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

GeekWire

tournament scene, Nintendo of America has announced a new partnership that will see the debut of the first officially-licensed Smash tournament series. We've partnered with @PandaGlobal to launch the first officially licensed Super Smash Bros. After years of being indifferent at best to the Super Smash Bros.

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Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud

The Verge

Amazon is also planning to provide M1-powered devices in 2021. While developers have been able to turn to companies like Macstadium to host macOS instances previously, Apple’s licensing agreement for macOS has always been a bit of a grey area. Apple made this a lot clearer recently with an update to the license agreement for Big Sur.

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MTC Namibia moves OSS to the cloud

TM Forum

Although it’s difficult for MTC to quantify the amount of technical debt it had accumulated, the company notes that it was clearly spending more and more time on increasing hardware requirements and adapting systems to meet new demands from the business. It wasn’t a sustainable approach.

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BlackBerry will die on January 4th — for real this time

The Verge

And, yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware. Then, in 2016, it started licensing its brand to third-party manufacturers like TCL.

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Quibi’s library will live on through the Roku Channel

The Verge

Content from the short-form service will appear on the Roku Channel for free at some point in 2021, though the company hasn’t announced an exact date for its arrival. Roku’s announcement says the Quibi content it has licensed will feature stars including “Idris Elba, Kevin Hart, Liam?Hemsworth, link] — Quibi (@Quibi) January 8, 2021.

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Rockwell Automation makes shift to ‘as-a-service’ model

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s why, in the summer of 2021, Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, set about enabling a transformation that would change Rockwell’s business before it lost ground to a new class of hungry competitors. They realize the result is significantly higher total cost of ownership,” the report’s authors conclude.

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Apple is now building the chip it needs to ditch Qualcomm like it ditched Intel

The Verge

This year, we kicked off the development of our first internal cellular modem which will enable another key strategic transition,” Apple hardware SVP Johny Srouji reportedly said, according to Bloomberg. It’s only a matter of time. billion, and where Apple wound up getting the Qualcomm chips it needed to build this year’s 5G iPhones.

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