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NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Friday, January 3 (game #306)


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NYT Strands today — my hints, answers and spangram for Friday, January 3 (game #306)



Some accessory makers rely on workarounds that aren’t officially supported by Apple, but work due to the technology allowing it. Generally, these workarounds slide by without an issue, but not always.
Kuxiu offers a range of magnetic charging stands for iPad that AppleInsider has covered with praise for the products. However, owners that updated to the iPadOS 18.3 beta are reporting that the chargers no longer work.
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Marvel Rivals is a free-to-play first-person-shooter that is currently very popular among gamers. However, it does not currently have a macOS client, which has caused problems for some players using workarounds to do so.
Posts to Reddit reveal that players desperate to play the title on macOS are playing using Windows emulation. However many of those same players are discovering that their account has become part of a mass blocking effort affecting macOS users.
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When Samsung unveiled the world’s first 27-inch 4K gaming OLED monitor on Thursday, Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic predicted that other vendors would soon follow suit. (After all, Samsung is also the biggest supplier of OLED gaming monitor panels.) Sure enough, MSI followed suit the same day at CES 2025 with two monitors with familiar specs: a 27-inch 4K QD-OLED display and a 27-inch QD-OLED one with a crazy-smooth 500Hz refresh rate.
First up: the 27-inch 4K QD-OLED one, marketed to perfection as the… MPG 272URX QD-OLED. (Sure, why not!) MSI is differentiating its monitor as the first one to combine that panel with DisplayPort 2.1a, which can provide a better combination of resolution and frame rates. Like Samsung’s equivalent (the G81SF), it has a 240Hz refresh rate and should look nice and crisp at 166 PPI.
MSI says this panel “significantly reduces color fringing,” which should help with the poor text clarity too often customary of QD-OLED screens. As my colleague Igor points out, this could be an ideal do-it-all monitor for gaming, work or anything else you can throw at it.
It supports NVIDIA’s G-SYNC tech, so smooth gameplay won’t likely be a concern. The MPG 272URX QD-OLED even took home a CES 2025 Innovation Award.
The 27-inch QHD QD-OLED model also has a catchy and memorable name: the MPG 272QR QD-OLED X50. (Yes!) MSI is marketing this monitor to “all the mainstream gamers out there,” likely due to its lower (2,560 x 1,440) resolution. It also uses DisplayPort 2.1a and (like Samsung’s) can have a 0.03ms gray-to-gray pixel response time. It received VESA ClearMR 21000 certification, so motion blur shouldn’t be an issue when enjoying its blistering 500Hz refresh rate.
MSI hasn’t yet shared pricing or release date info for either model.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/accessories/msi-also-has-a-27-inch-4k-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-at-ces-2025-221902190.html?src=rss
Go Here to Read this Fast! MSI also has a 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor at CES 2025
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MSI also has a 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor at CES 2025