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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 Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, October 4 (game #580).Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today…

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Artificial intelligence has reached a milestone in professional finance. According to a CNBC report, a new study conducted by research led by Shilpi Nayak, Co-Founder & CTO of Goodfin and NYU Stern School of Business, has shown that advanced AI models can now pass the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level III exam, often regarded as one of the hardest tests in finance.For humans, the CFA journey typically requires over 1,000 hours of study across several years. But researchers found that leading large language models (LLMs), including o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Opus. successfully cleared Level III mock exams in…

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After the success of OpenAI’s video editing app Sora, now at the top of the U.S. App Store, Google may be looking to give its Gemini AI app a more visually focused revamp. The company is seemingly experimenting with a new user interface that would shift the app from having a chatbot-style look and feel to one offering a scrollable feed with suggested prompts accompanied by eye-catching photos. The changes were spotted in a recent version of the Gemini Android app by the news site Android Authority, but are not yet live to the public. Instead, by looking into the…

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I have not played the entirety of the Battlefield 6 single-player campaign yet, but I played enough to have a solid guess as to what the high-level goals for it were. It wasn’t until I got a chance to speak to some of the people behind it that my suspicions were validated. It’s also very easy to guess that some of the same people who get excited about playing the campaign mode in yearly Call of Duty releases likely won’t be moved by what Battlefield 6 is offering there, and perhaps that’s fine. After playing three missions of the Battlefield…

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What you need to knowA publication contacted ADT about Google’s recent Gemini for Home reveal, and it stated that an “evaluation” needs to take place.ADT is reportedly taking a hard look at how Gemini will fair amongst its security ecosystem before rolling it out to consumers at a “later date.”ADT and Google partnered before for a DIY home security kit for homeowners, bringing in ADT SMART and more.Google revealed Gemini for Home this week, announcing a new wave of stronger video capabilities for cameras/doorbells and the new Home Speaker.After the Gemini for Google Home announcements, ADT has reportedly started looking…

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The Energizer brand is all about long-lasting power, and that has clearly figured into the design of a series of Energizer EnergyBook laptops that have been announced by French design company Avenir Telecom.Avenir has been making cellphones, chargers and cables with the Energizer brand. Now its first foray into laptops includes batteries that have so much power they’re not likely to be allowed on many flights.The company  hasn’t yet released pricing or even weight information on the laptops, but it says that largest of its three laptops, the EnergyBook Pro Ultra, has a four-cell 13,000 mAh/192Wh battery that can offer…

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Apple is, for many, synonymous with technological excellence. It might not always be first to market with a brand new consumer product, but when its version drops it’s unbeatable. Nowhere is that less true, however, than with the Vision Pro.Beautiful yet uncomfortable, powerful yet lacking in software to really take advantage of it, packed with interesting features that bloat the price to an absurd $3,499 / £3,499 / AU$5,999. It impressed at launch but long-term users came to realize it was not the Apple product of tomorrow many hoped it might be.Apple dropped the ball, and while there have been…

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Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier this week, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as Chief Architect. As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company’s product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams. As CTO, Patil will oversee compute, infrastructure, inference, and a variety of other engineering tasks. In the chief architect role, McCandlish will work on pre-training and large-scale model training, extending much of his previous work.…

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