Las Vegas Summer League Preview: Just Enjoy The Ride
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NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Friday, July 10
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Looking for help with today’s Easy, Medium and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you’re after a nudge in the right direction or just want to compare notes, below you’ll find everything you need to solve each of today’s Pips plus a full walkthrough for today’s Hard Pips.
World Cup 2026: 'Unbelievable' France aim to eclipse previous glories
France cruise into semi-finals - could this be the best Les Bleus ever?
France into semi-finals after comfortable win over Morocco
ByMichael Emons
BBC Sport journalist
World Cup winners in 1998 and 2018, France have created another special team and are favourites to win the 2026 competition.
‘A lot of red flags’: plans for New Zealand’s first datacentre spark concern as locals demand greater transparency
People living near the site of New Zealand’s first planned AI datacentre are calling for more transparency about the project, especially about how the centre’s huge electricity and water use and potential noise pollution could affect them.
Morning glories reveal 96% drop in adaptation as pollinator pressure reshapes evolution
Facing both climate change and a crashing pollinator population, plants may be evolving to attract pollinators rather than adapting to a warming climate, and the trade-off has resulted in a steep decline in plants' rate of adaptation, according to a University of Michigan study. The researchers, studying morning glories, observed a 96% decrease in the population's rate of adaptation over nine years. The declining rate of adaptation could affect farmers, who deal with morning glory as an agricultural nuisance. The research is published in the journal Evolution Letters.
Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him
In the lead up to the SpaceX IPO, there were dozens of stories about early employees and investors who stood to make millions of dollars for betting on, or working for, Elon Musk.
‘We got it wrong’ on Gaza, says UK Labour’s Andy Burnham
UK’s likely next PM Burnham pushes for ceasefire, tougher sanctions over Gaza violence, and settlement trade bans.
The United Kingdom’s likely incoming next prime minister, Andy Burnham, has apologised for the Labour Party’s initial response to Israel’s actions in Gaza, saying “we got it wrong” while calling for further sanctions on those involved in violence in the besieged enclave.
New technique takes the heat out of 3D printing process
Researchers have developed a new 3D printing technique that allows the printing of whole objects while controlling the temperature of the chemical reaction to stabilize the process. Academics in the University of Nottingham's Faculty of Engineering, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an enhancement for a type of 3D printing called Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (VAM), which can create whole objects in seconds to minutes. The research has been published in Nature Communications.
Colman Domingo on the Bay Area, Working Alongside Chadwick Boseman and Being a Writer, Actor and Producer: ‘I Always Wanted to Be a Multi-Hyphenate’
San Francisco’s Frameline Film Festival has always held a special place in Colman Domingo’s life. “It’s embedded in my heart,” he said. Having lived in San Francisco from 1991-2001, the actor spent many summers at the festival, reveling in its film programming, particularly the short films.
Council Post: Dungeon Crawler Carl’s 7 Storytelling Hacks For Startup Founders
Rohit Jha is CEO and Co-Founder of Transcelestial | Writing about space, lasers, anime, AI, books, movies, research, telecom.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl transforms one of the most absurd premises in fiction, Earth vaporized for intergalactic reality TV, with Coast Guard vet Carl and his diva cat Princess Donut fighting to entertain or die, into a sprawling, addictive saga of survival, rebellion and escalating stakes.