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Nintendo has confirmed the two final fighters of Super Smash Bros.Ultimate, an announcement that squashes recent rumors of a possible five character addition.
Ken of the Street Fighter games and Icineroar of Pokémon will “fight fire with fire” in the new release.
These selections aren’t particularly surprising—they were expected before the whole Grinch debacle—but they are a welcome finale to the 74 fighter lineup.
Nintendo posted the following details about the characters to Twitter during the announcement livestream.
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Here’s Incineroar in action.
The Heel #Pokemon Incineroar slams the competition in Super #SmashBrosUltimate! Using an array of powerful wrestling moves like Darkest Lariat and Max Malicious Moonsault, its flaming championship belt isn’t just for looks! pic.twitter.com/ShmA77MQFd
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Instagram is big business, and some of the top ‘influencers’ can earn well over £100,000 for an individual post. Those are impressive numbers and something that is naturally pretty appealing.
So how do you go about transforming your instagram account, full of pictures of your cat, into a money-making machine. A good place to start is the Instagram Marketing 2018 course that is now available for just £19.99, a 90% saving on the usual price of £199.99.
The course promises to attract Instagram followers, convert those followers into paying customers, and expand your brand. What sets this apart from other Instagram marketing courses is that by the end of this course you should know all the strategies for you to grow your Instagram account into a genuine business. As part of the course you will recieve: Read more…
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To anyone in the online shopping business (oh hey, that’s us), Nov. 1 is the unofficial start of the Black Friday/Cyber Monday/holiday sales season. This is when retailers really start to kick things up a notch in terms of deals, offering deeper discounts than they would at other times of the year.
Today’s best deals include floor care products, laptops and tablets, computer monitors, and Amazon devices. We also have deals on CBD oil for better relaxation, as well as web design and coding online courses from Udemy.
Save on amazing Apple products, including the iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi + Cellular 16GB Gold, which is going for $429.99 at Walmart. This is $200 off its list price, so take advantage of this sale price before it ends. Meanwhile, Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Air is on sale for $799.99, or $200 off, on Amazon. Read more…
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I'll admit. I'm besotted with the idea of Connected PCs. They're Windows laptops or 2-in-1s that have built-in LTE radios so you can stay online wherever you go. So far, we've only checked out Snapdragon-powered Connected PCs, but now we've fin…
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Smartphones are getting sleeker, more powerful, and, well, smarter. The consequence of this is that they are also getting more expensive. Some of the prices of new releases are eye-watering, but it doesn’t need to be this way.
Anyone looking for a powerful Android handset that is still affordable should look no further than the OnePlus 6T. It’s a good-looking phone that, according to our sister publication PCmag, has the specs to compete with recent releases from the better-known mobile brands.
There are also a load of cool new features that help the OnePlus 6T to stand out from the crowd, such as an in-screen fingerprint scanner and a powerful rear camera. Perhaps the best thing about this handset is the long-lasting battery. A handset can have all the bells and whistles but without a strong battery is only going to frustrate. Read more…
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Spoke, a startup that wants to simplify the way companies add and process help desk tickets using artificial intelligence underpinnings, announced it has enhanced its AI engine to allow for more complex queries.
The company founders were working at Google after a previous startup had been sold to the search giant when they encountered a problem with help desk ticket processing. It was spread across different tools and generally was more complicated than they thought it needed to be.
Like all good entrepreneurs, when they left Google in 2016 and were looking for their next challenge, they decided to attack this pain point, which they felt acutely in their time at Google. Like many startups, that pain point gave rise to a new company: Spoke.
The product launched last March and the company already has 150 customers. The idea with the service is to provide an intelligent internal ticketing system, whether that’s for HR, IT or other internal help desks.
They wanted to make the tool as conversational as possible, so you simply enter a question or statement such as “the Wi-Fi is down in my conference room” or “how much vacation do I have left.” The system generally recognizes the type of request — Wi-Fi would go to IT and vacation to HR — and it moves the ticket through the system accordingly. If there is a relevant knowledge base article available, it might pull that as suggested reading. They say they have gotten to the point that 50 percent of requests can be resolved automatically without routing to a human.
Along the way, it keeps asking for feedback so that the artificial intelligence engine underlying the tool can learn what it got right and wrong and adjust accordingly in the future.
While the tool has its own complete interface, the founders recognized that people work in different ways, so they have also built integrations with Zapier (the workflow tool) and Slack, allowing customers to take that Spoke functionality and use it inside the tools they commonly use at work without explicitly having to open the Spoke tool.
The company has 20 full-time employees. Customers include DoorDash, Evernote and charity: water. They have raised $28 million.
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Spoke enhances AI engine to power help desk ticketing system