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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 17, #328

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 20:39:00

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 is both fun and tough. The purple category was kind of brilliant, actually. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition has been out of beta for six months, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has ea

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Start Saving Now: An iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike Is Likely, Says New Report

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 03:00:04

The iPhone 16 series dropped last year with the same US prices as the iPhone 15 series. But the iPhone 17 might come with the first price increase in years. James Martin/CNET Apple's annual iPhone event is likely just a few weeks away but we're still seeing new rumors surface. One of the latest leaks is that the iPhone 17 Pro will get a $50 price increase. The rumor surfaced on the Chinese social media site Weibo from a user named Instant Digital (Setsuna Digital) and corroborates an earlier pr

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Watch Figure 02 Humanoid Fold Laundry in New AI Demo

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 04:00:00

When the newest demo of the Figure 02 humanoid robot folding towels dropped, I knew I had to make a video about it. CNET's robot coverage always gets comments from viewers asking if robots could do their laundry. In the demo, Figure 02 folds towels at a rate of approximately 22 seconds per towel. Figure With advancements in AI and robotics, the dream of automated household chores feels closer, but it's not quite here yet. I tested my laundry-folding skills against Figure 02's robot to see just

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Swap Protein Powder for Clear Whey Protein to Hydrate, Recover and Build Muscle

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 04:00:00

There's been an uptick in high-protein snacks, shakes and protein powders, so it’s no surprise that protein is still a hot topic. If you rely on supplements to help achieve your protein quota, then you know how heavy traditional protein shakes can sometimes feel, even when mixed with a high-speed blender. Clear whey protein might be worth a try. Clear whey protein is a version of whey protein isolate (a popular protein powder) that undergoes an ultrafiltration process to remove fat, lactose and

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The Best Pixel 9 Cases, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-11-28 02:03:00

Other Good Cases and Accessories The world of Pixel accessories grows every year. Here are a few other cases I've tried and liked, just not as much as the ones above. Spigen Tough Armor Photograph: Julian Chokkattu Spigen Rugged Armor and Tough Armor for $20+: These cases are also available for the Pixel 9 Pro XL. Interestingly, the Pixel 9a version of Rugged Armor and Tough Armor features MagSafe magnets on the back, allowing you to use the phone with magnetic accessories (it worked on a Qi2

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What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?

wired.com Rhett Allain 2025-11-28 03:00:00

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical universe. They include things like the speed of light, the gravitational constant, and Planck’s constant, and they’re “fundamental” in the sense that we can't derive them theoretically, we can only measure them. We use these in solving physics problems all the time, so it’s easy to take them for granted. But why are there such numbers in nature, and why do they just happen to

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Camp Snap CS-8 Review: Simple Video Capture

wired.com Sam Kieldsen 2025-11-28 04:00:00

The Camp Snap CS-8 doesn’t care about frame rates, bit rates, or whether your footage is stabilized to unerring levels of steadiness. It doesn’t want to replace your iPhone or compete with your mirrorless camera setup. What it offers instead is something far simpler and more deliberate: the feeling of shooting video for the sake of it. Much like Camp Snap’s point-and-shoot still camera from 2023 (the company’s only other major product), it’s a throwback to when cameras didn’t think for you and

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This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-27 05:00:33

Now well into its third year, it's safe to say the Russo-Ukraine war has ushered in a new type of warfare fit for this decade. As resources run low and manpower becomes irreplaceable, combatants on both sides have resorted to McGuyver-esque tactics, such as jury-rigged drone cages, improvised wooden armor, and eScooter cavalry. One especially important development has been the deployment of various drones, from hobbyist models flung up to do recon flights, to drone boats in the Black Sea. But

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Passive Microwave Repeaters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 20:25:27

>>> 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters (PDF) One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T had largely abandoned their plan to build an extensive nationwide network of coaxial telephone cables. Microwave relay offered greater capacity at a lower cost. When Japan

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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 14:08:50

FFmpeg README FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata. Libraries libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. provides implementation of a wider range of codecs. libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access. libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility fu

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Teaching the model: Designing LLM feedback loops that get smarter over time

venturebeat.com Eric Heaton 2025-11-27 21:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Large language models (LLMs) have dazzled with their ability to reason, generate and automate, but what separates a compelling demo from a lasting product isn’t just the model’s initial performance. It’s how well the system learns from real users. Feedback loops are the missing layer in most AI deployments. As LLMs are integrated into ever

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Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 16:00:21

The court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's investigation into Media Matters, the media nonprofit that previously published research showing that ads appeared on X alongside neo-Nazi and other antisemitic content. In 2023, Elon Musk's X filed a lawsuit against the media watchdog following an advertiser exodus. It accused Media Matters of "knowingly and maliciously manufactur[ing] side-by-side images depicting advertisers' posts on X Corp.'s social media platform beside Neo-Nazi and whit

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Roblox cracks down on its user-created content following multiple child safety lawsuits

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 20:34:52

Following a wave of lawsuits alleging that Roblox doesn't provide a safe environment for its underage users, the gaming platform made a series of sweeping updates to its policies. To address recent concerns, Roblox published a post on its website detailing these major changes, including restricting all unrated experiences, which is what Roblox calls its user-generated games, to the developer or those actively working with them. Roblox said this change will roll out in the coming months, represen

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Microsoft Teams to protect against malicious URLs, dangerous file types

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-27 14:20:30

Microsoft recently revealed that it's currently enhancing protection against dangerous file types and malicious URLs in Teams chats and channels. "Microsoft Teams now blocks messages containing weaponizable file types, such as executables, in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks," the company said in a Microsoft 365 roadmap update this week. "Microsoft Teams can now detect and warn users on malicious URLs sent in Teams chat and channels, increa

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OpenAI prepares Chromium-based AI browser to take on Google

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-27 22:23:03

OpenAI is testing an AI-powered browser that uses Chromium as its underlying engine, and it could debut on macOS first. My sources tell me that OpenAI has already started updating ChatGPT to power the Chrome rival. OpenAI is building an AI-powered tab selection, a new tab page, and a feature that allows the browser to do the browsing for you. It could be similar to Copilot mode in Edge. OpenAI already has Agent mode in ChatGPT. For those unaware, Agent mode in ChatGPT is powered by a Linux t

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Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible

news.ycombinator.com Victor Wynne 2025-11-27 21:42:28

Apple’s latest addition to Xcode, the Processor Trace instrument, is one of those features that sounds pretty mundane until you actually try it. Then you realize it’s exactly what you’ve been needing for the performance mysteries that eat up hours upon hours of your development time. If you’ve been developing apps for a while, this story will sound very familiar. Your app runs fine in testing, but then users complain about performance issues or excessive battery drain. You fire up Instruments,

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Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 20:50:15

A Weighted, Declarative, Logic Programming Language Dyna About the Dyna Programming Language Dyna is a programming language designed by and for machine learning researchers. Dyna builds on the paradigm of logic programming languages such as Datalog and Prolog. However, Dyna goes much further in that it allows for flexible execution orders and for rules in the program to be "weighted". This means that we can efficiently express complicated programs in a few lines of code without having to worry

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 17, #798

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 21:00:04

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 is a real tough one. Do you still send letters? If you do, you might have a leg up on the green 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 pla

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Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-27 20:26:22

When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, no one could have dreamed that it would become the longest-running theatrical release film in history. But that's what happened. Thanks to a killer soundtrack, campy humor, and a devoted cult following, Rocky Horror is still a mainstay of midnight movie culture. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Disney/20th Century Studios is releasing a newly restored 4K HDR version in October, along with deluxe special editions on DVD and Blu-ray. And the f

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Google’s next big Android release is coming with these AI tools and UWB features

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-27 17:00:44

Last year, Google announced it was accelerating Android’s release schedule. In the past, Google typically rolled out a single Android release each year with new APIs for developers. Starting in 2025, however, the company is moving to two such releases annually: one major and one minor. We’ve already received this year’s major release with the stable Android 16 update in June, and the upcoming Android 16 QPR2 update will be the first minor one. Here are some of the new features we think Google wi

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Limited-time Apple Card promo offers 5% back at select gas and EV charging stations

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-11-27 18:44:02

For the next month or so, Apple has a special promotion for those heading out for Summer road trips (or anyone else who drives and has an Apple Card) – allowing users to earn a higher 5% cash back rate at Exxon/Mobil gas stations, as well as qualifying ChargePoint EV charging stations. All three of these merchants regularly earn 3% cash back when using Apple Card with Apple Pay, but now through September 15th – you’ll be able to earn a special boosted 5% rate. This promotion does require using

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A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease

news.ycombinator.com Margaret Roach 2025-11-27 18:48:32

I am hardly alone among gardeners who have called upon a copper-leaved European beech tree to play a key landscape role. A majestic one punctuates my view each time I look up from my desk or from the dining table a floor below. In the woodlands beyond my property line, American beeches play an outsize role, too, but hardly one based on mere aesthetics. They represent a key component of extensive swaths of many such deciduous forests in the Eastern United States, providing ecological services to

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How randomness improves algorithms (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Ben Brubaker 2025-11-25 04:43:53

Since the very first days of computer science — a field known for its methodical approach to problem-solving — randomness has played an important role. The first program to run on the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer used randomness to simulate nuclear processes. Similar approaches have since been used in astrophysics, climate science and economics. In all these cases, plugging in random numbers at certain steps in the algorithm helps researchers account for uncertainty about th

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Traps to Developers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 15:34:35

NaN. Floating point NaN is not equal to any number including itself. NaN == NaN is always false (even if the bits are same). NaN != NaN is always true. Computing on NaN usually gives NaN (it can "contaminate" computation). There are +Inf and -Inf. They are not NaN. There is a negative zero -0.0 which is different to normal zero. The negative zero equals zero when using floating point comparision. Normal zero is treated as "positive zero". JS use floating point for all numbers. The max accurat

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Pfeilstorch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 14:07:49

Migrating stork which has been hit by an arrow The Rostocker Pfeilstorch, found in 1822, demonstrated that birds migrated rather than hibernating or changing form in winter. A Pfeilstorch (German for 'arrow stork', pronounced [ˈpfaɪ̯l.ˌʃtɔɐ̯ç]; plural Pfeilstörche, [-ˌʃtœɐ̯.çə]) is a white stork that is injured by an arrow or spear while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the projectile stuck in its body. As of 2003, about 25 Pfeilstörche have been documented in Germany.[1] The fi

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Microsoft Probing Whether Israel Used Its Cloud to Build Palestinian Surveillance System

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-27 18:45:18

For the past two years, Microsoft has been dogged by accusations—both within and outside the company—that its technology is aiding the Israeli war effort. Microsoft’s own employees have protested the firm’s contracts with Israel, and protesters have disrupted the company’s various talks and conferences. Even the company’s 50th anniversary was ruined by shouts from one of its own employees, who reportedly yelled “Shame on you” while calling the company’s head of AI a “war profiteer” who was “usin

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‘Stranger Things’ Creators are Jumping Ship to Paramount

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-27 20:30:55

By the time Stranger Things wraps at year’s end, creators Matt and Ross Duffer will have taken their talents over to Paramount. Days ago, reports began to surface alleging the two brothers were potentially looking to leave the streamer to make film and TV for the Mission: Impossible studio. Now, it’s official: per industry journalist Matt Belloni, the Duffers will be over at Paramount going forward. Their decision apparently came down to the theaters; the brothers wanted their films to hit the

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The iPhone 17's Screen Could Get a Long-Awaited Feature You'll Notice Every Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 15:30:04

We are likely just weeks away from Apple's iPhone 17 event. While an official release date hasn't been announced, the company typically holds the event in early September. As we get closer to the big day, rumors and leaks about the iPhone 17 are pouring in. We've seen reports of a new selfie camera, faster MagSafe charging and a new purple (or green) color. But when the iPhone 16 debuted, there was criticism aimed at its screen. The phone starts at $829 and still has a 60Hz display, despite mos

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iPhone 17 vs. 17 Air, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max: All the Rumored Specs Compared

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 16:00:14

Normally, we wait until phones are released to compare them, but Apple's next iPhone models are so eagerly awaited that we'll make an exception. We're basing our comparisons on the most credible rumors of what's coming in the iPhone 17 series, including a potential superthin iPhone 17 Air, to give readers an early sense of how the new series of phones may look. Last year's iPhone 16 series added a handful of upgrades on its predecessors, most notably the new Camera Control key. While the basic

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I Tried Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser and It Might Be the Future

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-27 16:20:03

It takes deep, below-the-navel brazen audacity to take on Google in online search. Just ask Microsoft, DuckDuckGo, Brave and the slew of other search engines that have tried to scrape away at Google's near 90% global market share. It takes a kick in the head to think Google would sell Chrome, its wildly popular web browser. It seems that AI search company Perplexity has a pair of grit and gall, along with a multitude of head fractures, as it not only aims to usurp Google in online search, it of

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 17, #328

Start Saving Now: An iPhone 17 Pro Price Hike Is Likely, Says New Report

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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

Teaching the model: Designing LLM feedback loops that get smarter over time

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Microsoft Teams to protect against malicious URLs, dangerous file types

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Dyna – Logic Programming for Machine Learning

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 17, #798

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease

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Pfeilstorch

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I Tried Perplexity's Comet AI Web Browser and It Might Be the Future

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