Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now nearly 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.
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• U
• N
• T
• P
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Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #993) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #993, are…
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A combination of some uncommon (and uncommonly spelled) words and a relative dearth of vowels combine here to make this a tricky Quordle. On the latter point, NYMPH doesn’t have any and THUMB only one, and while PUREE has three, the repeated Es rather counteract the fact that theoretically they might make it easier.
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For my game, I was hampered a little by the fact that my three set start words, STARE, DOILY and PUNCH, don’t contain F, M or B, meaning I needed to track them down too and required an extra guess beyond my minimum (which would be seven) in order to solve them all.
Ulefone has an Armor Mini 20T Pro hands-on video to show us
This video has a duration of around a minute and a half. It’s embedded below the article, and it not only gives us a great look at the phone’s design, but it also highlights some of its most notable features.
This rugged smartphone is both MIL-STD-810H and IP68/IP69K certified. It can not only take a hit if you drop it, but it’s water and dust resistant. It sure does look the part, it looks like a proper rugged phone.
The thermal variant of this smartphone includes FLIR’s Lepton 3.5 thermal sensor. The phone also comes with the MyFLIR Pro app pre-installed, so that you have complete control over that thermal sensor’s functionality.
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There is also a powerful LED light included on the back, which is rather versatile, actually. You can adjust its brightness, while some flashing patterns are also available. It can be used as an SOS signal tool, while it also has the Emergency Warning Light pattern built-in.
A rather beefy battery is also included
The MediaTek Dimensity 6300 SoC fuels this phone, while Ulefone also offers some accessories for it. A 6,200mAh battery sits inside this small phone, as does a 64-megapixel Night Vision camera.
Ulefone included 8GB of RAM on the inside, but you can double that via virtual RAM. 5G is supported, while the phone can charge at a max of 33W (via a wired). It also supports 15W wireless charging and has a 50-megapixel main camera.
Android 14 comes pre-installed here. The Ulefone Armor Mini 20 Pro and Armor Mini 20T Pro will become available on October 21 via AliExpress. The non-T variant doesn’t have a thermal camera on the back.
It’s an experience many of us know all too well: open up a food blogger’s recipe only to scroll past a mountain of content you don’t care about to actually reach the ingredients and method. Google is trialing a feature that could eliminate this step, even though it’s the result of the company’s own policies.
noticed a new button on the thumbnails for select recipes called Quick View. This button brings up the complete recipe without leaving the search results page. In their testing, a search for “chocolate chip cookie recipe” revealed this Quick View button for the site Preppy Kitchen.
“We’re always experimenting with different ways to connect our users with high-quality and helpful information,” Google rep Brianna Duff told Engadget about these Quick View recipes. “We have partnered with a limited number of creators to begin to explore new recipe experiences on Search that are both helpful for users and drive value to the web ecosystem. We don’t have anything to announce right now.” While Google does have agreements inked with the participating bloggers, the company declined to reveal any further details about the scope of this testing.
It’s quite a catch-22 Google has created when it comes to recipes online. Home cooks may find this Quick View feature appealing since so many food blogs front-load their posts with photos and personal stories before actually sharing the recipe. But it was Google’s own rules that pushed bloggers toward that approach in the first place, with longer posts generally indexing higher up in search results and thus getting more traffic. (And no offense to the food bloggers of the world, but the only chocolate chip cookie recipe you need is the one on the back of the chocolate chip bag.)
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While this recipe feature is just an early trial, Google has been rolling out other tools aimed at keeping users on its own webpages and platforms. The in search are one of the latest (and ) ways the company is changing the rules of engagement for web content.
This week, after months of waiting for a follow-up to the hugely successful Nintendo Switch handheld we finally got brand new Nintendo hardware in form of a clock called Alarmo. We also saw some major AI developments for Gemini, and the RTX 5090 price leaked (spoiler, it ain’t cheap).
To catch up on all of this and more, we’ve collected the week’s biggest news stories here so you can find out about everything you missed.
8. Apple struggled to keep a lid on the M4 MacBook Pro
Apple doesn’t really do leaks, so this week was something of a shock for tech fans used to its watertight launches.
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Not only did we see a wave of credible video and benchmark leaks for the rumored M4 MacBook Pro, several people in Russia claimed to be selling the unannounced laptop on a classified ads site. Not quite on the level of leaving an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar, but not far off.
While it’s possible that those now-pulled adverts were fakes, the sheer number of convincing leaks suggests that an M4 MacBook Pro is coming soon – potentially with more Thunderbolt ports and a Space Black version.
7. Toyota revealed a future powered by hydrogen cartridges
Hydrogen hit the headlines again this week as a possible fuel source for cars and even homes as Toyota revealed some concept portable cartridges that look like giant AA batteries.
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Toyota says the cylinders have been developed using its experience in shrinking the hydrogen tanks in its fuel-cell electric vehicles. The concept is certainly an alluring one – rather than having to refuel at petrol stations or EV charging points, you could just swap out your power source when your hydrogen levels run low. In theory, at least.
Whether the concept makes it to reality remains to be seen, but it’s hopefully at least somewhere down the road – we can’t endure broken EV charging networks for much longer.
6.Nintendo finally launched new hardware
Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo â Announcement Trailer – YouTube
Nintendo announced new hardware this week, but it wasn’t the Nintendo Switch 2. Instead it revealed (of all things) a new sound clock called Alarmo.
It features a 2.8-inch LCD screen that tells you the date, time, and shows a playful Nintendo mascot – including Link, Olimar, and (of course) Mario – who react to what you and Alarmo are doing. Though if you stay in bed for too long Alarmo might send a less friendly face to motivate you – like the evil king Bowser.
What makes this smart alarm clock clever however is its in-built motion sensor which can track your movements. Alarmo can track your sleep habits which you can review in the morning, can be waved at to snooze your alarm, and can detect when you sit up to stop your alarm.
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Alarmo’s only available to buy for people who are paid Nintendo Switch Online members right now, but it should be launching to the general public in January 2025.
5. Google’s Imagen 3 rolled out worldwide
This week Google updated its Gemini AI chatbot to use the latest Imagen 3 software for generating images. It’s easy to use too, you just ask Gemini to create an image using the same text prompts that you use to talk to Gemini normally. Imagen 3 sees considerable improvements over the previous version, with much better detail in images, especially where text is concerned.
Imagen 3 is available to everybody who can access Gemini, on a laptop or smartphone, even if you are on the free tier, however, while the image quality of Imagen 3 is superb, and there don’t seem to be limits on how many images you can create a day, there is one slight annoyance – you need to be a Gemini Advanced subscriber if you want to use it to generate images of people.
4. The Apple Intelligence release date leaked
Apple Intelligence finally has a release date… sort of. We were told Apple’s AI tools would arrive on iPhone, iPad, and Mac as part of a software update in October, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has given us a date.
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Gurman suspects iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 will arrive on October 28, ushering in a new era for Apple as it moves into the AI-powered future. It’s definitely an exciting time to own Apple products, but will features like Writing Tools, Clean Up, and notification summaries be enough to make people care about AI?
At WWDC, Craig Federighi called it ‘AI for the rest of us’, but time will tell if the ‘rest of us’ even want AI to begin with. Expect to see Apple Intelligence features roll out over the next year with Genmoji and Image Playground arriving before the end of the year and Siri’s long-anticipated update set to release in early 2025.
3. The Loop Dream helped us sleep well
Loop released its latest noise reducing ear buds, Loop Dream, which are specifically designed for sleep. Offering the highest noise reduction in the Loop range at 27dB, Loop Dream features redesigned oval tips that put less pressure on your ear canal as well as a new, silicon-coated loop that secures the buds in the cavum of your ear.
These handy little buds proved to be massively useful for our Managing Editor of Lifestyle, who’s been using them for the last three weeks – and finally slept well because of it.
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2. Nvidia apparently losing its mind with next-gen GPU pricing
It was a rocky ride for Nvidia this week from the rumor mill, and the most eye-opening piece of speculation came regarding the purported price tags that Team Green could pin on RTX 5000 graphics cards when they arrive (likely early next year).We were seriously shocked to discover that Nvidia is apparently mulling – and it is just a consideration at this point – a price of between $1,999 and $2,499 for the flagship RTX 5090. And the leaker who shared this – YouTuber Moore’s Law is Dead – reckons that the company is looking more towards the $2.5K mark, than a mere two grand. Yikes.
Furthermore, Nvidia may be thinking about pitching the RTX 5080 from $1,199 up to $1,499, and the RTX 5070 could go for $599 to $699. An RTX 5070 that is potentially equipped with only 12GB of VRAM, we should note, adding to the indignation around this week’s Nvidia-related leaks.
What’s going on with these prices? We’re honestly a bit baffled, but a theory proposed that maybe Nvidia is testing the reaction to this pricing, when the figures were inevitably leaked, could offer up some hope that there’ll be a reversal of course here. Come on, Nvidia – don’t do this to us. The worst thing, in some ways, is that these days it almost feels inevitable that Team Green will push the envelope when it comes to expensive, and that worse still, this gives AMD no incentive to price more competitively with RDNA 4 GPUs, either, when they arrive. Meh…
1. Panasonic revealed the world’s smallest zoom lens for full-frame
Panasonic‘s new Lumix S 18-40mm F4.5-6.3 became the world’s smallest and lightest zoom lens with autofocus for full-frame cameras – and it’s an ideal pairing with the Lumix S9 mirrorless camera, for which a big firmware update was also announced, plus improvements to Panasonic’s Lumix Lab app.
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Tipping the scales at just 0.34lb / 155g and measuring just 40.9mm in length when retracted, the 18-40mm is positively tiny yet still packs a wider than average 18mm perspective that’s ideal for video creators, weather resistance, focus breathing suppression, plus decent close focusing capabilities – just 0.15m / 0.49ft. It’s exactly the lens that Panasonic’s polarizing Lumix S9 for content creators needed, a camera that we labeled “small, simple, powerful, flawed” in our Lumix S9 in-depth review, but whose compact form felt rather redundant without a complementary L-mount lens. That changed with the new 18-40mm which, along with the firmware update, gives the Lumix S9 gets a second wind and could realize its potential as one of the best YouTube cameras.
“The drama of a player shouting and making a challenge, and the crowd watching the screen and waiting for Hawk-Eye to make a decision, all of that drama is now lost.”
David Bayliss is describing a scene he saw play out many times as a Wimbledon line judge – and one which the Championships won’t witness again.
Just as with the many other sports that have embraced technology, the All England Club is waving goodbye to human line judges from next summer, after 147 years, in the name of “maximum accuracy”.
But does this risk minimising the drama Mr Bayliss fondly remembers being involved in – and which so many of us love watching?
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“It is sad that we won’t be going back as line judges,” he says. “The game has moved on, but never say never.”
He served as a line judge and umpire at Wimbledon for 22 years,calling the lines when Roger Federer won his first Grand Slam, in 2003. Being hit by the ball at over 100mph is, he jokes, “quite sore”.
While he’s sad to see line judges go, he says it’s hard to argue with the logic.
“Essentially, we have a human being and technology calling the same line. The electronic line call can overrule the human eye. Therefore, why do we need the line judge to make a call at all?”
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Of course, even before Wimbledon’s announcementthis week, technology played a big part at the tournament through Hawk-Eye, the ball-tracking system, and organisers are following the example set by others.
As the BBC’s tennis correspondent Russell Fuller outlined, players will intermittently complain about electronic line calling, but there has been consensus for a while that the technology is now more accurate and consistent than a human.
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Mr Bayliss acknowledges there is a “high degree of trust in the electronic line calling”.
He points out: “The only frustration the player can show is at themselves for not winning the point.”
Whether the tech works is one thing – but whether it’s worth it is another.
Dr Anna Fitzpatrick, who played at Wimbledon between 2007 and 2013, says her “first feeling on hearing the news about the Wimbledon line judges was of sadness”.
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“A human element of sport is one of the things that draws us in,” the lecturer in sports performance and analysis at Loughborough University tells the BBC.
While she recognises technology can improve the performance of athletes, she hopes we always keep it in check.
Of course, tennis is far from alone in its embrace of tech.
Cricket is another sport where it plays a big role and – according to Dr Tom Webb, an expert in the officiating of sport at Coventry University – it has been driven by broadcasters.
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He says that as soon as televised coverage showed sporting moments in a way that an umpire couldn’t see, it led to calls for change in the game.
“I think we need to be careful,” he tells the BBC.
In particular, he says, we need to think carefully about what aspect of human decision-making is automated.
He argues that in football, goal-line technology has been accepted because, like electronic line calls in tennis, it is a measurement – it’s either a goal or it’s not.
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However, many people are frustrated with the video assistant referee (VAR) system, with decisions taking too long and fans in the stadium not being aware of what is happening.
“The issue with VAR is it’s not necessarily relying on how accurate the technology is. It’s still reliant on individual judgment and subjectivity, and how you interpret the laws of the game,” he adds.
Need to evolve
Of course, there is a temptation to think of technology as something new in sport.
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Anything but, according to Prof Steve Haake of Sheffield Hallam University, who says sport has always evolved with the tech of the day, with even the Greeks adapting the sprint race in the ancient Olympics.
“Right back from the very start of sports, it was a spectacle, but we also wanted it to be fair.
“That’s what these technologies are about. That’s the trick that we’ve got to get right.”
Technology is still adding to the spectacle of sport – think of the 360-degree swirling photography used to illustrate the dramatic conclusion to the men’s 100m final at this summer’s Olympics.
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And while it is true that some traditional jobs, like line judges, may be disappearing, tech is also fuelling the creation of other jobs – particularly when it comes to data.
Take the example of sports analysis system Opta, which allows both athletes and fans to have streams of data to measure performance, a process which artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating.
While it might not be the same as a tennis player’s emotional outburst at a line judge, its advocates argue it allows a more intense connection of its own kind, as people are able to learn ever more about the sports and players they love.
And, of course, the frequent controversies over systems like VAR bring plenty of scope for tech to get the heart pumping.
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“People love sport because of the drama,” says Patrick Lucey, chief scientist of Stats Perform, the company behind Opta.
Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends.
Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And if you still can’t get it, we’ll tell you today’s answers at the very end.
In Connections, you’ll be shown a grid containing 16 words — your objective is to organize these words into four sets of four by identifying the connections that link them. These sets could encompass concepts like titles of video game franchises, book series sequels, shades of red, names of chain restaurants, etc.
There are generally words that seem like they could fit multiple themes, but there’s only one 100% correct answer. You’re able to shuffle the grid of words and rearrange them to help better see the potential connections.
Each group is color-coded. The yellow group is the easiest to figure out, followed by the green, blue, and purple groups.
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Pick four words and hit Submit. If you’re correct, the four words will be removed from the grid and the theme connecting them will be revealed. Guess incorrectly and it’ll count as a mistake. You only have four mistakes available until the game ends.
We can help you solve today’s Connection by telling you the four themes. If you need more assistance, we’ll also give you one word from each group below.
According to a patent that was published earlier this week, and noticed by MSPowerUser, it appears that LG is still working on a rollable smartphone. A rollable smartphone from LG first saw the light of day back in 2022 after the company exited the smartphone market. Sort of a, what could have been.
Companies file for patents all the time. They get filed for things they are working on, but not necessarily things that will see the light of day. Of note, this patent was filed by LG Display, which means that they could be working on rollable displays to supply to other companies, like Huawei, HONOR, OPPO, or even Motorola. So don’t take this as an absolute return to the smartphone market for LG.
According to this patent, the screen would roll out, sort of like a conveyor belt or a moving walkway. The patent also says that the device could roll out to different sizes, going from a compact phone to a larger device like a tablet.
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This isn’t the first rollable
As mentioned already, we did see a leaked LG rollable smartphone surface back in 2021, which was really unique. However, these days, we’ve seen a few other rollable devices show up – none of have gone on sale yet, however.
Back at MWC Barcelona in February, Tecno showcased a rollable smartphone called the Phantom Ultimate, and it was actually available for journalists to check out – instead of being behind glass. Motorola also showed off a rollable phone last year, which was a bit different from these others. Where instead of rolling out from left to right, it was up and down. Samsung is also rumored to actually launch a rollable phone in 2025, which means that we could actually see it go on sale. Of course, it won’t be cheap.
Now that foldables have pretty much matured, many smartphone makers are going to be looking at innovating with rollable phones. LG actually already has something like this, with the OLED TV R. Which is a rollable OLED TV. They’ve been showing this off at CES for the past few years, with it getting better and better every year.
It is important to remember that many patents don’t result in real products that go on sale; it’s more part of what the R&D team does and can also be sold to other companies or at least licensed. Which I think is more likely than LG making a return to the smartphone market.
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