The New York Times is launching a hall of fame for the Mini Crossword. 25 solvers will get a spot by submitting scores from August 14th and August 21st, and if you make it into the hall of fame, you’ll get a personalized mini trophy that the NYT designed in collaboration with Kazuya Washio.
The platform saw an average of 91.2 million “daily active uniques” in the second quarter of 2024, which it says is “an all-time high and an increase of 51% year-over-year.” Seems last year’s protests may not have done all that much to drive users away long term.
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The release notes for both iOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 mention that Apple Intelligence isn’t currently available in China, but only the iOS 18.1 notes specify that Apple Intelligence is currently available in the EU, either, as observed by 9to5Mac.
Apple has already said that it doesn’t think it will launch Apple Intelligence in the EU this year due to regulatory concerns.
Fall Guys is now in Fortnite thanks to a new crossover announced by Epic Games (which operates both games). As part of the crossover, there’s a Fall Guys course you can play on the battle royale island. (Your current outfit will become bean-ified when you do.) Epic is also letting creators use the Unreal Editor for Fortnite to build Fall Guys levels that you can play within Fortnite.
Masnick, the founder of Techdirt, wrote the “protocols, not platforms” paper that inspired Twitter to kick off the Bluesky project in 2019.
“It is, of course, exciting to see thoughts I’ve expressed for how to fix the Internet actually start to become tangible reality, which is why I’m excited to be involved with Bluesky to help it continue to move forward,” Masnick says.
That’s a message from former editor-in-chief Matt Miller via a post on Game Informer’s X account. “Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye, written by a former Game Informer member,” the post starts, seemingly confirming that the Game Informer shutdown message posted Friday wasn’t written by staff.
However, after the tweet was posted, Game Informer’s X account was deleted. We’ve contacted GameStop for comment.
Update: Game Informer’s X account has been deleted.
Actor Natasha Chandel, who has done voiceover work for games like Starfield and Valorant, listed “Project White Sands” from Valve on her resume (archived link, because her site reached its bandwidth limit) before removing the listing once people discovered it, reports Eurogamer.
Valve didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. But now I have another game to keep unreasonable hopes for.
The tool, announced last year, lets you write and edit projects, make wikis, and collaborate with teammates during meetings (assuming you’re not all already sitting in a shared Google Doc, of course).
It has AI-powered features, too. For example, with a prompt, Zoom Docs can generate a document based on the discussion that took place during a meeting.
