Month: August 2026
NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #882)
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers…
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Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: “That’s real money… That kind of money wasn’t even put in the railroad business” — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
AI demands a huge amount of energy, water, compute, and, of course, money. Big tech companies, including Google and Meta, have pledged huge sums of money toward the capital expenditure (capex) to continue the push to more powerful AI. But many inventors feel increasingly wary that this spending is simply…
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Pixel 11 specs and price leak with no surprises
Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically lines up with everything else that we’ve heard in the lead-up to the August 12th event. The Pixel 11 is expected to get a $100 price hike, starting at $899,…
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Ukraine will mass-produce Stone Cloak EW tech after the UK allows Kyiv to build a tablet-sized device
Ukraine receives rights to produce Britain’s Stone Cloak electronic warfare system Tablet-sized device helps Ukraine counter growing Russian drone operations Stone Cloak expands Ukraine’s electronic warfare capabilities against unmanned threats Ukraine is receiving access to the intellectual property behind the UK-developed Stone Cloak electronic warfare system. The tablet-sized device is…
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Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh
Angela Nissel’s latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it’s a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it’s delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times.…
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A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them
ISBNdb ships up to a million books anonymously to AI labs Pre-2022 books are prized because chatbots never touched their text Spine-cutting scanners destroy originals to speed up digitization for training AI companies are increasingly turning to printed books published before 2022 as preferred training material because those works predate…
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