Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably already know that Grindr has opened up access to everyone , including women, trans, and non-binary people, which now means it can compete in the larger hookup category rather than the more specific gay hookup category when it comes to comparisons. And that got us thinking: how does Grindr stack up against the web's oldest, raunchiest hookup site…
TL;DR: The Apple iPhone 18 Pro is $1,000 off with T-Mobile. To claim this offer, switch and bring your number or trade in an eligible phone in any condition on an Experience Beyond plan. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple T-Mobile: Apple iPhone 18 Pro for under $200 Shop Now The iPhone Duo is now available to preorder. That's obviously the focus right now, but you can actually score the iPhone 18…
TL;DR: Watch Real Madrid vs. Sevilla in La Liga for free on CazéTV . Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN . La Liga action has been typically entertaining this weekend, and we're expecting more of the same from Real Madrid vs. Sevilla. José Mourinho's side is stacked with stars, but they need to keep pace with the defending champions Barcelona. They'…
Employees used to go to work and then come home. Now, they commonly go to one job and then to another. It’s called parallel work, and it essentially means taking on multiple jobs as opposed to having a single full-time position. That’s different from just having a side gig in addition to a full-time one; it’s also different from fractional work , wherein senior-level employees work a fraction of f…
I’ll say one thing for EA Sports FC 27 : it’s not the same game as EA Sports FC 26 . That reads like a compliment — and in some respects, it is — but where previous entries in EA’s long-running football simulator series shipped with minor improvements and equally minor frustrations, FC 27 takes bigger swings that flip between successful, insignificant, and occasionally experience-worsening in thei…
Financial Times : RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible — A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world
New York Times : AI debt worries mount as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15%, insuring SoftBank debt gets pricier, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar — Debt trouble at CoreWeave, Oracle and SoftBank raises questions about whether there are broader problems with the data center build-out.
James Titcomb / Telegraph : Microsoft cancels its deal with Nscale to serve as the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at a planned data center facing repeated delays in Essex, UK — US tech giant pulls the plug on Nscale deal in threat to multibillion-dollar listing — Microsoft has pulled …
The day I got put on my performance improvement plan (or PIP) in my content marketing job, I drove back to an Appalachian folk magic store I’d happened into the weekend prior. I bought a bottle of Boss Fix Oil , a “conjuring oil” touted as a way of “improving work dynamics.” I’m not a particularly spiritual man, but I truly was at my wit’s end. I’d been in this role for nearly a year, and in my 25…
England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka ODI tri-series 2026: October 18-31 Watch FREE on Tapmad (Pakistan) Unlock your free stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) Watch the England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka ODI tri-series 2026 as the three nations do battle across a two-week tournament in Lahore and Rawalpindi. The 2027 Cricket World Cup is now less than one year away, so this competition will serve as a usef…
Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune : Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation — Steven Prast is old enough to remember when a mobile phone came in a bag. It was too heavy to carry around, so most people mounted it in the car.
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/aws-sovereign-cloud-exercise/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791945895599.jpg"/><p>On October 24, AWS will operate its European Sovereign Cloud without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone, with a team of EU residents and the region’s own hardware and software. AWS says neither of the two systems being severed is operation-critical, and…
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Sources: Anthropic is consulting law firms on deal negotiation tactics as it develops AI agents to negotiate on humans' behalf and interact with AI counterparts — Tech companies are being forced to confront the rules of negotiation when machines act on humans' behalf
Mark Zuckerberg hand-delivered homemade soup to OpenAI researchers’ front doors in an attempt to recruit them. Elon Musk pledged to personally read every SpaceX AI application—no résumé required; pedigree optional. When the world’s richest founders are cold-calling engineers with soup and big-figure job offers, it’s clear the AI talent war has reached a new, absurd level. But Meta and SpaceX aren’…
South Africa vs Australia 2026 2nd Test: October 18-22 Daily start time: 9am BST / 4am ET / 7pm AEDT Free Streams: SABC 3 / SABC+ (South Africa) Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) The South Africa vs Australia 2nd Test 2026 sees the Proteas in a fight to save the series after their emphatic 214-run defeat in Durban. With just one match to follow, at Cape Town's iconic Newlands venue…
Bloomberg : GTCR and Elliott agree to acquire and take private CCC, a Nasdaq-listed car insurance software provider, for $4.6B; the deal values CCC at $6.1B including debt — GTCR and Elliott Investment Management are acquiring car-insurance software provider CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc …
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle , then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give…
TL;DR: Watch Leeds vs. Manchester United in the Premier League for free on CazéTV . Access this free livestream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN . There are a number of massive Premier League fixtures taking place this weekend, but Leeds vs. Manchester United might be the most important. Manchester United are struggling right now, and comments made after their poor defeat to Atl&e…
Bloomberg : Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve — More than 60 workers at Character.AI are being offered a lifeline from the media giant … Soft Landing — Layoffs are common in bankruptcy.
Watch Fiji vs Cook Islands FREE on 7plus (AUS) Stream on Premier Sports (US/CAN/UK) Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) Kick-off: Sun, Oct 18, 1.05am ET / 6.05am BST / 4.05pm AEDT Watch Fiji vs Cook Islands in a vital 2026 Rugby League World Cup Pool A encounter at the McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle, New South Wales. Respectively the No7 and No8 teams in the world rankings, the P…
Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you like to get dolled up. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO: NYT Connect…
Today's NYT Strands hints will be easy if you're a cardio junkie. Strands , the New York Times ' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of a…
The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're a fashionista. Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints…
Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or just wondering why Connections is trending today? We've got what you need to understand the clues for today's puzzle without spoiling any of the answers. Of course, Mashable has also provided daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle , and Strands for years, so we can help you if that's also what you need. While we are focused more on meaning…
Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalog. Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you cover…
Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier for people who like soccer. As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections , the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight, and each new se…
Joanna Stern / The New Things : An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, plans to make Windows a safer OS to run AI agents, and more — My exclusive interview with Satya Nadella on the new Surface Laptop Ultra and Microsoft's plan to make Windows safer for AI agents
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sung the praises of Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra , describing it as "so beautiful" and "incredible". Speaking at a developer event in London, Huang outlined the development process that went into building the hardware powering the new product, which is the first Microsoft device powered by an Nvidia chip. “This computer is going to be incredible - it took us fou…
For now you need to build the feature yourself on a Mac Native Player delivers similar audio but isn't open source Proposed as an extension to the Nuvio media player A clever developer has come up with a way to deliver lossless Dolby TrueHD movie soundtracks, complete with Dolby Atmos effects, to home theater speakers from the third-gen Apple TV 4K. The Apple TV only officially supports Dolby Digi…
We're about to enter the final stretch of 2026, and with the Black Friday sales and the festive season looming on the horizon, it felt like as good a time as any to take stock of the headphones we've tested this year, and what has impressed us most. Because we've tested just so many great headphones so far this year, in this article I've narrowed things down to just the earbuds. Below, you can see…
Swapping SIM cards isn't something you'll do all the time, but when it does come up, you should do it carefully. Swapping SIM cards isn't something you'll do all the time, but when it does come up, you should do it carefully.
WindBorne's weather balloon fleet secures a potential $49 million Air Force contract The military has ordered $1.7 million in data so far WindBorne operates about 700 balloons collecting atmospheric measurements worldwide WindBorne Systems has secured a potential $49 million US Air Force agreement, allowing the military to purchase atmospheric measurements gathered by autonomous balloons worldwide…
Your Nintendo Switch 2 is made to project its display to a TV. If it's not working, there are some things you should check. Your Nintendo Switch 2 is made to project its display to a TV. If it's not working, there are some things you should check.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants a humanoid that can operate in a world designed for people, though the CEO says a robot 'brain' is a much bigger challenge. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants a humanoid that can operate in a world designed for people, though the CEO says a robot 'brain' is a much bigger challenge.
Google : Google says “magic state cultivation” works in practice on its Willow quantum processor, calling it a breakthrough that reduces errors by about 40x — We've shown that magic state cultivation works on Google Quantum AI hardware. — Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI Quantum Software Engineer, Google Quantum AI
Samsung's latest software update commitment for its tablets is great, but older devices can't take advantage of it. Samsung's latest software update commitment for its tablets is great, but older devices can't take advantage of it.
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, October 17 (game #958) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wo…
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, October 17 (game #1224) . Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's cl…
Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, October 17 (game #1727) . Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still g…
Everyone getting online at the same time can slam the network, but working around these slowdowns is possible with a few tricks. Everyone getting online at the same time can slam the network, but working around these slowdowns is possible with a few tricks.