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Blue Wings | The 29 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now (August 2024)

Sunny, Constellation, and Presumed Innocent are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month. ​ 

Blue Wings | NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for July 24

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. 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 trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for July 24’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. What is Connections ? The NYT ‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. ...

Blue Wings | Meta AI is now available in Spanish, Portugese, French and more

Meta AI launched in September 2023 using the Llama 2 learning language model. Nearly a year later, Meta has announced a new round of features for its AI assistant and a fresh LLM to support it: Llama 3.1.  These updates include an expansion of who can access Meta AI . Thanks to the addition of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Cameroon, the assistant is now available in 22 countries. It’s also accessible in new languages: French, German, Hindi, Hindi-Romanized Script, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. However, some of the new features are location or language-specific for the time being.  Meta is rolling out a beta tool called “Imagine me” throughout the US. It allows for prompts such as “Imagine me surfing” or “Imagine me as a surrealist painting,” and the AI assistant will create it using a photo of the individual. Meta is also adding new ways to tinker with an image, such as removing, changing or editing its content. Th...

Blue Wings | Get $300 off the Roborock Q5 DuoRoller+ at Amazon

GET $300 OFF: As of July 22, the Roborock Q5 DuoRoller+ is available for $299.99 at Amazon, down from $599.99. That’s a 50% discount, saving you $300. Opens in a new window Credit: Roborock Our pick: Roborock Q5 DuoRoller+ $299.99 at Amazon $599.99 Save $300.00 ...

Blue Wings | NZXT Function 2 Review: Iterative Improvements on a Beginner's Board

With softer, quieter keys, and tools to customize the exact pressure of your key presses, the NZXT Function 2 improves on its predecessor. ​ 

Blue Wings | NYT Connections today: See hints and answers for July 23

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that’s captured the public’s attention. 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 trickier and trickier—so we’ve served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today’s puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for July 23’s Connections solution. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. What is Connections ? The NYT ‘s latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications’ Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. ...

Blue Wings | 'Oddity's darkly funny ending came by happy accident

One of the best horror movies of 2024 has an ending that’s sublimely sick and satisfying. And that very last shot came by chance.  When Mashable sat down with Oddity writer/director Damian McCarthy — and the Wooden Man at the film’s center — we learned how the last brutal beat in the multifaceted horror story came to be.  Sure, Oddity begins with a frightening premise of home invasion: a woman alone, renovating her remote country house, hears a knock at the door only to be confronted by a wild-eyed stranger who warns her that someone has snuck inside and means to hurt her. But from there, McCarthy pulled from folk horror, haunted house movies, and killer doll flicks to craft a menacing medley of a movie, which has an anthology feel even as it centers on one house and the doomed people who cross its threshold.  While the flashiest figure in Oddity is undoubtedly its Wooden Man, McCarthy also looped in a pretty but haunted bell to strike the perfect tone for the film’s...

Blue Wings | Master AI with this ChatGPT online learning bundle — on sale for $30

TL;DR: This ChatGPT online learning bundle offers four courses about using AI for visual creation, productivity, and teaching , on sale for $29.99. Expand your skills with help from this online course bundle you can complete right from home. You’ll explore four comprehensive courses designed to enhance your skills and creativity. Whether you’re an artist, professional, or educator, this bundle has something for everyone. Take advantage of lifetime access for $29.99. Over 4.5 hours of lessons, these courses give you a crash couse in ChatGPT and AI. The course Visual Creation with AI empowers you to create stunning artwork without any prior artistic experience. This beginner-friendly course covers AI tools like GANs and style transfer , helping you generate and enhance visuals. You’ll learn to craft strategic prompts and combine AI art with other media, building a portfolio that showcases your talent to potential clients and employers. Next up is Boost Your Productivity...

Blue Wings | Your honeymoon just got more affordable with OneAir

TL;DR: OneAir Elite Membership offers lifetime access to premium flight deals and personalized alerts , perfect for planning your dream honeymoon — get lifetime access for $69.99. After you have the perfect wedding, you want the honeymoon of your dreams, too. But finding the right flights can be stressful and expensive. That’s where a OneAir Elite membership comes in, offering a wide selection of business, first, premium, and economy class flight deals to make your post-wedding getaway the best it can be without spending your whole budget on airfare. Through July 21, you can get a lifetime subscription to a OneAir Elite Plan on sale for $69.99. OneAir stands out with its AI-powered technology, scanning millions of fares in real time to bring you the best deals quickly and accurately. Personalized deal alerts allow you to tailor your preferences and receive destination-specific notifications, making it easier to find the perfect honeymoon flight for you and your new spouse. The OneAir...

Blue Wings | NASA rover finds place where 'exciting' events occurred on Mars

Great floods once poured down a towering Martian mountain. And NASA’s dust-covered Curiosity rover has proof. The car-sized NASA robot has spent much of 2024 exploring the Gediz Vallis channel, a dried-up waterway that travels down the three-mile-high Mount Sharp. Although Mars today is 1,000 times drier than the driest desert on Earth, the rover has spotted clues that long ago the Red Planet experienced momentous floods. It was a wet world . “This was not a quiet period on Mars,” Becky Williams, a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute who researches Mars using the rover’s Mast Camera, said in a statement. “There was an exciting amount of activity here. We’re looking at multiple flows down the channel, including energetic floods and boulder-rich flows.” SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave him chills. The images below show what Curiosity has recently found. Below is...

Blue Wings | The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities

Plus: The FBI unlocks the Trump shooter’s phone, a security researcher gets legal threats for exposing hackable traffic lights, and more. ​ 

Blue Wings | Mini-Neptune turned out to be a frozen super-Earth

Enlarge / Renditions of a possible composition of LHS 1140 b, with a patch of ocean on the side facing its host star. Earth is included at right for scale. (credit: BENOIT GOUGEON, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL ) Of all the potential super-Earths—terrestrial exoplanets more massive than Earth—out there, an exoplanet orbiting a star only 40 light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus might be the most similar to have been found so far. Exoplanet LHS 1140 b was assumed to be a mini-Neptune when it was first discovered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope toward the end of 2023. After analyzing data from those observations, a team of researchers, led by astronomer Charles Cadieux, of Université de Montréal, suggest that LHS 1140 b is more likely to be a super-Earth. If this planet is an alternate version of our own, its relative proximity to its cool red dwarf star means it would most likely be a gargantuan snowball or a mostly frozen body with a substellar (region closest to its star)...

Blue Wings | How to watch 'Challengers' at home: When and where is it streaming?

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Blue Wings | Microsoft outage: 6 industries affected by the CrowdStrike update fail

Editor’s note:  Check out  our oft-updated live blog  for all new developments about the  Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage . Windows PCs around the entire planet crashed this morning because of a CrowdStrike update glitch . You may have heard about it. But what you may not have heard about is just how many services have been affected by the biggest global IT outage in years. It’s not quite a Y2K level of apocalyptic meltdown, but everything from airline travel to broadcasting, 911 calls, and even surgeries, have been troubled by the CrowdStrike outage. Here is just a partial list of things that have been brought down by the CrowdStrike glitch. Airlines Tweet may have been deleted Perhaps one of the most striking sectors to be disrupted by the CrowdStrike outage was the airline industry. Flights were grounded globally on Friday morning, with major U.S. airlines like Delta and Allegiant halting operations alongside airlines from countries like France, Spain, Aus...

Blue Wings | Wordle today: Here's the answer hints for July 21

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle . As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for July 21’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Where did Wordle come from? Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble , music identification game Heardle , and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once .  Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times , and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing . Not t...