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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Oct. 22.
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Have you heard? The latest Microsoft Office suite has finally hit the virtual shelves, but you don't need to pay the nearly $250 price tag to make it yours. Just shop here and get Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business for $179.97 (reg. $249.99) on your PC or Mac—that's $70 in savings.
There are plenty of upgrades in this suite. For starters, your favorite Microsoft apps are getting a facelift, coming in hot with a brand-new default theme for a consistent user experience. Each app also has improved accessibility tools in its ribbon bar.
Check out a few of the features added to the newest version of Microsoft Office:
Word: New stencils and shapes and enhanced session recovery.
Excel: Reference Dynamic Arrays in c
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The Wall Street Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, and the New York Post are suing AI-powered search startup Perplexity for using their content to train its large language models. Both News Corp. publications are accusing Perplexity of copyright infringement for using their articles to generate answers to people's queries, thereby taking traffic away from the publications' websites. "This suit is brought by news publishers who seek redress for Perplexity's brazen scheme to compete for readers while simultaneously freeriding on the valuable content the publishers produce," the publishers wrote in their complaint, according to the Journal.
In their lawsuit, the publications argued that Perplexity can serve users not just snippets of copyrighted articles, but the whole thing, especially for those paying for its premium subscription plan. They cited an instance wh
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Here are some hints — and the answers — for Connections No. 499 for Oct. 22.
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 Qualcomm today unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform, which features a next-generation custom Qualcomm-designed Oryon CPU instead of the semi-custom Kryo Arm-based chips from prior SoCs. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 8 Elite features the "world's fastest mobile CPU," outperforming even the A18 Pro chip in the iPhone 16 Pro series.
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Here are some hints and the answer for Wordle No. 1,221 for Tuesday, Oct. 22.
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With iOS 18.1, Apple is adding a new set of hearing health features to the AirPods Pro 2. The iOS 18.1 release candidate for developers and public beta testers includes the full hearing aid functionality, so we thought we'd give it a try to see just how it works.
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Peripheral maker 8BitDo has revealed when you'll be able to get your hands on its 64 Controller. This is designed to work with the upcoming Analogue 3D, a remake of the Nintendo 64 that will support 4K output. Pre-orders for the $40 controller are open now. It comes in black or white to match the Analogue 3D and it will ship on March 19.
The peripheral appears to be a version of 8BitDo's Ultimate controller, albeit with only one thumbstick and six control buttons on the face — A, B and the four C buttons. There are four bumper buttons and it appears that you can use either trigger in place of the original N64 controller's Z button (the peripheral is fully remappable thanks to 8BitDo's Ultimate software).
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AirPods Pro 2 become hearing aids next week. After testing the software, it's clear Apple has something unique here.
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The first iOS release to include Apple Intelligence features is almost here.
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Apple iOS 18.1 is officially coming next week, bringing hearing aid software for the AirPods Pro 2 and Apple Intelligence across devices, multiple sources report, including The Wall Street Journal and Tech Crunch. The company previously released a beta version of the update in September. Here's what we know about iOS 18.1.
Let's start with the hearing
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 Disney is no longer allowing its customers to sign up for and purchase subscriptions to Hulu or Disney through Apple's App Store, cutting out any subscription fees that Disney would have needed to pay to Apple for using in-app purchase.
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 Apple may soon release new versions of the Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad, according to code found in the iOS 18.1 release candidate by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris.
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Afraid you might be too late to register to vote? Worry no more with this handy breakdown.
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If you're a primary back or stomach sleeper or you just prefer sleeping on something that's truly firm, Helix Dawn might be a good choice. Here's who our team thinks it'll work best for.
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 Along with new Apple Intelligence features, iOS 18.1 includes several bug fixes, and it addresses a frustrating bug that was causing some new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models to randomly restart.
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 The Wall Street Journal's Ben Cohen this summer interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook about the Vision Pro, innovation, Apple Intelligence, and more.
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 Apple has held an October event in three out of the past four years, but is an event this month still likely after today's surprise iPad mini 7 announcement?
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