I analyzed the first 1,000 Wordles to look for patterns — here’s what I found

[ad_1] Happy 1,000th birthday, Wordle! Yes, the simple and oh-so-addictive word game that took the world by storm in early 2022 has now reached another landmark – and that’s given me the perfect excuse to analyze every game so far in a hunt for patterns. You might wonder why that’s helpful, but trust me – … Read more

Inside China’s giant underground neutrino lab

[ad_1] Kaiping, China Seven hundred metres below the rolling green landscape of Kaiping, southeast China, construction workers are furiously finishing a 35-metre-diameter orb-shaped detector that aims to observe ghostly subatomic particles known as neutrinos in exquisite detail. If all goes to plan, the US$376 million Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will be ready to start … Read more

Proton’s Windows and macOS mail app is out of beta and available now

[ad_1] Proton, the privacy-focused company that offers a variety of internet tools like mail, calendars, online storage and a password manager, continues to built out its portfolio. As of today, Proton’s desktop mail app for Windows and macOS is out of beta and now available to all its paid users. At the same time, Proton … Read more

Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, March 15 (game #781)

[ad_1] It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, … Read more

The new Sonos Move 2 portable speaker is 20 percent off right now

[ad_1] The newly-released Sonos Move 2 speaker is on sale for 20 percent off the regular price. This is the very first discount on the speaker and brings the price down to $360 from $450. This is part of a larger Sonos sale on select products to celebrate the NCAA March Madness tournament. Nathan Ingraham … Read more

Indigenous Australians started fire farming 11,000 years ago

[ad_1] Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Northern Australian elder George Milpurrurr shows the next generation how to do a cultural burn.Credit: Penny Tweedie/Alamy Indigenous Australians have been using fire to shape the country’s northern ecosystems for thousands of years. Researchers analysed … Read more

TikTok is now asking users to call their Senators to prevent a US ban

[ad_1] One day after a bill that could lead to of TikTok in the United States passed the House of Representatives, the company is doubling down on its strategy of urging users to call lawmakers. The app began pushing new in-app messages to users asking them to “tell your Senator how important TikTok is to … Read more

How AI images and videos could change science

[ad_1] Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every week? Sign up here. Sora is one of several AI tools that generates video from text promptsCredit: OpenAI The release of OpenAI’s sophisticated video-generating tool Sora has been met with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Some observers worry … Read more