Today’s Wordle hint and answer #702- Monday, May 22-

Improve your daily Wordle game in just a few minutes with our helpful selection of tips and tricks, or get yourself out of a tricky spot with our freshly written clue for the May 22 (702) game. If you need to save your win streak, you’re in the right place because today’s Wordle answer is ready and waiting just below.

I had a really close call today. Lots of cases of the right letters in the wrong places, with most of my follow-up guesses leaving me in pretty much the exact same situation. The good news was by the time I really started to panic, I’d ruled out enough letters and valid spaces for the yellows I had floating around the board for it to all make sense and unearthed today’s Wordle answer through a process of elimination.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Monday, May 22

Wordle needs you to enter the name of a small domed hut or shelter made entirely from cut blocks of snow if you want to win today. Three of today’s five letters a…

Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, August 11-

Your Sunday Wordle help is right here. Let our hint for the August 11 (1149) game guide your guesses, or go look at the answer to today’s puzzle if things aren’t going your way. Whether you’re enjoying the process or just want to take a look at the winning word, we have it covered.

Oh, I almost had that in two. Then I almost had it in three. Then I actually had it in four. I’m sure being one letter off the right word is worse than being nowhere near. I can’t help but feel like I was only a finger-slip away from a lightning-fast Wordle win there.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, August 11

This is a small, round, dense and unsweetened cake. It’s often split into two and eaten with jam and cream. Nobody can agree on the order of these items, or how to pronounce this word.  

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Is there a double letter in Wordle today? 

No, there is no double letter in today’s puzzle. 

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UL announces the 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark for you to punish your rig with-

UL Solutions, the makers of the ever popular 3DMark benchmarking software, has announced 3DMark Steel Nomad. It’s set to replace the now aging Time Spy benchmark, and it’s sure to bring even the best rigs to their knees, as any new 3Dmark software should!

Steel Nomad is a heavy non-ray tracing cross-platform benchmark. It will support DirectX 12 via Windows, but also macOS and iOS using Metal, Android using Vulkan, and Linux using Vulkan. So far, only three screenshots have been teased and they certainly look good. For now we don’t have any information on the structure of the test(s), though a CPU test would seem likely.

Why doesn’t Steel Nomad support ray tracing? Well, there are the Speed Way and Port Royal benchmarks for that. Despite the industry and Nvidia in particular shouting about ray tracing from the rooftops, enabling it still incurs a hefty performance hit, and mid-tier graphics cards don’t yet have the horsepower to run ray traced games consistently, particu…

Today’s Wordle hint and answer #748- Friday, July 7-

Save your win streak in a single click with the answer to today’s Wordle, give every game a boost with our guess-improving tips and advice, or find direction with a clue written specifically for the July 7 (748) Wordle. However you want to win, we’ve got all you need right here.

This turned out to be a quick and easy Wordle for me; a simple case of two letters, three letters, then a win. Finding the answer that fast is still a bit of a pleasant shock even after playing daily, for goodness knows how long, although it does leave me wondering how to spend my idle PC time until tomorrow.

Today’s Wordle hint

A Wordle hint for Friday, July 7

The word you’re looking for today is the name of a delicious fried cake-like treat, often formed into a circular shape with a distinctive hole in the middle and then coated in various sprinkles and glazes. There are two different vowels to uncover. 

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With its kiddie audience rapidly growing up, Roblox is making a new category for 17+ games on the platform-

Roblox Corporation has announced the creation of a new category of experiences, which is what it calls the games people create on the platform, for people aged 17 and older. “17 to 24 year-olds are the fastest-growing group on Roblox, and in 2022, people over 17 made up 38% of our daily active users,” said Roblox in the announcement. “We’ve heard your feedback on wanting to be able to build experiences that feature more mature themes and storylines that appeal to older users”. 

Users wishing to create or take part in anything in this category will need to provide a selfie and a photo ID to Roblox. This means Roblox now has four categories of experience, starting at “All ages” (“infrequent mild violence and/or light unrealistic blood” allowed), then Ages 9+ (“mild violence, heavy unrealistic blood, and/or mild crude humor”), Ages 13+ (“moderate violence, light realistic blood, moderate crude humor, and/or unplayable gambling content”) and now the Ages 17+ band…

Microsoft accused of ‘negligent cybersecurity practices’ that ‘enabled Chinese espionage against the US government’-

After Microsoft admitted its Azure platform had been breached by Chinese hacking group Storm-0558, chairman and CEO of network security giant Tenable, Amit Yoran, took to Microsoft-owned social platform LinkedIn to air his grievances against Microsoft’s security practices.

Citing a letter sent by US Senator Ron Wyden to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Justice (DoJ), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently, Yoran calls for Microsoft to answer for the “lack of transparency” and a “repeated pattern of negligent cybersecurity practices, which has enabled Chinese espionage against the United States government” (via The Verge).

That’s quite the accusation, and the Google Project Zero numbers seem to add insult to injury, as Yoran notes “Microsoft products have accounted for an aggregate 42.5% of all zero days discovered since 2014”.

Yoran’s main argument centres around the Azure hack. He says members of Tenable’s res…

Why you shouldn’t expect Apple’s new uber-bright 1000-nit ‘Tandem’ OLED screen tech to hit the PC any time soon-

Apple has rolled out its latest iPad Pro and apart from the new M4 chip, which is pretty interesting in its own right, the highlight is undoubtedly its new dual-layer OLED display, known in Apple parlance as Tandem OLED. Capable of 1,000 nits sustained full-screen brightness and 1,600 nits peak HDR, it blows away any OLED PC monitor for sheer brightness. Even the best current OLED large-format desktop panels top out at about 250 nits full screen.

So, the immediate question is whether Apple’s dual-layer OLED tech could make the transition to desktop or even laptop PCs. But that seems unlikely. The main reasons are cost and complexity.

For starters, the Tandem OLED panel uses two OLED panels stacked atop one another. Current PC OLED monitors are expensive enough with just one. The cost of two panels in one monitor doesn’t bear thinking about. And that’s before you consider the complexity of manufacturing such a display. The two panels will need to be very closely aligned t…

Wordle today- Hint and answer #907 for Wednesday, December 13-

There’s a brand new clue for today’s Wordle waiting just below, ready to offer you a gentle nudge towards the answer without completely giving the game away. Or, if you’d actually quite like to have someone completely give the game away, just click or scroll your way down to the December 13 (907) puzzle’s winning word and enjoy your latest victory.

If Wordle gave out medals for having the most right letters and then drawing the worst possible conclusion from them, I’d have won gold today. I can’t even pretend I didn’t have any useful greens to anchor the yellows I wildly flung around either, because I definitely did—and for a few guesses too. Still, at least I won. Eventually.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Wednesday, December 13

If someone or something is completely exhausted, all used up, or has nothing left to give, they could be described using today’s answer. Think of a burnt match, or a marathon runner with no energy…

Why Diablo 4’s loot filter isn’t ready yet- ‘Every perceivably simple decision has some kind of crazy cause and effect’-

Diablo 4 has a big, small problem: inventory space. There’s just not enough of it.

Among all the other cool things coming next year in Vessel of Hatred, Diablo 4’s first expansion, are a number of fixes designed to help players with the endless bag-space management task that is, perhaps, inevitable in Blizzard’s loot-explosion action RPG.

However, it turns out implementing a key player-requested feature—a loot filter—is harder than it might sound. Developers are working on it, Blizzard told us at a BlizzCon interview, but it may not appear soon.

“We don’t have a date to announce on the filter, and the reason for that is—let me back up just a little bit here,” Diablo 4 game director Joe Shely said. “When you think about the changes we made to experience in Season Two, when we talk about that, we say 40% faster leveling, which is correct. We have data that shows people are leveling faster and so forth. But we didn’t just go in and change the number …

Epic Games CEO says AI companies shouldn’t be ‘hoovering up everybody’s art data’-

Epic Games recently acquired ArtStation, which among other things is one of the biggest websites that artists use for sharing their portfolios. That means it’s also a target for AI companies looking for lots of categorized visual art to use as free training material for their machine learning algorithms. Although Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney hasn’t taken any kind of hard stance against generative AI systems in general, he says he doesn’t like that companies are ingesting people’s artwork without permission.

“They’re scraping the web to find people’s artwork and then using it, and not getting their explicit say-so on the thing,” Sweeney told PC Gamer in a call earlier this week. “And a company shouldn’t do that sort of thing, right? Maybe that’s in bounds for research, but when you’re selling a commercial product that’s used to generate commercial artwork, you shouldn’t do that.”

Last year, Epic created a “noAI” tag artists can apply to their ArtStation works to explicitly …