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Everyone's Convinced The NYT Made Wordle Harder, But It's Exactly The Same

14.2.2022
Following Wordle’s dream-like purchase for over a million bucks, people have assumed new owners the New York Times would inevitably make changes for the worse. I mean, of course it would. It’s a big billion-dollar corporation buying a tiny morsel of joy. That always ends in sadness, right?...

Wordle’s New Owner Is Banning ‘Offensive’ Guesses

11.2.2022
Internet language sensation Wordle is now owned by The New York Times and housed firmly on the Gray Lady’s servers. That’s meant a rickety migration for some players, but also changes to the game itself. Words like “sluts” have recently been banned from being used as guesses, and the paper...

The New York Times Rushes To Fix Broken Wordle Streaks

11.2.2022
You may know The New York Times for its reputation as the paper of record and the paper of recommending-you-put-peas-in-guac. But now the Gray Lady has joined the likes of EA, Bungie, 343 Industries, and other developers of live-service games as it rapidly tries to extinguish fires for its newly...

Sneaky NY Times Crossword Breaks Star Wars, Star Trek Fans’ Brains

7.2.2022
The debate between Star Trek and Star Wars is older than time—I know it’s older than I am anyway—and it reared its head as recently as the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle, which poses a brain-breaking question.Read more

With Wordle Archive, You Can Play All The Wordles That Came Before Whenever You Want

4.2.2022
The magic behind Wordle is, of course, that there’s only one puzzle a day. Combined with the ease with which players can paste their spoiler-free results to social media and group chats, it’s that the whole world is all playing the same puzzle, the same day, that makes it so alluring. But screw...

Real-Life Spy Agencies Troll Each Other Over Wordle

3.2.2022
Wordle continues its gentle taking over of the world. In the days following the surprise announcement that the New York Times is buying the game for at least a million bucks, the head of the UK secret intelligence service, MI6, tweeted complaining about people’s results from the word game appearing...

Úspěšnou webovou hru Wordle koupil The New York Times. Časem ji patrně schová za paywall

1.2.2022
Tvůrce hry Wordle Josh Wardle v pondělí 31. ledna na Twitteru oznámil, že ji prodal deníku The New York Times. Vydavatel jednoho z nejčtenějších periodik ji hodlá zařadit do souboru slovních her The New York Times Games. Ačkoli Josh Wardle píše, že hra „zůstane zdarma (free to play) pro

Populární webovou hru Wordle za miliony dolarů koupil deník New York Times

31.1.2022
Tipování slov ve Wordle hrají denně miliony hráčů. Slovní online hra, která odstartovala teprve loni v říjnu, teď mění majitele. Od jejího autora, vývojáře Joshe Wardleho, Wordle koupil vydavatel amerického deníku The New Yorku Times (NYT). Podle tiskové zprávy za ni zaplatil částku v nižších...

Populární webovou hru Worlde za miliony dolarů koupil deník New York Times

Wordle Bought By The New York Times For 'Seven-Figure' Sum

31.1.2022
The New York Times just announced that it has bought Wordle, the surprise smash-hit word-guessing game that has taken over people’s browsers (and twitter feeds) for the last month, for a price “in the low seven figures”.Read more

The Surprisingly Messy Culture Wars Within The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

28.1.2022
In the 1970s Will Shortz submitted a crossword to the New York Times with a word so scandalous that the editor rejected it. The word: bellybutton. Fast forward over four decades and Shortz himself is the Times crossword editor who is now the gatekeeper, selecting puzzles from the nearly...

Fed’s Outgoing Vice Chair Richard Clarida’s ‘Rebalancing’ Trades Ignite Fed Trading Ethics Scandal

8.1.2022
Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve are getting criticized this week after the central bank published its minutes report from the policy meeting on December 14-15. Following the update, the outgoing vice chair of the Federal Reserve’s trading activities has reignited ethics conversations....

Apple’s CEO Owns Crypto – Tim Cook Thinks ‘It’s Reasonable to Own as Part of a Diversified Portfolio’

9.11.2021
The CEO of the tech giant Apple, Tim Cook disclosed that he owns cryptocurrency and said that he thinks it’s reasonable to own it as part of a diversified portfolio.” Cook’s statements stemmed from an appearance with the New York Times Dealbook’s host Andrew Ross Sorkin....

Caitlin Long takes aim at The New York Times over crypto 'alarm' article

7.9.2021
Regulated crypto bank Avanti CEO Caitlin Long says tarring the entire crypto industry with the same brush is unfair

Pundits Rage about ‘Skewed’ New York Times Crypto-DeFi Front Page

6.9.2021
An article published on the front page of the New York Times (NYT) has claimed that a “boom in companies offering cryptocurrency loans and high-yield deposit accounts” is “disrupting the banking industry” and has left regulators “scrambling to catch up.” But it is an article that has already...

Oh No, Jeopardy!’s Other New Host Is Pretty Bad Too

24.8.2021
Mayim Bialik, neuroscientist and sitcom actor, is the last remaining host of Jeopardy! following the high-profile departure of executive producer Mike Richards as the late, great Alex Trebek’s replacement. But where Richards was taken down by his skeevy treatment of women, Bialik is courting...

US Inflation Continues to Rise Amid Lockdown Talk, Producer Prices Jump 7.8%, Biden Blames OPEC

14.8.2021
The United States is facing severe inflation despite the Federal Reserve and mainstream media doubling down on saying the loss of purchasing power is just “transitory.” This week consumer and producer metrics from July have been published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...

Crossword Fans Are Mad At The New York Times

4.8.2021
Many fans of The New York Times’ iconic crosswords will soon have to find a new way to play, as the paper announced it will stop supporting the popular Across Lite file format third-parties use to import the daily puzzles into their apps. Crossword fans are a passionate group, and many of them...

There Is No After

14.4.2021
Shortly before Christmas last year, I sent a message to Jeff Sharlet, a writer I don’t know, thanking him for memorializing the dead. It was a Sunday night, past 2 a.m., and though I can’t remember the specific thing keeping me awake I know its basic contours. Most every feeling I’ve had this year...

Platform News: Rounded Outlines, GPU-Accelerated SVG Animations, How CSS Variables Are Resolved

2.4.2021
In the news this week, Firefox gets rounded outlines, SVG animations are now GPU-accelerated in Chrome, there are no physical units in CSS, The New York Times crossword is accessible, and CSS variables are resolved before the value is inherited.… The post Platform News: Rounded Outlines...