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The Fit ListThe corner of the TechRadar site that swaps processors for press-ups, The Fit List is our regular series of fitness listicles. We explore how to use technology to improve your health, all in handy bite-size pieces of advice. You can read the whole series here.Staying active becomes even more important as we get older, but not every form of exercise is kind to your joints. That’s where swimming really comes into its own. Whether you’re easing back into fitness or looking for a routine you can stick with long-term, swimming offers one of the most joint-friendly, full-body workouts…

On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model achieves a 72.2 percent score on SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark that attempts to test whether AI systems can solve real GitHub issues, putting it among the top-performing open-weights models. Perhaps more notably, Mistral didn’t just release an AI model, it released a new development app called Mistral Vibe. It’s a command line interface (CLI) similar to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI that lets developers interact with the Devstral…

I’ve never been a huge fan of jigsaw puzzles, but the pieces of art the Magic Puzzle Company makes for you to assemble are a delight. For starters, each has gorgeous and distinctive artwork — while there are a variety of artists who’ve contributed to the company’s puzzle lineup, they all feel related, packed with color, whimsy and a bunch of secrets you’ll notice as you build. The puzzle pieces themselves are high-quality and solid, something that goes a long way towards making a puzzle fun to put together. But my favorite part is the fact that once you finish…

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. There’s another one of those tricky purple categories where you need to see words buried within other words. If you need help sorting them into groups, you’re in the right place. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score…

The Galaxy S26 series could be announced in FebruaryWe might then be able to buy the handsets in MarchThere have been repeated rumors of a delayed launchThere’s another twist in the long-running saga of ‘when will Samsung actually launch the Galaxy S26 series?’ – and it now appears that the phones won’t be available to buy for some time after their grand unveiling.According to veteran tipster @UniverseIce, the Galaxy S26 phones are set to be unveiled at a Galaxy Unpacked event in February, before going on sale in March. There are no more specifics given, so the gap between launch…

Oracle’s Big Tech rivals such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have helped reassure investors about their large capital investments by posting strong earnings from their vast cloud units. But in the last quarter, Oracle’s cloud infrastructure business, which includes its data centers, posted worse than expected revenues of $4.1 billion. Ellison’s company is also relying more heavily on debt to fuel its expansion. Net income rose to $6.1 billion in the quarter, boosted by a $2.7 billion pre-tax gain from the sale of semiconductor company Ampere to SoftBank. The company added an additional 400 MW of data center capacity in…

New York governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Friday aimed at holding large AI developers accountable for the safety of their models. The RAISE Act establishes rules for greater transparency, requiring these companies to publish information about their safety protocols and report any incidents within 72 hours of their occurrence. It comes a few months after California adopted similar legislation.But, the penalties aren’t going to be nearly as steep as they were initially presented when the bill passed back in June. While that version included fines of up to $10 million dollars for a company’s first violation and up to…

Season 1 of Landman introduced viewers to the intense world of oil company crisis manager Tommy Norris. Now, the hit drama co-created by Taylor Sheridan is back for season 2.The first season of Landman had the most-watched global premiere and finale of any series in the history of the Paramount Plus streaming service, according to the streamer, and it earned Billy Bob Thornton a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Norris. Season 2 of Landman sees Norris face growing pressure from M-Tex Oil and Demi Moore’s character Cami Miller, per Paramount Plus. Andy Garcia’s cartel boss returns from Landman’s season 1 finale, and Sam…

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The head says it. This post lists the current best dual-band Wi-Fi 7 routers. They are hardware that does not feature the 6GHz band. If you want a router with all three bands, pick one from this list of the top “traditional” full-band Wi-Fi 7 routers. Dong’s note: I first published this frequently revised list on Dec 12, 2024, and last updated it on December 19, 2025. The ASUS RT-BE86U and RT-BE88U are two Wi-Fi 7 routers that represent long lineages of dual-band hardware. Five best dual-band Wi-Fi 7 routers: The real-world tested list Why dual-band, you might ask? Apart…