NYT Connections: hints and answers for Friday, September 13 If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And if you still can’t get it, we’ll tell you today’s answers at the very end. How to play ... 09/13/2024 - 5:00 pm | View Link
Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14, #461 Looking for the most recent Connections answer? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Need ... 09/13/2024 - 4:42 pm | View Link
Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 14, #195 Here's today's Strands answers and hints. These clues will help you solve The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Strands, every day. 09/13/2024 - 4:00 pm | View Link
Today's Connections hints and answers for Sat, September 14th This guide offers a selection of handy Connections hints, along with the answers to today's Connections puzzle on Saturday 14th September 2024. 09/13/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, September 14 (game #461) 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 clues. 09/13/2024 - 12:02 pm | View Link
Enlarge / Russia President Vladimir Putin presents flowers to editor-in-chief of Russian broadcaster RT Margarita Simonyan after awarding her with the "Order of Alexander Nevsky" during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 23, 2019. (credit: Getty Images | Evgenia Novozhenina)
Meta yesterday announced a ban on Russian state media outlets RT (formerly Russia Today) and Rossiya Segodnya, taking action three days after the US government imposed sanctions on the outlets for covert influence activities.
"After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets: Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity," Meta said in a statement provided to Ars.
Enlarge / Imagine owning one of those funky birds as an NFT! (credit: Flappy Bird Twitter/X)
Fans of ultra-viral mobile gaming hit Flappy Bird who were stunned by the game's sudden removal from the iOS App Store 10 years ago were probably even more stunned by last week's equally sudden announcement that Flappy Bird is coming back with a raft of new characters and game modes.
Enlarge / Many have seen a reflection of Vincent van Gogh's inner turmoil in the swirling vortices of The Starry Night. (credit: Public doman)
Vincent van Gogh's most famous painting is The Starry Night (1889), created (along with several other masterpieces) during the artist's stay at an asylum in Arles following his breakdown in December 1888.
Enlarge / Lane keeping systems let you take your hands off the wheel while you drive. (credit: Getty Images)
The seductive lure of cars that drive themselves has led to an awful lot of hype over the past decade. Not everyone enjoys driving, after all, and the idea of freeing up the occupant to read their emails or watch a movie as their car grinds its way to their job led to billions in investments and a whole heck of a lot of GPU sales.
Enlarge / Portion of a reproduction of cave paintings in France, showing rhinos (among other species). (credit: JEFF PACHOUD)
For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a museum. For Gennady Boeskorov, they are things he has interacted with directly, studying their fur, their skin, their internal organs—experiencing these animals much as they existed thousands of years ago.
Enlarge / Amazon fulfillment center in Las Vegas, Nevada. (credit: Getty Images | 4kodiak)
Amazon has told staff they must return to the office five days a week from the start of next year, one of the strictest corporate crackdowns on remote working that has become commonplace since the pandemic.
“We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID,” chief executive Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to employees globally on Monday.