Month: March 2023
US-China chip war: Japan plans to restrict some equipment exports
The measures, which are planned to take effect in July, follow similar moves by the US and the Netherlands.
The measures, which are planned to take effect in July, follow similar moves by the US and the Netherlands.
Wordle today: Here’s the answer, hints for March 31
It’s Friday! You made it! Celebrate with, you guessed it, today’s Wordle! If your brain’s already checked out for the weekend, don’t worry — we’re here with our daily hints and tips to help you figure out the solution.
If you prefer to just be told the answer, you can scroll to the end of this article for March 31’s Wordle solution to be revealed. But if you’d rather work through it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
Where did Wordle come from?
Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans have even sprung up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once.
Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.
Not the day you’re after? Here’s the Wordle answer for March 30.
What’s the best Wordle starting word?
The best Wordle starting word is the one that brings joy to your heart. But if what brings you joy is strategy, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.
What happened to the Wordle archive?
The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles used to be available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, it has since been taken down, with the website’s creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times.
Is Wordle getting harder?
It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn’t any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle’s Hard Mode if you’re after more of a challenge, though.
Why are there two different Wordle answers some days?
Though usually Wordle will only accept one correct solution per day, occasionally it will rebel against the norm and deem two different answers acceptable. This is due to changes the New York Times made to Wordle after it acquired the puzzle game.
The Times has since added its own updated word list, so this should happen even less frequently than before. To avoid any confusion, it’s a good idea to refresh your browser before getting stuck into a new puzzle.
Here’s a subtle hint for today’s Wordle answer:
It’s appeared in this post already!
Does today’s Wordle answer have a double letter?
It does! One letter appears twice, non-consecutively.
Today’s Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with…
Today’s Wordle starts with the letter E.
SEE ALSO:
Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL.
What’s the answer to Wordle today?
We’re finally about to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle, so get your guesses in now!
Are you ready?
The solution to Wordle #650 is…
EVERY.
Don’t feel discouraged if you didn’t get it this time. The beauty of Wordle is that there’s always a new one to try the next day, and we’ll be here again with more helpful clues and hints.
It’s Friday! You made it! Celebrate with, you guessed it, today’s Wordle! If your brain’s already checked out for the weekend, don’t worry — we’re here with our daily hints and tips to help you figure out the solution.
If you prefer to just be told the answer, you can scroll to the end of this article for March 31’s Wordle solution to be revealed. But if you’d rather work through it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
Where did Wordle come from?
Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans have even sprung up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once.
Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.
Not the day you’re after? Here’s the Wordle answer for March 30.
What’s the best Wordle starting word?
The best Wordle starting word is the one that brings joy to your heart. But if what brings you joy is strategy, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.
What happened to the Wordle archive?
The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles used to be available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, it has since been taken down, with the website’s creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times.
Is Wordle getting harder?
It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn’t any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle‘s Hard Mode if you’re after more of a challenge, though.
Why are there two different Wordle answers some days?
Though usually Wordle will only accept one correct solution per day, occasionally it will rebel against the norm and deem two different answers acceptable. This is due to changes the New York Times made to Wordle after it acquired the puzzle game.
The Times has since added its own updated word list, so this should happen even less frequently than before. To avoid any confusion, it’s a good idea to refresh your browser before getting stuck into a new puzzle.
Here’s a subtle hint for today’s Wordle answer:
It’s appeared in this post already!
Does today’s Wordle answer have a double letter?
It does! One letter appears twice, non-consecutively.
Today’s Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with…
Today’s Wordle starts with the letter E.
What’s the answer to Wordle today?
We’re finally about to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle, so get your guesses in now!
Are you ready?
The solution to Wordle #650 is…
EVERY.
Don’t feel discouraged if you didn’t get it this time. The beauty of Wordle is that there’s always a new one to try the next day, and we’ll be here again with more helpful clues and hints.
Samsung is working on making your Galaxy S23 cameras even better
Launching soon to South Korean users, the new patch includes sharper video quality and more stable recordings.
The cameras on Samsung’s Galaxy S23 line impressed us when they first released in February, but it looks like Samsung thought there was room for improvement. Right now, the company is working on a new update for its flagship series aimed at significantly enhancing camera performance.
The news comes from a post on Samsung’s Korean Community forums where a moderator explains each of the nine changes in detail. According to a translation provided by SamMobile, the company is focusing on enhancing image quality and the stability of recordings while also addressing several bugs across the entire series, which includes the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus, and Galaxy S23 Ultra. Everything else is staying the same so that image of the moon you captured will still be the product of AI trickery.
Beginning with the image quality changes, Samsung will be tweaking its “autofocus algorithm” giving users greater control over the Galaxy S23 camera. Now you’ll be able to take photos even if the subject is out of focus instead of having to wait for a clear picture; although this can be switched back to the older version through the Camera Assistant app.
Speaking of sharpness, video quality has been improved on Super Steady mode when using the ultrawide lens in a low-light environment. Additionally, the company addressed a discrepancy between image resolution dropping when Night Mode was turned off and the Camera Assistant was set to prioritize speed.
Bug fixes and stable video
Tweaks to device stability include the camera app being less affected by moving subjects inside a frame. Videos recorded with the resolution set to Full HD (1920×1080 pixels) 60fps and Auto FPS turned off will be more stable, as well.
Regarding bug fixes, there are three in total. Apparently, a green line would appear on the left side of the screen in Photo mode while taking pictures. That’s been corrected. Similarly, the company patched up a facial recognition error where the feature “didn’t work after ending a video call” on a third-party app. And finally, Samsung fixed a banding issue appearing in high-resolution photos taken in low ambient light.
There is one new feature in the update, but it’s a small one. The Gallery app will now allow users to immediately delete photographs that were just captured and still being processed.
Patch roll-out
As you can see, this is a pretty big patch. A Twitter repost of a recent Samsung notification reveals the update will be almost a gigabyte in size with the roll-out date for South Korean users set for April 1. An international launch has yet to be announced; however, we did reach out to Samsung for more info. We’ll update this story at a later time.
Until that patch rolls out, be sure to check out TechRadar’s list of the best Galaxy phones for 2023.
‘Old Yankee Stadium’s Rise and Fall: The Complete Story of “The House That Ruth Built”’
Dayn Perry at CBS Sports, in a magnificently comprehensive look back at the original Yankee Stadium, which opened 100 years ago:
On April 18, 1923, it was a brisk 49 degrees in New York City, a
spring in name only. The wind whipped up dust from the dirt roads
and vacant lots abutting the ballpark that now rose from the
planed-out soil of city plot 2106, lot 100. Those same winds
whirled the eight-foot copper baseball bat that served as a
weathervane from atop the in-play flagpole in center field. There
had been a farm there, granted to John Lion Gardiner just prior to
the Revolutionary War, and then a sawmill, and the surrounding
sweeps of land seemed more suited to just that — an old farm or
sawmill — rather than what now scraped the sky.
And what loomed above, three decks high, was a concrete-and-steel
colossus unexampled in sports and certainly baseball. The forging
of the stadium at 161st and River displaced 45,000 cubic yards of
Bronx soil. Then it devoured 20,000 yards of concrete; four
million feet of lumber; 800 tons of re-bar; 2,200 tons of steel
beams and channels and angles and plates; 13,000 yards of topsoil
and 116,000 square feet of Merion Bluegrass sod; one million
screws of brass.
It was not the first stadium to be raised up in the medium of
modern construction materials, but it was the most hulking, the
most impossible-seeming. Unlike Wrigley, Fenway, Shibe, Crosley or
others of the prior generation, Yankee Stadium defied words like
“cozy” or “intimate” at every grand angle. In that way, it augured
a coming era in which ballparks would no longer tuck into their
existing neighborhoods but rather barge in with shoulders wide and
arms akimbo. The original design of Yankee Stadium of course
reflected some geographic limitations, but its final presence
looked and felt like an unyielding one. Yankee Stadium was big and
bad like its warrior-poet Babe Ruth — like its titular hometown
nine soon would be — and it authored a reimagining: that the
“ballpark” could be elevated and sprawled into the realm of
“stadium.” And so it was the first ballpark to be called a
stadium.
The second-finest ballpark ever built.
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Dayn Perry at CBS Sports, in a magnificently comprehensive look back at the original Yankee Stadium, which opened 100 years ago:
On April 18, 1923, it was a brisk 49 degrees in New York City, a
spring in name only. The wind whipped up dust from the dirt roads
and vacant lots abutting the ballpark that now rose from the
planed-out soil of city plot 2106, lot 100. Those same winds
whirled the eight-foot copper baseball bat that served as a
weathervane from atop the in-play flagpole in center field. There
had been a farm there, granted to John Lion Gardiner just prior to
the Revolutionary War, and then a sawmill, and the surrounding
sweeps of land seemed more suited to just that — an old farm or
sawmill — rather than what now scraped the sky.
And what loomed above, three decks high, was a concrete-and-steel
colossus unexampled in sports and certainly baseball. The forging
of the stadium at 161st and River displaced 45,000 cubic yards of
Bronx soil. Then it devoured 20,000 yards of concrete; four
million feet of lumber; 800 tons of re-bar; 2,200 tons of steel
beams and channels and angles and plates; 13,000 yards of topsoil
and 116,000 square feet of Merion Bluegrass sod; one million
screws of brass.
It was not the first stadium to be raised up in the medium of
modern construction materials, but it was the most hulking, the
most impossible-seeming. Unlike Wrigley, Fenway, Shibe, Crosley or
others of the prior generation, Yankee Stadium defied words like
“cozy” or “intimate” at every grand angle. In that way, it augured
a coming era in which ballparks would no longer tuck into their
existing neighborhoods but rather barge in with shoulders wide and
arms akimbo. The original design of Yankee Stadium of course
reflected some geographic limitations, but its final presence
looked and felt like an unyielding one. Yankee Stadium was big and
bad like its warrior-poet Babe Ruth — like its titular hometown
nine soon would be — and it authored a reimagining: that the
“ballpark” could be elevated and sprawled into the realm of
“stadium.” And so it was the first ballpark to be called a
stadium.
The second-finest ballpark ever built.
Stressed Plants Emit Sounds That Can Be Detected More Than a Meter Away
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: What does a stressed plant sound like? A bit like bubble-wrap being popped. Researchers in Israel report in the journal Cell on March 30 that tomato and tobacco plants that are stressed — from dehydration or having their stems severed — emit sounds that are comparable in volume to normal human conversation. The frequency of these noises is too high for our ears to detect, but they can probably be heard by insects, other mammals, and possibly other plants. “Even in a quiet field, there are actually sounds that we don’t hear, and those sounds carry information,” says senior author Lilach Hadany, an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University. “There are animals that can hear these sounds, so there is the possibility that a lot of acoustic interaction is occurring.”
The researchers used microphones to record healthy and stressed tomato and tobacco plants, first in a soundproofed acoustic chamber and then in a noisier greenhouse environment. They stressed the plants via two methods: by not watering them for several days and by cutting their stems. After recording the plants, the researchers trained a machine-learning algorithm to differentiate between unstressed plants, thirsty plants, and cut plants. The team found that stressed plants emit more sounds than unstressed plants. The plant sounds resemble pops or clicks, and a single stressed plant emits around 30-50 of these clicks per hour at seemingly random intervals, but unstressed plants emit far fewer sounds. “When tomatoes are not stressed at all, they are very quiet,” says Hadany.
Water-stressed plants began emitting noises before they were visibly dehydrated, and the frequency of sounds peaked after five days with no water before decreasing again as the plants dried up completely. The types of sound emitted differed with the cause of stress. The machine-learning algorithm was able to accurately differentiate between dehydration and stress from cutting and could also discern whether the sounds came from a tomato or tobacco plant. Although the study focused on tomato and tobacco plants because of their ease to grow and standardize in the laboratory, the research team also recorded a variety of other plant species. “We found that many plants — corn, wheat, grape, and cactus plants, for example — emit sounds when they are stressed,” says Hadany. The researchers suggest that these noises “might be due to the formation and bursting of air bubbles in the plant’s vascular system, a process called cavitation,” reports Phys.Org. It’s unclear if the plants are producing these sounds in order to communicate with other organisms.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: What does a stressed plant sound like? A bit like bubble-wrap being popped. Researchers in Israel report in the journal Cell on March 30 that tomato and tobacco plants that are stressed — from dehydration or having their stems severed — emit sounds that are comparable in volume to normal human conversation. The frequency of these noises is too high for our ears to detect, but they can probably be heard by insects, other mammals, and possibly other plants. “Even in a quiet field, there are actually sounds that we don’t hear, and those sounds carry information,” says senior author Lilach Hadany, an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University. “There are animals that can hear these sounds, so there is the possibility that a lot of acoustic interaction is occurring.”
The researchers used microphones to record healthy and stressed tomato and tobacco plants, first in a soundproofed acoustic chamber and then in a noisier greenhouse environment. They stressed the plants via two methods: by not watering them for several days and by cutting their stems. After recording the plants, the researchers trained a machine-learning algorithm to differentiate between unstressed plants, thirsty plants, and cut plants. The team found that stressed plants emit more sounds than unstressed plants. The plant sounds resemble pops or clicks, and a single stressed plant emits around 30-50 of these clicks per hour at seemingly random intervals, but unstressed plants emit far fewer sounds. “When tomatoes are not stressed at all, they are very quiet,” says Hadany.
Water-stressed plants began emitting noises before they were visibly dehydrated, and the frequency of sounds peaked after five days with no water before decreasing again as the plants dried up completely. The types of sound emitted differed with the cause of stress. The machine-learning algorithm was able to accurately differentiate between dehydration and stress from cutting and could also discern whether the sounds came from a tomato or tobacco plant. Although the study focused on tomato and tobacco plants because of their ease to grow and standardize in the laboratory, the research team also recorded a variety of other plant species. “We found that many plants — corn, wheat, grape, and cactus plants, for example — emit sounds when they are stressed,” says Hadany. The researchers suggest that these noises “might be due to the formation and bursting of air bubbles in the plant’s vascular system, a process called cavitation,” reports Phys.Org. It’s unclear if the plants are producing these sounds in order to communicate with other organisms.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Top tech startup news for Thursday, March 30, 2023: DataDome, Ledger, Virgin Orbit, and Unacademy
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, March 30, 2023. Virgin Orbit to cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce after it fails to secure funding Virgin Orbit announced it will shut
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, March 30, 2023. Virgin Orbit to cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce after it fails to secure funding Virgin Orbit announced it will shut […]