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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle was a fun one for Midwesterners-turned-Pacific Northwesterners like me, especially the green category. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: On the mound. Green group hint: College
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. ISA Matters: Valve developers have been working hard to finalize the software stack for the upcoming Steam Frame. Despite using an Arm-based processor, the VR headset is expected to support both PC and Android
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* Disney Worldbuilders lands on Disney+ on August 20, 2026 * Leslie Iwerks' new documentary goes inside Disney Imagineering * Expect behind-the-scenes stories from Galaxy's Edge, Pandora, Pixar, and more If you're a fan of the many franchises under the Disney umbrella — Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, or Disney
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A SpaceX rocket that has been drifting in space for a year and a half is set to crash into the moon on Wednesday, stirring up a debris cloud that could be visible from Earth. The impact raises questions on the future of lunar exploration, including how to protect any
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* The MacBook Air is suffering major shortages due to the memory crisis * There are other ways to get a MacBook Air, though * One of the best is to get a refurbished model from Apple You’d think that increasing its product prices would make it a little easier to pick
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Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers. That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to Superblocks will be able to offer vibe coding to the company’s
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Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has been named the next director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). Rakhlin succeeds
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Deal: Right now at Best Buy, you can save $40 on the 10-ounce Ember Mug, bringing the price down to around $90. Need a bigger cup? The 14-ounce model is also on sale for $50 off. The Ember Smart Mug
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A new study from the University of Edinburgh suggests that workers over 50 may be experiencing a largely hidden sleep crisis. Since I’m well into my fifth decade, I’m comfortably inside that risk group, and like many people, my biggest obstacle to sleep is not always tiredness; it’
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Can autonomous AI agents be sued or prosecuted for hacking? It’s no longer a question for sci-fi movies. It’s a question human lawyers and judges may soon have to grapple with. Under current U.S. hacking laws, a human can face criminal charges for breaking into someone else’
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Save $125: Right now the Samsung Galaxy A56 is down to a record low price of $375 at Amazon. This knocks off a massive $125 on a smartphone that was just released last year and brings this 5G phone down to an even lower record price. The deal applies to
