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How Long Have Wireless Gaming Controllers Been Around For?

It took a while for controllers to work as well as they do today without cables.

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If you've been a gamer for a while, you might know that wireless controllers have been used as far back as the 1980s. Those who grew up in the PS2/Xbox/GameCube era likely have a different gamepad in mind when they think of early wireless controllers. While wireless pads were tried in various iterations over the decades, they were only perfected within the last few console generations.

The history of non-wired controllers is fascinating. Here's the story of how your current console has unleashed you from the couch.

When did controllers first become wireless?

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As a 41-year-old, I'm slightly relieved that the first wireless gaming controller is older than me: enter the Cynex Game Mate 2. Released around 1982, this is an Atari 2600 peripheral widely regarded...

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Make Product Marketing Human Again: Keeping it Authentic in the Age of aI

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The Death of Choosing

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Building Named Entity Recognition for Code-Mixed Text with XLM-RoBERTa

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is used to identify different types of entities in text, such as people, places, and organizations. One of the most difficult parts of this project was the limited availability of rich datasets for Roman Urdu–English code-mixed text. Roman Urdu–English code-mixed text means that different

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