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Apple has officially launched the 2025 Swift Student Challenge

Apple’s Swift Student Challenge is officially open, with participants vying for the top prize — an all-inclusive three-day trip to Apple Park. Swift Student Challenge 2025 is now open Just as it did in 2024, Apple will select 350 winners in total and, recognize 50 of them as Distinguished Winners for their “outstanding submissions.” Distinguished Winners will need to demonstrate… Continue Reading

Judge swiftly tells Apple it can’t delay the Google trial

Apple’s motion for a stay on the forthcoming Google remedy trial has been quickly denied, meaning Apple will have little say in the potential end of its annual $20 billion iPhone search deal with the search giant. Google faces a remedy trail over its monopolistic practices At the conclusion of the Department of Justice’s case against the company, Google was… Continue Reading

Apple moves to open-source, unify Swift component across platforms

Apple has made the build system in its high-level programming language Swift — used by llbuild, the Swift Package Manager and Swift Playground — officially open source. Image credit: Apple Apple formally contributed the code of Swift Build to GitHub on February 1. The repository contributed by Apple also includes support for Windows and Linux, alongside Apple’s platforms. Build systems… Continue Reading

Amazon discounts Apple Studio Display to $1,299 to pair with new Mac deals

Amazon has introduced a fresh price drop on the Apple Studio Display for February, along with steeper price cuts on MacBooks and the M4 Mac mini that deliver up to $410 off. Save $300 on the Apple Studio Display. Expanding your screen real estate just got a little cheaper thanks to Amazon’s $300 price cut on the Apple Studio Display.… Continue Reading

Apple to drop prepaid multi-year AppleCare+, but keep subscription option

Apple products will continue to come with a year of AppleCare included in the purchase, but the company reportedly intends to move its extended AppleCare+ plan to a subscription-only model. AppleCare logo — Image credit: Apple A new report claims that Apple will stop offering extended AppleCare plans at retail worldwide, including its own Apple Stores. The AppleCare+ subscription option… Continue Reading

Apple prepares to launch Confetti calendar invite system at employees for testing

Apple’s secretive event and meeting invite app is advancing in development, with an internal iCloud deployment within the company expected as early as the week of February 3. Calendar app could get ‘Confetti’ The second developer beta of iOS 18.3 included references to an unreleased internal app for dealing with event scheduling. Now, it appears Apple is preparing to launch… Continue Reading

NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1324, Sunday, February 2

It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going. Don’t think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away. Want more… Continue Reading

Past Wordle answers – every solution so far, alphabetical and by date

Memorizing all of the past Wordle answers is nearly impossible – after all, there have now been more than 1,300 of them. But knowing what’s gone before is important, because Wordle answers don’t repeat – so you could easily be wasting guesses. What you need then, is a list of past Wordle answers, and that’s what I’ve made for you… Continue Reading

NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, February 2 (game #336)

Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints. Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page… Continue Reading

NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Sunday, February 2 (game #602)

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if… Continue Reading

Quordle today – my hints and answers for Sunday, February 2 (game #1105)

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers. Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today… Continue Reading

I used the OpenAI Operator rival Browser Use and it’s impressive, but takes some technical skill to use

OpenAI showed off its first AI Agent, Operator, last week, but it already has a scrappy competitor offering an AI tool called Browser Use that can complete tasks online for you. This Computer-Using Agent (CUA) can write, search, click buttons, and copy information from websites without you needing to touch the mouse or keyboard and without the $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro… Continue Reading

NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Saturday, February 1 (game #335)

NYT Connections today — my hints and answers for Saturday, February 1 (game #601)

Quordle today – my hints and answers for Saturday, February 1 (game #1104)

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