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" Welcome to PM/AM, Popular Mechanics&amp;#039; morning briefing on the top science and tech stories for today.  The tech industry is full of acquisitions that at first don&amp;#039;t seem to make any sense. Recent examples include the gut reaction to Facebook&amp;#039;s purchase of Oculus VR and the many articles that had to explain why Beats Electronics was actually a good thing for Apple. Twitch and YouTube, however, are made for each other. Sources reported over the weekend that Google-owned YouTube was looking to buy Twitch, a popular video game streaming service, for $1 billion. YouTube has tried to enter the streaming market, but early efforts were described by Twitch&amp;#039;s CEO Emmett Shear as &amp;quot;cute.&amp;quot; Now, like many massive companies, they&amp;#039;re looking to buy a solution.  In 2013, 45 million users watched 12 billion minutes of video on Twitch. Of that audience, the average age was 21 years old and more than half of those users spent more than 20 hours a week on the site. Earlier in 2014, Twitch experienced unprecedented traffic due to the &amp;quot;Twitch Plays Pok\u00E9mon&amp;quot; internet phenomenon where millions of users collectively gathered to play through 1996&amp;#039;s Pok\u00E9mon Red. In fact, the video game social experiment was so popular, that it almost broke Twitch itself.  With Twitch seeing website-breaking popularity, it&amp;#039;s a no-brainer that Google and YouTube want in on the action. Read This Facebook still feels the sting after missing out on Snapchat and is now looking to create its own solution. [via The Next Web (Financial Times)] Have scientists found the largest dinosaur ever? [via The Washington Post] Scientists think they&amp;#039;ve discovered a collider than can turn light into matter, and that&amp;#039;s pretty cool. [via The Verge] Listen to This  &amp;quot;OK Glass, identify this dinosaur fossil.&amp;quot;    Popular Mechanics Podcast 05.19.14        On the PopMech Podcast, new technology protects you from the elements better than ever, Google Glass helps paleontologists in the field, and a quick review of the past week in technology. Don&amp;#039;t want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the PopMech Podcast in the iTunes store. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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