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NES Tetris is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online library this month

NES Tetris is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online library this month

This is not a drill, people: Tetris for the NES will join the Nintendo Switch Online library on December 12. Nintendo of America this exciting arrival out of the blue today on X. The NES port of Tetris initially launched all the way back in 1989, so it's been a very long time coming for this classic title to return to Nintendo hardware.That's not to say there haven't been many other ways to get your tetrimino fix. Tetris is a perennially popular puzzle game, with many official releases and plenty of knockoffs. And plenty of them, like the dazzling Tetris…
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Frist program

Frist program

// Import the necessary libraries // Use the standard namespace to avoid prefixing standard library elementsusing namespace std; // Define the main function, which is the entry point of the programint main() {// Declare variables to store the user's name and agestring name;int age; // Prompt the user to enter their name cout << "Please enter your name: "; // Read the user's input and store it in the 'name' variable getline(cin, name); // Prompt the user to enter their age cout << "Please enter your age: "; // Read the user's input and store it in the 'age' variable…
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Former Celsius CEO pleads guilty to two fraud charges

Former Celsius CEO pleads guilty to two fraud charges

Former cryptocurrency leader Alex Mashinsky has pleaded guilty to two fraud charges. The founder and CEO of Celsius Network was on seven criminal counts in 2023, including charges of fraud, conspiracy and market manipulation. He entered a not guilty plea at the time, but in a hearing today, Mashinsky pled guilty to two of those original counts. The first is commodities fraud and the second is a fraudulent scheme to manipulate the price of his company's in-house crypto token CEL. Reuters reported that as part of a plea deal, Mashinsky has agreed not to appeal any sentence of 30 years…
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Meta wants to use nuclear power for its data centers

Meta wants to use nuclear power for its data centers

Meta has confirmed its plans to use to fuel US data centers. The company announced that it’s accepting proposals from nuclear energy developers to work on the project, with the goal of adding between one and four gigawatts of nuclear energy capacity “starting in the early 2030s.”The company’s states that Meta is seeking partners that have experience with “either Small Modular Reactors (SMR) or larger nuclear reactors.” Axios that the company is “geographically agnostic” about the location of potential nuclear sites. The company previously had plans to build a nuclear-powered data center, The Financial Times earlier this year, but the…
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Custom “Read More” to Clipped Lines of Text with JavaScript – And Full Custom Code for You

Custom “Read More” to Clipped Lines of Text with JavaScript – And Full Custom Code for You

Hi everybody! I wanted to share a neat little JavaScript snippet I worked on during my first YouTube live stream. The goal was to clip a block of text to a specific number of lines and add a "Read More" link (or anything else, as the current project requires) at the end if the text exceeds that limit—in the same block, not as a separate button. The History The project, which I can’t name just yet, used a previous version of this function. How did it work? It split the text into separate characters. Placed each and every single one…
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MSI’s new Claw gaming handhelds have Lunar Lake processors and nondescript ‘AI’ powers

MSI’s new Claw gaming handhelds have Lunar Lake processors and nondescript ‘AI’ powers

MSI has two new versions of the MSI Claw after the original landed with a thud earlier this year. The company’s $900 MSI Claw 8 AI+ and $800 Claw 7 AI+ have Lunar Lake Intel processing, better battery life and quality-of-life improvements like redesigned sticks, bumpers and triggers.The previous model launched “a touch late and a bit too pricey,” according to Engadget’s Sam Rutherford in our review. He said its performance was underwhelming compared to cheaper rivals, its software was too clunky, and it was plagued by an overabundance of optimization updates (presumably because MSI scrambled to fix its long…
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Walmart completes its $2.3 billion purchase of Vizio

Walmart completes its $2.3 billion purchase of Vizio

Vizio is now a member of the Walmart corporate empire. The retail company announced the completion of its $2.3 billion acquisition of the TV manufacturer on Tuesday.Walmart didn’t just buy a TV brand. It now owns a new advertising platform. Vizio’s SmartCast OS collects huge amounts of data from its 19 million active accounts, and the company makes the majority of its money from the platform. Walmart’s new partnership with Vizio and its other smart TV brand Onn is sure to stir up the lucrative competition for advertising revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal.Walmart officially announced its plans to…
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