Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Nice one, New York Times. That purple category for today’s Connections: Sports Edition is pretty tricky. I’ll admit, I didn’t solve this one correctly! Stuck […]
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Contrary to common belief, resting meat isn’t really about retaining juices, but that doesn’t mean it’s pointless. Instead, it’s best understood as a temperature-control method for managing carryover cooking. To use it effectively, though, you have to completely rethink how the technique works and how to apply it. Is dark matter real? How do consciousness
The Trump administration wants its AI technology to be considered an industry leader both on home soil and abroad. But it also doesn’t want the U.S.’s AI prowess to empower or embolden a foreign adversary. That’s quite the balance to strike. If President Trump’s AI Action Plan, which was released on Wednesday, is any indicator,
“Dark Lord’s answer” is a light novel (~1h read) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. It includes some fantastic explanations of some basic economics, which I think everyone should understand. I’ve copied the relevant excerpts (which include only minor spoilers) in the excerpts section below. I think these (especially the second) excerpts are still very worth reading even
Perplexity has introduced Comet, a new web browser designed to integrate natural language interaction directly into the browsing experience. Unlike conventional browsers built around navigation and search, Comet aims to support users in research, comparison, and task execution by combining browsing with persistent context and AI assistance. The browser includes a built-in assistant that remains
Elon Musk’s DOGE minions have largely moved out of the General Services Administration. A dystopian scene of bedding and discarded kids’ toys remains.
With a new tool built into DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused search engine, you can hide AI-generated images from your search results, which could help ensure you see fewer misleading or fake photos. The filter isn’t on by default, though, so you have to enable it. Here’s how. 1. Go to duckduckgo.com.2. Search for an image, something like “baby
David Merron Photography / Getty Images DNS stands for Domain Name System, and is like the phonebook for the internet. It translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses, so browsers know how to render a specific website. Without DNS, you’d have to remember and type IP addresses instead of URLs, and that’s not exactly practical.
The Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to MEO on July 22, at 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT) with two SES communication satellites — O3b mPOWER 9 and 10. About 8.5 minutes after launch, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth, landing gently on the droneship “Just Read the Instructions”
Every platform team has a war story about a tool they spent months building that ended up underused, misunderstood, or abandoned. Not because it was poorly engineered, but because it didn’t fit naturally into how product developers worked or because it solved a problem no one really had. I’ve seen this happen more than once.
