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Apple ‘very open’ to AI acquisitions to speed up its roadmap, Tim Cook says

Whenever there’s talk of Apple making a big, splashy acquisition to help catch up in AI, someone inevitably points out that “Apple doesn’t acquire big companies like that”. Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook offered his view: company size doesn’t matter. If the tech is right, what’s the harm? During today’s Q3 2025 earnings call, Citi analyst Atif Malik asked whether Apple needed to accelerate its AI roadmap, despite historically not resorting to big acquisitions. Cook noted that Apple has acquired se

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 1 #516

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Sssss.... Today's NYT Strands puzzle is about a creature that I'm not really a fan of. But it was pretty easy to solve once I learned the theme. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 1, #1504

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle refers to something that is famously associated with both Kermit the Frog and comedian Steve Martin. It's a fun word, but the letters are a bit tricky. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 1, #782

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 NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. But I admit I really liked the nostalgic blue category. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and t

Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit

The strength and capabilities of generative AI are accelerating at a dizzying pace. If you’re finding it difficult to keep up, we get it. That’s why WIRED is hosting its first AI Power Summit on September 15 in New York City. We’ve curated a series of panels and conversations with experts who will distill and discuss the implications of today’s most crucial AI-related news. We’ll break down the White House’s AI Action Plan and examine its consequences across industries; explore how emerging reg

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 31, #1503

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle might not be as tough as yesterday's, but it is a bit of a stumper. There's a double letter and a fairly unusual start letter that threw me off. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you ne

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 31 #515

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Yum! Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tasty one. Just remember, you don't need to wait for a birthday to have cake. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini C

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 31, #781

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 NYT Connections puzzle has a fun numerical theme, with each category playing along with that topic, but featuring different clues. Once you see it, it might be simple. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bo

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 31, #311

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 is heavy on NFL clues, so football fans should do well. The purple category felt like an easy one for me today and it has nothing to do with the NFL. Keeping reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut

Does a 'Healthy' Soda Actually Exist? Experts Weigh In on the Trendy Beverages

The healthy soda trend doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon. Last week, Pepsi announced that it will launch its very own soda packed with prebiotics in fall 2025. In March, the company also purchased the prebiotic soda brand Poppi for $1.95 billion. If such a major player in the regular soda market is jumping on the healthy soda bandwagon, the healthy beverage movement doesn't seem to be simply succeeding -- it's also growing. However, with all these healthy sodas that promise low sugar

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 30, #514

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle's theme is "you've got that right," and yesterday's was "you got that right." Yet they mean very different things, and the clues are very different from each other. Stumped? If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules fo

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 30, #1502

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is exceptionally tough, I thought. It's a word I don't ever use, and it has some repeated letters and unusual letter placement. If there's any day when you shouldn't feel at all bad about needing some hints, today is that day. If you need a new starter word

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 30, #780

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. Oh man, today's NYT Connections puzzle is a true brain-buster. The blue and purple categories are tough, but I found the green group to be tough as well. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wo

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 30 #514

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle's theme is "you've got that right," and yesterday's was "you got that right." Yet they mean very different things, and the clues are very different from each other. Stumped? If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules fo

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 30, #310

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. The purple category for Connections: Sports Edition was extra sneaky today. The theme went right over my head, but made sense once it was revealed. Read on for hints and the answers if you run into problems like I did. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 29 #513

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. The words are stumpers, and one of them is both long and unusual -- though kind of funny. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Conn

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 29, #779

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. Card players, today's NYT Connections puzzle is for you. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze you

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 29, #1501

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle might be tricky, depending on how correctly you place all those vowels -- and perhaps your knowledge of another language. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 29, #309

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 features two categories with references to specific places. One is a state and one is a city, so you should be able to sort them out without too much difficulty. Read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 28, #1500

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Congrats, Wordle! Today's puzzle is #1500 -- a nice round number. To celebrate (?), the puzzle-makers threw us an especially tough challenge. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer,

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 28 #512

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one. It makes me want to spend more time outside working on my garden. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 28, #778

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 NYT Connections puzzle features another movie category, so cinema fans, dig in. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 28, #308

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. I learned enough during gym-class track days to ace today's Connections: Sports Edition green category. Need an assist with the game today? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 27, #1499

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is neither super hard nor really easy. The letters are fairly common, except I never guess the starting letter. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 27 #511

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is an awfully tough one. It has long answers and is hard to unscramble once you find them. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Min

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 27, #777

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 NYT Connections puzzle slyly threw a couple horror movie titles in there, but they don't get their own category. Need help figuring out what word goes where? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for W

Apple dodges new Dutch ruling on dating app fees (for now)

In June, a Dutch court upheld a prior antitrust ruling against Apple, in a case involving dating apps and the App Store commission. Today, the case was put on pause, as the country’s watchdog awaits the outcome of Apple’s DMA negotiations with the European Commission. A bit of context This case was originally brought by the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), accusing Apple of “unreasonable conditions in its App Store”, as it collected its 30% IAP fee, while not allowing for exter

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 26 #510

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle features some pretty long answers, and they didn't all come immediately to mind, even when I learned the theme. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 26, #776

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. Are you traveling this summer? Today's NYT Connections puzzle has two travel-related categories, blue and purple. The purple one requires you to think about places you might travel to, while the blue one is more about how you get around. Need help? Read on for clues and to

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 26, #306

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 includes some Olympics-connected sports. The yellow and green categories should be simple, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign t