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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Jan. 30.
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Work up a sweat at home and save money with these CNET expert-recommended workout apps.
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Portland offers plenty of options for fast and affordable internet. These are the top picks for broadband providers, according to CNET's experts.
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 AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people. But there's more to the story than the results, underpinning how difficult it is to put "creativity" in a measurable box.
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Apple shared its latest quarterly financial results today and the news is once again very, very good for the Cupertino company. The quarter ending December 27, 2025 marked "the best-ever quarter" for iPhones, which generated a record high revenue of nearly $85.27 billion for the business. Apple doesn't disclose the number of devices sold any more, but even with the prices for many of its latest generation of smartphones surpassing $1,000 a pop, that's still got to be a heck of a lot of iPhones.
"The demand for iPhone was simply staggering," CEO Tim Cook said on the conference call to discuss the results. "This is the strongest iPhone lineup we've ever had and by far the most popular."
That wasn't the only massive number in the earnings report. Services revenue also logged its biggest quarter yet, growing 14 percent over the same period last year to reach just over $30 billion. It was also Apple's biggest quarter to date for total revenue, which was nearly $143.76 billion for the already fabulously wealthy company.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/apple-just-reported-its-best-ever-quarter-for-iphone-sales-234135513.html?src=rss
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Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for Jan. 30 #964.
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Google's polarizing generative AI summaries that appear at the top of search results are particularly unpopular among publishers. Regulatory intervention in the UK may offer them a way out.
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OpenAI's discussions with Microsoft, Nvidia, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and others could value it at $750 billion or more.
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The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2025. The "vast majority" of that content was reported by Amazon, which found the material in its training data, according to an investigation by Bloomberg. In addition, Amazon said only that it obtained the inappropriate content from external sources used to train its AI services and claimed it could not provide any further details about where the CSAM came from.
"This is really an outlier," Fallon McNulty, executive director of NCMEC's CyberTipline, told Bloomberg. The CyberTipline is where many types of US-based companies are legally required to report suspected CSAM. "Having such a high volume come in throughout the year begs a lot of questions about where the data is coming from, and what safeguards have been put in place." She added that aside from Amazon, the AI-related reports the organization received from other companies last year included actionable data that it could pass along to law enforcement for next steps. Since Amazon isn't disclosing sources, McNulty said its reports have proved "inactionable."
"We take a deliberately cautious approach to scanning foundation model training data, including data from the public web, to identify and remove known [child sexual abuse material] and protect our customers," an Amazon representative said in a statement to Bloomberg. The spokesperson also said that Amazon aimed to over-report its figures to NCMEC in order to avoid missing any cases. The company said that it removed the suspected CSAM content before feeding training data into its AI models.
Safety questions for minors have emerged as a critical concern for the artificial intelligence ind
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 Apple today announced financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2026, which corresponds to the fourth calendar quarter of 2025.
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Two Elon Musk companies are reportedly planning to merge. On Thursday, Reuters reported that SpaceX and xAI are holding merger talks ahead of a planned IPO. Part of their plan is to launch AI data centers into space (but unfortunately, only as far as Earth's orbit).
Last week, it was reported that Musk planned to take SpaceX public despite having once said it wouldn't happen until the company had a presence on Mars. Now, the IPO could happen as early as this year. Shares of xAI would reportedly be exchanged for shares in SpaceX under the merger. Reuters reports that two entities were set up in Nevada on January 21 to facilitate the deal.
If the idea of two Musk companies becoming one sounds familiar, that's because it happened less than a year ago. In March 2025, xAI bought X, putting Grok (known for nonconsensual "nudifying" images) and X (infamous for being a far-right hellscape) together under one unholy roof.
The latest idea Musk is pitching is blasting AI data centers off into spa
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 The launch of Apple Creator Studio on Wednesday would have been a fitting opportunity for Apple to unveil new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, but unfortunately it looks like that was nothing more than wishful thinking.
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 On an earnings call with equity analysts today, Apple CEO Tim Cook responded to fast-rising RAM and SSD storage chip prices in the supply chain.
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For now, the beta feature works only with Boost Mobile in the US and on two iPhones and one iPad, Apple says.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into the incident.
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Tesla sends the Model S and Model X to live on a farm upstate, canceling its two longest-running EVs to make way for an autonomous, robotic future.
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Beijing reportedly approved the sale of hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H200 chips to Chinese AI companies—the culmination of a dramatic shift in US tech policy.
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If you're in Austin and you're trying to ride in a truly driverless Tesla robotaxi, you may be on a wild goose chase.
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The child sustained minor injuries, according to the self-driving company. The NHTSA is looking into the incident and Waymo's response.
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The New England Patriots are headed to the 2026 Super Bowl. (Lauren Leigh Bacho via Getty Images)
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Drake Maye and the New England Patriots face Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks at Super Bowl LX, which will be held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA this year. For those of you who don't have your calendars blocked off already, the game is on February 8, with kickoff scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET.
Like all other Sunday Night Football games this season, the championship game will be broadcast on NBC, and will stream live on Peacock. (Oh, and in case the Super Bowl isn't enough for you, you can catch coverage of the Winter Olympics all morning and after the football game on NBC, too!) Here's everything you need to know to tune in to Super Bowl LX on February 8, including the game channel, where to stream, and who's performing at halftime.
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Waymo plans a London robotaxi pilot in April and hopes to open rides to paying passengers as soon as September, pending UK regulatory approval.
The post Waymo's Driverless Taxis Could Hit London Streets Later This Year appeared first on eWEEK.
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The OnePlus 15 is technically the better phone, but for many people, the lower-cost OnePlus 15R could be the smarter buy.
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You still need Prime Video to watch season 2.
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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the news that's held our attention this week: ICE activity as it's been unfolding in Minnesota.
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The government agency has launched an investigation into the incident, with one focus on whether customers were unable to reach 911 in emergencies.
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NEW RESOURCES Mother Jones: Who Takes Palantir's Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.. "Palantir Payroll, the product of an effort by the campaign Purge Palantir, compiles data from FEC filings to account […]
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Watch more backstabbing and deception in the hit competition series.
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NEW RESOURCES Stats and R: nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs. "I am pleased to announce the release of nycOpenData, an R package providing convenient, tidy access to […]
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That old adage of eight glasses of water a day is outdated.
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 Apple today updated its Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro apps, and there are many new features in both the one-time purchase and Apple Creator Studio versions.
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A new year is the perfect time to get your spending in order, and if you're not trying to build your own spreadsheet, budgeting apps are one of the best ways to do it. To save yourself some money in the process, you can pick up a year-long subscription to Monarch Money, one of Engadget's favorite budgeting apps, for just $50 if you use code NEWYEAR2026 at checkout and you're a new subscriber. That's a 50 percent discount on the service's normal $100 price.
Monarch Money makes for a capable and detailed budgeting companion. You can use the service via apps for iOS, Android, iPadOS or the web, and Monarch also offers a Chrome extension that can sync your Amazon and Target transactions and automatically categorize them. Like other budgeting apps, Monarch Money lets you connect multiple financial accounts and track your money based on where you spend it over time. Monarch offers two different approaches to tracking budgeting (flexible and category budgeting) depending on what fits your life best, and the ability to add a budget widget on your phone so you can know how you're tracking that month.
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 Apple has lost its long-held position as TSMC's largest customer in 2026 amid surging demand for AI chips, CNBC reports.
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 Users of Apple's latest iPhone and iPad Pro models who have been beta testing iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 may want to hold off on updating to the third betas released earlier this week, as several Continuity-related features are currently broken on these devices.
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Commentary: With new US ownership, the magic of TikTok's algorithm appears to have run out. And so has my interest.
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 There has been increasing discussion about Tim Cook eventually stepping down as Apple's CEO, but reports have offered differing timelines.
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NEW RESOURCES Panini Cultura News: From Stone to Digital: The online Archive celebrating Pinuccio Sciola's genius. "The Foundation bearing his name has presented the Pinuccio Sciola Digital Archive, a project that makes […]
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