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- May 5
- May 4
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- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #1562)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #1059)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #793)
- Micron CEO warns 'AI is in very early innings' and it will 'need more memory' — another ominous sign the RAM crisis isn't going anywhere
- 'Help cattle producers hold onto their land and livelihoods': This first-of-its-kind solar ranch in Tennessee uses ingenious sensors to shelter cattle and cut carbon emissions — and it could help to offset $1 billion of US agriculture declines
- Microsoft continues the good work on Windows 11, with tweaks to 'quiet' ads — and that big taskbar change is 'coming soon'
- 'Flaws identified in the B-21 configuration': Chinese scientists claim their mysterious PADJ-X stealth design software exposed major weaknesses in the USAF’s B-21 Raider program using digital twins
- Gen Z hate AI? The Musk vs Altman trial heats up, OpenAI phone rumors buzz and more of the week’s most surprising developments
- What is the release date for Half Man episode 3 on HBO Max and BBC iPlayer?
- Forget GPUs — China unveils 2 ExaFLOPS supercomputer using only CPUs, packing 47,000 processors into 92 compute cabinets as it looks to supersede the US once again
- The equatorial Luna Ring is the brainchild of a billion-dollar Japanese engineering conglomerate whose visionary team dreams of billions of megawatts of electricity generated by solar panel clusters the size of Texas and California put together
- What is the release date for The Boys season 5 episode 6 on Prime Video?
- China says it is illegal for companies to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
- Secretlab is marking Star Wars Day with the release of a new Mandalorian-themed chair
- OpenAI is making ChatGPT accounts much more secure – including some literal physical security keys
- What is the release date for Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 8 on Disney+?
- Employees are now more dangerous to their company than external hackers
- 'The inbox is no longer the only front line': Report claims vast majority of phishing attacks are now generated by AI - here's how to stay safe
- Android Auto is apparently prepping home screen widgets, and I'll be installing them immediately
- Pentagon staff embracing vibe coding as military personnel deploy over 20,000 AI agents per week since launch — autonomous tools handling 25,000 sessions per day on average to improve efficiency by eliminating "boring" staff work and manual data entry
- Ask Jeeves quietly shuts down after nearly three decades, after pioneering conversational web search long before ChatGPT and Gemini
- 'Humans will do high-touch, empathetic, clinical judgment-type work, but AI will create the capacity right now': Google's future for healthcare has AI for both the clinician and the patient
- NymVPN's new 'Pay as You Go' option ditches accounts and subscriptions for true anonymity
- The 7 small changes to your routine that make your hair look instantly healthier — without expensive hairdryers or styling tools
- Amnezia VPN rolls out major bug fixes, a crucial security patch, and new features in latest app update
- Norton VPN enters the AI agent space with 'first truly AI native' VPN for agents
- May 3
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- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #1561)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #1058)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #792)
- The biggest surprise of my recent San Francisco trip? Hearing how much Steve Wozniak loves his iPhone Air
- 'Unprecedented drought conditions': More than 500 data centers across Nevada, California, and Arizona could feel the pinch as the iconic Hoover Dam potentially loses 40% of its power output because of poor rainfall and abnormally low snowpack numbers
- The US just found millions of tons of lithium in Appalachia, enough for 500 billion cellphones — and experts say it could power the next century of American tech and weaken China's grip on batteries
- 'A dream technology': Japanese scientists might have unlocked the next generation of solar panels that stay cooler and last longer thanks to "spin-flip" material that achieves 130% energy conversion efficiency — and here's how it works
- 'No single vendor can (or should) dictate the full solution' — AMD positions itself as the open platform champion in the space race in a veiled dig at its arch-rivals and up-and-coming challengers
- What is the release date for The Testaments episode 7 on Hulu and Disney+?
- Man Utd vs Liverpool Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world
- 'The only worry is for your budget': Microsoft briefly says 32GB of RAM is the 'no worries' level for gaming on Windows 11, but users fear getting priced out
- How to watch Murphy vs Wu for FREE: Live stream World Snooker Championship 2026 Final from anywhere
- May 2
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- Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #1560)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #791)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #1057)
- 'We’re not selling and we’re not giving way': Lone farmer defeats Tennessee's TVA as US electricity giant grapples with exploding demand from AI-fuelled data centers from Google and Elon Musk's xAI, encouraged by slow legislature
- 'It took 9 seconds': tech founder outlines how rogue Claude-powered AI tool wiped entire company database and backups
- How to watch Kentucky Derby 2026: live stream horse racing online from anywhere
- 'Build AI that can accurately represent the full complexity of biology': Mark Zuckerberg wants to cure all diseases but needs far more data to deliver a digital twin of human cells—As genetic data becomes the next frontier, will you trust him with yours?
- 'The potential to make existing infrastructure produce more output is what makes space solar worth investing in now': Meta wants to power its future data centers with solar energy beamed from space — meaning solar plants can operate even at night-time
- How to watch Miami Grand Prix 2026 F1: Live Stream, Preview, Schedule, Starting Grid, Antonelli on pole as Sunday's race time brought forward
- Film fans, assemble! Vote in TechRadar's blockbuster movie season poll to tell us which one you're most excited to see in mid-2026
- Some good news for Elon Musk: FCC ruling means 'faster speeds, lower costs, and greater reliability' for SpaceX Starlink and other satellites
- This free WordPress tool could save businesses billions every year by slashing the AI tokens needed to read the web — saving enough electricity to power the entire USA for 24 hours
- 'No viewfinder, no deal' — why Nikon's new rumored full-frame compact is already dividing fans
- Mayor of Kingstown season 5 — everything we know so far about the hit Taylor Sheridan show's final series
- 'That is why it is important to have full control': Dutch government launches its own self-hosted GitHub alternative in the latest blast against US tech giants such as Microsoft
- Brentford vs West Ham FREE Live Streams: How to watch Premier League 2025/26 from anywhere in the world
- How to watch Leinster vs Toulon: Free Streams & TV Channels for 2025/26 Investec Champions Cup semi-final
- 'Light years ahead of the rest of the world': China shows off the future of EV batteries at the Beijing Auto Show — as CATL and BYD race to cut charging times down to just five minutes
- ICYMI: the 8 biggest tech stories of the week, from new Moto foldables to electric air taxis
- How to watch Naoya Inoue vs Junto Nakatani: live stream boxing online, preview, ringwalks, fight card
- May 1
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- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #1559)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #1056)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #790)
- 'Beyond the financial risk, there are real public safety implications': Hackers crawled Canadian streets with SMS blasters, attacking every target in sight — causing 13 million network disruptions and hacking thousands of devices
- Apple’s Mac mini now has a higher starting price, as it discontinues the entry-level model and slides down to the mid-range
- 'Tens of millions of Graviton cores': AWS scores huge coup as Meta 'buys' hundreds of thousands of CPUs and infrastructure, confirming Jeff Bezos' hyperscaler as the essential backbone of the agentic AI Era in a major blow to AMD and Intel ambitions
- Definitely not your usual EV: China begins sea trial for world's largest electric ship — Ning Yuan Dian Kun is longer than a football field, weighs 10,000 tons, and uses 10 container batteries with a total 19MWh capacity
- Redditor builds a PC inside an old CRT monitor — it looks like an ancient iMac, but runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 100fps in 1440p
- 'Exactly one photon': European scientists have built the first block of a truly unhackable global quantum internet that can run on existing fiber networks — breaking what was once thought to be an impossible barrier to transmit identical light particles
- Rocket League has a new Easy Anti-Cheat addition, and it still works on the Steam Deck — it's about time for other game Devs to follow suit
- Russia orders Apple and Google to remove Important Stories, an investigative media app that works without a VPN — leaving Russians without a key source for accessing uncensored news
- 'Your duty is not yet done' — Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is so popular that it's getting another year of content
- This is not a drill: Terry Crews has come to Call of Duty
- QR code phishing surges 146% as Microsoft detects and analyzes 8.3 billion phishing threats in Q1 2026 – attackers are changing tactics to bypass security
- Finally, Windows 11 desktop PC users can enjoy Xbox Mode — and Microsoft has a new gift for Ally X users
- Free-to-play mobile game The Division Resurgence is launching on PC in August as Ubisoft shares new roadmap details, but you can play it right now
- Someone found a Chinese retailer selling super-cheap CRT TVs, but don't get too excited, retro gaming fans — every new piece of information about them seems to reveal more mysteries
- FBI says hackers are making millions from stolen cargo - losses 'surged' to nearly $725 million in 2025
- Apple is overhauling its Photos app with AI — because it has to
- Error in Medicare database exposes US healthcare providers Social Security numbers – Trump administration directory designed to modernize Medicare encounters another setback
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (May 1)
- Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools — but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students is ‘not good role modeling at all’
- 'Straight out of a fairyland' — winner of the 11th DJI and SkyPixel photo and video contest stunned judges with 'unique and otherworldly landscape' to bag the grand prize in the $200,000 pot, and it was captured with a Mavic 3 Pro
- Zuckerberg blames Meta layoffs on AI costs, says “compute and infrastructure” and “people oriented things” are biggest financial drain right now
- 4 of the best Star Wars movies just dropped on a big Disney+ rival ahead of Star Wars Day 2026 — and one is rated higher than Return of the Jedi
- Our LG C6 OLED TV tests are underway — here’s your chance to ask our experts anything
- 007 First Light art director says the limited edition Dualsense controller was inspired by a 'light' theme, not the inside of a gun barrel — 'What we were trying to do with that was reference more how the UI of the game feels'
- 'Verified By Spotify' is the music streamer's new way to help you avoid AI artists, but it doesn't go as far as I'd like — especially with Deezer, Qobuz and Apple Music making major anti-AI steps
- Don't be alarmed — this major Android Auto annoyance could be finally get fixed soon by Google after almost a decade
- 'A galaxy of new Star Wars games' and more are coming to Fortnite to celebrate Star Wars Day
- 'An hour of scan time is all it took': "Copy Fail" flaw impacts all Linux kernels released since 2017, so patch now or face the consequences
- 'A technical whack-a-mole:' Utah to become the first US state to target VPN users with controversial age verification law — and digital rights experts are furious
- Tim Cook warns about 'significantly higher memory costs' from June — and not surprisingly, Mac fans think price hikes are coming down the line
- Everyone’s switching from ChatGPT to Claude — but new tests say neither is the smartest free AI, and the real winner might surprise you
- 'Trust cannot be claimed. It needs to be earned through our actions': Microsoft thinks it's doing pretty well in helping European firms manage their data, despite sovereignty complaints
- ‘This is a real risk, we all could die as a result of artificial intelligence’ — the OpenAI trial took a dramatic turn as Elon Musk and Sam Altman faced off over AI’s real-world danger
- How to watch UCI Mountain Bike World Series 2026: Live stream cycling online from anywhere
- You heard right — NordVPN has rolled out an AI voice checker to protect you from audio deepfakes on Chrome
- The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra is tipped to ditch its predecessor’s 3x telephoto camera, fueling rumors of an iPhone-style redesign
- 'The coming months are critical' — dev confirms Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy's release is 'almost here'
- 'Most AI in hiring today is making a bad system worse': Candidates are hitting back at employers using AI interviews - with many prepared to walk out
- 'Organizations need to stop workarounds and regain control': Report finds many firms don't know what their workers are sharing with AI tools
- 007 First Light lets players blast enemies with a watch laser, shoot darts from a spy phone, and more — 'Pretty much all of our gadgets are usable in combat' developer says
- 'Nearly 80 times cheaper than lithium': China is working on ultra affordable iron battery that can run 16 years without degrading — using one of the most abundant elements on Earth to store power and a water-based electrolyte system that cannot explode