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This week's top tech stories from GeekWire [View this email in your browser](. August 27, 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 rates end 8/31]( This week's top stories [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. Sponsored Post [The Rise of the Experience Design Engineer™]( At [Level 11]( we embody the rise of the Experience Design Engineer™(XDE™). We employ design thinking to invent new brand experiences. Our focus on the practice of Digital Transformation has led us to our Experience Design Engineering™ methodology. Using out XDE™ methodology, we fundamentally change the way consumers engage, experience, and interact with your brand across every touchpoint in your connected ecosystem—physical, digital, in-store, online, mobile, wearable, Internet of Things—across the lifecycle of your customers. Provide your customers the experience they expect—Be Disruptive™ and learn how to achieve Digital Transformation by connecting with Level 11. Email us at info@level11.com [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. [Google unveils a new, cheaper networking option for cloud customers: the public internet]( By Tom Krazit Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic to their users: they can keep using Google’s network, or they can save some money with the new option of using public transit networks. Home of the Week - Sponsored Post [South End Home in Mercer Island]( Serenity, beauty, light and nature all describe this astonishing four bedroom home. Adjacent to Pioneer Park and minutes to downtown Seattle. Entry gardens and patios guide you to the entry with vaulted ceilings. Fabulous updated chef’s kitchen with granite countertops opens to the family room… [An Instant Pot in every kitchen: Amazon packs Seattle arena for ‘all hands’ meeting]( By Nat Levy It’s safe to say that big staff meetings are a little different at Amazon. [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. [Mighty AI co-founder Matt Bencke diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, vows to ‘beat the odds’ as he hands over CEO reins]( By John Cook Mighty AI co-founder Matt Bencke has stepped down as CEO of the fast-growing Seattle startup after being diagnosed with stage-4 pancreatic cancer. [Amazon to complete $13.7B Whole Foods deal Monday, promising lower prices and Prime integration]( By Taylor Soper Amazon announced today that its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods will close this Monday, Aug. [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. [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. [Homebuying startup Open Listings expands to Seattle with backing from Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian]( By Nat Levy When Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian started looking for a new place about two years ago, he didn’t opt for a traditional broker or go through a big online service like Redfin. [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. [Elon Musk reveals SpaceX’s spacesuit: ‘This actually works’ … and also looks really cool]( By Alan Boyle The spacesuit designed to be worn in SpaceX's Dragon capsule turns up the coolness dial for spaceflight, as befits a company that's Tesla's corporate cousin. [63 days, 3,523 miles: How a Seattle techie and his teen daughter feel after tandem biking across U.S.]( By Kurt Schlosser Olivia Carpenter turned 15 on Friday, and to celebrate she happily got off the tandem bike that she rode across the country this summer, from Seattle to Boston, with her father John Carpenter, the longtime IT manager at Madrona Venture Group. 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