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Month: January 2025
If you’re the type of Pokémon fan who cares about collecting every variation of its 1,000+ monsters, that means constantly seeking out special events to receive a rare critter or searching for hours to find one with a low spawn rate hiding in the tall grass. Shiny Pokémon are the rarest of the rare, with
Final Fantasy VI is one of the best games ever made. Fans have been coasting off that high for decades, even as modern homages seek to recreate the magic of the original. The lead creative behind the beloved RPG series, Hironobu Sakaguchi, now says making a proper successor to the 1994 SNES classic will be
Average 30-year fixed mortgage rates have remained around a steep 7% for several weeks. While President Donald Trump has claimed he will bring mortgage rates down to 3% — which would indicate a severe economic crisis – the president doesn’t set rates on home loans. Even the Federal Reserve, which sets a short-term benchmark interest rate for lenders, only indirectly
Few fusion startups have been as closely watched as Helion. The 12-year-old company is backed by Sam Altman, rumored to be in talks with OpenAI, and has a deal to supply Microsoft with electricity by 2028 — years earlier than its competitors. The company’s unorthodox approach to fusion power and relative secrecy has earned it
Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Connections puzzles. I was raised on a farm, so I got a kick out of today’s NYT Strands puzzle. Fans of a certain beautiful animal shouldn’t have
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? 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. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition isn’t terribly tough, but I always enjoy categories similar to the green group. You’ll do well if you tend to notice
How we sort our mattresses Sort by Filter by Firmness Sleep style Mattress type View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details View details Show 3 more When purchasing a mattress, it’s ideal
Quick-commerce startup Zepto has moved its domicile to India from Singapore, joining a growing number of Indian startups that have moved their headquarters home ahead of an IPO in the country. The transition marks the fastest shift of registered headquarters to India by a startup in the country, according to Zepto’s chief financial officer Ramesh
Thanks to North Carolina, you can play Fortnite while traveling in an airplane. The Tar Heel state is famous for being the birthplace of flight after the Wright brothers’ successful airplane test in Kitty Hawk in 1903. It’s also less notably the home of Fortnitecreator Epic Games (based in Cary), which lets players dressed as
If you’re an Amazon Alexa user looking for something cheap, then Sengled leads the way with a smart floodlight that can pair directly with the Echo Plus or the Echo Show — if you don’t have one of those, you’ll need the Sengled hub plugged into your router. You’ll find those bulbs on Amazon in
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Siddhartha Mukherjee, cancer researcher and author of the book “The Emperor of All Maladies,” have co-founded an AI-powered drug discovery startup, Manas AI. The company, which will initially focus on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma, has raised $24.6 million in seed funding from Hoffman, General Catalyst, and Greylock. Manas
2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system’s planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune
Alien: Earth, the upcoming FX series set in the expansive sci-fi universe, is a show we don’t really know much about even though it’s set to arrive later this year. And the latest teaser doesn’t provide much new information, but it is really cool and has me hopeful for the series. Suggested Reading Why This
Sometimes in our lives, we value consistency and affordability over anything else. This is why I continue to buy and eat Burger King’s cheap double cheeseburgers. I know what I’m getting, it’s not expensive, and it fills me up. The Orcs Must Die! series, launched in 2011, fills a similar role. The games are about
/ Google has open-sourced the Pebble software, which means anyone — including Pebble’s founder — can make one. By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Share this story The Pebble Time Round just got a new lease
The number of machine identities is booming thanks to the growth of cloud and AI – and it’s posing real security problems by giving hackers way more entry points than ever before. For example, a 2023 hack of authentication app Okta was caused by exploiting a service account while in 2024, Microsoft disclosed a major
Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter’s history, Pebble abruptly ended. The hardware startup closed 2016 by filing for insolvency, before being sold off to Fitbit. The fitness-tracking giant built much of the Ionic smartwatch with help from former Pebblers, along with the company’s pioneering software stack. The first Apple
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stunned the world with the release of its R1 model, which appears to perform nearly as well as leading models from Google and OpenAI, despite the company’s claim that it used a relatively modest number of GPUs to train it. DeepSeek’s relative efficiency has experts and investors questioning whether AI really
After cutting interest rates at its last three meetings, the Federal Reserve is expected to hold rates steady at its meeting on Jan. 28-29. “Inflation has been coming down, but it’s still not where the Fed wants it to be,” said Taylor Kovar, CFP, founder and CEO of 11 Financial. “Pausing gives them a chance
Know your area and which carrier runs on which networks To get the best deal, you need to make sure you have the coverage that you need. Cutting costs won’t help if it means the service won’t work for you. The US’ complex geographic variables make it hard for us to give a blanket recommendation
China’s AI assistant has officially entered the chat, and it’s putting the U.S. on notice. DeepSeek surged to the top of Apple’s App Store over the weekend, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT with lightning-fast, highly logical responses. Some users claim its natural language processing, writing quality and reasoning surpass U.S. counterparts including OpenAI, Meta and Google. At
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Live TV streaming service Fubo is raising subscription prices for its US English-based plans. Citing the costs of programming, the company is implementing the changes effective immediately for new customers, while existing subscribers will see the new cost in their next billing cycle on or before Feb. 10. The price hike comes weeks after Fubo
Jet fuel is a modern wonder, allowing commercial airplanes to carry hundreds of passengers halfway around the world and military aircraft to regularly break the speed of sound. Yet jet fuel as we know it might be on the chopping block as the world strives to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Commercial aviation is responsible for
If you’ve been following the AI industry, Mistral should be a familiar name by now. The French AI startup with a $6 billion valuation is arguably the biggest AI company working on foundation models in Europe. Alan, on the other hand, isn’t as well known. The health insurance unicorn has been quietly growing to become
Key takeaways You can still earn over 4% APY on your savings with today’s rates. If the Fed leaves interest rates alone this week, APYs may hold steady, too. A high-yield savings account can still be valuable even if rates fall. Thinking of switching from a traditional savings account to one of the best high-yield
We test all vacuums on both hardwood flooring and carpet. Gianmarco Chumbe/CNET How we test robot vacuums Our method for evaluating robot vacuums is straightforward, yet grueling. There are two types of tests we run. The first trial is to figure out how well a robot covers the floor while it’s cleaning. We built an industry-standard testing
If you’re considering buying a foldable phone like the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold or Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, it’s probably for their giant, tablet-size bendable screens rather than their cameras. But any phone that costs close to $2,000 should be able to take stellar photos, too. When it comes to the Pixel 9
I leaned on my background as a chemical engineer to offer insights on the effectiveness of these controversial chemicals. In my experiment, I tested eight of the most commonly available chemical drain cleaners: six alkaline and two acidic. I performed dissolution tests to evaluate how well each of them could dissolve drain blockages. I had
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