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Yelp and Chasing Paper introduce wallpaper supporting small local businesses. Robotic “stores on wheels” can chase you around public spaces. Amazon opens a physical clothing store. A graphene-enhanced supercar. AI wins the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. NYC’s last phone booth is removed. Have an Icelandic horse respond to your email. A volcano…full of sharks. A “potentially hazardous” asteroid passes by Earth tonight. Hard seltzer made with real holy water. Go out in style (if...

Wish you could solve a tricky crossword in under a minute? Dr Fill can We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Matt Ginsberg is a magician, a stunt pilot and a sub-standard crossword-solver. “It annoyed me that I was so terrible,” the Oregonian told Jane Wakefield, the BBC’s tech reporter. Doubly annoying, as Ginsberg also built crosswords for US papers, often getting stumped by his own clues in hindsight. Enter ...

Nearly 1,300 people spent this past weekend racing to fill little boxes inside larger boxes, ever mindful of spelling, trivia, wordplay, and a ticking clock. They were competitors—newcomers, ardent hobbyists, and elite speed solvers—in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the pastime’s most prestigious competition. And most of them got creamed by some software. The annual event, normally set in a packed hotel ballroom with solvers separated by yellow dividers, was virtual this year, ...