Aleeza Siddique, 15, was in a Spanish class earlier this year in her Northern California high school when a lesson about newscasts got derailed by her school’s internet filter. Her teacher told the class to open up their school-issued Chromebooks and explore a list of links he had curated from the Spanish language broadcast news […]
NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, January 19 (game #322)
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 pages for hints and answers for those games, […]
Marc Andreessen Seems to Think Hillary Clinton Was Actually President
Marc Andreessen, the billionaire tech investor who co-founded Netscape, has recently been making the rounds on various podcasts to talk about how the Democrats were so very mean to him and forced him to become a supporter of Donald Trump. Andreessen’s obnoxious whining wouldn’t otherwise be notable, given how many guys in the tech industry […]
Comics Writer Dan Slott Is Going Up, Up, and Away to DC and Superman
This year marks a significant change in the air for Superman. Along with James Gunn’s upcoming movie, DC Comics is offering a massive shakeup to the status quo, and with a big get from its distinguished competition: like Brian Michael Bendis before him, Dan Slott, a longtime writer for Marvel’s Spider-Man and Fantastic Four comics, […]
Anker 621 Magnetic Battery (MagGo) review: the ideal light and thin phone power bank
Anker 621 Magnetic Battery (MagGo) review The Anker 621 Magnetic Battery is one of the simpler wireless power banks that Anker makes. It offers a 5,000mAh capacity and up to 12W of total power output. It also features a MagSafe charging pad for the iPhone 12 series and beyond, which offers up to 7.5W of […]
Skeleton Crew’s Finale Almost Had a Jedi Flashback
The recent finale for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew finally shed some light on Jude Law’s mysterious Force user, Jod Na Nawood. Growing up as a poor kid, he was taken in by a Jedi and trained in the ways of the Force. He’s been on the run ever since he watched her die, and it turns […]
UGreen Nexode Pro 65W 3-Port Charger review: a diminutive, fast wall charger that won’t come cheap
UGreen Nexode Pro 65W 3-Port Charger review If you want to bring multiple devices back to life at once, the UGreen Nexode Pro 65W Charger could be a good fit for you. This charger has three ports – two of which are USB-C and the other USB-A – and boasts a maximum total power output […]
Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad Game Is Finished—Now What?
The Suicide Squad is dead, kind of. Long live the Suicide Squad… kind of. Almost a full year after its launch, Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League came to an end this week with its last major update. Said ending is a bit of an odd duck: after finally whittling down the final Brainiac’s health bars, […]
The Quiet Death of Biden’s Climate Corps—and What Comes Next
Giorgio Zampaglione loved his two-hour commute from the town of Mount Shasta into the surrounding northern California forests last summer. The way the light filtered through the trees on the morning drive was unbeatable, he said. He ate lunch with his crew, members of the new Forest Corps program, deep in the woods, usually far […]
HPE may have been beaten Supermicro and Dell to win a $1bn AI contract, but it’s not for the Colossus supercomputer
Bloomberg reports the contact is for Elon Musk’s X social media platform xAi’s Colossus uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPU and doesn’t seem to be part of the contract Supermicro has had troubles, but is still a major player in AI hardware The rising demand for computing power to support AI workloads has fueled rapid growth […]