Las Vegas Summer League Preview: Just Enjoy The Ride
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NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Friday, July 10
Today's Pips Credit: NYT
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.
TGIF Pipsqueaks! Friday is here at last and then the weekend. No big 4th of July stuff this weekend, but this Sunday is my son’s 16th birthday, so that’s pretty neat! I just turned 45, so that means I’ll turn 47 when my son hits 18 with three whole years of my 40s left and all my kids flown the nest. Or, well, they might not have flown the nest, but all grown up. There are perks to being a younger parent. In any case, it’s Pips time! Let’s throw some dominoes!
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.
They showed just why they remain the team to beat this year with an impressive 2-0 victory over Morocco on Thursday to become the first nation into the semi-finals.
‘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.
Singapore-based company Datagrid has secured approval to build a NZ$3.5bn (US$2bn) AI datacentre on a 49-hectare site in Makarewa, just north of New Zealand’s southern-most city, Invercargill. Construction is due to begin this year, with the centre becoming operational by 2028.
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.
But thanks to Musk’s work with DOGE, his public comments on X, and the infamous gesture he made at Donald Trump’s inauguration that looked a lot like a Nazi salute, someone realized there was money to be made by avoiding him.