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Nintendo is finally creating officially-licensed esports tournaments for ‘Super Smash Bros.’

GeekWire

Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch and its 2001 GameCube predecessor Super Smash Bros. Smash, by comparison, has a huge competitive scene, but it’s one that uses a series of unofficial rules and modifications to play Smash very differently from what Nintendo originally intended.

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

For comparison, this is slightly above the availability of pre-World War II audio recordings,” Salazar writes, “and slightly below the survival rate of American silent films. The rest are out of print and unplayable without resorting to software piracy.

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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. It’s not unusual for console manufacturers to offer a couple of different hardware options at launch, but normally, the differences are minor.

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GI Partners Buys LA Telecom Hub One Wilshire » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

By comparison, the U.S. In 2001, CalPERS backed GI Partners to acquire dozens of data center and Internet gateway properties, including many distressed properties bought at discount prices during a glut of data center real estate in the wake of the dot-com bust. Bank Tower recently sold for about $260 a square foot.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

The concept has been explored by many popular science fiction movies and TV shows, such as "2001: A Space Odyssey" with HAL-9000 or the Star Trek computer and Commander Data, which defined the perception of computer-generated speech. Face recognition. I am pleased to share some of the positive feedbacks from our beta customers.

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Sujal Patel-led Nautilus Biotechnology goes public as it tackles ambitious plan to analyze proteins

GeekWire

The deal will close on the 25th anniversary of Patel’s arrival in Seattle, where he started a job managing data storage infrastructure at RealNetworks that would lead to the idea of Isilon, a data storage company he helped start in 2001. It needed all of these three of those pieces — hardware, software and wetware — to come together.”.