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Banjo-Kazooie returns to Nintendo hardware this week

The Verge

The game is inextricably associated with the N64 — it’s a collect-a-thon with blurry cartoon graphics and cute animal characters — but this will actually mark the first time you’ll have been able to play it on Nintendo hardware since Microsoft bought original developer Rare in 2002.

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Former Microsoft exec Ed Fries shares behind-the-scenes stories from the original Xbox project

GeekWire

The four generations of Xbox hardware, as of 2020. Fries spoke at the WN Conference in Seattle last week as part of a discussion hosted by Venturebeat’s Dean Takahashi, author of the 2002 behind-the-scenes book Opening the Xbox. The original Xbox is in the back left. GeekWire Photo/Thomas Wilde).

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Sega and Microsoft announce strategic alliance to develop ‘Super Game’ initiative on Azure

GeekWire

It was previously a console manufacturer, but ended its hardware business in 2001 after the unfortunate failure of the Dreamcast. It originally began publishing titles for the Xbox platform in 2002 with the Japanese release of the action/skating game Jet Set Radio Future, and many of its current titles are available on Xbox Game Pass.

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Why SoundHound AI stock is breaking records

Dataconomy

This surge is primarily attributed to the recent announcement that Nvidia, along with other leading hardware and software companies, is enhancing AI technologies within the telecommunications sector. Since 2002, the service has achieved returns that more than quadruple those of the S&P 500. as of 2:40 p.m.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

GeekWire

Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using ThruWave’s hardware and software. “There is a computer vision and hardware component, an industrial market, incredible talent on the team, great progress with customer contracts in place, and early revenue,” she said. The startup raised $6.4

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Final Fantasy XIV sales suspended to try to help server congestion

The Verge

But Final Fantasy XIV ’s explosion in popularity has coincided with a global chip shortage that’s gotten in the way of Square Enix buying new server hardware. In more normal times, a company like Square Enix would try to fix these capacity issues by investing in new servers.

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Life goals: Megan Rapinoe says goodbye to soccer, and Seattle tech leaders share how she inspired

GeekWire

.” Read more on the Intentionalist blog : 15 diverse small businesses that embody Megan Rapinoe’s social justice activism Lauren Sato is entrepreneur-in-residence at Seattle hardware startup studio Conduit Venture Labs.

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