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Someone turned Lego Mario into a controller for ‘Super Mario Bros.’

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Sponsored Links Lego If you're a fan of a certain Italian plumber and brand of plastic building blocks, you've probably seen the Lego Super Mario sets Lego and Nintendo released in August. Using a combination of technologies, they allow you to build your own IRL Mario levels with specially made Lego blocks. So obviously it was only a matter of time before someone found a way to use those toys to play Super Mario Bros. (via The Verge). Wrote some code to use the #legosupermario to play #SuperMario pic.twitter.com/LOuECESPgT— Rick

NVIDIA is officially buying Arm for $40 billion

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Time Stamp: September 13, 2020 8:08 PM - Modified On: September 13, 2020 - Published By:
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Just as we expected, NVIDIA just announced that it’s buying the semiconductor design company Arm for $40 billion. The deal will make NVIDIA into an even larger presence in mobile computing, especially when it comes to bringing its AI technology into platforms like smartphones, PCs and self-driving cars. Arm, meanwhile, will get even more support for R&D efforts as well as access to NVIDIA’s entire suite of products. And to cement its commitment, NVIDIA says it will build an AI supercomputer powered by Arm CPUs at the company’s Cambridge headquarters.“AI

NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless

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Time Stamp: September 4, 2020 5:00 PM - Modified On: September 4, 2020 - Published By:
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Sponsored Links Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in marketing messages found in the launch of consoles like the Xbox Series X. With GPU core counts reaching five figures, it’s nice to have a simple point of comparison. Unfortunately, teraflops have never been less useful.The term teraflop comes from FLOPs, or "floating-point operations per second," which

Where would Heroic rank alongside the other CS:GO miracle runs?

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It’s safe to say not even the biggest Heroic fan would have predicted them to win ESL One Cologne’s European bracket, and their run has to be considered one of the greatest upsets in modern Counter-Strike history. How does it stack up against the era-defining surprises of the past? Take a trip down memory lane with us and enjoy a few legendary CS:GO clips with all the crowd noise we wish we could have right now!6) NiP Magic flickers one last time at IEM Oakland 2017“holy fuck the chip spam

Code S RO16: Maru out, Dream & Trap advance

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Three groups into the RO16, and we're already guaranteed to have one of the wonkiest Code S playoffs brackets in years. Group C saw our second ex-military player take first place in their group, as Dream joined DongRaeGu in advancing to the playoffs with a #1 group seed.StarCraft II isn't alchemy, but every upset still requires an equivalent exchange—this time around, it was Maru who was sacrificed as Dream went through in first place. Surprisingly enough, Dream didn't even have to beat Maru directly to advance in first place—Solar and

Meet The Players Competing On The Exotic Fringes Of Their Favorite Games

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Time Stamp: June 27, 2020 1:00 PM - Modified On: June 27, 2020 - Published By:
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It was the biggest match of Leaf's Super Smash Bros. career, and her Lucas was one of the best in the game. All that stood in her way on the path to the tournament crown was a nasty Ridley player in a two-stock match. Leaf quickly dispatched Ridley's first life by luring them to the map's edge. But, immediately after respawning, Ridley knocked Lucas off the stage in a bold attempt to even the odds. Ridley then rushed forward to try and spike Lucas into oblivion, but whiffed the killing

Reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color #Nintendo #GameBoy #Gaming @kenshirriff

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Ken Shirriff provides an excellent dive into reverse-engineering the audio amplifier chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color. The Nintendo Game Boy Color is a handheld game console that was released in 1998. It uses an audio amplifier chip to drive the internal speaker or stereo headphones. In this blog post, I reverse-engineer this chip from die photos and explain how it works. It’s essentially three power op-amps with some interesting circuitry inside. See the entire deep dive here. Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/09/reverse-engineering-the-audio-amplifier-chip-in-the-nintendo-game-boy-color-nintendo-gameboy-gaming-kenshirriff/

Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Expansion Adds New Fighters, Stages, And More Story

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NetherRealm Studios' Mortal Kombat 11 recently celebrated its first anniversary, and now the evolving fighting game will see its next round of new content. Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, the first expansion of its kind for the franchise, will add three new fighters to the roster, along with new stages, stage fatalities and friendships, and, unexpectedly, more story content.Releasing on May 26 for PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and Stadia, Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath will mark the beginning of year two content for NetherRealm's fighting game. For the first time in