Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Jan. 15 #683
Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Jan. 15, No. 683.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Drops Long-Awaited Update One Day Early
You can now decorate guest rooms at a new resort hotel, buy Lego items and add characters from The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon games.
Verizon Outage Hits Around 175,000 Customers
If your Verizon device shows “SOS” instead of service bars, you’re among the thousands affected by today’s outage.
Z.ai’s open source GLM-Image beats Google’s Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics
The two big stories of AI in 2026 so far have been the incredible rise in usage and praise for Anthropic’s Claude Code and a similar huge boost in user…
This Lip-Syncing Robot Face Could Help Future Bots Talk Like Us
If we’re going to live and work with humanoid robots, maybe they should talk like humans, too.
Fujifilm’s Instax Mini Evo Cinema Camera Lets You Time Travel
Spin a dial to get images like those from your parents’ and grandparents’ photo albums.
Apple Picking Google Gemini to Power Siri Was About Buying Time
Gemini was the most logical choice for Apple Intelligence, at least until Apple can make its own AI model.
Why is Meta laying off workers again?
The company is cutting more than 1,000 jobs from its Reality Labs division where employees work on its virtual reality and augmented reality efforts.
A Postcard From Mars: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sends Beautiful Mount Sharp Panorama
Curiosity took the images in the morning and the evening to show what light looks like during different parts of the day.
Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform
On Tuesday, Bandcamp announced on Reddit that it will no longer permit AI-generated music on its platform. “Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI…