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Razer, the gaming lifestyle brand and hardware supplier, opening new store in Seattle

GeekWire

Razer, which was founded in 2005, sells gaming hardware such as laptop and desktop computers, headphones and controllers, as well as apparel, bags, chairs and more. The RazerStore is the third in the U.S. for the company, behind San Francisco and Las Vegas. Other locations are in Singapore, London, Hong Kong and Taipei. Razer Photo).

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Go read how the US government built a top-secret iPod right under Steve Jobs’ nose

The Verge

For a period of time starting in 2005, Apple allowed two US government contractors to work in its offices to develop a custom version of the iPod — but exactly what that iPod would do was a mystery, and remains so today, as shared in this fascinating story by former iPod engineer David Shayer that you should go read. He cut to the chase. “I

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

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He later launched and sold two startups to Microsoft: Groove Networks in 2005 , and Talko in 2015. It’s a cellular IoT device that can be embedded into almost any hardware and connect to the internet without relying on WiFi. It is also working with partners to help with hardware engineering and integrating IoT data into apps.

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Apple’s ARM-based Macs will be more like iPhones than ever before

The Verge

Apple made waves at WWDC this year when it announced that it’d be making its own Mac chips , switching away from the Intel processors the company has used across its laptops and desktops since 2005. The switch to ARM — which the company refers to as “Apple silicon” — is the third major hardware platform for Macs.

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First ARM Macs will be MacBook Pros and an all-new iMac: report

The Verge

At WWDC 2005, Apple announced that it would move from PowerPC processors to Intel for performance reasons, then in January 2006 the company released its first Intel-based Macs: an iMac with a Core Duo inside the old G5 chassis, and the all-new MacBook Pro that replaced the PowerBook G4.

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

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Sega’s crime drama/beat-’em-up Yakuza Kiwami is a 2016 remake of a 2005 game, but has resulted in the original game going quietly out of print. For example, the original 2005 PlayStation 2 game Yakuza is considered out of print by the VGHF, even though a full remake, Yakuza Kiwami, was released in 2016. between 1948 (i.e.

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Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month, says report

The Verge

Although the actual release of its ARM-based hardware is months away, Apple needs to make its plans public to give developers time to optimize their software for the new architecture. The company reportedly has at least three ARM-based Mac processors in development based on the next iPhone’s A14 chip as part of Apple’s “Kalamata” project.

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