Yesterday was Wordle Wednesday and I gave you fine Wordlers an extra riddle to solve. Today, I’ll give you the answer. This was the riddle:What do autumn leaves and lousy bowlers have in common? A number of you sent me the correct answer: They both end up in the gutters!Okay, it’s Wordle time!Looking for Wednesday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.How To Play WordleWordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the…
The U.S. government took a large step to retrieve critical minerals from mine waste by awarding 13 states nearly $3 million to help identify their holdings and create inventories.The pacts were formed by the U.S. Geological Survey with Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon,…
Algorithms-as-managers keep seeping into our workplace landscape, creating work orders, handling timesheets, tracking performance, and other tasks.At this time, algorithmically managed jobs range from from ride-sharing to food delivery to short-term tasks. But the time is coming in which regular, full-time jobs will be guided, to some degree, by algorithms…
Yesterday was Wordle Wednesday and I gave you an extra puzzle to solve before the daily Wordle. Today, I’ll hand out the answer. This was the riddle:A man arrives at a very exclusive nightclub and sees that everyone who enters has to provide a secret password, which the man doesn’t…
It’s Wordle Wednesday and, as with every other Wednesday for the past few years that I’ve been writing about Wordle (my how time flies!) I have a riddle for you to solve prior to tackling the Wordle. We do this to keep things interesting, and to keep everyone on their…
Summer has fallen. Fall has risen. It’s still quite lovely out, but you can definitely tell the season is changing. We were at the store the other day and at the end of all the Halloween decorations, a lonely Christmas endcap was already on full display. I love Christmas, but…
The final hours of summer are draining out of the year. At 11:19 am PST, Monday will become a day of autumn. Like Cinderella changing back to a scullery maid the moment the clock hits midnight. Pumpkins all around. Winter is coming.Depending on when you solve today’s Wordle, it will…
Honor’s recent launch event saw the Magic V5 foldable take the lion’s share of coverage and interest, but it wasn’t the only product on show. The Honor MagicPad3 arrived with a larger screen and increased battery life to challenge the Android tablet market.The Honor MagicPad3 ‘s CompetitionSamsung’s recent launch of…
The LedeTropical Storm Gabrielle is likely to become a hurricane this weekend. If it does, it will be the second hurricane in the Atlantic basin this year and the seventh named storm. Here’s what you need to know about the storm, and who is likely to be affected.What’s ahead?According to…
It’s Friday at last! 2XP Friday if you’re playing Competitive Wordle against a friend or against the Wordle Bot or against me, your humble narrator. Let’s solve this Wordle, oh thou Wordlers!Looking for Thursday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.How To Play WordleWordle is a daily word puzzle game…
For 15 years, SoundPeats has been quietly building a brand for affordable earbuds that consistently perform above their price. Now the brand has introduced the H3, a flagship pair of true wireless earbuds offering hi-fi levels of performance to rival wired earphones. Each earbud is driven by two balanced armature…
I attended an all-boys Catholic high school. My wife, her mother, her father and much of her extended family are alumni of either Notre Dame or St. Mary’s College. Even my children can belt out the fight song by heart. It’s fair to say we’re Irish fans, glued to the…
At its core, Instagram is a game. A what? A game – and so are many other applications. That’s the perspective of Bastian Bergmann, noted in his latest book, Press Play: Why Every Company Needs a Gaming Strategy, published by Harvard Business Review. Ultimately, “games” such as Instagram are a…
Update, Sunday Sept. 14, 2025: This article has been updated with details on Apple’s MacBook Air and MacBook Pro release schedules. With the launch of the iPhone 17 Pro, Apple also released the Apple Silicon A19 Pro chipset. It’s expected to show up in the near future in the iPad…
Electric cars have a weight problem. The heft of batteries means EVs are generally a few hundred kilograms heavier than their fossil fuel equivalents. You can hide this in an SUV that’s already quite chubby, but so far has meant that a light, nimble electric sports car has been out…
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