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A new puzzle game, Strands, is being added to the New York Times lineup of word games, alongside Wordle and Connections. The objective of the game is to find words that all have something in common, along with a ‘spangram’ that describes what every word has in common and touches two opposite sides of the board. Players are able to connect letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally, along with being able to switch directions in the middle of a word, allowing for a greater variety of potential solutions. “What I saw…

Microsoft has filed a motion seeking to dismiss key parts of a lawsuit The New York Times filed against the company and Open AI, accusing them of copyright infringement. If you'll recall, The Times sued both companies for using its published articles to train their GPT large language models (LLMs) without permission and compensation. In its filing, the company has accused The Times of pushing "doomsday futurology" by claiming that AI technologies pose a threat to independent journalism. It follows OpenAI's court filing…

Broadband speeds are set to skyrocket for some nine million Australians, with NBN Co launching a proposal to make its most popular plan five-times faster at no extra cost amid an explosion in demand for data.In a move the company says is to meet unprecedented usage of high-definition streaming and remote work, NBN Co announced plans to raise its 100/20 Mbps Home Fast product to 500/50 Mbps and triple its Home Superfast product from 250/25 Mbps to 750/50 Mbps.NBN Co chief Stephen Rue. The company is in the midst of a…

Time crystals are a strange state of matter with properties that sound impossible, but they have been created. Now, German scientists have made one that lasts 10 million times longer than in previous experiments.If we wanted to make an everyday object sound sci-fi, it could be said that what we commonly call crystals are actually “space crystals.” Those things in your jewelry or just your salt shaker get their shape thanks to their atoms arranging themselves in a pattern that repeats across space.But since space and time…

DC's former adult-oriented Vertigo imprint didn't shy away from featuring nudity, as some of its most popular titles often featured characters wearing little to no clothes. For example, in "Sandman" #40 (by Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Vince Locke, Daniel Vozzo, and Todd Klein), the story of Adam's Three Wives is told, with the art showing a fully nude Lillith, a barely covered-up Nameless One, and a fully clothed Eve. Meanwhile, Lucifer Morningstar can be seen naked in the comic, although the sexless…

Don’t you ever wish that people would look at you like they do at their food before partaking in the necessity that is sustenance? Well, even if you do end up pulling that off somehow, beware, as there is food that goes above and beyond to make itself stand out and become what the internet calls a unit.Scroll down to see if you can win people's attention against these foods of epic, extra or enchanting proportions. Sure, you can joke about things like huge foods becoming sentient and going to the gym 8 days a…

Most Superior Court judges are appointed by the governor when incumbents retire or otherwise leave their judicial offices. But voters are asked to step in every two years for various reasons, such as when judgeships open up in the few months before an election or when a challenger tries to unseat a sitting judge.This year there are 10 Los Angeles County Superior Court offices on the ballot, of which eight are open seats. The Times previously offered its recommendations in the two challenges to incumbent judges. For the…

As the new year dawned, I recalled what a friend, John, had mentioned a few years ago. You could walk, he’d said, all the way from Bandra to Versova. This, by road, is around 11 kilometres, a good 45 minutes in peak traffic. It is quite a journey in logistical and aspirational terms. In my coastal home town, Mumbai, you hang out at the seashore. The sea is part of your existence if you live anywhere within whiffing distance of it. The idea that you could commute on foot as a novelty awakened in me a primal urge to…

Get ready for a joy ride through the coolest Photoshop Battles of 2023! Imagine a place where creative people join forces to turn regular photos into mind-blowing, funny, and super-creative masterpieces. Out of all the cool stuff people made, the r/photoshopbattles subreddit picked the top 15 images. It's like the Oscars of funny photo editing!As a big community boasting 19 million members, this subreddit warmly invites people to engage in entertaining battles. Here, you can unleash your creativity, playing with images…

If you think about it, the screenshot folders on our phones are full of the most miscellaneous and random things, from the recipes we tried to cook to the inspirational quotes we saved when feeling blue to memes we’ve laughed way too much at. Some of them were taken so long ago that it’s sometimes hard to understand them without any additional information.The Facebook page “Screenshots With or Without Context” is essentially that, but for the entirety of the internet. From ingenious X posts to absurd text messages from…