forums such as 8chan to circumvent their detection systems.

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High school gamers are scoring college scholarships. But can esports make varsity?

The esports boom has reached high schools, where students are forming teams and districts are weighing the benefits. Esports startups see opportunity.

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Everyday people: How a massive picture database sparked a discussion about AI and bias

After an art project showed how AI can categorize people in offensive ways, a major research database is discarding half its images of people.