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March 5, 2025

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NYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for March 5: Tips to solve Connections #163

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the “common threads between words.” And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself,

March 5, 2025

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Apple takes legal action in UK data privacy row

Apple is taking legal action to try to overturn a demand made by the UK government to view its customers’ private data if required. The BBC understands that the US technology giant has appealed to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent court with the power to investigate claims against the Security Service. It is the latest development in an unprecedented row between one of the world’s biggest tech firms and the UK government over data privacy. In January, Apple was issued with a secret order by the Home Office to share encrypted data belonging to Apple users around the world

March 5, 2025

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GTA V finally gets its 'next-gen' update on PC, three years after consoles

PC players of Grand Theft Auto V have at long last reached parity with their console brethren. Following an announcement last month, today Rockstar Games has a PC update with features that for several years had only been available to the latest console generation. It’s a free update for anyone who already owned a copy of the hugely popular game. The original version of GTA V has been delisted from PC storefronts in favor of the new Expanded & Enhanced iteration of the game, which includes a copy of the old Legacy edition. Both Story Mode and Online progress can

March 5, 2025

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Daredevil: Born Again review: a rough return to Marvel’s New York City

Before Disney Plus and its parade of post-Endgame Marvel series, shows like Daredevil gave the studio a convenient way to infuse the MCU with a grittier, more dramatic energy. Being a Netflix project, the original Daredevil could go harder with its action and darker with its nuanced depiction of the man without fear. And with multiple solid spinoffs of its own, Netflix’s Daredevil felt like it was working its way toward becoming a key part of Marvel’s future big-screen plans. Though the New York City of it all made an eventual Daredevil x Avengers crossover seem possible (albeit improbable), those

March 5, 2025

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Key ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright case

Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of OpenAI’s key AI technologies, has been subpoenaed in a copyright case against the AI startup, according to a court filing Tuesday. The filing, submitted by an attorney for the plaintiffs to the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, indicated that Radford was served a subpoena on February 25. Radford, who left OpenAI late last year to pursue independent research, was the lead author of OpenAI’s seminal research paper on generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs). GPTs underpin OpenAI’s most popular products, including the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT. Radford joined

March 5, 2025

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Does Microsoft’s Majorana chip meet enterprise needs?

Pragmatism over hype To be clear, I’m not dismissing quantum computing entirely. The Majorana 1 chip undoubtedly represents a substantial leap forward in hardware design and computational potential. Innovation in this field has a rightful place in academia, research, and industries that rely on extreme precision and computation: climate modeling, molecular biology, etc. Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others will continue to push boundaries, and that’s good for science and humanity. But for the average enterprise that spends its days managing cloud costs and dealing with ever-increasing volumes of user data, the promises of quantum computing glitter from a distance but

March 5, 2025

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SoftBank’s Arm to Play Key Role in Malaysia’s Chip Ambitions

(Bloomberg) — Arm Holdings Plc has agreed to provide chip designs and technology to Malaysia over the next decade, aimed at catapulting the Southeast Asian country beyond chip assembly and into more valuable semiconductor production. Most Read from Bloomberg Malaysia, which packages roughly a tenth of the world’s semiconductors, has inked a pact to pay the SoftBank Group Corp.-owned UK firm $250 million over a period of ten years for a slew of semiconductor-related licenses and knowhow. The government plans to use that to aid local companies design their own chips and target semiconductor exports of 1.2 trillion ringgit ($270

March 5, 2025

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Nothing Phone 3A and 3A Pro at MWC 2025 Are Fun, Flashy and Affordable

London-based tech firm Nothing has delighted us before with its light-up Android phones that provide some much-needed frivolity in a world full of plain, gray smartphones that take themselves too seriously. The Nothing Phone 3A and 3A Pro are cut from the same cloth as their predecessors, packing solid all-round specs, affordable price tags and an LED-infused design that stands out from the crowd. The Nothing Phone 3A is the base model in the new series, starting at $379 with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage. In the UK, you can pick up a pared-back model with 8GB RAM and 128GB of

March 4, 2025

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Forget ChatGPT — Google Gemini can now see the world with live video and screen sharing

Google‘s AI assistant, Gemini, is set to introduce exciting features to give Android users new ways to interact more intuitively with their devices. Leveraging advanced capabilities, Gemini will soon allow users to ask questions about content on their screens, much like the screen sharing feature currently available in Gemini 2.0 on desktop. In a recent announcement, Google unveiled these Gemini functionalities, which focus on real-time interaction and on-screen inquiries. These features are part of Google’s Project Astra. New functionalities (Image credit: Google Gemini) The screen-sharing function allows users to share their screens with Gemini and ask questions based on displayed

March 4, 2025

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Netflix drops trailer for The Electric State, and I’m getting serious District 9 vibes

When I watched Netflix‘s The Electric State trailer, I immediately returned to the iconic sci-fi movie District 9. Especially when you watch the grainy TV part at the beginning, where humans are just disregarding robots and shoving them away in a sectioned area – it does raise questions about how we mistreat things we don’t understand. While the District 9 aliens (or “prawns” as they were unaffectionately known) are different from the robots in The Electric State, the concept is frighteningly familiar. With that in mind, I’m really keen to see how Netflix adapts this story. The trailer is full