NYT Pips hints, answers for March 17, 2026

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

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at ...

A Practical Guide to Autonomous Evaluation Loops in Claude Code

The guide explains two layers of Claude Code improvement, YAML activation tuning and output checks like word count and ...
Tidbits

Dialed Game Tests Your Color Memory

The designers at Lightspark write: Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. Dialed shows you a color for 5 seconds, then asks you to recreate ...
The Verge

AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

Project Genie is an underwhelming glimpse into what may come. Project Genie is an underwhelming glimpse into what may come. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...
Dexerto

AI can ‘rent’ humans and thousands have already signed up

A brand-new website allows AI to ‘rent’ humans to complete tasks for money, and thousands of users have already signed up to get involved. Artificial intelligence has become a bigger part of everyday ...
renonr

Keep ’em guessing: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck help make Netflix’s ‘The Rip’ an enjoyable, unpredictable thriller

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in The Rip. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon team up again for Netflix’s The Rip. This time, they’re under the direction of Joe Carnahan (The Grey … it’s a great film if you haven ...
The New York Times

This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...
The Daily Gazette

‘Won’t use force’: Trump keeps up Greenland guessing game in Davos

WASHINGTON — Without the United States, Europe would sink into economic ruin as other powers overwhelmed a broke, neutered and defenseless NATO. That was the muscle-flexing message President Donald ...
The Jackson Sun

Nijigen no Mori’s ‘NARUTO & BORUTO Shinobi-Zato’ Celebrates ‘Gaara’s Birthday’ in 2026

AWAJI, JAPAN, January 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — At the “NARUTO & BORUTO Shinobi-Zato” attraction in the anime park Nijigen no Mori, located on Awaji island ...
Game Rant

Best Games That Let You Create A Superhero

Mark Sammut grew up on the PlayStation 1 and has been playing games ever since, although he is no longer limited to just Sony consoles. Be it JRPGs, shooters, platformers, or hack and slash games, ...
IEEE

Using a Single Parity-Check to Reduce the Guesswork of Guessing Codeword Decoding

Abstract: Guessing Codeword Decoding (GCD) is a recently proposed soft-input forward error correction decoder for arbitrary binary linear codes. Inspired by recent ...