Month: June 2024
10 Tech Gifts My 5 Young-Adult Kids Loved
Shopping for young adults can be tough, but these items scored me extra dad points for their quality and utility.
Shopping for young adults can be tough, but these items scored me extra dad points for their quality and utility.
OpenAI and Microsoft sued by Center for Investigative Reporting over copyright infringement
First, it was the major music labels targeting AI startups for copyright infringement. Now, the news industry has secured a formidable ally in its fight against AI giant OpenAI in a major pushback against AI companies and their alleged exploitative
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First, it was the major music labels targeting AI startups for copyright infringement. Now, the news industry has secured a formidable ally in its fight against AI giant OpenAI in a major pushback against AI companies and their alleged exploitative […]
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NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for June 29
Connections is a New York Times word game that’s all about finding the “common threads between words.” How to solve the puzzle.
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. The game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for June 29’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
What is Connections?
The NYT‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.
Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there’s only one correct answer. If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.
Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.
Here’s a hint for today’s Connections categories
Want a hit about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:
Yellow: Are you asking for the number or adverb
Green: Assemble
Blue: Lay on the ground
Purple: Types of flowers
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Here are today’s Connections categories
Need a little extra help? Today’s connections fall into the following categories:
Yellow: Homophones
Green: Connect
Blue: Placed Down
Purple: ___Flower
Looking for Wordle today? Here’s the answer to today’s Wordle.
Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today’s puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Drumroll, please!
The solution to Connections #384 is…
What is the answer to Connections today
Homophones: TO, TOO, TUE, TWO
Connect: COUPLE, TIE, UNTIE, WED
Placed Down: LAID, PLACED, PUT, SAT
___Flower: MAY, SUN, WALL, WILD
Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.
Is this not the Connections game you were looking for? Here are the hints and answers to yesterday’s Connections.
Apple Vision Pro Launches In First Countries Outside the US
After launching in the United States earlier this year, Apple’s Vision Pro is now available to buy in China, Japan, and Singapore. “The Apple Vision Pro will also roll out to Germany, France, Australia, the UK, and Canada on July 12th, with preorders for those regions available starting today at 5AM PT,” notes The Verge. Apple is documenting the international launch via a recent blog post.
According to CNBC, the device starts at $4,128 (29,999 yuan) in China, compared to $3,500 in the U.S. Meanwhile, Apple is already hard at work on a more budget-friendly model. In Bloomberg’s “Power On” newsletter, Apple news-breaker Mark Gurman reports today that the tech giant is “working on a cheaper headset, a second Vision Pro model and augmented-reality glasses to better compete with Meta.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
After launching in the United States earlier this year, Apple’s Vision Pro is now available to buy in China, Japan, and Singapore. “The Apple Vision Pro will also roll out to Germany, France, Australia, the UK, and Canada on July 12th, with preorders for those regions available starting today at 5AM PT,” notes The Verge. Apple is documenting the international launch via a recent blog post.
According to CNBC, the device starts at $4,128 (29,999 yuan) in China, compared to $3,500 in the U.S. Meanwhile, Apple is already hard at work on a more budget-friendly model. In Bloomberg’s “Power On” newsletter, Apple news-breaker Mark Gurman reports today that the tech giant is “working on a cheaper headset, a second Vision Pro model and augmented-reality glasses to better compete with Meta.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
NASA and SpaceX misjudged the risks from reentering space junk
“Safety tends to not be on the front burner until it really needs to be on the front burner.”
Enlarge / A European ATV cargo freighter reenters the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean in 2013.
Since the beginning of the year, landowners have discovered several pieces of space junk traced to missions supporting the International Space Station. On all of these occasions, engineers expected none of the disposable hardware would survive the scorching heat of reentry and make it to Earth’s surface.
These incidents highlight an urgency for more research into what happens when a spacecraft makes an uncontrolled reentry into the atmosphere, according to engineers from the Aerospace Corporation, a federally funded research center based in El Segundo, California. More stuff is getting launched into space than ever before, and the trend will continue as companies deploy more satellite constellations and field heavier rockets.
“The biggest immediate need now is just to do some more work to really understand this whole process and to be in a position to be ready to accommodate new materials, new operational approaches as they happen more quickly,” said Marlon Sorge, executive director of Aerospace’s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies. “Clearly, that’s the direction that spaceflight is going.”
Fluently, an AI startup founded by YCombinator alum, raises $2M seed round for AI-powered speaking coach for calls
With 84 million non-native employees working in English-speaking environments, companies spend a staggering $10 billion annually on corporate English training to enhance communication and boost confidence. Now, one tech startup aims to transform how near-native speakers refine their English language
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With 84 million non-native employees working in English-speaking environments, companies spend a staggering $10 billion annually on corporate English training to enhance communication and boost confidence. Now, one tech startup aims to transform how near-native speakers refine their English language […]
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Bill Gates says the massive power draw required for AI processing is nothing to worry about as AI will ultimately identify ways to help cut power consumption and drive the transition to sustainable energy.
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Appeals Court Seems Lost On How Internet Archive Harms Publishers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library’s controlled digital lending (CDL) practices after book publishers last year won a lawsuit claiming that the archive’s lending violated copyright law. In the weeks ahead of IA’s efforts to appeal that ruling, IA was forced to remove 500,000 books from its collection, shocking users. In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt “a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others,” who may not have access to a local library or feel “safe accessing the information they need in public.”
During a press briefing following arguments in court Friday, IA founder Brewster Kahle said that “those voices weren’t being heard.” Judges appeared primarily focused on understanding how IA’s digital lending potentially hurts publishers’ profits in the ebook licensing market, rather than on how publishers’ costly ebook licensing potentially harms readers. However, lawyers representing IA — Joseph C. Gratz, from the law firm Morrison Foerster, and Corynne McSherry, from the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation — confirmed that judges were highly engaged by IA’s defense. Arguments that were initially scheduled to last only 20 minutes stretched on instead for an hour and a half. Ultimately, judges decided not to rule from the bench, with a decision expected in the coming months or potentially next year. McSherry said the judges’ engagement showed that the judges “get it” and won’t make the decision without careful consideration of both sides.
“They understand this is an important decision,” McSherry said. “They understand that there are real consequences here for real people. And they are taking their job very, very seriously. And I think that’s the best that we can hope for, really.” On the other side, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the trade organization behind the lawsuit, provided little insight into how the day went. When reached for comment, AAP simply said, “We thought it was a strong day in court, and we look forward to the opinion.” […] “There is no deadline for them to make a decision,” Gratz said, but it “probably won’t happen until early fall” at the earliest. After that, whichever side loses will have an opportunity to appeal the case, which has already stretched on for four years, to the Supreme Court. Since neither side seems prepared to back down, the Supreme Court eventually weighing in seems inevitable.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Internet Archive (IA) went before a three-judge panel Friday to defend its open library’s controlled digital lending (CDL) practices after book publishers last year won a lawsuit claiming that the archive’s lending violated copyright law. In the weeks ahead of IA’s efforts to appeal that ruling, IA was forced to remove 500,000 books from its collection, shocking users. In an open letter to publishers, more than 30,000 readers, researchers, and authors begged for access to the books to be restored in the open library, claiming the takedowns dealt “a serious blow to lower-income families, people with disabilities, rural communities, and LGBTQ+ people, among many others,” who may not have access to a local library or feel “safe accessing the information they need in public.”
During a press briefing following arguments in court Friday, IA founder Brewster Kahle said that “those voices weren’t being heard.” Judges appeared primarily focused on understanding how IA’s digital lending potentially hurts publishers’ profits in the ebook licensing market, rather than on how publishers’ costly ebook licensing potentially harms readers. However, lawyers representing IA — Joseph C. Gratz, from the law firm Morrison Foerster, and Corynne McSherry, from the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation — confirmed that judges were highly engaged by IA’s defense. Arguments that were initially scheduled to last only 20 minutes stretched on instead for an hour and a half. Ultimately, judges decided not to rule from the bench, with a decision expected in the coming months or potentially next year. McSherry said the judges’ engagement showed that the judges “get it” and won’t make the decision without careful consideration of both sides.
“They understand this is an important decision,” McSherry said. “They understand that there are real consequences here for real people. And they are taking their job very, very seriously. And I think that’s the best that we can hope for, really.” On the other side, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the trade organization behind the lawsuit, provided little insight into how the day went. When reached for comment, AAP simply said, “We thought it was a strong day in court, and we look forward to the opinion.” […] “There is no deadline for them to make a decision,” Gratz said, but it “probably won’t happen until early fall” at the earliest. After that, whichever side loses will have an opportunity to appeal the case, which has already stretched on for four years, to the Supreme Court. Since neither side seems prepared to back down, the Supreme Court eventually weighing in seems inevitable.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.