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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #1030) – hint #1 – Vowels

How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #1030) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 2.

Quordle today (game #1030) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• Yes. One of Q, Z, X or J appears among today’s Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #1030) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)

Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 2.

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #1030) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)

What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?

• N

• P

• P

• F

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #1030) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Quordle, game #1030, are…

NINJAPENCEPAINTFOIST

I very nearly failed for the second day in a row here, with the culprit this time being FOIST. Actually, the culprit was my brain, which should have spotted that FOIST, JOIST and MOIST were all valid answers to -OIST (with HOIST having been ruled out already), and that I should therefore have played something like JUMBO in order to rule out two of them. I didn’t, so wasted three guesses on getting that one right then had to solve the remainder with no room to spare.

Fortunately I did that today, and in fact guessing JOIST earlier gave me the J I needed for NINJA, arguably an even harder word, what with its repeated N, uncommon J and uncommon format. I will try harder tomorrow!

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Daily Sequence today (game #1030) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1030, are…

FILMYSWAMPDIVERPIXIE

Quordle answers: The past 20

Quordle #1029, Monday 18 November: ASCOT, BRINK, WEIRD, HOMERQuordle #1028, Sunday 17 November: STATE, BRAWN, SWORE, URBANQuordle #1027, Saturday 16 November: NOTCH, BENCH, BUSED, FOUNDQuordle #1026, Friday 15 November: PURER, TRUSS, TORCH, FORUMQuordle #1025, Thursday 14 November: EXALT, TASTE, CRONY, CLOUTQuordle #1024, Wednesday 13 November: YEARN, ELBOW, SURGE, PINEYQuordle #1023, Tuesday 12 November: CHORD, ATTIC, OLIVE, EIGHTQuordle #1022, Monday 11 November: COPSE, REGAL, GRUNT, GOODYQuordle #1021, Sunday 10 November: GROIN, FAULT, FERRY, SUITEQuordle #1020, Saturday 9 November: FLUME, THERE, ATOLL, SANERQuordle #1019, Friday 8 November: DELAY, NAVAL, MOLAR, SWARMQuordle #1018, Thursday 7 November: REPAY, SYNOD, LOATH, PITHYQuordle #1017, Wednesday 6 November: SASSY, DRUID, THREW, SLOSHQuordle #1016, Tuesday 5 November: BEGET, AMUSE, STONY, LOUSYQuordle #1015, Monday 4 November: CHILL, TACKY, GRAPH, PLAZAQuordle #1014, Sunday 3 November: QUIRK, HEART, ELBOW, KNOWNQuordle #1013, Saturday 2 November: SWUNG, FLOOR, PARER, CRUSTQuordle #1012, Friday 1 November: FIFTY, GULCH, RECUT, TWEETQuordle #1011, Thursday 31 October: TWINE, RIGID, BELCH, AMENDQuordle #1010, Wednesday 30 October: SLOOP, BRINE, BROOD, FLUID

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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues.

What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Wordle hints and answers, Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

NYT Connections today (game #527) – today’s words

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Today’s NYT Connections words are…

FOCUSFACEFIELDJEOPARDYRIBBONPINWHEELEARPASSWORDAGENTCONCENTRATIONFINGERPRINTSTANDARDELBOWSPECIALTYDRIBBLE

NYT Connections today (game #527) – hint #1 – group hints

What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?

Yellow: Thing you’re good atGreen: Security measureBlue: BOW is anotherPurple: [Twice] blank

Need more clues?

We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #527) – hint #2 – group answers

What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?

YELLOW: AREA OF EXPERTISEGREEN: WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICEBLUE: PASTA SHAPESPURPLE: DOUBLE ___

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #527) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Connections, game #527, are…

YELLOW: AREA OF EXPERTISE CONCENTRATION, FIELD, FOCUS, SPECIALTYGREEN: WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE FACE, FINGERPRINT, PASSWORD, PINBLUE: PASTA SHAPES EAR, ELBOW, RIBBON, WHEELPURPLE: DOUBLE ___ AGENT, DRIBBLE, JEOPARDY, STANDARD

My rating: ModerateMy score: Perfect

I managed a perfect score today, but it owed a huge amount to luck. Not on the first two groups, green and yellow in that order, which were both pretty simple. Green – WAYS TO UNLOCK A DEVICE – was particularly easy given that I’m a technology journalist when not writing this column, with FACE, FINGERPRINT, PASSWORD and PIN all rather obvious.

As is so often the case, I struggled with blue and purple. I had a hunch that WHEEL and EAR might go together with a vague food theme: EAR of corn and WHEEL of cheese, maybe? RIBBON felt like it could work for PASTA, while ELBOW… well, I wasn’t sure, but you get a knuckle of beef, so maybe there was an elbow somewhere. I guessed it without expecting it to be right, but to my amazement it was – and for nearly the right reason. I’d been on the correct path with pasta, because these were all PASTA SHAPES, which was obvious after the fact. Purple was a difficult ‘blank’ variety that I wouldn’t have got, due to not knowing what DOUBLE DRIBBLE means.

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Yesterday’s NYT Connections answers (Monday, 18 November, game #526)

YELLOW: USED IN HAIR CARE COMB, DRYER, HAIRSPRAY, ROLLERSGREEN: MONTHLY EXPENSES GAS, INTERNET, PHONE, RENTBLUE: THINGS WITH SPOTS DALMATIAN, DIE, DOMINO, LADYBUGPURPLE: ___ CRAB FIDDLER, HERMIT, HORSESHOE, SPIDER

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, including the spangram.

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #261) – hint #1 – today’s theme

What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?

• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Pick-ups

NYT Strands today (game #261) – hint #2 – clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

POORPOSTTICKFORTSNORTNEWS

NYT Strands today (game #261) – hint #3 – spangram

What is a hint for today’s spangram?

• Kitchen essentials

NYT Strands today (game #261) – hint #4 – spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?

First: left, 4th row

Last: right, 5th row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #261) – the answers

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The answers to today’s Strands, game #261, are…

KNIFETONGSFORKSPOONSKEWERSPORKCHOPSTICKSSPANGRAM: UTENSILS

My rating: EasyMy score: Perfect

This is about as easy as Strands get: I suspect a five-year-old knows most of this words and can probably spell half of them too. Bonus points for the NYT including SPORK as well as SPOON and FORK in order to make up the numbers; does anyone really use a SPORK? SKEWER is probably the only vaguely difficult word here, because it’s not something I’d expect to find in the company of the other UTENSILS here. Well, other than on a barbecue, but that’s a pretty rare thing round my way.

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Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Monday, 18 November, game #260)

ORCADOLPHINSEALMANATEEWALRUSNARWHALSPANGRAM: MARINEMAMMALS

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.

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AI-powered health coach from OpenAI and Thrive Global is not in great shape.

The AI health coach hyped up by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington earlier this summer as Thrive AI Health may not be ready to come off the bench just yet, as first found in what seems to be a brief and inadvertently released demo by TechCrunch. The health data tracker uncovered seems like a limited version of ChatGPT centered on sharing information gathered from your health wearables and leveraged to design workout routines.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s basically the same as a million other health apps, not to mention those services built into Apple and Android mobile devices. Personalizing (and misspelling) suggested prompts like “Can you analyze my sleep patterns?” and “What were my [sic] heart rate over the last week?” doesn’t come off as much of a revolution in personal health and wellness the way Thrive’s backers envisioned.

Huffington’s wellness technology firm Thrive Global and the OpenAI Startup Fund set up Thrive AI Health in the summer to eventually offer personalized health coaching with expert-level guidance. Altman and Huffington boasted in a shared op-ed that the AI choice could help reduce chronic diseases by promoting healthier daily behaviors.

The personal suggestions are supposedly created from peer-reviewed scientific research as well as biometric data. Thrive AI Health hired former Google product management leader DeCarlos Love as CEO, which made sense as he had overseen Fitbit, the Pixel Watch, and Wear OS.

Coach Crunch

“Thrive AI Health Coach is the product to solve the limitations of current AI and LLM-based solutions by providing personalized, proactive, and data-driven coaching across the five daily behaviors,” Love said in a statement when the company launched. “This is how it will improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and significantly impact chronic diseases worldwide.”

Since then, the company hasn’t said much about its plans, and the website doesn’t offer anything beyond a beta access signup sheet for those interested in trying out the AI coach. TechCrunch noted that the only recent mention of the company was when personal health management platform Function Health cited Thrive AI Health as part of a deal where members can share their data with the AI health coach for better advice.

Using AI to personalize health and wellness makes sense, but it may be harder to embed in a product than Altman and Huffington realized. If rumors that developers are struggling to make the next generation of AI models meet expectations are true, Thrive AI may not be as close to a full release as the founders hope.

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Chipmaker is hiring aggressively for roles spanning multiple divisions.

Recruitment drive would increase Graphcore’s headcount by 20%Announcement marks first big moves since SoftBank acquisitionRoles available in silicon design, software, and infrastructure

Graphcore has announced plans for a fresh hiring drive just months after its landmark acquisition by SoftBank.

The British AI chip manufacturer announced it has 75 open positions spanning a range of business functions, including silicon design, data center infrastructure management, hardware engineering, and AI research.

“Whether your expertise is in silicon, systems, software, AI research or any of the other functions that we are expanding, this is a chance to work at the leading-edge of your field,” said CEO Nigel Toon.

Graphcore hiring spree

The recruitment campaign represents a 20% increase in Graphcore’s overall workforce, and will include positions at all of its global offices.

The company currently has sites in Bristol, Cambridge, and London in the UK, along with offices in Gdansk, Poland, and Hsinchu City, Taiwan.

Graphcore was acquired by SoftBank in July 2024 in a deal described by Toon as a “tremendous endorsement” for the company. As part of the deal, the company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Japanese investment bank.

While financial terms of the acquisition were undisclosed, it’s believed the deal was valued at around $600 million, representing a significant markdown on its 2020 valuation of around $2.5 billion.

Toon described the deal as a “tremendous endorsement” for the company and said the acquisition is a “great outcome”.

What does the move say about Graphcore future plans?

In its announcement, Graphcore said the move builds on a pledge to “continue to invest in the creation of high-skilled jobs spanning a range of disciplines” in the wake of its acquisition.

The open positions do point toward its potential future plans, however, particularly with regard to chip design. Of the 75 roles Graphcore is recruiting for, 10 of these alone are in Silicon engineering design, suggesting the company plans to ramp up development of its next generation chip range.

Graphcore currently boasts three generations of silicon, with its most recent – the Bow Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) – released in 2022. The Bow IPU delivers up to 350 teraflops of AI compute, and boasts a 40% increase in performance and 16% power efficiency compared to the company’s previous generation IPU.

However, unlike other processors available on the market, Graphcore’s IPUs do not use High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology. Instead, they rely on internal SRAM.

Competitor chips do use HBM though, including Intel, AMD and Nvidia.

With a raft of positions available in its silicon design department, this begs the question of whether Graphcore could shake up its design to include HBM capabilities.

Similarly, advertised roles in its infrastructure solutions and software departments may also point toward a change of tack for Graphcore, perhaps with its focus on data center capabilities sharpening.

It wouldn’t be alone here, either. Nvidia offers its own software and infrastructure options for AI inferencing. This has been crucial in its rapid ascendance throughout the generative AI boom.

AMD has also focused heavily on its own data center segment in recent years to keep pace with Nvidia.

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Yellowjackets is being sued for copying its plot from a 2015 thriller movie that’s available to watch on Tubi.

Yellowjackets is being sued for copyright infringementShowtime has been accused of stealing the idea of Yellowjackets from a 2015 survival thriller EdenThe lawsuit alleges that Yellowjackets has ‘substantially, strikingly similar elements’ to Eden

If crashing planes and cannibalism weren’t enough, Yellowjackets is now being sued for copyright infringement. The best Paramount Plus show is accused of ripping off the 2015 survival thriller Eden.

With Yellowjackets season 3 set to air in 2025, Showtime has been hit with a lawsuit claiming the idea for Yellowjackets has been stolen from Shyam Madiraju’s Eden, which is available to stream on one of the best free streaming services, Tubi.

The copyright infringement lawsuit filed on November 14 in New York federal court alleges that Yellowstone “borrows heavily from Eden to the point at which they are substantially similar.”

According to Deadline, the complaint reads: “Comparing the Film to the Show’s plots, setting, mood, pace, stories, characters, sequence of events, themes, and scene/dialogue similarities, demonstrates that the two works, in most respects, are identical. These substantially, strikingly similar elements leave little doubt that most substantive elements of Yellowjackets are copied from Eden.”

How are Yellowjackets and Eden similar?

Both Yellowjackets and Eden follow a soccer team who start to display cult-like behavior and resort to cannibalism after crashing into a remote location. Yellowjackets is a time-hopping thriller about a 1996 New Jersey high school girls’ soccer team whose plane crashes into the Canadian wilderness. They are forced to make harrowing decisions to survive the harsh conditions and must grapple with these consequences in their present lives.

As for Eden, the plot is about a US men’s soccer team that crashes on a deserted island after a World Cup match. It’s not just the plot that’s similar, though, but also the setting, characters, mood, themes, and pacing.

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the complaint states: “In both works, the survivors, which include various players and the coach, among others, must fight for their lives against the harsh elements, starvation through dwindling resources, and the psychological toll of isolation in the form of growing darkness within themselves. As they struggle to survive, tensions rise, alliances form, dark secrets emerge, and moral boundaries are pushed to their limits – blurring the line between good and evil.”

When Yellowjackets debuted on Showtime in 2021, it became the cable channel’s biggest original series in years. With the lawsuit seeking an injunction prohibiting Showtime and the other defendants from further exploiting the series, this could be a major blow to the network if they lost the lawsuit.

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A threat actor seems to be impersonating a security researcher in an attempt to defame them.

Malicious commits found in Exo Labs’ GitHub accountThey were submitted, and pointed to, a Texas-based security researcherThe malware does not exist, and the researcher claims someone is impersonating him

Someone has been breaking into GitHub projects, injecting malicious code, and seemingly trying to discredit a researcher by accusing them of the hack.

Executives from AI and machine learning startup Exo Labs have warned someone tried to submit new changes to the code in the company’s GitHub repository.

The added code was “innocent looking”, and was titled “clarify mlx requirement for deepseek models”, and in order to hide the code from scrutiny, the attacker converted it to a number equivalent. However, the submission was analyzed before being pushed to the repository, and it was quickly discovered that it tried to connect to the evildojo[dot]com, to download the stage one payload. The researchers determined that there was no payload on the server and that it simply returned a 404 error.

Hidden Risk

Drilling deeper into the attack, the researchers discovered that the evildojo domain, as well as the GitHub accounts associated with the attack, all pointed to a researcher named Mike Bell – a security researcher and a white-hat hacker from Texas. He denies any involvement with the attack and claims it was all an attempt to ruin his good name.

“Not me, an impersonator. Notice account deleted. Very sorry people are being dragged into some skid’s beef w/ me,” BleepingComputer cited Bell saying about the attacks. “There was never any payload…why do people keep assuming there was?,” he added.

When questioned about the incident on X, Bell clarified that whoever was behind the attack never got access to his domain, never got the payload on his site, and that all Bell did was “piss someone off, apparently.”

Given that anyone can create a GitHub account impersonating someone else, and since there was no malicious payload or harm caused, the idea of a smear campaign seems plausible—especially since Bell is actively involved in the cybersecurity community, albeit from the opposing side.

Via BleepingComputer

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An AirTag 2 has long been rumored, and a new report is shedding light on what to expect, and suggesting that it’ll arrive in 2025.

A new report says to expect the AirTag 2 in 2025Apple is said to be focusing on improving privacy and connectivityDon’t expect any major design changes, though

Rumors of an Apple AirTag successor began to circulate shortly after the launch of the original. Considering that Apple’s original tracker has been around for nearly four years now, having been unveiled in May 2020, we’ve been hearing about the AirTag 2 for a while, and now a new report is shedding more light on what we can expect.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that a new AirTag, codenamed B589, is in development and that “Apple is getting ready to bring it to market,” likely by the middle of 2025. It’s likely not going to be a redesign, even though we all wish the AirTag had a loop for the easy attachment of keys, but it’s not all bad news.

The report notes that the AirTag 2 will “offer better range, bolster the onboard wireless chip, and improve privacy” compared to the first generation. Seemingly, Apple wants to make privacy front and center and continue to prevent unwanted tracking – the first generation already has additional security features. These features include alerts sent to your iPhone if an AirTag is spotted traveling with you and the ability to play a sound on it to find it.

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One change Apple is likely to implement in the AirTag 2 is making it more difficult to remove the speaker, making it harder for thieves to render it untraceable.

Beyond privacy improvements, Gurman notes that the next AirTag will get improvements to the overall range and the onboard chip. The latter is said to be “bolstered,” so that could mean a new chip or improvements to the current one.

Improved connectivity, improved finding, and more privacy features certainly sound like a winning feature set on paper. We also hope Apple sticks with a user-replaceable, standard battery that can last for a year, a water-resistant design, and easy pairing with the rest of its ecosystem. And, of course, we’re hoping there’s no hike from the current price of $29 / £29 / AU$45 for one AirTag.

Beyond the AirTag, Apple seems to be preparing to launch a number of new products in 2025 – we’re expecting a next-generation iPhone SE, a new entry-level iPad, and a new MacBook Air. Gurman also reported that Apple’s long-rumored smart home display might see the light of day.

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Netflix better up its game to handle Beyoncé at halftime

If you watched the Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul match on Netflix last week, you know disappointment. I don’t mean the fight. Sure, that was a snoozefest preceded by some truly compelling undercard fights. No, the disappointment was in Netflix, one of the best streaming services, which serves hundreds of millions of people every day but somehow succumbed to 65 million concurrent viewers with a deeply pixellated action, a frustrating spinning wheel, and sometimes no video service at all.

For those unaware, Netflix tried its hand at live sports last Friday, broadcasting a full card of pro-level fights over three hours and culminating in the highly anticipated bout between the 26-year-old Paul and the 58-year-old former champ Tyson. The fight went about how you would expect between someone in the prime of their youth and a boxer who retired almost 20 years ago. However, throughout the evening, Netflix became wildly unstable. I watched a good part of all the action and experienced numerous outages, as well as a fair amount of videos that looked like graphics from Mike Tyson’s 1987 PunchOut! game for NES. At times, the throughput devolved into dial-up at best.

I’m describing my experience, but I was far from alone. Social Media was flooded with reports, and site and service performance tracking service Downdetector reported tens of thousands of service issues. Reuters termed it an “outage.”

Netflix has yet to comment publicly on the performance issues, but it did tout the audience numbers, claiming that 60 million households tuned in for the Tyson vs. Paul match. Even some of the undercards, like the women’s boxing rematch between Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor, drew 50 million. I can confirm that the video performance on that compelling match was at least as bad as what I experienced in the title match.

It’s not a good look for a streaming platform that’s set to aggressively enter the live sporting event space with the WWE and the NFL. And it may be quite alarming for Beyoncé fans, which are legion.

The music icon just signed up to perform as the Christmas Day half-time show for Netflix’s first NFL game between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens.

A live football game on Christmas is sure to draw millions of viewers. It might not be Tyson vs. Paul levels, at least not until Beyoncé takes the stage. Many people who don’t care a whit about the pigskin sport will tune in to see Beyoncé’s first live performance of tunes from her Grammy-nominated country album, Cowboy Carter.

If Netflix thinks boxing fans are vocal, wait until they get an earful of the Beyhive.

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It’s possible, though, that Netflix learned a thing or two from the Tyson vs. Paul bout and is now shoring up its backbone in anticipation of this Dec. 25 mega event. Maybe, but without another comparable live event in between, how will Netflix test an upgraded system? As I see it, Netflix will be flying without a net.

If Netflix wants to avoid Beyonce and her fans’, it better pony up with some servers and as much backbone support as possible – maybe 16 Carriages worth – as it can muster. Netflix must understand this is not Just For Fun. It won’t be enough for Netflix to respond “Ya Ya” or play Texas Hold ‘Em with resources. No crying Alligator Tears that you couldn’t get it done. This isn’t your, Smoke Hour, Netflix. It’s essentially your Super Bowl, so do all you can so you can be Livin’ the Dream with Beyonce’ and her fans.

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Rumor has it that Google is bringing back its laptop hardware, which would please a lot of the plentiful Pixelbook fans out there.

Google might be resurrecting its Pixel laptop, a fresh rumor insists, getting plenty of hopes up with high-end Chromebook fans.

This comes from Android Headlines which cites an internal email that was leaked as mentioning Google’s new project for a premium laptop under the Pixel branding (which is now used for its smartphones and watches).

Way back in the mists of time, there used to be a Chromebook Pixel laptop, and the new version is apparently codenamed ‘Snowy.’ We aren’t told anything about it, though, save that it’s still in the early stages, and that Google intends it to be a rival for the likes of the MacBook Pro, Microsoft Surface Laptop and Dell XPS – a seriously premium effort by the sound of things.

The laptop will surely run ChromeOS, and likely be among our rankings of the best Chromebooks, if it does end up coming to fruition, although nothing is confirmed at this stage.

What we are told is that the project is greenlit and underway, so it’s progressing from the concept phase, and apparently a dedicated team has been formed to develop the laptop.

This is one to keep an eye out for future rumors around, certainly, though we need to take this report with a good deal of caution at this stage. We’ll be happier when we have the contention made here corroborated by other tech sites.

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Analysis: Pixel perfect? Here’s hoping

The original Chromebook Pixel was a gorgeous creation in some ways, but deeply flawed in others, when it came to light over a decade ago. Google switched to make the Pixelbook (and Pixelbook Go) towards the end of the decade, which were superb notebooks (the latter especially). However, sadly the whole laptop line-up came off the rails eventually, and indeed the whole team behind the Pixelbook was dissolved in 2022 – which seemed a pretty bold line drawn to close the entire affair.

Apparently, though, a team is now back together, and Google is rethinking the possibilities behind another Chromebook Pixel, or maybe even a Pixelbook if it keeps the more recent (and successful) branding.

We hope this is true, but at the same time, we’ve got to acknowledge that we’ve heard buzz from the rumor mill about a Chromebook Pixel resurrection in the past that resulted in nothing. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that this rumor is on the money, and Google’s development team manages to generate enough interest from the powers-that-be and various bean counters to allow new Pixel hardware to emerge in notebook form.

There’s no shortage of enthusiasm around a new Pixel laptop, that’s for sure, but hopefully as well as premium portables, there’ll be room for an affordable option in the mix, too. We’ll likely be in for a fair old wait for these creations to come to market, mind you.

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