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USA vs. Mexico Livestream: How to Watch CONCACAF Gold Cup 2025 Final Soccer From Anywhere

The 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup reaches its climax in Texas on Sunday as the USA and Mexico face off for the eighth time in the final. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to watch every match of the tournament as it happens, wherever you are in the world. We'll also explain how to use a VPN if the match isn't available where you are, along with a full match list. The USA have beaten their fiercest rivals just twice in those encounters, and will be determined to as head coach Ma

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Monday, July 7

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 7, #287

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 saw the Brad Pitt movie F1 last week, and it was excellent. Thrilled to see it turn up in today's Connections: Sports Edition. That green category is pretty simple, but if you need help with the puzzle, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, makin

Forget the hype — real AI agents solve bounded problems, not open-world fantasies

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 Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI agents like they’re just a prompt away from replacing entire departments. The dream is seductive: Autonomous systems that can handle anything you throw at them, no guardrails, no constraints, just give them your AWS credentials and they’ll solve all your problems. But the reality is that’s ju

I prefer Signal but use WhatsApp for this simple reason

Robert Triggs / Android Authority When WhatsApp changed its terms in 2021, I was one of the many users who looked for alternative messaging apps for Android. While I had heard about Signal before, the controversial move by WhatsApp prompted me to actually try the app out. I loved it then and I still love it now. But over all these years, I barely use Signal even though I prefer it greatly over WhatsApp. And that’s because of a major advantage WhatsApp has over the privacy-focused messaging app

Elon Musk's proposed America Party is already attracting the attention of the ultra-rich

Just a day after former White House advisor Elon Musk claimed on X that he's creating a new political party in the US, some deep-pocketed figures have offered support and potential interest. Replying to an X post that said the America Party would offer "independence from the two-party system," billionaire Mark Cuban and investment banker Anthony Scaramucci both replied to Musk, providing some possible next steps. After celebrating the America Party announcement post with emojis, Cuban said that

Prime Day deal: Our favorite air purifier is $37 off right now

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Prime Day 2025 is nearly here, and it's set to be bigger than ever as it will run for four days. But you don't need to wait until then for tasty deals. There are plenty of savings to shop now, including this one for the Levoit Core 400S air purifier. At $183, the device is $37 off. It'

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Playdate Season 2 review: Taria & Como and Black Hole Havoc

We've officially made it to the end of Playdate Season Two, and what a season it's been. Despite having half the number of titles as Season One, this latest round of weekly game releases has made a much stronger impression (on me, at least). If nothing else, it's just been cool to experience the new games in real time with other Playdate owners all at once, which the staggered rollout of the console didn't really allow for with the first season. In an email ahead of the final release, the team a

Best early Prime Day robot vacuum deals: My 20 favorite offers right now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day phone deals: These 11 sales are worth the upgrade

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day headphones deals: My 16 picks for deals available now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best Black Friday in July 2025 deals at Best Buy: The best offers available now

When is Best Buy's Black Friday in July 2025? Best Buy's Black Friday in July will run from July 7 to July 13, 2025. However, some sales may still linger after the closing date. What are Best Buy Doorbuster deals? Doorbuster deals are limited-stock, extremely low-priced offers made to attract customers to sales. Best Buy typically employs these deals during its annual Black Friday sale, but has confirmed they will be present for its summer sale. Where do I find Best Buy's Black Friday in Jul

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The best Sam's Club deals that compete with Prime Day: TVs, speakers, laptops, and appliances

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day security camera deals: My 12 favorite offers live now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day Nintendo Switch deals: My 15+ favorite sales live now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

The 19 best early Prime Day 2025 deals under $25

Amazon Prime Day is a great time to save money on expensive tech items like laptops, tablets, and TVs--especially on big-name brands like Apple, Samsung, and Sony. But if you're on a strict budget this year, ZDNET has you covered with the best deals. While the official sales haven't kicked off yet, there are some early savings available. Get daily deals straight to your inbox during Prime Day when you sign up for ZDNET Recommends, your one-stop newsletter for the sale. You can find some very u

Best Prime Day Samsung deals: My 25 favorite sales already live

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day Kindle deals: My 10+ favorite sales live now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

My pick for the best Roku TV is still 40% off at Best Buy

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day smartwatch and fitness tracker deals: My 8 favorite sales live now

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Best early Prime Day deals 2025: Live updates on 101+ sales from Apple, Kindle, iRobot, and more

Tharon Green/ZDNET When is Amazon Prime Day? Amazon Prime Day will run from Tuesday, July 8, to Friday, July 11, 2025. The annual two-day sale was extended to four days in 2025. How long will Prime Day last? Amazon Prime Day will last four days, running from July 8-11, 2025. That's two days longer than the years prior. Where will Prime Day take place? Amazon announced that its July Prime Day event will return in over 20 countries, including Ireland for the first time. Prime Day 2025 will r

Save $500 on UltraGear OLED gaming monitors at LG with special code

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

1945 TV Console Showed Two Programs at Once

As I try to write this article, my friend and I have six different screens attached to three types of devices. We’re working in the same room but on our own projects—separate yet together, a comfortable companionship. I had never really thought of the proliferation of screens as a peacekeeping tool until I stumbled across one of Allen B. DuMont’s 1950s dual-screen television sets. DuMont’s idea was to let two people in the same room watch different programs. It reminded me of my early childhood

Overclocking LLM Reasoning: Monitoring and Controlling LLM Thinking Path Lengths

This work investigates how large reasoning models internally track their thinking progress and how such processes can be monitored and controlled. We focus on reasoning models that explicitly segment their computations using <think> and </think> tokens (e.g., DeepSeek-R1), allowing us to study the internal dynamics of the "thinking phase." 1. Monitoring the Thinking Phase We hypothesize that hidden states encode a token's relative position within the thinking phase. To test this, we collect hi

Collatz's Ant and Σ(n)

Collatz's Ant and Σ(n) Relevant preceding posts here and here. Consider the corresponding ant’s landscape development for $n = 500$: with the last frame being: Let’s also consider a score function $\Sigma(n)$ which returns the number of 1’s (or marked states) left by the ant on the corresponding landscape (regarding the last frame). With the prior example, we would have $\Sigma(500) = 54$. We might also want to normalize this by the corresponding stopping time $\tau_{n}$ characteristic of th

Mirage: First AI-Native UGC Game Engine Powered by Real-Time World Model

The future of gaming isn't built level by level by expert designers—it's imagined, generated, and played by anyone, in real time. Meet Mirage: the world's first real-time generative engine enabling live UGC gameplay through state-of-the-art AI World Models. Built to support dynamic, interactive, and sustained gameplay, it enables entire worlds to be generated and modified live—through natural language, keyboard, or controller input. Mirage supports various genres, and today we are releasing tw

Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago

Hannah Cairo was stuck on a math problem. All she could think about during those weeks was a new approach. “After months of trying to prove the result, I managed to understand why it was so difficult. I realized that if I used that information correctly, I might be able to refute the claim. Finally, after several failed attempts, I found a way to construct a counterexample [a case that does not satisfy the studied property and therefore proves it is not universally true].” Ciaro says it required

Corrected UTF-8 (2022)

UTF-8 is decent and all but it contains some design errors, partly because its original designers just messed up, and partly because of ISO and Unicode Consortium internal politics. We’re probably going to be using it forever so it would be good to correct these design errors before they get any more entrenched than they already have. Corrected UTF-8 is almost the same as UTF-8. We make only three changes: overlength encodings become impossible instead of just forbidden; the C1 controls and the

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Metriport (YC S22) is hiring engineers to improve healthcare data exchange

Metriport helps healthcare organizations access, analyze, and exchange patient data in real-time. Our open-source data intelligence platform integrates with all major healthcare IT systems in the US, and taps into comprehensive medical data for 300M+ individuals. Concretely, check out the following resources to learn more about what we actually do: We are looking for passionate engineers that are motivated by working on problems at scale (think billions of queries and PBs of medical records).

Lessons from creating my first text adventure

It’s very easy to accidentally try to create too large a text adventure. My first attempt was way too ambitious, and would have taken months to finish. I still love the idea for that, but it had to go. I picked another idea that was much smaller in scope, but it, too, grew too ambitious. I restarted one more time, from an idea that was even more pared down, and I was actually able to finish that game. With the minimalistic scope it took maybe fifteen hours of active work to create most of the ga