Nintendo tries again on mobile with a $10 Animal Crossing game arriving in December
It was a sad day when Nintendo announced that its free mobile game, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, would soon shut down. The app is ending its service on November 28; however, it’s also getting a revival. This time, though, it’ll be a paid game. On December 3, Nintendo is launching
Read moreSpiralWave’s pulsing plasma towers transform carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
If there’s anything that came from one of the worlds that was promised to us in “Back to the Future” or “The Jetsons” or innumerable other sci-fi franchises, it’s what SpiralWave co-founder and CEO Abed Bukhari showed me on a video call. Purple-tinged waves of white plasma rhythmically rose and
Read moreWiz CEO explains why he turned down a $23 billion deal
Assaf Rappaport, the co-founder and CEO of cloud security startup Wiz, said that turning down a $23 billion offer from Google was “the toughest decision ever,” but justified it by saying the company can get even bigger and reach $100 billion because cloud security is the future. “I think we
Read moreChris’ Corner: Interesting CSS Explanations
Let’s do CSS stuff this week. Why not — kinda my thing. Did you know Alvaro Montoro has a whole site of comics on the subject of CSS? There is a lot of satire in there, which I really enjoy. So they changed CSS nesting a bit. I heard that
Read morePhiladelphia DA sues Elon Musk to stop $1 million election lottery
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is suing Elon Musk and his Donald Trump-supporting America PAC. Filed Monday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, it’s the first legal action against Musk’s $1 million daily award offered to registered voters. As reported previously by CNN
Read moreApple’s Magic Mouse, Keyboard, and TrackPad finally get USB-C
Apple’s EU mandated transition from Lightning to USB-C has already affected most of its hardware. There have been a few stragglers, however. Near the top of the list are its desktop accessories, the Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad. On Monday, the company finally addressed the issue. Along with
Read moreGenerative AI could cause 10 billion iPhones worth of e-waste per year by 2030
The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of over 10 billion iPhones per year by 2030, researchers project. In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers from Cambridge University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences take a
Read moreStacklok donates its Minder supply chain security project to the OpenSSF
Stacklok, the open source software supply chain company founded by Kubernetes co-creator Craig McLuckie and Sigstore creator Luke Hinds, is donating Minder, one of its key projects, to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Minder helps development teams set up a system of proactive checks and policies to minimize supply
Read moreHow Apple Intelligence changes the way you use Siri on your iPhone
Here’s a look at what’s going to change with Siri, and what the introduction of Apple Intelligence will allow you to do with the digital assistant. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBand-limited expansion
The band-limited expansion of the function f(x) is given by where sinc(x) = sin(πx)/πx. This is also called the sinc expansion, or the Whittaker cardinal after its discoverer E. T. Whittaker [1]. This is called the band-limited expansion of f because each term in the infinite sum is band-limited, i.e.
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