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Microsoft ends production of the Xbox One as focus turns to new consoles

GeekWire

The Xbox One S was effectively the “baseline” version of the hardware, which replaced the launch edition in 2016. A later revision of the hardware, the Xbox One X, came out in 2017. In 2019, Microsoft released an All-Digital Edition of the Xbox One S that didn’t include a disc drive for physical media.

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Sony makes clear it will still sell PSP games on the PS3 and Vita stores

The Verge

When the PlayStation®Store for PlayStation®Portable (PSP) was previously closed in 2016, you were still able to perform searches and make in-game purchases. All of this naturally only applies to games that were sold digitally, but it helps preserve some of the PSP’s history and back catalog, since the native PSP storefront shutdown in 2016.

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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 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.

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H. Moser’s latest Apple Watch troll is a next-level $30,800 Vantablack loading wheel

The Verge

Since 2016, Moser has released several variants on its Alp Watch in a variety of colors and materials. The hands of the watch are actually also black; they just don’t look it in comparison. But the cleverest aspect is the “loading wheel” at the 6 o’clock position that apes Apple’s boot indicator.

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Groq AI, not Grok, roasts Elon Musk with its “fastest LLM”

Dataconomy

This weekend, lightning-fast demonstrations from Groq AI captured the public’s attention, showcasing capabilities that make current iterations of ChatGPT , Gemini , and even Grok appear slow by comparison. The potential for AI chatbots to become vastly more responsive and useful is on the horizon, thanks to Groq AI.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Impinj went public in 2016. He has helped steer F5 beyond its roots as a hardware company, expanding into application security and delivery software through multiple acquisitions. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Diorio founded Impinj in 2000 while teaching at the University of Washington. The Seattle company reported revenue of $2.7

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

While he once said it was hard to see the appeal of Google Glass , the AR wearable that proved unpopular with consumers, he’s held a consistently positive opinion on AR since at least 2016. July 2016: Cook says in a quarterly earnings call that “AR can be really great.”. “We This would become a running theme: AR good, VR not so good.

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