Tag: computing
NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, June 16 (game #470)
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 Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers…
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Mac gaming just leveled up – Steam finally runs natively on Apple silicon
The latest Steam beta runs natively on Apple silicon Apple is retiring the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer Games should run more smoothly and more efficiently Following WWDC 2025, we’ve had a flurry of Apple announcements this week, including the news that macOS Tahoe 26 will be the last version to…
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Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, June 15 (game #1238)
Looking for a different day? A new Quordle 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: Quordle hints and answers for Saturday,…
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Would you buy your child a ChatGPT‑powered Barbie? I’m queasy at the prospect of a real‑life Small Soldiers scenario
Mattel is partnering with OpenAI to build AI‑powered toys, which might lead to some amazing fun, but also sounds like the premise for a million stories of things going wrong. To be clear, I don’t think AI is going to end the world. I’ve used ChatGPT in a million ways,…
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OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature, and I find it makes working way more efficient
OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s Projects feature to remember past chats, tone preferences, and files Projects now offers deep research, voice mode, mobile file uploads, and more OpenAI wants Projects to function more like smart workspaces than one-off chats ChatGPT’s Projects feature has been a useful way to organize conversations with…
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I tried Portraits: Google’s new way of turning real-life experts into your own personal AI life coach
Google’s new Portraits experiment lets users chat with AI avatars modeled on real experts. The project’s first Portrait is Radical Candor author Kim Scott. The avatar delivers advice based on Scott’s actual content and was developed with her direct involvement. Google is testing out a tool to connect people with…
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