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Looking for a different day?A new NYT Connections 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 Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, January 2 (game #936).Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve…

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India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool. On Friday, India’s IT ministry issued the order directing Musk’s X to take corrective action on Grok, including restricting the generation of content involving “nudity, sexualization, sexually explicit, or otherwise unlawful” material. The ministry also gave the social media platform 72 hours to submit an action-taken report detailing the steps it has taken to prevent the hosting or dissemination of content deemed “obscene,…

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What you need to knowRumors suggest the OnePlus 16 will ditch the current 50MP zoom for a massive 200MP sensor, likely a periscope telephoto lens.The new camera hardware is reportedly shared with the unreleased OPPO Find N6 foldable.Compared to the OnePlus 15’s 50MP telephoto, a 200MP setup would allow sharper crops, stronger zoom, and better low-light results.For the past few generations, OnePlus has made fast, polished flagship phones with great performance and charging speeds, but their cameras have often lagged behind. The OnePlus 15 series was good overall, but many fans still wanted a camera that felt truly top-tier. The…

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If you’ve been waiting for a PS5 price that feels straightforward and worth jumping on, this is it. The PlayStation 5 Digital Edition 825GB (Fortnite Flowering Chaos Bundle) is down to $399.99 (was $499.99)saving you $100. And here’s the key point: this is a genuinely good deal even if you don’t care about Fortnite. The bundle bonus is nice if you’ll use it, but the real win is getting a PS5 Digital for $399.99, which is the kind of price that makes the console feel less like a luxury purchase and more like a smart buy. What you’re getting You’re…

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Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction Twitter would take, millions of users hopped over to Mastodon, a fellow microblogging site. As time went on, users would also try out Bluesky, or Instagram’s Threads app — but because Mastodon was founded in 2016, it had years to develop its own identity as more than just an alternate Twitter. What is Mastodon? Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German…

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Marc McLarenGlobal Editor-in-ChiefSo farewell, 2025 – you were frequently exciting, regularly chaotic, occasionally frustrating but always interesting. And that’s how we like it around here.It was a year in which often fairly iterative improvements to hardware were overshadowed by rapid and significant advances on the computing side of things. I’m talking, of course, about AI, which is now so dominant within the tech world that it’s increasingly hard to find a device that doesn’t have an AI brain.Not that I’m complaining, because the leaps made in 2025 by the likes of OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Gemini were truly astonishing; the…

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Happy new year, or almost new year, or just… whatever time it is when you’re reading this. For me, it’s the very tail end of 2025, and what better time to take a look ahead at some of the games coming out in the new year? Here are 2026’s biggest game releasesBefore we get into it, just a heads up that this is by no means a 100% comprehensive guide to all the games coming out in 2026, as many of those haven’t even been announced yet. Also, as always, release dates are subject to change – I made something…

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Back in May, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s startup io (yes that’s really how it’s spelled), part of his LoveFrom creative design company. io was working on a secretive hardware product, and now a new rumor tells us what it is. A pen. Obviously, this will be no ordinary pen. A past report described it as “contextually aware”, and io is now part of OpenAI, so this will definitely be an AI pen. What will it do? Your guess is as good as ours. Interestingly, this will be just the first hardware product from OpenAI, but the company is working on…

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