If you’re comparing the photos of the Audeo Infinio Ultra Sphere—Phonak’s most powerful hearing aid to date—to the product’s name, you’re not crazy: It’s not the slightest bit round. Rather, it’s a traditional, teardrop-shaped, behind-the-ear hearing aid that takes its name from Phonak’s new Spheric Speech Clarity 2.0 system,... Read more

The industry consensus is that 2026 will be the year of "agentic AI." We are rapidly moving past chatbots that simply summarize text. We are entering the era of autonomous agents that execute tasks. We expect them to book flights, diagnose system outages, manage cloud infrastructure and personalize media... Read more

Stake has officially been named as the ‘Executive Online Casino and Sports Betting Partner’ of the X Games League (XGL) ahead of the team-based league for action sports to be launched. “As the X Games continues to push the boundaries of progression, this partnership leverages Stake’s position as the... 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 is a fun one. Even the purple category, which requires you to... Read more

With the marshals under attack, Kennedy deployed first the Mississippi National Guard and then thousands of federal troops as well. (That military operation, codenamed RAPID ROAD, was actually the first and only time during the Cold War that the military activated and used plans it had developed to quell... Read more

A new bill has been filed in Tennessee by Rep. Scott Cepicky, which targets online sweepstakes casinos and could see some categorized as being unlawful in the Volunteer State. The House Bill 1885 opens by suggesting there is a “growing presence in Tennessee of illegal online sweepstakes casinos and... Read more

The Super Bowl is in two weeks, and if you also enjoy sporting events with tail-wagging, toy-tugging and miniature limbs, you can watch good boys and girls face off in the 22nd Puppy Bowl. Puppy Bowl XXII will showcase 150 pooches from 72 shelters — the biggest canine cohort... Read more

They intuited that molecules near the surface behave differently from those deep within the ice. Ice is a crystal, which means each water molecule is locked into a periodic lattice. However, at the surface, the water molecules have fewer neighbors to bond with and therefore have more freedom of... Read more

The Social Gaming Leadership Alliance (SGLA) has issued a statement, following the Indiana House Public Policy Committee’s vote on HB 1052, which saw the sweepstakes-focused bill advancing. On January 22, HB 1052, which would see sweepstakes gaming banned in Indiana, received a 10-0 vote during a House Public Policy... 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? It might help to be a Scrabble player. Read... Read more