Author: Zach_Wilson
You will never guess Wordle’s terrible, hilarious original name
Wordle is a pretty clever name for the very good word game created by Josh Wardle. But when he was first working on it in 2013, Wardle had another name in mind that isn’t quite as catchy. “This is true: I was going to call Wordle, Mr. Bugs’ Wordy Nugz,”…
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Japan’s Olympic athletes will wear outfits designed to block infrared cameras
At the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, Le Monde reports that athletes on Japan’s volleyball, track and field, and other teams will be competing in outfits made from a new fabric that can better absorb infrared light. Similar to stealth aircraft that avoid detection by deflecting radar signals away from detectors,…
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An AI-designed horse purse is tearing apart this small but passionate community
It all started with a nylon purse shaped like a horse. Baggu, the wildly popular brand of reusable shopping bags, announced earlier this month that it would be releasing a collaborative collection with New York-based brand Collina Strada. In the past, special-edition designer drops have been successful for Baggu: a…
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Samsung is offering a $50 credit when you reserve the next Galaxy Z Flip or Z Fold
The reservation period runs through Wednesday, July 10th, and even if you reserve a preorder, you are not obligated to buy the new phones if you change your mind. Those who do, however, will get a $50 credit to use on Samsung’s site or in the Shop Samsung app (as…
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New Chrome mobile shortcuts let you call a restaurant from your address bar
Google has added new Chrome Actions to mobile that will let you call, read reviews for, or get directions to a restaurant or other business — all right from the address bar. The company announced the new feature in a blog on Wednesday. Android users will see this new feature right away,…
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Supercomputer-on-a-chip goes live: single PCIe card packs more than 6,000 RISC-V cores, with the ability to scale to more than 360,000 cores — but startup still remains elusive on pricing
InspireSemi has announced the successful tapeout of the Thunderbird I Accelerated Computing chip for fabrication at TSMC. This highly differentiated “supercomputer cluster-on-a-chip” features 1,536 custom 64-bit RISC-V CPU cores, tailored for high-level scientific computing and complex data processing. Thunderbird I is designed to cater to a wide array of compute-intensive…
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