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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, July 27 (game #777).

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 Connections hints.

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 #778) - today's words

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Today's NYT Connections words are…

• TRACE
• INITIAL
• SIGN
• ORIGINAL
• STAMP
• BUDDY
• SILENT
• DATE
• RECORD
• EVIDENCE
• PRIMARY
• COIN
• FIRST
• COMIC
• CULT
• HINT

NYT Connections today (game #778) - hint #1 - group hints

What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: At the forefront
• GREEN: Proof
• BLUE: Part of a set 
• PURPLE: Types of film

Need more clues?

We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…

NYT Connections today (game #778) - hint #2 - group answers

What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?

• YELLOW: FOREMOST
• GREEN: INDICATION
• BLUE: ITEM IN A COLLECTION 
• PURPLE: ____ MOVIE

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Connections today (game #778) - the answers

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The answers to today's Connections, game #778, are…

• YELLOW: FOREMOST FIRST, INITIAL, ORIGINAL, PRIMARY
• GREEN: INDICATION EVIDENCE, HINT, SIGN, TRACE
• BLUE: ITEM IN A COLLECTION COIN, COMIC, RECORD, STAMP
• PURPLE: ____ MOVIE BUDDY, CULT, DATE, SILENT

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

Today felt like an exceptionally easy day. Which makes me suspect that more tricky challenges may be lurking in the week ahead. Not that I don’t relish the chance to finish a round of Connections quickly and feel all smug about it.

But let’s be honest, today was a doddle. On any other day, the purple group could have passed as a yellow. 

The NYT even resisted the temptation of putting something weird in the ITEM IN A COLLECTION group because, let's face it, people collect anything.

Take me for example, I speak here as someone with collections of autographs on the back of cigarette packets, JD Salinger first editions, Portuguese sardine tins, 3D postcards from the 1960s (mainly poodles), and Japanese football shirts. Oh and all the normal stuff.

Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Sunday, July 27, game #777)

• YELLOW: "NOTHING TO IT!" CHILD'S PLAY, EASY, NO SWEAT, PIECE OF CAKE
• GREEN: OUTDOOR EVENTS BLOCK PARTY, FESTIVAL, PICNIC, TAILGATE
• BLUE: WORDS BEFORE "SCHOOL" ELEMENTARY, GRADE, GRAMMAR, PRIMARY
• PURPLE: ASSOCIATED WITH TRICKS CON GAME, HALLOWEEN, HEARTS, MAGIC SHOW

What is NYT Connections?

NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.

On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.

It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.

It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

• A GoPro Max 2 prototype is up for sale
• The early version is missing a screen
• A full launch for the camera is expected soon

The wait for a successor to the GoPro Max has been a long one – the 360-degree camera launched all the way back in 2019 – but a new leak gives us more evidence that a successor is finally on the verge of being introduced.

As spotted by Notebookcheck and a thread on Reddit, a prototype for the GoPro Max 2 has now appeared on a Chinese marketplace. One of the main giveaways that it's a prototype is that it doesn't have a screen, which the actual model will do.

We do get a look at the Folding Fingers mounting system that's present on other recent GoPro cameras, and at some of the inside components: the size of the heatsinks suggests this is a camera that might run quite hot.

The leak also gives us a good look at the size and the position of one of the front cameras. We'll have to wait and see how the image and video quality holds up against the Insta360 X5 and the upcoming DJI Osmo 360.

A long time coming

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Considering this is clearly a prototype of the GoPro Max 2, we're somewhat limited in terms of what we can take away about the final version of the upcoming camera, but it's still an interesting leak that reveals some of what Google has been working on.

Our hopes were raised with an official GoPro Max 2 trailer at the start of the month, but we haven't heard anything from GoPro since about this camera. Presumably, a full unveiling can't be too far away now.

We did get some tweaks to the original GoPro Max back in February, but not the full refresh we've been waiting for. GoPro has gone on record as saying there have been production delays over the years, pushing back the GoPro Max 2 launch further and further.

Hopefully there's not too much longer to wait now –and we'd expect the 360-degree camera to go straight into our list of the best GoPros. As soon as GoPro says anything else officially, we will of course let you know.

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AMD’s new Threadripper Pro 9995WX is already proving itself to be the most powerful workstation CPU available.

The top-end offering in the freshly launched Threadripper 9000 series, the 9995WX features 96 cores, 192 threads, a 2.5GHz base clock, and boost speeds up to 5.4GHz.

It also supports 144 usable PCIe Gen5 lanes, 128MB of L3 cache, and 8-channel DDR5 ECC memory at up to 6400MT/s.

Breaking records

Now on sale, priced at an eye-watering $11,699 at Amazon and Newegg, the 9995WX is technically designed for high-end workstations, but it has already become a popular choice in the extreme overclocking scene.

Using liquid nitrogen and an ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE motherboard, ASUS overclocking team member CENS pushed the chip to nearly 6GHz across all 96 cores, reaching a Cinebench R23 score of 227,817, which is an all-time world record.

The CPU was cooled to -47°C during the session and powered by a 2,000W PSU.

Clock speeds held steady between 5,746MHz and 5,950MHz, allowing the chip to maintain full-core stability under sustained loads.

That performance beat the previous record of 210,000 points set by AMD’s earlier 7995WX chip, and positions the 9995WX firmly at the top of the HEDT segment.

In total, the 9995WX was part of eight new world records and first-place benchmark results across Cinebench, Geekbench, 7-Zip, HWBOT x265, and Y-cruncher.

ASUS overclockers CENS, OGS, SEBY, and others all used the same chip to take top spots in both global and hardware categories.

The 9995WX may be aimed at professionals, but its unlocked design and massive core count also make it a showcase for what current desktop CPU engineering can achieve.

Matched with a high-end board and liquid nitrogen cooling, ASUS demonstrates just how hard a workstation processor can be pushed.

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