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Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #1660)

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #1157)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Dual scaled y-axis with ggplot()

I have often found myself needing to plot a single graph with two y-axes having different scales. For example, this might be useful for representing temperature and rainfall data at a given location. ...

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Introducing the Developer Device Platform for agentic mobile app development

Most enterprises connect with their customers through a device. Whether it’s using a mobile app to order a product, contact customer service, view content, or manage their account, the customer experi...

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

I asked Gemini if my chicken salad was still good: it saved itself and my stomach

A simple question about the freshness of chicken salad turned into a broader learning experience about AI's own safety nets.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

You Can (Maybe) Run Meta's Latest AI Model Locally on Your Computer

Muse Glimmer is designed to run locally—if your hardware can keep up.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Meta’s Ray-Bans are being banned from pubs, restaurants, and theatres

A growing number of UK venues have decided to act against privacy-busting smart glasses. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

TSMC reportedly has $1 billion of Apple chips awaiting delivery of DRAM — will this be what powers the iPhone 18 Pro?

A billion dollars of Apple's 2nm chips are stuck at TSMC because the memory has not arrived, with Apple's own packaging choice the reason why they cannot just be stockpiled and finished later.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

'It's not an OLED-killer yet': I tested Hisense’s affordable RGB TV, and while I like its picture quality and performance, it surprisingly falls short in the area I had the highest hopes for

The Hisense UR8 is one of the first affordable RGB mini-LED models available, but while it improves over mini-LED in a few ways, it struggles to impress in one key area.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Should you wait for the Google Pixel 11? Here's everything you should consider and how I'd spend my money

Google is gearing up to launch new Pixel 11 phones, but the Pixel 10 won't be going away anytime soon. Should you wait for the new model or buy now?

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Before you throw out your old USB drives, do this first

Deleting old files before throwing a storage device away actually offers very little protection.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

An OpenClaw agent reportedly hacked a gym's booking system and kicked someone off a waiting list

This is just the latest story of an AI agent going rogue.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

How to watch FEI World Championships 2026: free live streams, TV channels, schedule

As the 10th edition of the games heads back to Aachen in Germany, here's how to watch FEI World Championships 2026 from anywhere with free streams explained.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026

At Google Cloud, we help organizations of all sizes build and operationalize complex agentic workflows with total confidence. By combining world-class AI research with an open, fully integrated AI pla...

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

How Malachyte solves retail’s cold-start problem with managed real-time AI

What’s the best way to recommend products to little-known users?  We’ve spent our careers trying to solve this problem for major companies like Spotify and Priceline, and it’s why Sidd founded Malachy...

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

How WPP operationalizes platform and data engineering for AI marketing

Between chaotic levels of market fragmentation and economic volatility, marketing and communications agencies can no longer rely on the human intuition they’ve traditionally used to win clients and op...

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Alienware 15 (2026) review: exceptional performance at a remarkable price... just ignore the single-channel RAM

"Budget" and "Alienware". Polar opposites? Maybe, but this latest 15-inch gaming laptop from the premium brand has enough performance to keep even the most die-hard of value gaming enthusiasts happy.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

We spend £1.6bn a year on subscriptions we don’t want — fast tracked UK Government policy promises to make cancelling them easier, and will make ‘phoney bargains’ illegal

Andy Burnham government tackling ‘phoney bargains’ and ‘making it as easy to leave a subscription as it is to join’

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

I compared the iPhone Ultra's rumored screen sizes to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: which of these foldables would you rather buy?

The iPhone Ultra looks set to have very similar size screens to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, but there could still be some notable differences.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min

Age verification failed. Regulating VPNs won't fix it

Regulators are targeting VPNs to enforce age checks, but that confuses the symptom with the real problem.

Aug 10, 2026 • 5 min