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Nintendo revealed a special-edition Switch 2 console finished in gold and metallic green to mark The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary, launching October 29. The Joy-Con 2 controllers feature original 8-bit sprites of Link and Zelda holding the Triforce, and the dock carries a large Triforce design, but the console does not include the upcoming Ocarina of Time remake, which arrives separately on November 5.
Nintendo revealed during a Zelda-focused Direct that its Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will launch on November 5. The showcase confirmed a faithful recreation of the 1998 original with upgraded visuals, added voice acting, camera controls, a jump button, and a new quest log to help track objectives, while dungeons and core gameplay remain unchanged.
While most major publishers are shifting release dates to avoid clashing with Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19th launch, Nintendo is standing firm with its remastered Ocarina of Time, one of the few major non-port titles still slated for that month. Numerous other publishers have crowded September with releases like Star Wars Zero Company and Marvel's Wolverine to sidestep GTA VI's anticipated dominance.
Nintendo confirmed during a 40th anniversary Zelda Direct that its remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will launch on Switch 2 on November 5. The remake overhauls the 1998 N64 classic's graphics while adding new features like a jump button, expanded NPC dialogue, a Threads of Time guidance system, and the ability to hum melodies for Link to play on his ocarina. It will cost $59.99 digitally or $69.99 for a limited physical edition.
During a Legend of Zelda 40th-anniversary stream, Nintendo confirmed its remake of Ocarina of Time will launch on Switch 2 on November 5th, making it exclusive to that console. Producer Eiji Aonuma called it a faithful reinterpretation using modern technology, with upgraded visuals, free camera control, a new 'threads of time' navigation aid, humming instead of instrument controls, and a jump button for Link. Nintendo also revealed the live-action film will be titled 'The Legend of Zelda,' opening April 30th, 2027.
Nintendo will host a Legend of Zelda-themed Direct on September 8th at 10AM ET, running roughly 30 minutes as part of festivities marking the franchise's 40th anniversary. The company says it will share a range of updates but hasn't detailed specifics beyond that.
Nintendo will air a dedicated Legend of Zelda showcase on September 8 at 10AM ET, lasting roughly 30 minutes, separate from its regular Switch 2 Direct later that week. The stream is expected to cover the Ocarina of Time remake, likely with a release date, plus new details on the upcoming live-action Zelda film set for an April 2026 theatrical release.
Apple's built-in Time Machine utility lets Mac users back up apps, photos, videos and documents to an external hard drive or SSD without paying for cloud storage subscriptions. The initial backup takes longer, but subsequent backups run faster and can be scheduled hourly, daily or weekly. This offers an alternative for users who don't need remote file access but want reliable backups.
The creators of the original Dataflow Model paper—Tyler Akidau, Rafael Fernández-Moctezuma, Reuven Lax and Daniel Mills—revisited their influential streaming framework eleven years after publication, on the occasion of its VLDB Test of Time award. They conclude that its core ideas, such as prioritizing event time and abandoning the wait for complete data, held up well, but admit that windowing, triggers, and a stream-first worldview were overengineered or misguided compared to database-style approaches like SQL and materialized views.
An independent Zelda researcher highlights a Resetera thread proposing that the name 'Ganon' and the Gerudo tribe may trace back to Geldam, a villain organization from the Kamen Rider tokusatsu series. The theory builds on the researcher's earlier work suggesting the Geldman enemy from A Link to the Past was a linguistic precursor to the Gerudo, long before their formal introduction in Ocarina of Time.
Terence Tao posted a paper showing that a modified, 'averaged' version of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations can develop a finite-time singularity, even though this modified equation preserves the same energy identity and function-space bounds as the real equations. Earlier blowup examples for Navier-Stokes-like systems either lacked the energy identity or required five or more dimensions; Tao's construction is the first to combine three dimensions, the energy identity, and finite-time blowup.
A maker restored a vintage 1995 TrueTime XL-AK GPS time server by gutting it and installing a Raspberry Pi 5 paired with Jimmy Paputto's L1 GNSS HAT, turning the old hardware into a working stratum 1 NTP time server. The project reuses the unit's original LCD screen and bicolor LED for status display, and the builder intends to add it to the public NTP Pool and use it for time services at the VCF Midwest event.