DeepMind releases Acme, a distributed framework for reinforcement learning algorithm development

The Full Moon is just a day away, so there's no surprise that it's big and bright in the sky tonight. There's a lot to see, without or without visual aids, so keep reading to find out what exactly you can spot.What is today’s Moon phase?As of Monday, March 2, the Moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 98% of the Moon will be lit up tonight.With just your naked eye, tonight you'll be able to see the Mares Vaporum and Crisium, as well as the Aristarchus Plateau.

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through ea

Today's Connections: Sports Edition is for people who love March.As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If yo

Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're a Nickelodeon fan. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.SEE ALSO:Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO:NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for March 2, 2026
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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're a remote worker. Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phr

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you're an MLB fan.Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from pr

For one blissful episode of Industry, Harper Stern (Myha'la) and Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) were at peace. In the aftermath of Tender's collapse in Season 4, episode 7, they went clubbing, shared a kiss, and dreamed that they would be in this state of bliss "forever."Turns out their "forever" doesn't even last until the end of Season 4.SEE ALSO:'Industry's Myha'la and Marisa Abela break down Harper and Yasmin's heart to heart (and that kiss)
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Lenovo kicked off the year with a dominating presence at the Consumer Electronics Show, where it unveiled a new Qira personal AI agent, over a dozen new laptops, and a slew of new PC accessories. (It went home with three Best of CES awards.) Today, the world's biggest PC maker is expanding its 2026 portfolio even further with a fresh crop of hardware for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Lenovo's MWC announcements include more laptops and tablets for consumers, some additional "Think" devices

TL;DR: Go back to school without setting foot in a classroom thanks to EDU Unlimited by StackSkills, on sale now for $19.97 through March 22, with no coupon code required.Opens in a new windowCredit: StackSkillsEDU Unlimited by StackSkills: Lifetime Access$19.97 $600 Save $580.03 Get DealIf you’ve always had a dream of going back to school, but don’t have the funds or the time, you don’t have to give it up. EDU Unlimited by StackSkills lets parents, entrepreneurs, and anyo

Lenovo announced a funky foldable version of its flagship Legion Go 2 gaming handheld today at Mobile World Congress 2026. (The news leaked out last week.) Mashable also got the chance to go hands-on with the concept handheld at a demo event ahead of MWC, and it's a cool little gadget.The aptly named Legion Go Fold features a POLED display with a hinge in the middle, which allows it to expand from 7.7 inches to 11.6 inches. The device includes detachable controllers as well as a detachable wirel

AI is evolving beyond a helpful tool to an autonomous agent, creating new risks for cybersecurity systems. Alignment faking is a new threat where AI essentially “lies” to developers during the training process. Traditional cybersecurity measures are unprepared to address this new development. However, understanding the reasons behind this behavior and implementing new methods of training and detection can help developers work to mitigate risks.Understanding AI alignment fakingAI

Most people don’t appreciate the profound threat that AI will soon pose to human agency. A common refrain is that “AI is just a tool,” and like any tool, its benefits and dangers depend on how people use it. This is old-school thinking. AI is transitioning from tools we use to prosthetics we wear. This will create significant new threats we’re just not prepared for.No, I’m not talking about creepy brain implants. These AI-powered prosthetics will be mainstream produ

Full Circle, the gaming studio behind the new iteration of Skate, has recently announced a restructuring involving layoffs at its headquarters in Burnaby, British Columbia. Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, Full Circle is just the latest in a series of AAA gaming studios to be hit by layoffs, with Ubisoft Toronto laying off 40 employees last week. SEE ALSO:'Mario Tennis Fever' takes Mario sports back to arcade basics in the best way
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In a joint effort between Minnesota lawmakers, local law enforcement, and the Department of Commerce, legislation has been introduced to ban crypto ATMs across the state in response to widespread fraud and financial abuse, particularly of the elderly. Bill HF3642, sponsored by Rep. Erin Koegel, would prohibit the use of virtual currency kiosks or "crypto ATMs," that also accept cash and debit cards, in response to 70 official complaints of financial fraud totalling over $540,000 in 2025.SEE

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through ea

Today's Connections: Sports Edition is for people who like to gamble.As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.I

In the battle for AI supremacy, Anthropic’s Claude has just managed to dethrone OpenAI’s ChatGPT in Apple’s App Store, claiming the #1 spot as the most-downloaded free app in the United States, leaving ChatGPT in second and Google’s Gemini a distant fourth.This sudden surge in the rankings is almost certainly due to public backlash at a recent announcement by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, released on X, that they would work with the Department of Defense (unofficially titled the

At this year's MWC in Barcelona, Honor showcased its first-ever AI-powered humanoid robot. And how do you know a robot is any good these days? Of course, by its ability do dance!This being Honor's first robot, and having seen numerous botched robot launches recently, I wasn't sure what to expect. Honor's robot managed to surprise by being quite a dancer, performing a live act next to actual human dancers on stage in Barcelona. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been

At this point, anything President Donald Trump does feels like it’s already been workshopped in the Saturday Night Live writers’ room. The line between satire and reality is practically gone at this point.SEE ALSO:Connor Storrie makes out with Sarah Sherman in 'SNL' promo
This week, with global tensions spiking, the Cold Open returned to familiar territory: James Austin Johnson behind a podium, doing his uncanny Trump, explaining why the United States launched attacks on Iran.“

Saturday Night Live host Connor Storrie and cast member Mikey Day get off to a deeply improper start in this delightfully dramatic, Victorian-era, Bridgerton-coded sketch.The offense starts with Storrie casually implying — in front of Day’s beau and a gathering of tightly wound aristocrats — that Day is, in fact, quite bad at croquet. Naturally, this grave insult can only be resolved the way gentlemen of the era intended: by slapping each other senseless with gloves.SEE ALSO:Co

Honor brought its Robot Phone concept to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, giving us a first close look at the device. Honor calls the Robot Phone a "new species" of smartphone that combines "embodied AI interaction with robot-grade motion and cinematic imaging capabilities." No, that doesn't make the concept any clearer. Having seen it in person, I can tell you that it is, indeed, still a smartphone. It has a robotic arm that springs out of the back, carrying a 200-megapixel camera with it. O

If you’ve ever wondered what hell looks like, apparently it’s getting your marriage proposal rejected while three grown men behind you at an ice rink are having the absolute time of their lives.SEE ALSO:Connor Storrie's 'SNL' promo shows off a truly impressive range of accents
That’s the premise of this week’s Saturday Night Live sketch, which features Heated Rivalry heartthrob Connor Storrie as one-third of a blissed-out trio living their best frozen-water fantasy. The o

I got to try a ton of awesome smart glasses at CES 2026, and one of the most exciting pairs is finally available. On Friday, TCL launched the new RayNeo Air 4 Pro AR/XR glasses for $299 (early shoppers can save $50 at launch), which boast dual Micro-OLED displays for watching movies and playing games.These smart glasses are the world's first to offer support for HDR10, and they can create a virtual screen up to 201 inches in size. They're also noticeably brighter and more vivid than other smart

TL;DR: Live stream India vs. West Indies in the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 for free on ICC.TV. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.The 2026 T20 World Cup action concludes this weekend with an absolutely huge game between India and West Indies. The winner of this fixture will progress to the semi finals. The loser will be dumped out. It's a winner-takes-all knockout game. It really doesn't get much bigger than this.India and West Indies both suffered defeats

Honor's got a new foldable phone, and it's even thinner than the last one. The company had its big unveiling in Barcelona, one day before the official start of this year's Mobile World Congress, and the key word was "slim." Oh, and also "AI," but you already knew that. As part of MWC, which officially runs from March 2-5, Honor has revealed its Magic V6 phone, the MagicPad 4, and MagicBook Pro. We've gotten an up-close look at all of them, and there is a lot to like.Honor Magic V6The Honor Magic