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Australian Open 2025 is underway – which means it's time to figure out the best (and possibly cheapest) way to watch live tennis from Melbourne from 12–26 January. The first Grand Slam tournament of 2025 featuring defending champion Jannik Sinner is expected to be watched by a global TV audience of 25 million, with over one million fans through the gates over three weeks. Tennis fans can watch the Australian Open for free on the local 9Now streaming service, and on major sports networks such ESPN and Eurosport, as well as via their respective apps. Ready to see the world's greatest tennis players on court? Stick with us for all the latest on the Australian Open including the draw, start times and highlights... Watching Australian Open 2025: the essentials Date: Sun, Jan 12 – Sun, Jan 26 Start time: 2pm ET / 7pm GMT US: ESPN via Sling / Fubo UK: Eurosport, Discovery+ 🇦🇺 FREE: 9Now (watch in Australia) 📺 Our FULL GUIDE to Australian Open live streams Use a V...

The Comet is a blend of Raspberry Pi, Simputer and Project Ara with a hint of Game Boy Its standout feature is the use of hardware extensions that can be quickly removed It launches on crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, very soon Developed in India in the early 2000s, the Simputer , (Simple Inexpensive Mobile computer) was a groundbreaking handheld Linux computer many people believe inspired the Apple iPhone (and by extension, Android devices). It featured a touch interface, stylus input with handwriting recognition, an accelerometer, and a USB master port - all innovations well ahead of their time. I mention the Simputer now because I’m reminded of it looking at a brand new modular handheld computer set to debut on Kickstarter soon - the Mecha Comet is a portable Linux device aimed at developers, makers, and tinkerers. Running on open source software, the device features a magnetic snap interface for swappable extensions, which currently include a game controller, keyboard...

WhatsApp is seemingly testing a new look that brings AI front and center to the messaging app, as first discovered by WABetaInfo . The new look, as seen on a beta version of the Android app, gives AI its own tab and is clearly aimed at encouraging users to play with Meta's many AI tools. The WABetaInfo team found the AI tab lists features such as “Popular AI characters” you can chat with and bots organized by topic, like a bizarre dinner party where everyone’s a robot. There are also AI-generated stickers, images, and a Meta AI-powered search engine. If these sound familiar, that's because these AI tools already exist in WhatsApp – you just may not have noticed them, because they’re buried under the Chats tab. This redesign looks to make AI more visible and, presumably, more used. Whether that happens is anyone’s guess, but Meta seems to be betting on AI being the next big thing in messaging. The changes also affect the Communities tab, which no longer has its own space and...

Mark Zuckerberg has asked President-elect Trump to stop EU imposing fines Meta CEO compared GDPR and antitrust fines to tariffs on US companies Request comes after Facebook and Instagram move to replace fact checking services with community notes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called on President-elect Donald Trump to stop the European Union from levying fines against US companies for violating the bloc’s anti-trust, data protection, and other rules. Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast , Zuckerberg said, “I think it's a strategic advantage for the United States that we have a lot of the strongest companies in the world, and I think it should be part of the US strategy going forward to defend that.” Meta has faced €2.619 billion ($2.67 billion) in fines from the European Union since 2022 as a result of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations alone. Meta was also hit by a €797.72 million ($813.71 million) fine late in 2024 for violating EU antitrust rule...

This is only the second TB5 SSD on the market after the Envoy Ultra Seagate says it can reach speeds of 6700/5300MBps in read/write This rugged SSD will cost up to $600 for the 4TB version LaCie, Seagate’s premium brand, has launched the Rugged SSD Pro5, a high-speed external drive designed for creative professionals. The Thunderbolt 5 drive will be available in 2TB and 4TB capacities, offering high-speed data transfer rates which make it ideally suited for demanding creative workflows like direct editing of 6K and 8K RAW video files. The Rugged SSD Pro5 delivers ultra-fast read speeds of up to 6700MB/s and write speeds of up to 5300MB/s with a 50GB cache, allowing faster rendering, backups, and media transfers. LaCie says that once the cache is exceeded, the drive will deliver speeds of up to 5000MB/s for reading and 1800MB/s for writing. Price matched (Image credit: Seagate) Created by award-winning Scottish designer Neil Poulton, who has worked on many of LaCie’s...

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #582) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are… BANK PARK BOOK STORE RESERVE TRAIN SCHOOL POOL EARTH SIGNAL INCH COACH TURN GLOW GUIDE BRAKE NYT Connections today (game #582) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: Learn GREEN: Collection o...

Anyone who has attended the Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) over recent years will have spotted that major automotive players have been muscling in on consumer tech turf. Autonomous driving, AI-powered voice assistants and masses of high-definition touchscreen displays have been employed to snare column inches and take over TikTok feeds. This year was no different, with BMW choosing the platform to introduce the latest generation of its iconic iDrive infotainment system that, unsurprisingly, now involves a frankly terrifying amount of screen real estate. Due to arrive in the upcoming BMW Neue Klasse X electric SUV, with the system slated to roll out to all new BMW models in the near future, the Panoramic iDrive offering features a 3D head-up display in front of the driver, a mammoth 17.9-inch central touchscreen and, to top it all off, a separate head-up display that spans the entire width of the windshield. As is the way with most infotainment systems now, the central touchscre...