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From drunken boxing to backflips, China's humanoid robots showed how quickly the industry is scaling.
  • Chinese humanoid robots performed boxing and swung swords on national TV.
  • The tightly choreographed kung fu routine showcased China's progress in robotics.
  • The performance was a leap forward from last year's simpler display.

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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you



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Today's Connections: Sports Edition is easier if you're a Duke fan.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets


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A JetBlue flight made an emergency landing on Wednesday.
  • A JetBlue flight from New Jersey to Florida made an emergency landing at Newark Airport.
  • The airline reported an engine issue and smoke in the cabin of the Airbus A320 plane.
  • No injuries were reported from the incident.

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  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Wednesday in a landmark trial about social media addiction.
  • Parents who say their kids were harmed by social media platforms showed up to face the Meta CEO.
  • The case could impact how other lawsuits play out. Meta said the legal battles could cost them billions.

Lori Schott, a mother from rural Colorado, said she stared down Meta CEO Mark


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FCC Chair Brendan Carr appeared on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show on Wednesday.
  • Stephen Colbert said CBS pulled a Democratic lawmaker's interview over federal regulatory concerns.
  • FCC Chair Brendan Carr told Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that Colbert's complaint is "fake news."
  • The FCC is pursuing "enforcement actions" against "The View" over its interview with the same

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DoorDash reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.
  • DoorDash has a key advantage over Amazon in grocery delivery, CEO Tony Xu said Wednesday.
  • The delivery service offers a wider variety owing to its myriad partnerships with grocers, Xu said.
  • Amazon is ramping up its grocery delivery, creating more competition for

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Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Wednesday in a high-profile jury trial over social media addiction. In an appearance that was described by NBC News as "combative," the Facebook founder reportedly said that Meta's goal was to make Instagram "useful" not increase the time users are spending in the app. 

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Mark Zuckerberg appeared before a jury today to defend Meta against claims that its social media platforms are dangerously designed to get kids hooked on their sites.

The CEO told the court that Meta has taken action to reduce the prevalence of underage users on Instagram, reported NBC, and has adjusted internal goals to increase a user's time on the site. Zuckerberg also accused the plaintiff's


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Apple will soon let drivers converse with AI chatbots while on the road.

The company's CarPlay Developer Guide (via MacRumors) now includes voice-based chat apps supported by CarPlay. Or, at least, they will be supported when iOS 26.4 launches this spring. This presumably will include third-party AI apps like ChatGPT and Gemini, giving users the ability to verbally ask the AI bots questions while