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A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, July 13 (game #497).
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 for the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Strands today (game #498) - hint #1 - today's themeWhat is the theme of today's NYT Strands?• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Won't you be my neighbor?
NYT Strands today (game #498) - hint #2 - clue wordsPlay any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
- TORY
- LIAR
- RIFE
- FAIL
- HEAR
- RENT
• Spangram has 9 letters
NYT Strands today (game #498) - hint #4 - spangram positionWhat are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?First side: left, 4th row
Last side: right, 4th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #498) - the answers(Image credit: New York Times)The answers to today's Strands, game #498, are…
- TEACHER
- MAYOR
- JANITOR
- LIBRARIAN
- FIREFIGHTER
- SPANGRAM: COMMUNITY
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 1 hint
Although TEACHER was easy to spot – hanging out very visibly in the top left-hand corner – the rest of today's answers posed quite the word search challenge.
With the exception of MAYOR, every word was hard to work out, with JANITOR taking me quite a while – although I can use a cultural differences excuse here, as I am in the UK and we call this profession a caretaker.
That said I am very familiar with the word thanks to the opening titles of the Hanna Barbera cartoon Hong Kong Phooey and its introduction of “Henry the mild mannered janitor”.
Meanwhile, after a run of sensible, straight, and short spangrams we have returned to experimentation with today’s yellow snake ending in the middle of the puzzle. Crazy.
How did you do today? Let me know in the comments below.
Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday, July 13, game #497)- LINEN
- WOOL
- SILK
- COTTON
- RAYON
- POLYESTER
- SPANGRAM: TEXTILES
Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.
- Samsung has been talking about future wearables
- Earrings and necklaces could be developed
- Several companies are working on portable AI devices
Samsung has big plans for more wearables: not just in the form of the newly launched Galaxy Watch 8 and the much anticipated Galaxy Ring 2, but also in more innovative products such as smart earrings and smart necklaces.
Speaking to CNN (via Android Authority), Samsung mobile executive Won-joon Choi offered some thoughts on the next wave of wearable devices we might see – and how these devices could differ from what we have today.
"We believe [these devices] should be wearable, something that you shouldn’t carry, [that] you don’t need to carry," says Choi. "So it could be something that you wear, glasses, earrings, watches, rings and sometimes [a] necklace."
This is a long way from confirmation that a Samsung Galaxy Earring or Necklace is on the way, but it's clear that Samsung is looking into different types of technology, and weighing up what kind of device form factors could be beneficial for users.
Working and exploringThe Galaxy Watch 8 is Samsung's newest wearable (Image credit: Samsung)Smart glasses are also mentioned there, and Samsung has been rumored to be working on a pair of smart specs for quite some time now – ready to take on the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses – although nothing has been made official as yet.
Watch this space though: "We are actively working on glasses, but some people do not want to wear glasses because they change their look," says Choi in the interview. "So we are also exploring other types of devices."
No doubt some kind of AI processing will be involved in these future devices. We know that ChatGPT developer OpenAI is busy developing a hardware device that would enable you to carry an AI assistant with you, though several similar previous projects haven't worked.
Whatever these devices end up looking like, they're going to need long-lasting batteries, and we know that's something else Samsung is looking into. In the not-too-distant future, we may have a lot more wearable device types to choose from.
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- With 48GB of VRAM, it’s clearly built for demanding creative and AI inference tasks
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MaxSun has introduced what it claims is the industry's first compact workstation built around Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285HX processor, a chip based on the Arrow Lake-HX architecture.
The MaxSun Mini Station is a compact system intended for professionals handling AI inference, model deployment, or resource-heavy creative work.
The system includes two Arc Pro B60 GPUs from MaxSun, specifically the Milestone 24G model, each equipped with 24GB of video memory - together, they provide a total of 48GB VRAM, designed to support demanding workloads like large language model interactions and long-context scenarios such as Qwen3-32B.
Dual Arc GPUs push VRAM to 48GBThere are some questions over its practical compatibility and whether such GPU arrangements can scale efficiently across different software stacks, especially those outside of AI labs.
On the CPU front, MaxSun opted for the Core Ultra 9 285HX, a 24-core processor with 8 performance cores and 16 efficient cores.
This mobile-class chip, recontextualized for desktop through the MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) strategy, forms the foundation of the Mini Station.
The processor is not removable or upgradable, which imposes a fixed ceiling on long-term flexibility.
Although the hardware choice makes sense from a manufacturing standpoint, it may raise doubts for buyers.
In terms of connectivity, the Mini Station supports one M.2 PCIe 5.0 x4, two M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4, and two SlimSAS SFF-8654 4i PCIe 4.0 x4 interfaces - combined with dual Thunderbolt 5 and dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, the system delivers a theoretical throughput of 192Gbps.
These specs suggest real potential for external GPU setups or ultra-fast local storage, important factors for those looking for the best PC for video editing or complex simulations.
The MaxSun GPUs incorporate dual fans, composite heat pipes, and a metal backplate, which should ensure thermal stability.
However, this does not eliminate concerns over performance throttling in such a compact case.
Via ITHome and Videocardz
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