Tech & AI

NYT Strands hints, answers for January 21

If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game. Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters —…

Trump Signs Executive Order Saving TikTok for 75 Days

Shortly after Monday’s inauguration ceremony, President Donald Trump signed an executive order extending the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations, preventing the app from going dark for an additional 75 days. The executive order instructs the US Attorney…

President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk recommending deep cuts to federal agencies, could soon become more official, should an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pass legal muster. On Monday evening,…

6 Trump Inauguration speech highlights — and how the internet reacted

Donald Trump is officially the 47th President as of Inauguration Day. In a 30-minute speech, Trump proclaimed that “the golden age of America begins right now,” and promised many changes. Here are a few of them below, along with how…

Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump’s Inauguration

Neo-Nazis are celebrating Elon Musk making two Nazi-like salutes during a speech to tens of thousands of President Donald Trump supporters on Monday. “Elections come and go, some elections are important, some are not, but this one really mattered,” Musk…

OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release

OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims to have uncovered…

Bitcoin hits all-time high on Inauguration Day

Bitcoin surged to an all-time high on Monday, hours before Donald Trump took office as President of the United States. Over the course of Monday, Bitcoin spiked to $109,350 before dipping below $105,000. President Trump has talked about cryptocurrency on…

The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics

In this sense, claims Jacob Silverman, coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, the TRUMP coin setup seems to bear some of the hallmarks of a “classic memecoin pump-and-dump”—a manoeuvre whereby an issuer keeps…

Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too

After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard’s newest app, Surf, which is dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon…

Best Savings Accounts for Businesses

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