Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for Oct. 13, #490

Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers for Oct. 13, #490

Looking for the most recent 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. Need the answers for the New York Times Connections puzzle? To me, Wordle is more of a vocabulary test, but Connections is more of a … Read more

Joker 2’s Surprise Actor Defends Its Divisive, Shocking Ending

Joker 2’s Surprise Actor Defends Its Divisive, Shocking Ending

It’s only been a whole week since Joker: Folie à Deux hit theaters, but the reactions and takes couldn’t be more divisive. Folks who saw it (or just read the synopsis online) have a lot of thoughts on various parts of the movie, mainly its ending. Director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have already talked … Read more

9 Best Sunscreens, WIRED Tested and Reviewed

9 Best Sunscreens, WIRED Tested and Reviewed

I wasn’t always a sunscreen devotee. Like so many millennials, I didn’t understand the risks of turning into a lobster at the beach when I was in high school or spending hours in tanning beds leading up to prom. I thought I looked better with a tan, and sunscreen felt gross and made me break … Read more

Boeing to lay off 10 percent of workforce

Boeing to lay off 10 percent of workforce

This year’s harsh string of layoffs continues with Boeing being the latest company to announce cuts to its workforce. The airplane manufacturing company will lay off 10 percent of its workforce — roughly 17,000 jobs. Job cuts will include executives, middle management, and employees. SEE ALSO: NASA thinks it found a moon light-years away spewing … Read more

Starship’s fifth test flight is approved: where to watch the launch

Starship’s fifth test flight is approved: where to watch the launch

SpaceX plans to launch Starship for the fifth time tomorrow, October 13th, during a 30-minute launch window that opens at 8AM ET. That’s after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) declared today that the company has “met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements for the suborbital test flight,” reports Reuters. The company will livestream the … Read more

Meta’s Yann LeCun says worries about A.I.’s existential threat are ‘complete B.S.’

Meta’s Yann LeCun says worries about A.I.’s existential threat are ‘complete B.S.’

AI pioneer Yann LeCun doesn’t think artificial intelligence is actually on the verge of becoming intelligent. LeCun — a professor at New York University, senior researcher at Meta, and winner of the prestigious A.M. Turning Award — has been open about his skepticism before, for example tweeting that before we worry about controlling super-intelligent AI, … Read more