June 18, 2025

Puzzle Corner

Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the July/August 2025 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by guest editor Ed Faulkner ’03. Send problems, solutions (by August 1), and comments to puzzlecorner@technologyreview.com. Editor emeritus Allan Gottlieb ’67 launched Puzzle Corner in 1966. Find back issues through 2022 at cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb/tr and more recent back issues at technologyreview.com/puzzle-corner.

August 2023

Google’s generative search feature now shows related videos and images

August 2, 2023
Google is adding contextual images and videos to its AI-powered Search Generative Experiment (SGE), the generative AI-powered search feature announced at May’s I/O conference. Later in the month, the company made the feature available to select users who signed up for the experiment through Google Labs. With the updates, SGE now shows images or videos […]

Tinder tests AI photo selection feature to help users build profiles

August 2, 2023
Tinder is currently testing an AI photo selection feature that looks at a user’s photo album and selects the five that best represents them for their dating profile, parent company Match Group revealed during its earnings call today. “AI has really inspired our product people across the entire company to really think about ways that […]

Discord will now let you stream Xbox gameplay directly to servers and DMs

August 2, 2023
Streaming to Twitch is one thing, but sometimes you just want to share a new game (ahem Baldur’s Gate 3) or a big gameplay moment with your inner circle. Building off its previous integration with Xbox, Discord announced today that users will now be able to stream Xbox games directly from the console to the […]

OurCrowd teams up with Airwallex to let its investors back startups in their local currency

August 2, 2023
Over the course of the last few years, venture investment platform OurCrowd has become Israel’s most active venture investor, with over 400 portfolio companies across 42 funds. The platform allows accredited investors to invest in the startups in the OurCrowd portfolio, but until now, they had to do so by first converting their local currency […]

Amazon now offers Fresh grocery delivery to non-Prime members in select US cities

August 2, 2023
Amazon is making its Fresh grocery delivery service available to people without Prime memberships in select U.S. cities. In the past, Fresh grocery delivery was only available to people who had a Prime subscription. With this expansion, people in a dozen cities, including Austin, TX, Boston, MA, Charlotte, N.C., Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, Denver, CO, Nashville, […]