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Best Coffee Grinders for 2025: Oxo, Baratza and Breville

Our Picks Best overall Oxo Brew Conical Burr Grinder View details $72 at Amazon View details Easiest to use Baratza Encore Conical Burr Grinder View details $150 at Amazon View details Best for making espresso Breville Smart Grinder Pro View details $200 at Amazon View details Want the best-tasting coffee for your morning brew? Grinding your own beans can make all the difference. Preground coffee might be convenient, but freshly ground beans are the way to go if you want complete control over y

Grok 3 AI is now free to all X users – here's how it works

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET X's new Grok 3 AI-powered chatbot is now free for anyone to use. Launched earlier this week, the latest flavor of Grok initially required a paid subscription, but that restriction has now been lifted, according to a new post from xAI, the AI company created by Elon Musk. Beyond the usual AI chat features, Grok 3 offers a DeepSearch mode. Similar to the Deep Research option from ChatGPT Pro, Gemini Advanced, and Perplexity AI, this capability uses a virtual age

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Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker

Migrate from Docker to Podman. fly-to-podman is a small bash script that helps you migrate from Docker to Podman. It will migrate your Docker containers, images, and volumes to Podman, as well as keep your container data and configurations (mounts, ports, etc.) intact. Full blog post: From Docker to Podman: full migration to rootless

These Hello Kitty Smartwatches Are Criminally Adorable

On Thursday, Japanese peripheral maker Green House released a line of Hello Kitty smartwatches that are so adorable that I was annoyed by how boring most smartwatches look these days. The budget smartwatches are themed around four iconic Sanrio characters: Kuromi, Cinnamoroll, Pompompurin, and Hello Kitty, who I recently found out is five apples tall and not a cat but a little girl. It’s a fact I still can’t quite over. Notification sounds, and alerts are all made in the voices of each charact

BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English

BritCSS Fixes CSS to use non-bastardised spellings Permits using English (traditional) spellings for CSS properties, rather than English (simplified). Because this is implemented with a client-side script. You can use this to properise the CSS of any page. Demo on CodePen Usage To use this script, simply include it in your HTML: < script src =" https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/DeclanChidlow/BritCSS/britcss.js " > </ script > To enter debug mode: britCSS . debug ( true ) ; To stop the script

Inside Out 2 Just Got Dethroned as the Highest-Grossing Animated Movie Ever

Well, that didn’t take long. It hasn’t even been a year since Inside Out 2 took over Frozen 2‘s spot atop the list of highest-grossing animated movies of all time—en route to becoming 2024’s highest-grossing movie worldwide, full stop, though Deadpool & Wolverine did make a run for it. The top movie of 2025 is still to be decided, but that animated list has a new champ: China’s Ne Zha 2, which has racked up $1.7 billion to date. This stat comes from Deadline, which notes Ne Zha 2 is also rocket

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It Kinda Sounds Like NASA Is Gutting Its Plans for a Moon Landing

NASA's plans to return to the Moon are seemingly on very thin ice. As Reuters reports, NASA has lost four key senior Artemis officials, further stoking concerns that the space agency may ditch its plans to return to the Moon altogether. Whether they'll ever be replaced remains as dubious as ever; both president Donald Trump and SpaceX-CEO-slash-unelected-White-House-hatchet-man Elon Musk have argued that going to Mars should take priority. The outgoing officials, according to Reuters, include

Roku has a new way to get to your favorite programs faster

Supplied by Roku TL;DR Roku is introducing a personalized row to its live TV guide. The row will present your top 10 TV programs at the top of the guide. This update is rolling out to the US today. Having to scroll through the entire guide just to get to your favorite live TV programs is tedious. Wouldn’t it be great if those programs were at the top of the page so you could get to them immediately? If you watch live TV on Roku, you’ll now be able to do just that. Today, Roku announced it i

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After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem

After the conjecture was posed in the 1970s, dozens of mathematicians tried their hand at proving it. They made partial progress — and in the process they learned a great deal about groups, which are abstract objects that describe the various symmetries of a mathematical system. But a full proof seemed out of reach. Then Späth came along. Now, 20 years after she first learned about the problem and more than a decade after she met Cabanes, the two mathematicians have finally completed the proof.

Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering

Spice86 - A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering Spice86 is a tool to execute, reverse engineer and rewrite real mode DOS programs for which source code is not available. Release are available on Nuget. Pre-releases are also available on the Release page NOTE: This is a port, and a continuation from the original Java Spice86. It requires .NET 8 and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Approach Rewriting a program from only the binary is a hard task. Spice86 is a tool that helps yo

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI Hype

The world has yet to turn any of today’s AI hype and spending into a meaningful lift in the actual economy, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The comments were made during a podcast interview in which he put a measuring stick on AI’s true impact: Success will be measured through global economic growth rather than arbitrary benchmarks of how well AI programs can complete challenges like obscure math puzzles. Those are interesting in isolation but do not have practical utility. The comments seem

Breaking down Grok 3: The AI model that could redefine the industry

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Less than two years since its launch, xAI has shipped what could arguably be the most advanced AI model to date. Grok 3 matches or beats the most advanced models on all key benchmarks as well as the user-evaluated Chatbot Arena, and its training has not even been completed yet. We still don’t have a lot of details about Grok 3, as the team has not yet released a paper

Topics: ai grok model models xai

What’s driving electricity demand? It isn’t just AI and data centers.

Take the US, for example. The IEA report points to other research showing that the 10 states hosting the most data center growth saw a 10% increase in electricity demand between 2019 and 2023. Demand in the other 40 states declined by about 3% over the same period. One caveat here is that nobody knows for sure what’s going to happen with data centers in the future, particularly those needed to run AI. Projections are all over the place, and small changes could drastically alter the amount of en

Sharing to group chats in Google Messages could soon get much easier (APK teardown)

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The latest Google Messages beta has revealed that Google is working on integrating group chats with the Android share sheet. This will allow users to share content to group chats directly from other apps, saving them a few clicks. Thanks to the recent RCS push from iPhone users, we’re seeing group chats return for Android users where they don’t feel as alienated as before. Google Messages has a pretty decent group chat feature, but there’s definitely

xAI's Grok 3 is available for free to everyone 'for a short time'

You can now access xAI's most advanced large language model, Grok 3, even if you don't pay for a subscription on X. Grok 3 is available for free "for a short time," according to xAI founder Elon Musk, though the company didn't say until what "short time" means exactly. When you go to Grok on X or the web, and when you launch the standalone app, you'll now see new "Think" and "DeepSearch" options that are only available with xAI's latest LLM family. Just make sure you're using Grok 3 instead of G

Microsoft testing fix for Windows 11 bug breaking SSH connections

Microsoft is not testing a fix for a longstanding known issue that is breaking SSH connections on some Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 systems. On Tuesday, Microsoft started rolling Windows 11 Build 26100.3321 (KB5052093) Insiders in the Release Preview Channel on Windows 11 24H2 (Build 26100) with a fix for this bug. When it first acknowledged the issue in November, the company explained it affects a "limited number" of devices running Windows 11 enterprise, IOT, and education editions. However, Red

After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem

After the conjecture was posed in the 1970s, dozens of mathematicians tried their hand at proving it. They made partial progress — and in the process they learned a great deal about groups, which are abstract objects that describe the various symmetries of a mathematical system. But a full proof seemed out of reach. Then Späth came along. Now, 20 years after she first learned about the problem and more than a decade after she met Cabanes, the two mathematicians have finally completed the proof.

iPhone 16e camera seems to lack latest-generation Photographic Styles

With the iPhone 16 lineup, Apple has completely revamped the Photographic Styles feature – which was first introduced with the iPhone 13. However, despite the new iPhone 16e having almost the same hardware as its more expensive siblings, the device seems to lack the latest-generation Photographic Styles. iPhone 16e and Photographic Styles Based on Apple’s official webpage that compares different iPhone models, only the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro feature the latest-generation Photographic Styl

Researchers Find Elon Musk's New Grok AI Is Extremely Vulnerable to Hacking

Researchers at the AI security company Adversa AI have found that Grok 3, the latest model released by Elon Musk's startup xAI this week, is a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen. The team found that the model is extremely vulnerable to "simple jailbreaks," which could be used by bad actors to "reveal how to seduce kids, dispose of bodies, extract DMT, and, of course, build a bomb," according to Adversa CEO and cofounder Alex Polyakov. And it only gets worse from there. "It’s not just ja

Breaking down Grok-3: The AI model that could redefine the industry

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Less than two years since its launch, xAI has shipped what could arguably be the most advanced AI model to date. Grok-3 matches or beats the most advanced models on all key benchmarks as well as the user-evaluated Chatbot Arena, and its training has not even been completed yet. We still don’t have a lot of details about Grok-3, as the team has not yet released a paper

Topics: ai grok model models xai

Russian Groups Target Signal Messenger in Spy Campaign

Multiple Russia-aligned threat groups are actively targeting the Signal Messenger application of individuals likely to exchange sensitive military and government communications related to the country's war with Ukraine. For now, the activity appears limited to persons of interest to Russia's intelligence services, according to researchers at Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), who spotted it recently. But the tactics the threat actors are using in the campaign could well serve as a bluep

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Feb. 20, #620

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections puzzle could be tricky. But if you watch a certain Netflix show involving deadly children's games, you might see a connection that will lead you to solve the usually difficult purple group. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times n

Instagram adds a whole slew of new DM features in latest update

Instagram is rolling out an update for its messaging system that adds several new tools. These features could allow Instagram to better compete with direct-messaging rivals like Apple iMessage and various third-party platforms. First up, there’s music-sharing. The update lets users share tunes in both one-on-one messages and group chats. Just open up the sticker tray and tap on the “Music” option. This will open up a search bar of Instagram's audio library. There are a couple of caveats here. T