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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #325

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 08:58:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition has four logos in it, but never fear, the Times wouldn't make it so easy that they are all in the same category. One trick I'm passing along: Memorize some of the unusual team names in the various sports leagues, like Dream or Storm or Wild. Those words show

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Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-25 12:03:03

I’m riding in the back of a Waymo that’s autonomously navigating the busy streets of San Francisco with relative ease thanks to 29 external cameras, six radar, and five lidar sensors all feeding into an AI model. For just 15 bucks, I get to experience what feels like a miracle of modern technology, and yet, there’s a nagging thought I can’t shake. The music sucks in here. Waymo’s music-streaming feature has felt like an aged barnacle attached to a futuristic shell. Until this week, passengers

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After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-26 03:45:16

United Launch Alliance delivered multiple US military satellites into a high-altitude orbit after a prime-time launch Tuesday night, marking an important transition from development to operations for the company's new Vulcan rocket. This mission, officially designated USSF-106 by the US Space Force, was the first flight of ULA's Vulcan rocket to carry national security payloads. Two test flights of the Vulcan rocket last year gave military officials enough confidence to certify it for launching

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Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser

news.ycombinator.com .Wp-Block-Post-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box 2025-11-26 12:00:33

Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in Your Browser I wanted to share a side project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground – basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this interesting statically-typed Lisp dialect. So What’s Coalton? If you haven’t heard of it, Coalton is kind of a weird (in a good way) mashup – it takes Haskell’s type system and plants it right in the middle of Common Lisp. You get all the type safety stuff like alg

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I tried Lenovo's $3,000 rollable ThinkBook and can't go back to regular-sized screens

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-26 17:19:00

ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable ZDNET's key takeaways The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is available now, starting at $3,300. The 120Hz, OLED, portrait-style 16.7-inch display delivers an expansive workspace, supported by a haptic touchpad. It has limited I/O, has some visible creasing on the rollable display, and has a sky-high price. View now at Lenovo Lenovo unveiled its "rollable" laptop at CES two years ago as a wild proof of concept that turned heads, but left consumers skeptical. Well, the compan

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6 Best Coffee Grinders For All Budgets, Tested & Approved (2025)

wired.com Matthew Korfhage 2025-11-26 17:05:00

Compare Our Top 6 Grinders Grinder Wired Tired Type Grind Settings Espresso-capable? Warranty Baratza Encore ESP Innovative dial offers fine adjustments for espresso. Precise grinds, with clarity of flavor. Built like a tank. Admirable versatility for all coffee types. Best value proposition overall. Not a looker, really. Neither loud nor quiet. Conical burr 40 Y 1 year Fellow Opus Quietest grinder we've tested. Minimalist-pretty. Coaxes out wonderful sweetness, especially on drip and pour-over

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Pebble reveals Time 2’s refreshed metal design, shares specifics about the display

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-26 22:26:08

Core Devices TL;DR Pebble has revealed the design of its upcoming Time 2 smartwatch. Like the older Pebble Time Steel, the Time 2 also comes with a stainless steel body and metal buttons. It features a 1.5-inch colored e-paper display and is expected to start shipping in January 2026. The beloved barebones Pebble smart fitness trackers are set for a comeback in 2025 after more than eight years of being discontinued. Back in January this year, Pebble’s founder and ex-CEO Eric Migicovsky annou

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Pick up one of our favorite Bluetooth speakers while it's down to only $60

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 03:50:37

Yes, summer might be coming to a close sooner than any of us would like, but that doesn't mean the outdoor fun has to end. Currently, Ultimate Ears' Wonderboom 4 Bluetooth speaker is down to $60 from $100 in blue and black. The 40 percent discount brings the speaker to a record-low price. It's one of our picks for best portable Bluetooth speakers for 2025 thanks to features like its 14 hours of battery life and its IP67 dust and waterproof rating. There are a few other great sales on UE speake

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Why I finally left Spotify

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-27 03:00:00

After our decade-long relationship, I’m breaking up with Spotify. It’s nothing personal. It’s just that Spotify and I have grown up, but we haven’t grown together. Over the years, I’ve been tempted to leave Spotify many times. I know that the company faces accusations of poor streaming payouts for artists, compared to its competitors, and I haven’t forgotten that it was Spotify that platformed Joe Rogan’s podcast, then exclusive to the platform, to spread misinformation about COVID-19 and othe

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FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 12:19:35

@ -7682,6 +7682,113 @@ There are 6 samples at -4 dB, 62 at -5 dB, 286 at -6 dB, etc. In other words, raising the volume by +4 dB does not cause any clipping, raising it by +5 dB causes clipping for 6 samples, etc. @anchor{whisper} @section whisper It runs automatic speech recognition using the OpenAI's Whisper model. It requires the whisper.cpp library (https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp) as a prerequisite. After installing the library it can be enabled using: @code{./configure --en

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Hot sale: Samsung’s new smartwatches still come with freebies!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 12:45:31

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority All of these offers come from Amazon. This means the free gift cards are all Amazon ones. Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 + free SmartTag 2 4-Pack Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 + free SmartTag 2 4-Pack Brighter display, better battery life The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 offers a new 'squircle' look, with new band attachments, backed by new software, a 50% brighter display over last year's model, and a slightly larger battery. The watch is available in fou

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A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 18:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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Spirit Airlines Admits It Might Not Survive Another Year

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-11-27 15:08:52

Spirit Airlines has just admitted what many suspected: its future is in serious doubt. The news, delivered in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 11, sent the company’s stock into a freefall, plummeting 41% in a single trading session on Tuesday. Spirit’s total market value now sits at a paltry $54.3 million. In the filing, the ultra-low-cost carrier said there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operating for more than 12 months from the date of its

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 13, #324

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 12:40:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition was really tough for me. Sometimes I wish the New York Times would switch from a Connections: Sports Edition puzzle to a Connections: Movie Edition, or Connections: Music Edition. My sports knowledge is maybe weaker than I thought. Read on for hints and the

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Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-28 08:10:45

After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An experimental military navigation satellite, also more than 10 years in the making, will ride ULA's Vulcan rocket into geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator. There are additional payloads buttoned up inside the Vulcan rocket's nose cone, but of

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The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 10:07:43

Do you love ("very") high-level languages? Like Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby? Or maybe Haskell, ML? I love high-level languages. Do you think high-level languages would run fast if the stock hardware weren't "brain-damaged"/"built to run C"/"a von Neumann machine (instead of some other wonderful thing)"? You do think so? I have a challenge for you. I bet you'll be interested. Background: I work on the definition of custom instruction set processors (just finished one). It's fairly high-end

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This so-called Android ‘antivirus’ is just a front for spyware

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-28 16:35:03

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR LunaSpy Android spyware hides as an antivirus or banking protection app, spreading via messaging apps like Telegram. It fakes virus scans to trick you into granting permissions, then steals data, tracks you, and can even record audio or video. Avoid downloading APKs from messenger links and be wary of unknown security apps requesting broad permissions. Think you’re beefing up your Android phone’s security? If the antivirus app you just installed came

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The Samsung Odyssey OLED G6 is the world's first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-28 17:05:34

Previously, if you wanted a monitor for competitive gaming, you had to choose between an IPS or VA panel to get something with a super high refresh rate or opt for a slower OLED display with richer colors and better contrast. But today, Samsung is changing that with the Odyssey OLED G6, which is the first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor in the world. Available for $1,000, the Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SF) only comes in one size (27 inches) and features a QHD resolution (2,560 x 1440) with a 16:9 aspect rat

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Colorado Residents Are Spotting Weird-Looking Rabbits With Black Horns and Mouth Tentacles

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-28 17:05:20

People in Fort Collins, Colorado, are seeing rabbits with black horns and tentacles that wouldn’t look out of place in a horror movie. Though frightening, their appearance is caused by a known virus that’s harmless to humans. Journalist Amanda Gilbert documented the town sightings in an article for local outlet 9NEWS last Friday. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the rabbits are afflicted with a virus that causes wart-like projections to emerge from their faces—a condition that likely e

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Grok Offers Bizarre Explanations for Why It Was Deactivated

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-28 21:48:27

Grok, Elon Musk's "maximum truth-seeking" chatbot, was briefly suspended on August 11 — and nobody, including the xAI bot, knows what really happened. As flagged by Gizmodo, users reported that the chatbot, which declared itself as "MechaHitler" earlier this year, was back online within half an hour. When it came to, Grok began offering some strange and conflicting reasons as to why it had been shut down. As it stands, Grok has made three overarching claims about its temporary deactivation: th

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I tested this new AI podcast tool to see if it can beat NotebookLM - here's how it did

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-28 22:00:17

Speechify The Speechify text-to-speech app enables its over 50 million users worldwide to convert any text, including documents, articles, PDFs, and images into audio, with over 200 voices to choose from. Now, the company is delving into a new type of audio: AI-generated podcasts. Also: I finally gave NotebookLM my full attention - and it really is a total game changer Starting today, Speechify users will be able to turn any content into a "lecture-style" podcast. They'll also get access to a

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The "high-level CPU" challenge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 22:07:43

Do you love ("very") high-level languages? Like Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby? Or maybe Haskell, ML? I love high-level languages. Do you think high-level languages would run fast if the stock hardware weren't "brain-damaged"/"built to run C"/"a von Neumann machine (instead of some other wonderful thing)"? You do think so? I have a challenge for you. I bet you'll be interested. Background: I work on the definition of custom instruction set processors (just finished one). It's fairly high-end

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Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:48:24

Once the basics were done, the real game of Tetris began: First up, just like the conferencing capabilities, we segmented the work modes into 4 distinct groups. It was clear that the space was simply not large enough to support dedicated areas, so we took the equipment and requirements list, and started playing with shelf numbers and their height and made sure that each item is in its best possible ergonomic position. The by far largest amount of devices by volume and space were the musical in

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Ultimate Ears’ Wonderboom 4 speaker is cheaper than ever at 40 percent off

theverge.com Brandon Russell 2025-11-28 22:30:00

If you’re hosting a small get-together or hangout at the park, a small speaker like the UE Wonderboom 4 can provide the soundtrack. It’s the kind of gadget that fades into the background yet remains as important as the food and drink. And right now, it’s down to just $59.99 ($40 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, which is its lowest price to date. The Wonderboom 4’s compact design — which is roughly the size of a softball — makes it easy to bring anywhere, whether you’re lounging by the p

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ULA’s Vulcan Rocket to Launch Mystery Payload on Debut Space Force Mission

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-29 03:25:10

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for a long-awaited comeback, returning to secretive payload lifts for the National Security Space Launch program with its heavy-lift Vulcan Centaur rocket. ULA’s Vulcan is set to launch on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during an hour-long launch window that opens at 7:59 p.m. ET, marking the vehicle’s first flight for the U.S. Space Force’s national security program. It took years of development for the rocket to reach this stage, and

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HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-29 08:11:48

HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media 50 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images HMRC has confirmed it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor social media posts as part of criminal investigations into suspected tax cheats. It said the tech would not replace "human decision-making" and was subject to legal oversight. "Greater use of AI will enable our staff to spend less time on admin and more time helping taxpayers, as well as be

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A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:07:48

A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering Here's the situation: it's 1984, and you're assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have 640K of memory in their PCs. You need to support systems with as little as 256K. That's a quarter megabyte to contain the word processor, the document being edited, and the memory needed by the operating system. Oh, and the spellchecker. For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictio

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This designer turned the new Beats Pill into a cool art piece you can’t get everywhere

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-29 17:56:41

Beats is rolling out a fresh limited-edition version of its recently relaunched Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker, teaming up with Bulgarian-born fashion designer Kiko Kostadinov. Known for blending modern form with historical references, Kostadinov brings his signature aesthetic to the portable speaker’s design. The Kiko Kostadinov Beats Pill features a custom grille inspired by intricate geometric patterns found in ancient Thracian art, a nod to Kostadinov’s heritage. The speaker’s body is finish

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Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 21:38:11

Back this project to help bring it into existence. Funding ends on Sep 18, 2025 at 04:59 PM PDT. Modos Paper Dev Kit includes nearly everything you need to create an open-hardware e-paper monitor with a fast 75 Hz refresh rate, low latency, various screen-update configurations, multiple image modes, and flexible dithering options. It can be connected through HDMI or USB, and it works on Linux, macOS, and Windows. We are offering 6-inch and 13-inch monochrome kits, but the controller that powers

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11 Best Computer Speakers (2025), Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-11-29 17:00:00

Other Computer Speakers We Tested There are tons of computer speakers on the market, and many of the ones we tested are perfectly fine but don't deserve a spot above for one reason or another. Photograph: Simon Hill Onkyo Creator GX-10DB for $249: Capable of producing a warm and rich sound, Onkyo’s speakers are the perfect size for your desktop and come with angled stands (though they are plastic). The connectivity options are solid, with USB-C, optical, and stereo RCA inputs, and support for

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 14, #325

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The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)

This so-called Android ‘antivirus’ is just a front for spyware

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