October 11, 2026

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

NYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for August 19: Tips to solve Connections #695

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you know international sports. As we’ve shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.”

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

WIRED analyzed the software by examining code Flock served from its own login portals. Loading those pages returned a user interface for screens that would ordinarily appear only after a police user signed in, letting reporters reconstruct portions of the authenticated applications, their prompts, search fields, tools, and controls, without actual access. The files appeared

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Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform

For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and performance degradation and, as it drops the ball, Cursor is waiting to pick it up. The AI startup, which is now

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Get 50-Plus AI Models for Life in One Plan for $40

TL;DR: AskAnyModel gives you 50-plus AI models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini in one platform, and lifetime access is only $40. There is not yet a single AI model that can accomplish everything. That’s why so many teams are forced to pay for multiple AI subscriptions simultaneously, which is not a cost-effective solution. If you

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Get 6 hours of Claude and ChatGPT project management training for $20

TL;DR: Get six courses and six hours of Claude & ChatGPT project management training for $19.99 (reg. $97). Credit: ExpertEase Global AI is becoming another tool in the project manager’s toolbox, but knowing how to use it effectively is a different matter. The Claude & ChatGPT for Project Management Bundle focuses on practical workflows with

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Squeeze More Juice Out of Your Dead Batteries—Using Physics

You’re walking the dog at night, and your little flashlight, which has been getting dimmer, conks out. Instead of stumbling home in the dark, wouldn’t it be great if you could somehow eke a little more energy out of the batteries inside? That’s not as crazy as it sounds. When a battery-powered device stops working,

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DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs

The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm’s partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported. The nearly year-long investigation focuses specifically on the firm’s board seats at Databricks, which is valued at $190 billion, and Fivetran, which combined with dbt Labs in June. The firm’s co-founder, Ben

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An AI Store Manager Helped Fire a Human Worker

An AI store manager has recommended firing a human employee after repeated lateness — but the machine needed some managing of its own. Luna, an AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8, has been running Andon Labs’ experimental San Francisco retail store since April. After a worker arrived late for 17 of 23 shifts,

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Best Beats deals: Save on the Beats Fit Pro, Beats Studio Pro Premium, Powerbeats Pro 2, and more.

Best Beats deals at a glance Best Beats earbuds deal Beats Fit Pro $129.99 at Amazon (save $69.96) A new pair of headphones can feel like a hack for a fresh start. Strolling down the street or hopping onto the train with headphones or earbuds that sound way better than your previous pair offers a

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Can the Upcoming ‘Expanse’ Game Avoid ‘Mass Effect’s’ Biggest Mistake?

A main theme of the nine-book sci-fi series The Expanse is that sometimes you may never know the consequences of a choice you made. The universe, utterly indifferent black box that it is, “never tells us if we did right or wrong,” as the character Naomi Nagata puts it in The Expanse TV show. That’s

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