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Top tech stories so far this week from GeekWire [View this email in your browser](. [Mid-Week Update]( August 23, 2017 [Top Stories]( [Find a Job]( [GeekWire Events]( [GeekWire 200]( [Become a Member]( The GeekWire Summit, October 9-11 [Featuring Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson + more. Early bird tix on sale now.]( Top stories so far this week [Did you miss totality? Relive the solar eclipse’s climax in this 3-minute video]( By Alan Boyle Some skywatchers spend thousands of dollars on telescopes, cameras and other hardware to document a solar eclipse. John E. Hoots did it with a Sony Handycam video camera. [Nintendo opens pre-orders for $80 Super NES Classic Edition]( By Taylor Soper Good news for Nintendo fans who stayed up late on Monday. [Solar eclipse traffic and weather: Oregon feels the calm before totality]( By Alan Boyle Traffic to Oregon's total eclipse zone has been surprisingly light over the past couple of days, but officials say they're not out of the woods yet. [Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman among Seahawks players wearing new high-tech Vicis helmet]( By Taylor Soper Several Seattle Seahawks players, including stars like Russell Wilson and Richard Sherman, are wearing the new Vicis helmet during games. [Microsoft claims new speech recognition record, achieving a super-human 5.1% error rate]( By Todd Bishop Microsoft's speech recognition technology has achieved a new industry record, reducing its error rate to 5.1 percent, matching the error rate of multiple human transcribers in a widely recognized accuracy test. [Totality Awesome: Epic photos of the solar eclipse from an Idaho mountaintop]( By Kevin Lisota Epic solar eclipse photos from the top of Bald Mountain at the Sun Valley ski resort in Ketchum, Idaho. [Total eclipse dims the sun over the U.S., bringing delicious darkness]( By Alan Boyle The spectacle that skywatchers made years' worth of plans to see finally happened, darkening the sky during a total solar eclipse. [Microsoft sells out pre-orders for new Xbox One X ‘Project Scorpio Edition’]( By Taylor Soper Gamers are excited about the “world’s most powerful console.” Microsoft on Sunday opened pre-orders for its new Xbox One X — specifically, the “Project Scorpio Edition,” an ode to the console’s original codename. [I watched a flock of chickens during the solar eclipse so that you didn’t have to]( By Lisa Stiffler One of the most anticipated effects of the eclipse was the impact on chickens. [Eclipse Journal: Don’t toss those glasses]( By Alan Boyle GeekWire is documenting the 2017 solar eclipse from the Pacific Northwest, including our home base in Seattle and locations in the "Path of Totality" in Oregon. [Read more of today's news on GeekWire >]( [] Today's top jobs - - [OfferUp: Sr. Software Development Engineer – Backend]( - [OfferUp: Software Development Engineer – Android]( - [OfferUp: Sr. Software Development Engineer – Backend]( - [RealSelf: Director – Sales Strategy & Optimization]( - [Valant: Sr. Software Engineer]( - [Modern Electron: R&D Physicist]( - [Motorola Solutions: Senior Android and IOS Developer (contract)]( - [RealSelf: Account Executive]( - [OfferUp: Site Reliability Engineer – Data Systems]( - [AnswerDash: Marketing Manager]( [Hiring? Buy a featured job listing to appear here.]( [Find more jobs on GeekWork >]( Galactic Sponsors [Salesforce]( [Bank of America]( Platinum Sponsors [Smartsheet]( [Wave Business]( [EY]( Gold Sponsors [Knoll]( [Northeastern University – Seattle]( [UPS Connect]( [Moz]( Silver Sponsors [First Tech]( [WSGR]( [Avalara]( [RealSelf]( [Sirqul]( [Perkins Coie]( [Level11]( [Wells Fargo]( [OfferUp]( [Seattle University]( [About GeekWire]( [Contact Us]( [Advertise with GeekWire]( Copyright © 2017 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC. Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 1416 NW 46th Street Suite 105 PMB #246 Seattle, WA 98107 [change email frequency or address]( | [unsubscribe](