Science & Technology

ICYMI: the week’s 8 biggest tech news stories from Nintendo’s new alarm clock, to Toyota’s revolutionary EV charging tech

This week, after months of waiting for a follow-up to the hugely successful Nintendo Switch handheld we finally got brand…

The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is rumored to be borrowing a key part of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 design

Have a peek at the pictures in our Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 review and you’ll see distinctive, black circles…

AMD lands yet another major cloud deal as Oracle adopts thousands of Instinct MI300X GPUs to power new AI supercluster

AMD’s Instinct MI300X is an incredibly powerful AI accelerator, and major cloud companies are beginning to integrate it into their…

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, October 12 (game #489)

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It…

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, October 12 (game #223)

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great…

Quordle today – hints and answers for Saturday, October 12 (game #992)

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now nearly 1,000 games later. It offers…

Why Hurricane Milton produced such strong tornadoes — and why future storms might do so again

The Summary The tornado outbreak that Hurricane Milton spawned in Florida was a leading cause of death and damage from…

AI tastebuds are better at identifying what’s in food than you

Picking out individual ingredients from a dish can be a fun, if difficult, part of a meal. Professional chefs and…

Amazon’s new AI guides know what you want to buy before you do

Amazon is infusing AI into a new facet of its online shopping experience with the release of its AI Shopping…

Intel’s already working on its 3rd-gen Celestial GPUs – but we’re still waiting for discrete 2nd-gen Battlemage graphics cards

Intel is already working on support for its Xe3 GPU architecture in Linux – even though Xe3, codenamed Celestial, won’t…