Published on: 2025-06-12 01:54:45
I’ve been long fascinated by the endless online debates about whether the infinite decimal expansion 0.9999… is exactly equal to 1. The canonical answer is yes. But there’s a considerable number of blogs that will try to convince you otherwise — and in the process, expose the sinister machinations of Big Math. What’s unique about this situation is that while it feels like bog-standard online crackpottery, it’s sort of running in reverse. The belief that 0.x must be less than 1.y makes perfect s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 13:15:43
A young man begins his community service gig as a janitor at a nursing home, which seems like a boring, ordinary place at first—though he’s cautioned against ever visiting the fourth floor. Since The Home is a horror movie, you can guess he’ll discover there’s a lot more to that warning than he realizes at first—and since The Home is from the guy who created The Purge, you can assume the darkest sides of humanity will absolutely be making themselves known. Check out the first trailer for The Ho
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 09:33:46
With the Internet rapidly undergoing its corpocene mass extinction event, the few initiatives trying to keep the web and the software ecosphere habitable depends mostly on individual contributions. Traditionally, advertising your charitable contributions might be seen as distasteful virtue signalling for which one has already earned their reward. However, I think in the cultural context of digital initiatives, it’s actually helpful and quite important to show off what you have been donating to,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 09:00:00
Affiniti founders Aaron Bai, 20, and Sahil Phadnis, 22, are building the kind of expense management software for main street small businesses that tech startups have enjoyed for years. Their growth has been so impressive that six months after raising an $11 million seed round, they raised a $17 million Series A, led by Signal Fire, they told TechCrunch exclusively. Affiniti offers SMBs like pharmacies, HVAC companies, and auto dealerships customizable expense management credit cards and softwa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 23:27:10
C++ pop quiz time: what are the values of a.a and b.b on the last line in main of this program? #include <iostream> struct foo { foo () = default ; int a ; }; struct bar { bar (); int b ; }; bar :: bar () = default ; int main () { foo a {}; bar b {}; std :: cout << a . a << ' ' << b . b ; } The answer is that a.a is 0 and b.b is indeterminate, so reading it is undefined behaviour. Why? Because initialization in C++ is bonkers. Default-, value-, and zero-initialization Before we get into the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 04:15:20
Hinge Health said in a filing on Tuesday that it plans to raise up to $437 million in its upcoming initial public offering. The digital physical therapy startup filed its initial prospectus in March, and it updated the document with an expected pricing range for its Class A common stock of $28 to $32 per share. Hinge said it plans to sell about 13.7 million shares in the offering. Based on the number of Class A and Class B shares outstanding after the offering, the deal would value the company
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 08:28:34
is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Philips has announced a new initiative that will let consumers 3D print their own replacements for small but essential parts included with many of its personal health products. Philips Fixables is launching in the Czech Republic, where Prusa Research, the company’s partner for the initiative, is based. But the actual files that can be downloaded
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https://press.asimov.com/articles/dna-information This is an article that just appeared in Asimov Press, who kindly agreed that I could publish it here and also humored my deep emotional need to use words like “Sparklepuff”. Do you like information theory? Do you like molecular biology? Do you like the idea of smashing them together and seeing what happens? If so, then here’s a question: How much information is in your DNA? When I first looked into this question, I thought it was simple: Hum
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 01:55:27
Many problems in analysis (as well as adjacent fields such as combinatorics, theoretical computer science, and PDE) are interested in the order of growth (or decay) of some quantity that depends on one or more asymptotic parameters (such as ) – for instance, whether the quantity grows or decays linearly, quadratically, polynomially, exponentially, etc. in . In the case where these quantities grow to infinity, these growth rates had once been termed “orders of infinity” – for instance, in the 191
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 07:56:11
Infinity Nikki’s next update will add some major new features. Bubble Season starts April 29th and will include a new area, new activities, and, of course, new (and returning) outfits. But the biggest addition is one that fans have been asking for since launch: co-op. Check out the trailer above. In the new season you’ll be able to have dress-up adventures with a friend in two player co-op mode. You can travel the world of Infinity Nikki together, solving special co-op mode puzzle games and par
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is officially over. In an update on Tuesday, Google Privacy Sandbox VP Anthony Chavez says the company has decided “to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome.” For years, critics have argued that Google’s Privacy Sandbox could harm advertisers and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 12:32:29
Frankenstein’s __init__ Inspired by a recent post about the woes of __init__ methods in Python, I thought I’d share the untold story of the absolute craziest __init__ I’ve come across in a production codebase. It all started when I tried to add a failing test to a Python service. The test was indeed failing, but every now and then it would fail on something unexpected. The Evidence of the Test After some minimization, this was the test I had: def test_foobar (): f = FooBarWidget () with co
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Development On Apple Silicon with UTM "UTM is an app for running other operating systems on your iPhone or iPad. It is not for running iOS on other systems. This allows you, among other things, to run Windows or Linux on your iOS device at a usable speed." – UTM Website In this article, I'll show you how to use UTM VMs virtual machines to create Linux development environments on Apple Silicon. This approach builds on the technique I described in here. First, install UTM using Homebrew: brew
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 04:27:38
With tariffs creating rollercoaster rides of price uncertainty, two telecoms companies are trying to bring a little certainty to our budgeting in the form of fixed-price deals … Verizon’s three-year price lock Verizon says it promises not to raise myPlan and myHome prices for three years, and customers don’t need to do anything to qualify. Verizon is the first and only carrier in the industry offering new and existing customers a three-year price lock guarantee on all myPlan and myHome networ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 08:00:00
Infinite Reality — a fast-moving company focused on AI, immersive technology and digital media — has agreed to acquire agentic AI firm Touchcast for $500 million in cash and stock. Infinite Reality has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Touchcast in a deal that comes just a few weeks after Infinite Reality acquired Napster for $207 million. And Infinite Reality said the transaction agreement values the company at $15.5 billion. Boca Raton, Florida-based Infinite Reality has been on
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If you’re sick of seeing your internet bill increase every year, Xfinity is rolling out a new perk that might buy your loyalty. Starting today, when you sign up for a new internet plan with Xfinity, you can choose a five-year price guarantee. You’ll pay extra for that stability though, as plans with the price guarantee cost between $10 and $30 more per month in the first year or two than the same plans without it. After that promotional period ends, Xfinity’s plans spike considerably: a 2024 C
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If you’re sick of seeing your internet bill increase every year, Xfinity is rolling out a new perk that might buy your loyalty. Starting today, when you sign up for a new internet plan with Xfinity, you can choose a five-year price guarantee. You’ll pay extra for that stability though, as plans with the price guarantee cost between $10 and $30 more per month in the first year or two than the same plans without it. After that promotional period ends, Xfinity’s plans spike considerably: a 2024 C
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 02:21:15
The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) the same day the couple’s houses were searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, said on Monday that she believes her family has been unfairly targeted by the US government and is the victim of what she described as “misplaced accusations of academic misconduct.” “Our family is determined to fight, not only for ourselves, but for the broader research comm
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 00:00:00
Most people don’t spend much time thinking about HDMI specs, but avid gamers know that the adoption of HDMI 2.1 across the best TVs and monitors came with multiple upgrades to get the most out of the latest game consoles and PCs. The spec includes plenty of other benefits, making it a buzzworthy term among the litany of other confusing TV acronyms. At CES 2025, the HDMI Forum announced the latest HDMI specification, HDMI 2.2, which advances the technology. Does that mean you need to worry about
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-07 08:00:12
Somehow it’s been eight years since we saw the crew of the USS Callister rebel against their cruel captain, liberate themselves from his tightly controlled pocket universe, and set out into the wider galaxy. What happens next will be explored when Black Mirror returns April 10 with “USS Callister: Into Infinity,” the dystopian series’ first sequel episode. But before the Callister‘s next chapter arrives, a re-watch of the original episode—which explicitly riffs on Star Trek but also explores wo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-14 11:11:51
Please note that InitWare is still alpha software. But all disclosed security concerns have now been addressed. Running InitWare as an auxiliary service manager under NetBSD can now, then, be regarded as safe; but beware relying on this in production until a first stable release is made. The InitWare Suite of Middleware allows you to manage services and system resources as logical entities called units. It runs on NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and all the other modern BSD systems. Units are automatically
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-18 00:02:24
Mike Intrator, Chief Executive Officer and founder of CoreWeave, (C) rings the opening bell surrounded by Executive Leadership and family during the company's Initial Public Offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq headquarters on March 28, 2025 in New York City. CoreWeave 's stock popped nearly 42% on Tuesday, bouncing back above its initial public offering price following a lackluster second trading day on the public markets. The stock closed $52.57, bringing the company to a nearly $25 billion market c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-28 07:00:21
Infinite Reality, a media, ecommerce, and marketing company focused on 3D and AI-powered experiences, has entered an agreement to acquired Napster. That means that the brand originally launched in 1999 as a peer-to-peer (P2P) music file-sharing service is set to be reborn again. This time, new owners are reshaping the brand into one focused on marketing musicians in the metaverse. Infinite announced today a definitive agreement to buy Napster for $207 million. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 03:00:21
Infinite Reality, a media, ecommerce, and marketing company focused on 3D and AI-powered experiences, has entered an agreement to acquired Napster. That means that the brand originally launched in 1999 as a peer-to-peer (P2P) music file-sharing service is set to be reborn again. This time, new owners are reshaping the brand into one focused on marketing musicians in the metaverse. Infinite announced today a definitive agreement to buy Napster for $207 million. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 19:16:00
In brief: Ownership of Napster is changing hands once again. The company, which started life as a peer-to-peer file sharing service more than 25 years ago, is being purchased by Infinite Reality for $207 million. The immersive technology specialist plans to transform Napster from a legitimate streaming music service into a social and interactive music platform. Napster's claim to fame came near the turn of the century. The file sharing service made it trivially easy for the average Joe to share
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 23:44:33
The once-iconic music-sharing platform Napster just sold for $207 million, according to reporting by CNBC . A company called Infinite Reality ponied up the cash. What could Napster offer in 2025 to warrant such a price tag? Infinite Reality CEO John Acunto says it’ll be used for marketing in the metaverse. In other words, a platform from 1999 will be used as part of a technology that seemingly peaked in 2021. That sounds about right. More specifically, the company plans on creating virtual 3D s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-30 07:00:00
Infinite Reality, a tech company focused on immersive digital media and ecommerce, has agreed to acquire music brand Napster for $207 million. The two companies have a definitive agreement. Napster, a fully-licensed independent music service, delivers over 110 million high fidelity tracks from the top artists in the world to its loyal global subscriber base. Over the past two decades Napster has paid over $1 billion to artists and songwriters worldwide, establishing itself as a cornerstone of t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-30 11:00:01
A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry had come up with a model for the digital age. The service was shuttered in 2001 amid mounting legal battles, and filed for bankruptcy the following year. But the brand isn't dead. On Tuesday, Napster was acquired by 3D technology company Infinite Reality for $207 million. Infinite Reality CEO John Acunto told CNBC in an interview that the one-time file-sharing
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 02:00:00
That would mark the start of a global climate disaster. The glacier itself holds enough ice to raise ocean levels by more than two feet, which could flood coastlines and force tens of millions of people living in low-lying areas to abandon their homes. The loss of the entire ice sheet—which could still take centuries to unfold—would push up sea levels by 11 feet and redraw the contours of the continents. This is why Thwaites is known as the doomsday glacier—and why scientists are eager to unde
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Console makers and game developers like Microsoft, Nintendo and Electronic Arts have created a new initiative, managed by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), that aims to make it easier to know what accessibility features games have. The new Accessible Games Initiative has defined a set of 24 accessibility tags that will appear in participating game storefronts and product pages so players can know what features a game has before they buy it. The tags have easy to understand definitio
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