Jack Ma has stepped down from the position of chairman at the company he co-founded exactly 20 years ago. Ma announced his retirement plans last year, saying at the time he wanted to spend more time focusing on education. "After tonight I will start a new life," Ma reportedly said at Tuesday's event. "I do believe the world is good, there are so many opportunities, and I love excitement so much, which is why I will retire early." His retirement was not the end of an era, the former English teacher said when he announced he was stepping down, but "the beginning of an era," adding also at the time, "I love education".

Jack Ma has stepped down from the position of chairman at the company he co-founded exactly 20 years ago. Ma announced his retirement plans last year, saying at the time he wanted to spend more time focusing on education. "After tonight I will start a new life," Ma reportedly said at Tuesday's event. "I do believe the world is good, there are so many opportunities, and I love excitement so much, which is why I will retire early." His retirement was not the end of an era, the former English teacher said when he announced he was stepping down, but "the beginning of an era," adding also at the time, "I love education".

The tech giant is celebrating its 20th birthday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion. The multi-billion dollar technology titan has certainly come a long way from its humble beginnings in the dorm rooms of Stanford University just two decades ago. Here's a look at the history of Google and what a Google Doodle is. Google's newest Doodle marks the company's milestone 20th birthday in September 2018 Google's history dates back to 1995 at Stanford University in Stanford, California after prospective graduate school student Larry Page met Sergey Brin, a student at the college assigned to show him around. After becoming friends, both Page and Brin developed a search engine from their dorm rooms known as Backrub in 1996 designed to improve online search by using links to determine the importance of website pages.

As we reach the end of our journey, let's take a moment to look a little closer at the real brains of the N64--its "Reality Engine" CPU (labeled CPU-NUS, the big black square in the upper-center of the image), its "Reality Co-Processor" graphics chip (labeled RCP-NUS, down and to the right of the CPU), and the two RAM chips to the left of the graphics chip. The CPU is a 64-bit R4300 running at 93.75MHz--a RISC CPU fabricated by NEC. Once-mighty graphics workstation manufacturer Silicon Graphics designed the graphics chip, which was the most capable 3D graphics chip in a game console until the Dreamcast in 1999. But as with all Nintendo consoles, the specs of the N64 were but a tool to enable the creativity of game designers--especially those at Nintendo--to craft cultural works with widespread influence that have had a lasting effect. To that, I tip my hat and wish the N64 a very happy 20th birthday.