Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a super tough one. Remember, sometimes names are regular nouns, and vice versa. If... Read more

Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several... Read more

DraftKings and ESPN made their new agreement public on Thursday (November 6) as the broadcaster replaced PENN Entertainment with DraftKings as the exclusive ‘Official Sportsbook and Odds Provider.’ The partnership means fans will be able to use betting features and gain access to offerings, including DraftKings’ sportsbook, daily fantasy,... Read more

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? There’s a tasty dessert hidden in the circled letters.... Read more

There’s something invisible that can put us in an early grave. And I’m not talking about sentient AI, but something much more ubiquitous and real. While AI doomers predict the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity, air pollution—specifically, ultrafine particulate matter, PM 2.5—has been an efficient killer... Read more

Companies hate to admit it, but the road to production-level AI deployment is littered with proof of concepts (PoCs) that go nowhere, or failed projects that never deliver on their goals. In certain domains, there’s little tolerance for iteration, especially in something like life sciences, when the AI application... Read more

Australian gaming giant VGW has confirmed that it plans to wind down its sweepstakes-style Promotional Play options in West Virginia later this year. This comes as it already wound down some of its sweepstakes operations in New York and New Jersey. The company, known for Chumba Casino, LuckyLand Slots,... Read more

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has a difficult purple category. I have to wonder how many people... Read more

The duo kept their program running in the background for over a decade. During that time, a couple of computers from their ragtag collection succumbed to overheating and even flames. “There was one that actually sent out sparks,” Brittenham said. “That was kind of fun.” (Those machines, he added,... Read more

Two casinos based in Fort Myers, Florida, were raided on Wednesday in a joint police affair that saw 134 slot machines and “over $22,000” seized. The two businesses, Royal Arcade and Spinners Arcade, were operating machines that are illegal within the state of Florida. Royal Arcade lost 72 machines,... Read more