Class-Action Suit Claims Amazon 'Bricked' Early Fire TV Streaming SticksAmazon is facing a proposed class-action suit that claims the company made early versions of its Fire TV Stick devices obsolete over time.The plaintiff named in the suit, Bill Merewhuader, filed in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, said he purchased two second-generation Fire TV Stick devices from Best Buy in...

Is Ethiopia heading back to war with the TPLF or Eritrea in Tigray?AFP via Getty ImagesHope, as exemplified here by a statue at a camp for displaced people in Mekelle, is in short supply in TigrayFears of a return to war in northern Ethiopia are driving many people to leave the region of Tigray just over three years after the civil war there ended."Those who can afford it fly, those who can't...

Apple Intelligence Is Being Set Up to Become the World's Greatest Party PlannerApple says its upgraded Siri AI can take the stress out of party planning for those of us (myself included) who find ourselves overwhelmed when hosting social events. As announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, an upgraded Apple Intelligence (improved with some help from Google's Gemini AI...

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for March 10, #737Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Today's NYT Strands puzzle features a real mix of answers -- some long and some quite short. Some...

Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centersOn Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers — just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the city. Among the moratorium’s fiercest supporters are current employees from the city’s biggest tech giant, Amazon, who joined...