Can green ships be a reality? Is there enough being done to address the carbon emissions within the maritime industry? What is the latest in the field of sustainable ports? These topics were intensely discussed by industry experts and stakeholders during one of the panel discussions at The Week’s Maritime Conclave 2024 held at ITC Grand Chola in Chennai. 

One of the speakers was Sushil Singh, Chairman, Deendayal Port Authority, Kandla and he relied on figures and statistics to explain the practical challenges that await the industry as well as the country if it resolutes to reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. 

There are 38,000 vessels in international trade burning 200 million tonnes of conventional fossil fuel annually emitting one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, he said and added that by 2050, the GHG emissions will increase along with the maritime trade raising “serious concerns.” However, he suggested that if net zero GHG emissions have to be achieved as per the strategy and roadmap outlined by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), action has to be taken immediately. He pitched for short, medium and long-term measures tackle the issue.

“On the short term side, energy-efficient measures need to be adopted like slow steaming, frequent cleaning of propellers, fiction management, optimization of weather routing and usage of energy-efficient technologies on board. So these measures need to be adopted on shipping lines on an immediate basis, but then these have their own limitations in terms of the potential that they offer for total reduction of GHG,” he said. 

He pointed out that in the current times, the availability of alternate fuels like methanol, green ammonia, green hydrogen, and its derivatives would be challenging and also expensive given that alternate fuel costs at least 2.5 to 3 times more than fossil fuel. He said that to produce these variants of fuel on a large scale sufficient for the maritime sector to achieve net zero, the production infrastructure has to be upgraded which would require significant investments. 

“Scaling up of availability of fuel and improving the affordability of the fuel by reducing the price gap between the fossil fuel and alternative fuel—these are the two factors that will decide how far, how fast and how quickly we can transition from fossil fuel-based transportation system to an alternative, low carbon transportation ecosystem. So India will also have to overcome these two points —affordability and availability.” 

Dr. S Nallayarasu, Head, ocean Engineering Department, IIT Madras was asked about infrastructure development exercises in ports that would ensure sustainability in the long run. He took a critical view and said that capacities are being added without addressing the need to upgrade or replace existing infrastructure. 

“If you go around east and west coast, at least major ports, most of the major ports have already saturated. Most of them have no physical space to develop. I visited almost all the ports, the infrastructure in terms of physical structures, mechanical equipments and the evacuation systems, Is as old as more than 30 years,” he said, “Normally, we forget that the infrastructure is ageing and we keep adding the capacity but not infrastructure enhancement thinking that the system life is infinite.” He said in such scenarios there are chances of the system failing if its stretched beyond its limit. 

In terms of solutions for long-term infrastructure modernisation, Nallayarasu suggested a new approach by adopting unique Master plan and a corpus fund. 

He felt that a master plan for ports should reflect on previous master plans to understand what went wrong and what needs reformed instead of going for a completely new master plan. He proposed a corpus fund for ports that would take care of infrastructure enhancements or new additions for the next 50 years including building new structures, if need be. He also said that well-trained manpower and integrating technological solutions operations will also help in smooth and ideal functioning of sustainable ports.  

Naveen Prakash, SICCI SCM’s Chair and Director, Global Logistics spoke on how his company was supporting MSME’s by giving customers options to ship low-weight cargo at competitive prices. Regarding their contribution to sustainability, he said that his company was ensuring that through technology, they have weeded out the need for customers to travel physically due to the ease of online services.  

Moderator Lekha Ravi, Assistant Professor, School of Maritime Management, Indian Maritime University, appreciated The Week for conducting the event. 

“We are actually amazed at the long list of eminent personalities from maritime sector which The week has got together and each of them has put so much on our plate that it has been a veritable feast of what is what, who is who, coming from who’s who in the maritime sector.”

Connections is one of the best puzzle games 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 — just like other NYT Games favorites The Mini and Strands. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s puzzle, check out our Connections tips and tricks guide for some good strategies or check out the hints for today’s Connections puzzle below. And if you still can’t get it, we’ll tell you today’s answers at the very end.

How to play Connections

Connections is a daily game about finding common threads between words. Players must select four groups of four words without making more than three mistakes. Play now. https://t.co/YITfSnqODb pic.twitter.com/CqObVOqeUs

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 3, 2024

You can play Connections on the New York Times website or with the NYT Games app on iOS or Android.

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.

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.

Hints for today’s Connections

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.

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Today’s themes

• FOOD-RELATED JUMBLES
• PUBLIC STANDING
• INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARD
• ANAGRAMS OF FAMOUS PAINTERS

One-answer reveals

• FOOD-RELATED JUMBLES – HASH
• PUBLIC STANDING – CHARACTER
• INFO ON A MUSEUM PLACARD – ARTIST
• ANAGRAMS OF FAMOUS PAINTERS – DIAL

Today’s Connections answers

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Wyna Liu, who has been editing puzzles at The New York Times since 2020, edits Connections daily.

“A few months ago, a new assignment crossed my desk: Create the game boards for Connections, a category matching game that had recently been greenlighted and was in search of an editor,” wrote Liu in an article explaining her process in June 2024. Most of my puzzle experience has been working with crosswords, and I was excited at the chance to try something different. I’ve enjoyed learning how puzzle editing plays out once a game is greenlighted, and seeing how our team fits into a larger ecosystem.”

On the one-year anniversary of Connections launching earlier this year, Liu posted this TikTok about her favorite puzzles so far:

@thegamesteam ? happy one year anniversary to connections, our newest official NYT game ? #nytgames #nytconnections #nyt ♬ The Kite Live by Luisa Marion – luisa_marion_music

Samsung hasn’t rolled out any updates for its older Galaxy Watch models in months. The company may not have forgotten about releasing security patches for its smartwatches. However, the tech giant will have to release updates for older Wear OS-powered Galaxy Watches soon.

Samsung is yet to release any new updates for its older Galaxy Watches

Samsung has been readying One UI 7.0. This update is based on Android 15. The company has fallen behind on the development and indicated that One UI 7.0 will roll out early next year.

Similar to the One UI development, Samsung appears to have fallen behind in updating its older Galaxy Watch smartwatches. The South Korean tech giant has been working on the next major Wear OS update for quite some time. However, there has been no update for the wearable devices in the past several months.

The Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra smartwatches received the Wear OS 5 with One UI 6 Watch update earlier this year. However, no other models have received this update, despite it being in beta.

Specifically speaking, Samsung hasn’t updated any of its older Galaxy Watch devices since it moved on to Wear OS 5 and One UI 6 Watch. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 models still sport the March 2024 security patch. In other words, these smartwatches haven’t received updates for well over six months.

When will older Galaxy Watch models get Wear OS 5?

Technically, the beta testing phase for the Wear OS 5 with One UI 6 Watch update was to be over last month. However, with October gone, the majority of Galaxy Watch users must be wondering why their smartwatches are still running Wear OS 4. Only the Galaxy Watch 6 series has started receiving the One UI 6.0 update, but only beta testers based in the US have access to the same.

While the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, Watch Ultra, and Watch FE are rocking the latest Wear OS 5 software, they still have the June 2024 security patch. Needless to say, Samsung hasn’t confirmed when the Wear OS 5 with One UI 6 Watch update will roll out to the older Galaxy Watch devices.

Samsung seems to be struggling with its software division, particularly the one that handles updates. The company should have at least demoed the One UI 7.0. However, the company only teased the latest iteration of the custom Android skin recently. Samsung may release the latest Wear OS 5 and the One UI 7.0 simultaneously early next year.

A new AI feature is coming to Microsoft’s Notepad called Rewrite. reports that Microsoft is rolling out a preview of Rewrite to Windows Insiders that will allow AI to rewrite sentences, change the tone and alter the length of text in Notepad.

Windows Insiders can access Rewrite by highlighting text in a Notepad window and right-clicking it in the menu or pushing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+I. A dialogue box will open showing the AI’s suggested rewrites of the highlighted text and the adjustable features menus including “Longer,” “Tone” and “Format” above the “Replace” button. If you prefer to write with just your fingers and brain, you can turn off the AI feature in the app settings menu, according to .

Even Microsoft’s Paint app is getting its own AI features called Generative Fill and Generative Erase. The new “fill” feature can edit and add visual features to your photos and drawings by drawing a selection box and using the text box to describe the image you wish to add to the selected area. The “erase” feature for Paint can remove images in photos or drawings by selecting them with the “generative erase brush” while using the eraser tool, according to the Windows blog.

So it took more than four decades just to get but it only took a couple of months to get an AI that can paint and rewrite for us?

This way, Qualcomm’s new chips can run more kinds of apps that don’t have native ARM64 versions and, until now, weren’t usable with emulation. It could even enable games that use AVX2, like Starfield and Helldivers 2, to work on Windows on Arm.

With this update, Microsoft’s emulator will open up support for 64-bit x86 software to use processor extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C. However, it says 32-bit software still won’t be able to detect the new emulator support, so some programs still might have trouble.

While many apps, including Photoshop, Hulu, and Chrome, already have native ARM64 versions for Windows, others require emulation, and some still won’t work at all. According to Microsoft, the new emulator is already enabled “in limited use” on retail PCs, allowing Premiere Pro 25 to run on Arm — after it was initially blocked — while Adobe works on a native version.

Correction, November 6th: A previous version of the article incorrectly stated Blender needed to be emulated. It now has an ARM64 version.

Nikon has updated its four-year-old Z50 with the Z50 II. The mini-DSLR-style successor comes with the same 20.9MP APS-C sensor, but packs Nikon’s latest Expeed 7 processor, which delivers a raft of performance-based improvements.

Nikon says the Z50 II has the same subject detection autofocus options as its professional Z8 and Z9 mirrorless cameras, with nine subject types to choose from, 3D tracking, custom-size autofocus areas, plus a smarter AF-A option (autofocus auto). It also debuts a Product Review mode, which easily switches focus between people and objects, much like Sony‘s Product Showcase autofocus mode.