Month: January 2025
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Jan. 11, #110
Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections: Sports Edition No. 110 for Jan. 11.
Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections: Sports Edition No. 110 for Jan. 11.
Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Jan. 11, #314
Here are some hints — and the answers — for the Jan. 11 Strands puzzle, No. 314.
Here are some hints — and the answers — for the Jan. 11 Strands puzzle, No. 314.
Zuckerberg On Rogan: Facebook’s Censorship Was ‘Something Out of 1984’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, in an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, criticized the Biden administration for pushing for censorship around COVID-19 vaccines, the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinformation after the 2016 election, and his own company for complying. Zuckerberg’s three-hour interview with Rogan gives a clear window into his thinking during a remarkable week in which Meta loosened its content moderation policies and shut down its DEI programs.
The Meta CEO said a turning point for his approach to censorship came after Biden publicly said social media companies were “killing people” by allowing COVID misinformation to spread, and politicians started coming after the company from all angles. Zuckerberg told Rogan, who was a prominent skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccine, that the Biden administration would “call up the guys on our team and yell at them and cursing and threatening repercussions if we don’t take down things that are true.”
Zuckerberg said that Biden officials wanted Meta to take down a meme of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a TV, with a joke at the expense of people who were vaccinated. Zuckerberg said his company drew the line at removing “humor and satire.” But he also said his company had gone too far in complying with such requests, and acknowledged that he and others at the company wrongly bought into the idea — which he said the traditional media had been pushing — that misinformation spreading on social media swung the 2016 election to Donald Trump. Zuckerberg likened his company’s fact-checking process to a George Orwell novel, saying it was “something out of 1984” and led to a broad belief that Meta fact-checkers “were too biased.”
“It really is a slippery slope, and it just got to a point where it’s just, OK, this is destroying so much trust, especially in the United States, to have this program.” He said he was “worried” from the beginning about “becoming this sort of decider of what is true in the world.”
Later in the interview, Zuckerberg praised X’s “community notes” program and suggested that social media creators were replacing the government and traditional media as arbiters of truth, becoming “a new kind of cultural elite that people look up to.”
Further reading: Meta Is Ushering In a ‘World Without Facts,’ Says Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, in an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, criticized the Biden administration for pushing for censorship around COVID-19 vaccines, the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on misinformation after the 2016 election, and his own company for complying. Zuckerberg’s three-hour interview with Rogan gives a clear window into his thinking during a remarkable week in which Meta loosened its content moderation policies and shut down its DEI programs.
The Meta CEO said a turning point for his approach to censorship came after Biden publicly said social media companies were “killing people” by allowing COVID misinformation to spread, and politicians started coming after the company from all angles. Zuckerberg told Rogan, who was a prominent skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccine, that the Biden administration would “call up the guys on our team and yell at them and cursing and threatening repercussions if we don’t take down things that are true.”
Zuckerberg said that Biden officials wanted Meta to take down a meme of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at a TV, with a joke at the expense of people who were vaccinated. Zuckerberg said his company drew the line at removing “humor and satire.” But he also said his company had gone too far in complying with such requests, and acknowledged that he and others at the company wrongly bought into the idea — which he said the traditional media had been pushing — that misinformation spreading on social media swung the 2016 election to Donald Trump. Zuckerberg likened his company’s fact-checking process to a George Orwell novel, saying it was “something out of 1984” and led to a broad belief that Meta fact-checkers “were too biased.”
“It really is a slippery slope, and it just got to a point where it’s just, OK, this is destroying so much trust, especially in the United States, to have this program.” He said he was “worried” from the beginning about “becoming this sort of decider of what is true in the world.”
Later in the interview, Zuckerberg praised X’s “community notes” program and suggested that social media creators were replacing the government and traditional media as arbiters of truth, becoming “a new kind of cultural elite that people look up to.”
Further reading: Meta Is Ushering In a ‘World Without Facts,’ Says Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts: ‘We strive to create a culture of belonging’
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The TCL 60XE switches from color to grayscale in an instant – and it’s the coolest thing I saw at CES
Two display options to stretch the battery life
I found the TCL 60XE NXTpaper 5G phone on the show floor at CES, as I didn’t want to leave Vegas without seeing it.
It switches from a color screen to a grayscale one in seconds.
It won TechRadar’s Best Mobile Phone of CES 2025.
In between hands-on time with Sony’s prototype Xyn headset and getting a remote drive around Las Vegas, I headed for TCL’s extravagant booth at CES 2025. Why? Well, the answer lies in the GIF below, showing a smartphone switching from a color display to a grayscale one that rapidly extends the battery life.
This is the TCL 60XE NXTpaper 5G Android smartphone, which, thanks to the custom display technology, can transform from an FHD+ to one that resembles a matte grayscale that’s kind of akin to a newspaper. Still, it’s a fully functional Android phone with TCL’s user interface, though you’re limited to using seven apps in this mode. The good news is that you can pick those, and it takes just a few seconds for the screen to transform.
(Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol)
I can’t underscore enough how neat and intuitive this easy switch is and the benefits that are supposedly associated with it, seeing that other TCL NXTpaper devices have plenty of battery life, which is a trait with this forthcoming smartphone. In my brief testing on the show floor at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, even though it’s clearly in a black and white mode, animations still rendered smoothly, and it was pretty responsive to my touch inputs.
Aside from the shock and wow of the display transformation, the real neat factor is TCL pushing its NXTpaper into new forms, and the potential battery life wins here. TCL is saying it can last for a full week, an entire seven days of constant use, or 26 days in standby. That’s pretty impressive, and remember, this is still an LCD screen with some extra layers that allow it to go from color to this less power-intensive mode.
It’s a decent-sized phone, with a 6.8-inch screen including a front-facing selfie camera and a rear stack with a 50-megapixel unit on the back. It also supports wireless charging and has a USB-C port on the bottom. The TCL 60XE NXTpaper felt quite nice in my hand, and even for a larger-sized smartphone, it was fairly easy to handle.
(Image credit: Future)
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I also appreciated that the switch was easy to find on the bottom right-hand side to swap between the two display types. I flipped it back and forth several times with no issue, and viewing it on a bright show floor was easy.
Between the potential of an ultra-long runtime and two display options from a single screen, there is a lot to like here on the 60XE NXTpaper and it’ll be interesting to see if this arrives on future TCL phones as well. Not to mention, it also won our best mobile phone of CES 2025. Check out our 24 other picks here.
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NYT Strands hints, answers for January 11
The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.
If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game.
Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There’s always a theme linking every solution, along with the “spangram,” a special, word or phrase that sums up that day’s theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.
By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.
If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.
NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Say when…
These words describe parts of the day.
Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained
Words are an answer to the question, ‘When?’ But, they aren’t on the clock.
NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?
Today’s NYT Strands spangram is vertical.
NYT Strands spangram answer today
Today’s spangram is Timing.
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NYT Strands word list for January 11
Evening
Dawn
Dusk
Morning
Twilight
Daybreak
Noon
Timing
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Intel still dreams of modular PCs — it brought a tablet laptop gaming handheld to CES
Photo by Sean Hollister/ The Verge
At CES 2025, Intel let journalists into its private “Innovation Showcase,” where we saw things like prototype next-gen laptops and giant stereo 3D handheld gaming PCs.
While I was there, I also spotted a heavy metal handheld on a table that didn’t seem fully… attached to its screen. When I lifted the screen, it came away easily.
It felt suspiciously light to be a rea tablet, so I flipped it over and saw three connectors underneath:
Above it, on a shelf, was a laptop with a suspiciously sized chunk of plastic on the bottom that looked like a perfect match. A minute later, Intel gaming evangelist Colin Helms confirmed I was looking at a prototype modular PC.
That module contains a complete Intel Lunar Lake computer, the entire guts of a PC. It’s basically a reboot of Intel’s abandoned Compute Card idea, except it’s not all Intel’s doing and you shouldn’t ever expect it to ship.
It’s a concept from Quanta, a company whose name you don’t typically see on the laptops and tablets they create, because Quanta is an ODM (like Compal, Pegatron, Wistron, and Apple’s better known iPhone supplier Foxconn) that designs and manufactures hardware on behalf of brand names.
Quanta’s calling the whole modular system the “AI8A,” and the aforementioned module at its heart is the “Detachable AI Core.” Helms told me it plugs into other concept computers as well, including an all-in-one desktop that Intel didn’t have to show off. And presumably, like the Compute Card idea, you could upgrade your computer just by putting a new new module into it.
The modular laptop has lots of concept-y bells and whistles too, so many that Intel’s CES staff hadn’t even worked them all out yet.
For starts, the laptop has a motorized hinge, so you can tell it to open and close its own lid; it also claims to offer eye-tracking that lets you sling around multitasking windows just by looking at where you’d like them to be. It apparently comes with a mouse integrated into a ring that you could wear.
The most mundane: a built-in Qi wireless charging pad in the palmrest, with indicator lights to show your battery’s remaining capacity.
I couldn’t try any of it working, unfortunately, nor did I manage to ask what “AI8A” means, because I mistakenly thought it said Aiba until I checked my photos closely just now. Nor could we hotswap the module between the handheld and laptop, since the module apparently doesn’t have a battery inside.
Again, this is a cool computing concept car: it’s not likely that this computer will ever ship, even in a more practical / less gadgety form. Thankfully, we have begun to see some real, practical modularity in the laptop space since the death of Intel’s Compute Card. Framework just celebrated its fifth anniversary this week, and Dell took a smaller step forward at CES with its first modular repairable USB-C port.
Photos by Sean Hollister / The Verge
Photo by Sean Hollister/ The Verge
At CES 2025, Intel let journalists into its private “Innovation Showcase,” where we saw things like prototype next-gen laptops and giant stereo 3D handheld gaming PCs.
While I was there, I also spotted a heavy metal handheld on a table that didn’t seem fully… attached to its screen. When I lifted the screen, it came away easily.
It felt suspiciously light to be a rea tablet, so I flipped it over and saw three connectors underneath:
Above it, on a shelf, was a laptop with a suspiciously sized chunk of plastic on the bottom that looked like a perfect match. A minute later, Intel gaming evangelist Colin Helms confirmed I was looking at a prototype modular PC.
That module contains a complete Intel Lunar Lake computer, the entire guts of a PC. It’s basically a reboot of Intel’s abandoned Compute Card idea, except it’s not all Intel’s doing and you shouldn’t ever expect it to ship.
It’s a concept from Quanta, a company whose name you don’t typically see on the laptops and tablets they create, because Quanta is an ODM (like Compal, Pegatron, Wistron, and Apple’s better known iPhone supplier Foxconn) that designs and manufactures hardware on behalf of brand names.
Quanta’s calling the whole modular system the “AI8A,” and the aforementioned module at its heart is the “Detachable AI Core.” Helms told me it plugs into other concept computers as well, including an all-in-one desktop that Intel didn’t have to show off. And presumably, like the Compute Card idea, you could upgrade your computer just by putting a new new module into it.
The modular laptop has lots of concept-y bells and whistles too, so many that Intel’s CES staff hadn’t even worked them all out yet.
For starts, the laptop has a motorized hinge, so you can tell it to open and close its own lid; it also claims to offer eye-tracking that lets you sling around multitasking windows just by looking at where you’d like them to be. It apparently comes with a mouse integrated into a ring that you could wear.
The most mundane: a built-in Qi wireless charging pad in the palmrest, with indicator lights to show your battery’s remaining capacity.
I couldn’t try any of it working, unfortunately, nor did I manage to ask what “AI8A” means, because I mistakenly thought it said Aiba until I checked my photos closely just now. Nor could we hotswap the module between the handheld and laptop, since the module apparently doesn’t have a battery inside.
Again, this is a cool computing concept car: it’s not likely that this computer will ever ship, even in a more practical / less gadgety form. Thankfully, we have begun to see some real, practical modularity in the laptop space since the death of Intel’s Compute Card. Framework just celebrated its fifth anniversary this week, and Dell took a smaller step forward at CES with its first modular repairable USB-C port.
Photos by Sean Hollister / The Verge