Month: January 2025

NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Monday, January 13 (game #316)

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 NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints…

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Quordle today – my hints and answers for Monday, January 13 (game #1085)

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…

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The obsession with huge in-car screens has to stop – nobody needs that much information when behind the wheel

Anyone who has attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) over recent years will have spotted that major automotive players have been muscling in on consumer tech turf. Autonomous driving, AI-powered voice assistants and masses of high-definition touchscreen displays have been employed to snare column inches and take over TikTok feeds.…

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Could this be Lenovo’s first NAS? A proof of concept for network-attached storage has emerged, featuring two Type-C connectors and a dedicated Ethernet port

Lenovo presented a 3.5-inch mock-up of an ‘AI storage device’, which could be a portable SSD, a NAS, or something new Not a product announcement, but a proof of concept But presence of a red ring on one of the ports may indicate that it will be a ThinkStorage product…

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What does Mark Zuckerberg want from Donald Trump?

At this point, it’s pretty clear what Donald Trump wants from Mark Zuckerberg. But what does Zuckerberg, who has now gone to Mar-a-Lago twice since the November election, want from the President-elect? That’s the question I’ve been asking sources in and around Meta over the last several days. They all…

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The rise of RISC: 2025 will be the year of the first quasi-mainstream RISC-V laptop as confirmed by the CEO of Framework but I don’t think it will be ready for primetime

Modular laptop vendor Framework said it will launch a RISC-V product in 2025 RISC-V is the equivalent of Linux for hardware, open source and free More tech companies are adopting but it has yet to hit mainstream in a meaningful way RISC-V, an open source ISA developed at the University…

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