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, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Did you watch the Oscars last week? Think about that when you're solving today's NYTStrandspuzzle. If you need hints and answers, put on your tuxedo andread on.I go into depth about therules for Strands in this story.If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visitCNET's NYT puzzle hints page.Read more:NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So FarHint for today's Strands puzzleToday's Strands theme is:Two thumbs up.If that doesn't help you, here's a clue: I'd like to thank the Academy.Clue words to unlock in-game hintsYour goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle's theme. If you're stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints, but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:BEST, BETS, SPOT, POOL, LOOP, STOP, POOR, MAPS, SPAM, LIGHT, SLOP, SLOT, MOON, SILO, GLOP.Answers for today's Strands puzzleThese are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you've got all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:CODA, PLATOON, PARASITE, MOONLIGHT, SPOTLIGHT.Today's Strands spangram The completed NYT Strands puzzle for March 8, 2025, #370. NYT/Screenshot by CNETToday's Strands spangram is BESTPICTURE. To find it, start with the B that's three letters to the right on the top row, and wind down and then up.Quick tips for Strands#1: To get more clue words, see if you can tweak the words you've already found, by adding an "S" or other variants. And if you find a word like WILL, see if other letters are close enough to help you make SILL, or BILL.#2: Once you get one theme word, look at the puzzle to see if you can spot other related words.#3: If you've been given the letters for a theme word, but can't figure it out, guess three more clue words, and the puzzle will light up each letter in order, revealing the word.

Looking for the most recentregular 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.Connections: Sports Editionhas some fun categories today. The purple one, especially, made me see some team names in a different light. Read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut onSuper Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn't show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic's own app. Or you can continue to play it free online. Read more:NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of BetaHints for today's Connections: Sports Edition groupsHere are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.Yellow group hint: Checkmate!Green group hint: Prince William's fave team is one.Blue group hint:Teams in the same conference.Purple group hint:Get a job.Answers for today's Connections: Sports Edition groupsYellow group: Chess pieces.Green group: Premier League teams, familiarly.Blue group: Big 12 teams.Purple group: Teams that share names with professions.Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English WordsWhat are today's Connections: Sports Edition answers? The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Sunday, March 9, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNETThe yellow words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is chess pieces. The four answers are bishop, knight, pawn and rook.The green words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is Premier League teams, familiarly. The four answers are City, Palace, Spurs and Villa.The blue words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is Big 12 teams. The four answers are Cyclones, Horned Frogs, Jayhawks and Wildcats.The purple words in today's ConnectionsThe theme is teams that share names with professions. The four answers are Brewers, Cowboys, Mariners and Senators.

You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you're reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original. Check out how we test and review games hereMarvel Rivals, the popular hero shooter, has grown to be one of the top titles in the genre, taking notes from iconic shooters like Overwatch and enhancing them for a highly engaging gameplay with iconic Marvel Heroes. However, as players swing, blast, and brawl their way through matches, many are demanding new features inspired by titans like Valorant, Fortnite, and Apex Legends.Requests include more complex progression systems, various game modes such as battle royale or capture-the-flag versions, and improved social tools to compete with the polish of established shooters. The communitys demand for expansion indicates a desire to see Marvel Rivals grow beyond its promising start and become a genre heavyweight.Cosmetics have inspired their own frenzy in addition to the gameplay buzz. Skins such as Spider-Mans sleek Insomniac PS5 costume and Thors Reborn from Ragnarok have users grinding the quests or spending Units to customize their heroes. However, when it comes to spending a buck to grab your own skin, players have demanded that the game should also allow you to gift cosmetics to your friends as well. Good news that may soon be a reality according to the latest teases by NetEase devs.Marvel Rivals devs tease Cosmetic Gifting feature is coming soonMarvel Games Executive Producer Danny Koo has finally hinted that cosmetic gifting is planned to be released in Marvel Rivals in the future. The dev took to his X page to respond to multiple fan queries with the latest Clone Rumble event update, where one fan posed a question, Can we get a gifting system?Marvel Rivals producer hints at gifting coming soon. Image by VideoGamer.Of course, the player here seems to be familiar with cosmetic gifting in multiplayer games like Fortnite where the game lets you gift skins, bundles and even a battle pass to your friends. In response to the X post, Koo responded, Its on the todo list.This confirms that Marvel Rivals will very soon get its own cosmetic and battle pass gifting system in a future update that players have been waiting for ever since the release of the game. However, a much crucial issue was pointed out by one of the users under the X thread where they said, I just want my skins to be used between my Xbox account and PC. Dont want to have to purchase twice.Some players have also raised the issue of Cross Progression across platforms since most multiplayer games support that option. Without it, the game is simply locking players behind a paywall for each platform, which requires you to grind all over again on a different platform to either reach your current rank or unlock event-based rewards.Marvel RivalsPlatform(s):macOS, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series XGenre(s):Fighting, ShooterRelated TopicsMarvel Rivals Subscribe to our newsletters!By subscribing, you agree to our Privacy Policy and may receive occasional deal communications; you can unsubscribe anytime.Share

No luck Hunting them Monsters then?The weekend has rolled around once more so it's time for another edition of What Are You Playing!After last week's Pok-fest, it's been a slightly quieter one in Nintendo land over recent days. The Game Boy NSO library was treated to a duo of new titles, Nintendo started slashing some prices ahead of MAR10 Day and we finally got the official announcement of the worst-kept secret in the biz, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4.Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Barclays is once again suffering from technical problems Getty ImagesOne of the U.K.s biggest banks, Barclays, is once again having problems with its apps, with customers unable to transfer funds or make payments.The problems started at around 7am GMT, according to the Down Detector website, which is showing a sharp spike in reported outages.The Down Detector site shows thousands of reports of Barclays problemsBarry Collins/Down DetectorThe failure is causing big problems for customers who need to transfer money to pay for goods or services. Trying to move money from my savings account to my current account, and it says it cant do it as they [sic] system is down, reports one Barclays customer on Down Detector.Other customers are reporting that wages or salaries havent appeared in their accounts, as expected.The Barclays service status acknowledges the problem, saying: Were sorry, some customers may be having issues making or receiving payments at the moment. Were working to fix this.Barclays Down AgainIts the second time in a matter of weeks that Barclays has suffered a significant outage. In late January, the banks online services were plagued with technical issues for three days. The failure coincided with a deadline to pay income tax in the U.K., leaving many customers unable to make the necessary payments.It was reported earlier this week that the bank would be paying up to 7.5 million in compensation to customers who were affected by the January outage. In total, it could be paying 12.5 million for all the outages that have occurred over the past couple of years, British MPs were told.The company told MPs that the failure in January resulted in just over half of online payments failing. The failure was attributed to a severe degradation in the performance of the companys mainframe computer.In an FAQ on its website, Barclays insisted that this was a technical issue and not related to a cyber-attack or malicious activity.More Banking FailuresBarclays is far from the only U.K. bank to suffer from IT failures recently. At the end of February, Lloyds, Halifax, TSB and Bank of Scotland all went down at the same time, with customers unable to log into the online banking service or use the companys app. Many of the banks are part of the same group.The matter was resolved within a couple of hours, although it wasnt clear what the cause of the problem was on this occasion.Problems with online banking services are exacerbated by the ongoing closure of many high street bank branches in the U.K., with customers often unable to visit a bank in person to make payments or take out money.A report published earlier this year by the U.K. parliament showed that there were 21,643 bank branches in the U.K. in 1986. That number had fallen to 6,870 by 2024.The closure of branches is hardest felt in rural areas, where only just over a third of customers are within three miles of a bank or building society branch.

Jade Cargill (Photo by WWE/Getty Images)WWE via Getty ImagesSo, it really was Naomi who attacked Jade Cargill in November 2024.Cargill had been off WWE programming rehabbing a real injury and honing her skills, but the promotion cooked up an awesome storyline to explain her absence.Cargill returned with a vengeance at Elimination Chamber on March 1. She attacked Naomi at the start of the match, slamming her head in the chamber door before exiting while Bianca Belairher former tag team partnerwatched in horror from her pod.The revenge attack was pulled off in a way that left some doubt as to whether Cargill had targeted the right person. Based on the confession Naomi gave in the middle of the ring on Friday Night SmackDown, it appears Cargill got the culprit.Naomi confessed to attacking Cargill. She said she wished she had pushed her harder and called Belair an ungrateful b**** before Cargill arrived and set off another beating on her attacker.Take a look at the scene. Note the attires and the messaging being delivered with every ounce of the visuals.Bianca began the segment dressed modestly, almost as if she was in mourning. It was a solid touch, considering she was supposed to be distraught over the discord between mutual friends.She might have struggled a bit at the beginning of the mic work, but she found her stride a little earlier than midway through the promo. Once Naomi got there, business picked up, and so did the overall quality of the segment.Naomi dug deep. The underrated WWE veteran mustered up real tears, voice breaks, and the kind of posture befitting the situation. Im not sure what place Naomi had to go to mentally to convey this emotion, but she did it.Sensing the challenge from her friend and counterpart, Bianca upped her game and found her groove. Naomi became appropriately more vicious as the desperation set in, with Bianca turning her back on her.Once Cargill arrived, she walked past Bianca in a way that suggested there was still tension between the two former partners. When she reached Naomi, all hell broke loose, and Cargill ended the segment by hitting Jaded on the turncoat, who masterfully called out Bianca! as she was face-first on her way to the canvas.PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - MARCH 07: Jade Cargill with Jaded on Naomi during SmackDown at the ... [+] Wells Fargo Center on March 7, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Craig Melvin/WWE via Getty Images)WWE via Getty ImagesSomething tells me there is more on the way from this angle. I dont believe it will be as simple as a Naomi heel turn and thats it. I predict Cargill will also turnor, if I stick to my original prediction, Bianca could still be the mastermind behind it all.If there is something Id like to see, its some incorporation of Montez Ford, Biancas real-life husband, into her story. That angle hasnt ever been explored, and it seems like a good time to see if there is some life there.In any case, this was good work and more strong storytelling from WWE. The promotion is on fire right now. Enjoy it, wrestling fans.

Apples efforts with putting advanced AI capabilities across its ecosystem, the way Google has implemented them with Gemini, have a lot of ground left to cover. Among them is the Siri virtual assistant, which has remained a laggard and still hasnt received the features Apple showcased at its developers conference last year.Now, the company has officially confirmed that an overhauled Siri, one that can access locally stored user data and interact with apps, has been delayed until next year. Internally known as LLM Siri, the next-gen makeover might not fully arrive until next year, but the delay could extend well into 2027.Recommended VideosWeve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it more awareness of your personal context, as well as the ability to take action for you within and across your apps. Its going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year, an Apple spokesperson was quoted as saying by Daring Fireball.Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsApple was reportedly eyeing an April launch for the upgraded Siri experience, which was expected to arrive with the iOS 18.4 update. Top Apple executives including senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi have voiced concerns about the planned features misfiring during internal tests, reports Bloomberg.Please enable Javascript to view this contentApparently, some employees think the planned roadmap might be nixed altogether, forcing Apple to start from the ground up. As a stop-gap solution, Apple inked a deal with OpenAI to offer ChatGPT capabilities on iPhones and Mac, integrating it with Siri as part of the Apple Intelligence stack.Despite ChatGPT bringing advanced language and multimodal capabilities such as image generation and file analysis, Siri is still missing a few crucial features that could truly lift the functional experience. For example, it still cant take a look at user data and offer contextual responses, nor can it interact deeply with installed applications.Siri is currently piggybacking on ChatGPT. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital TrendsGoogles Gemini, which is now available natively on top-end Android devices, can tap into the data stored across its Workspace products such as Gmail, Docs, Maps, and even YouTube. Moreover, using a system of extensions, it can turn voice commands into actionable steps across different apps, including third-party apps such as Spotify.Apple has clearly missed the train, and the latest delays dont paint a particularly good picture of the innovation streak at the company. However, it is making some progress elsewhere. The company recently partnered with Alibaba and Baidu in China to speed up the development of Apple Intelligence for the local market.Editors Recommendations

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When it comes to costs, skiing in Italy is typically much cheaper.A restaurant on the mountain where drinks were six euros. Monica Humphries/Business Insider I haven't found many ski resorts in Colorado that offer lift tickets cheaper than $100. Popular resorts like Breckenridge, Vail, and Snowmass have tickets hovering closer to $250 a day.In Italy, lift tickets were drastically cheaper. My ticket was just over $70 a day.Lower costs seemed to be the theme during my trip to the Dolomites. Ski and snowboard rentals were cheaper, and food was more affordable. On the slopes in Colorado, it's tough to get a meal for less than $30, but in Italy, meals cost about half that.After doing quick math, I realized that traveling all the way to Italy to snowboard in the Dolomites was cheaper than a weekend in Aspen.Colorado has stunning views but can't compete with Italy's mountainscapes.The reporter's friend skiing in the Dolomites. Monica Humphries/Business Insider I'll never stop talking about Colorado's beauty. The striking Rocky Mountains are why I left New York City and moved to Denver.So, while I know it's a privilege to spend weekends snowboarding down the state's stunning mountains, I have to admit that the Dolomites were even more impressive.In terms of views, the mountain's 18 peaks are much more jagged. As I snowboarded on and around them, gorgeous views were in every direction. I felt like I was in the mountains, whereas in Colorado, I feel like I'm often viewing the mountains.The Dolomites also take on a pinkish hue at sunrise and sunset each evening colors I've never seen in mountains before.Italy's ski culture was a blast and something I haven't experienced in Colorado.Aprs in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Monica Humphries/Business Insider From the top of the mountain, my friend and I could hear the bass of a nearby DJ. Every few minutes, a crowd would cheer. Instinctively, we followed the sound and ended up at an aprs spot where a group of a hundred people were jamming to music.We grabbed cheap drinks (cheaper than anything we'd find on a Colorado slope) and spent the next hour dancing.Rarely do moments like that happen in Colorado. Recently, I ended up at a mountainside DJ set in Steamboat Springs. As I looked around, only a handful of people were there for the music. Instead, most people were there to enjoy the views and sip beers.It seems that aprs isn't the focus on mountains in Colorado. Meanwhile, practically every skier in Italy participates in the experience.Getting to and from the slopes in Italy doesn't involve hours of traffic.A long line of traffic on Colorado's I-70 highway. Monica Humphries/Business Insider Getting to and from the mountains in Denver is an absolute drag. I have friends who wake up at 5 a.m. to make it on the first lift at 9 a.m.On most weekends in the winter, what should be a one-and-a-half-hour drive typically turns into a three- or four-hour drive. The traffic is a nightmare.While popular towns like Cortina d'Ampezzo can get congested with cars, the region doesn't seem to have nearly the same issue that skiers face in Colorado.While Italy has some wins, Colorado has plenty of appeal, especially in terms of snow.A snowy lift ride in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Monica Humphries/Business Insider Of course, regions have good years and bad years, but the snow and conditions in Colorado tend to be better than in Italy.According to OnTheSnow, Colorado's annual snowfall is, on average, 215 inches. Italy, on the other hand, gets closer to 55 inches annually. More specifically, as of Saturday, Cortina d'Ampezzo's snowpack had a maximum of 14 inches, and the Rio Pusteria - Bressanone area had 12.In Colorado, I typically ski at Copper, which has a maximum of 70 inches, and other popular destinations like Steamboat have closer to 99 inches.In Cortina d'Ampezzo, I slipped and slid down icy runs and longed for the fresh powder my friends were enjoying back home in Colorado.Colorado's resorts tend to have a wider variety of runs.A skier on a mogul run. raclro/Getty Images I can spend a morning in trees, an afternoon on bumpy moguls, and end the day on groomed runs at the same resort in Colorado.In Italy, the variety of runs was limited to groomed trails. While skiers and snowboarders can go off-piste, or backcountry skiing, I wasn't comfortable with that, so I stuck to groomed trails for my week of snowboarding.And since the ski areas I visited in Italy sit above the tree line, tree runs don't exist.My visit to Italy made me appreciate the variety of snowboarding I have back home in Colorado.Italy's resorts were disconnected, which isn't typically the case in Colorado.Where the reporter waited for a cab to take her to another area of Cortina d'Ampezzo. Monica Humphries/Business Insider The Dolomiti Superski area has 12 separate resorts covering 1,150 square miles. While driving between resorts can take hours, navigating a single resort can also be tough.Both resorts I visited weren't traversable on skis or snowboards. In Cortina d'Ampezzo, for example, my friend and I had to call a cab to get to another part of the resort. Plus, the town's buses only ran a few times a day, so public transportation wasn't an option.It was a similar experience in Rio Pusteria - Bressanone. We skipped an entire area of the resort mainly because there wasn't an easy way to get there.This is drastically different from my Colorado experience. Every resort I've visited in Colorado is skiable and connected once you're on the mountain. Sure, it might take some time, but you rarely have to get on a bus or call a cab to reach a part of the mountain.This makes exploring swaths of terrain easier, faster, and cheaper in Colorado compared to Italy.Both destinations are worth a visit, but if you're a serious skier, I recommend Colorado. If you're looking for a vacation, visit Italy.The reporter and her friend in the Dolomites. Monica Humphries/Business Insider Unsurprisingly, both regions have their perks. Overall, my trip to Italy felt like a well-rounded experience. I enjoyed delicious pasta, sipped on cheap spritzes at the top of mountains, and spent afternoons at DJ sets all while getting in some fun snowboarding runs.However, I think Colorado wins if you consider the sport itself. The snow is better, the runs are more varied, and the mountains are easy to navigate.

2025-03-08T10:42:02Z Read in app Deepnight founders Lucas Young and Thomas Li demonstrate the power of their algorithm on a photo taken under the new moon. Deepnight This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? Deepnight raises $5.5M to revolutionize military night vision with AI technology.It claims current night vision relies on outdated hardware, limiting its effectiveness and cost.Night vision goggles are still "esoteric hardware," Deepnight's cofounder told BI.AI is rapidly changing the face of military technology, enabling innovations like autonomous drones and software for managing field logistics.One area that still remains outdated, however, is military night vision a critical capability for navigating covert operations, reconnaissance, and targeting adversaries.A startup tackling the problem through AI has caught the attention of notable investors.Deepnight made a splash last week by announcing it had raised $5.5 million in funding. The round was led by Initialized Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Vladlen Koltun a computer scientist who coauthored "Learning to See in the Dark," a seminal paper on using AI for low-light imaging angel investor Kulveer Taggar, Brian Shin, a former partner at the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, and Matthew Bellamy, lead singer of the band Muse. The company has also landed $4.6 million in contracts from the US Army, Air Force, and private sector companies Sionyx and SRI International.Deepnight's innovation combines low-light cameras with a novel AI image processing model that improves low-light imagery and can run on just a smartphone. The company plans to use its technology to mass produce higher-performance digital night vision goggles at a fraction of the cost of current technology.Google alums Lucas Young and Thomas Li launched the company through Y Combinator in 2023. The founders are childhood friends from New Jersey who stayed in touch as they attended college in California. Young went to Cal Polytechnic State University, where he specialized in computer vision, and went on to research computer vision problems at Meta and Google. Li went to the University of California, Berkeley, studied electrical engineering and computer science, and worked on machine learning systems at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lyft, and Google.When hardware becomes softwareThe US Army began using night vision during the Vietnam War in the form of "starlight" scopes. These 6 lb. scopes were bulky, hard to use, and relied solely on ambient light and basic hardware to enhance the visual contrast of images. The technology has progressed since then, but incumbents like L3Harris still rely on hardware like image intensifiers to convert available light into electrons, amplify them, and then convert them back into visible light to improve images.Young told Business Insider that current night vision goggles fall into a category he calls "esoteric hardware." He said, "military night vision currently is sort of stuck in the same technology valley as analog record players or film cameras."Deepnight saw this as an opportunity for reinvention. The key, Young said, was reframing it from a hardware problem into one that could be solved through software by improving how cameras encode light into a digital signal."We're now doing the digital transition," Young said. "That digital signal is super corrupt and limited, so that's why we've made an AI model that processes that and rectifies the corruption of that."Deepnight aims to cut the cost of night vision goggles which currently run tens of thousands of dollars down to $2,000, Young wrote by email. The company aims to build technology for both defense and commercial customers, where it's seeing growing interest in applications for consumer drones, smartphones, and advanced driver assistance systems in cars. An "AI model is the cheapest possible way to see in the dark and is thereby scalable to many applications besides military," Young wrote to BI by email.The simplicity of the company's concept has attracted investors, but Young said skepticism has also been a natural part of the process. "It should be incumbent upon us to just prove that this works with undeniable, awesome demos that are rigorously metricized," he said.Deepnight has turned model evaluation into a company ritual. Every new moon, the team drives to the outskirts of San Francisco to collect nighttime footage, using it to improve the accuracy and reliability of its models, one lunar cycle at a time.See the pitch deck Deepnight used to raise money. Deepnight Deepnight Deepnight Deepnight Deepnight Deepnight Deepnight Deepnight Deepnight