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…
The M4 also gives the MacBook Air its AI boost with Apple Intelligence. The 38 TOPS of local AI processing through the faster 16-core Neural Engine makes the M4 MacBook Air closer to the 48 TOPS on Intel’s Lunar Lake chips and 45 TOPS of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips. This is difficult to judge, because…
Meta is reportedly testing an in-house chip for training AI systems, a part of a strategy to reduce its reliance on hardware makers like Nvidia. According to Reuters, Meta’s chip, which is designed to handle AI-specific workloads, was manufactured in partnership with Taiwan-based firm TSMC. The company is piloting a “small deployment” of the chip…
The tech sector faced a significant setback on Monday, March 10, 2025, as the so-called “Magnificent 7” – Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Tesla, NVIDIA, Meta, and Amazon – contributed to a sweeping stock market decline. Stock prices overview: A Monday washout for tech According to an article from Yahoo Finance, shares of NVIDIA, Tesla, Alphabet, Amazon,…
Many interactive installations at the annual XR Experience at SXSW offer a mix of the experimental and the emotional. But in 2025, few offer a wilder ride on these two tracks than Traces: The Grief Processor, an interactive VR installation from Vali Fugulin and Couzin Films. Unlike many XR Experience projects that lean into spectacle,…
The phenomenon is known as immune amnesia, and it can leave people vulnerable to other infections for several weeks to months. Research has shown that it can take two to three years after a measles infection for protective immunity to fully return. “The measles virus is strongly immunosuppressive, meaning that it will interfere with the…
President Donald Trump said he will label violence against Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, per a transcript shared by the White House pool reporters, a sign of deepening ties with Elon Musk. “Tesla Takeovers” have been breaking out across the globe at Tesla dealerships as people protest what they see as a hostile takeover of…
Image: John Gress Media Inc, Shutterstock / John Gress Media Inc The next generation of Apple operating systems is set to receive a serious overhaul. Apple’s iOS 19, iPadOS 19, and macOS 16 will adopt a design more closely aligned with visionOS, featuring updates to icons, menus, apps, windows, and system buttons, according to sources…
Hacks‘ Emmy-winning third season ended with everyone getting what they wanted. SEE ALSO: 2025 TV preview: All the TV shows you need to know, and where to stream them Comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) became the new host of Late Night, a dream gig she’d once given up on, with her protégé-slash-punching bag Ava Daniels…
It’s time for spring cleaning, and if you’re currently looking at dirty floors, you might consider offloading some of that work to a robot. Our favorite robot vacuum and mop is currently on sale for $500, a full $300 off its normal list price, the lowest price yet for this relatively new and well-equipped device….
