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Back in the earlier days of computer games, the narrative would be that playing sports was “cool” while video games were seen as something that was nerdy and had no future. However, fast forward to today, and that narrative has changed massively. Take Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, a 16-year old teen who took home a cool $3 million and the title in the first ever Fortnite World Cup championship.

This is no doubt a huge sum of money and just goes to show how big the world of eSports has become, where there is enough interest for such huge prize pools to be created. The prize pool for the Fortnite World Cup match was at $30 million, which by the way matches the FIFA Women’s World Cup, a more traditional sports championship.

As Engadget points out, Giersdorf took home more money than what some famous athletes did when they won their respective games, such as golf legend Tiger Woods who earned $2.07 million with his 15th major title. Epic’s Fortnite seems to be on track to have one of the largest prize pools for gaming tournaments, although Valve’s Dota 2 “The International” is still very much in the lead for that, where winning teams have taken home cash prizes as much as $11.2 million.

We’ve also seen how some educational institutions are acknowledging being good at video games is a skill worthy of a scholarship, to the point where we’re actually seeing parents hire tutors to help their kids improve in Fortnite.

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Google has a couple of smart speakers under its belt in the form of the Google Home series. However, it seems that Google had another smart speaker in the works that they were allegedly developing together with Huawei, but it seems that those plans have since been scrapped following Huawei being placed on the US Entity List.

This is according to a report from The Information (paywall), it claims that both Google and Huawei were developing the smart speaker together for at least a year, where it would have been powered by Google Assistant. It’s not surprising that both companies were working together, especially since they both have a close relationship with each other.

In the past, Huawei and Google have worked together on other products, like the Nexus 6P smartphone. It is unclear as to what kind of features this smart speaker would have and how it would have been different from other smart speakers. However, since it has been cancelled, it looks like we will never know.

The report goes on to add that both companies were also working together on how to make Huawei smartphones compatible with Android Auto. In the meantime, Huawei has managed to get themselves out of trouble (sort of) where US companies are allowed to do business with them again.

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