Month: January 2025
NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Sunday, January 12 (game #581)
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 Strands…
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Quordle today – my hints and answers for Sunday, January 12 (game #1084)
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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Say hello to HaLow: Wi-Fi routers that can send 250Mbps across 10 miles (yes, 10 miles) have been demoed at CES 2025 and I’m very excited
At CES 2025, Morse Micro presented a working demo of a HaLow router that can deliver data at up to 250Mbps in a 10-mile radius TechRadar first covered HaLow back in 2016, but the technology is only just maturing HaLow’s long range without the need for a repeater could be…
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Our unofficial, silly and meaningless CES 2025 awards, just for fun
CES (formerly the Consumer Electronics Show) is the biggest tech convention of the year. It helps set the stage for all the wonderful gadgets we’re going to see over the next 12 months. However, among all the quadcopters, questionably benevolent robots and devices with fancy flexible screens, there’s a lot…
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How Watch Duty’s wildfire tracking app became a crucial lifeline for LA
If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably already intimately familiar with Watch Duty, the free app that shows active fires, mandatory evacuation zones, air quality indexes, wind direction, and a wealth of other information that everyone, from firefighters to regular people, have come to rely on during this…
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I can’t wait to test the world’s first 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD, and I’m sure this one won’t be too expensive
Teamgroup’s 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD will be the first of its kind to hit the market The T-Force GE Pro won’t top the best PCIe 5.0 SSD but should be fast enough for most use cases Samsung, XPG and Crucial have demoed 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSDs but none have gone…
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