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Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Tuesday, Dec. 2
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Dec. 2.
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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a fun one, especially if you like carbonated beverages, or what as a native Minnesotan, I will forever just call «pop.» Read on for the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.
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Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.
Mini across clues and answers
1A clue: Fittingly, the letters that bookend «Get along well»
Answer: GEL
4A clue: Coke, e.g.
Answer: DRUG
6A clue: Sprite
Answer: PIXIE
8A clue: Pepsi ___
Answer: COLA
9A clue: Subway scurrier
Answer: RAT
Mini down clues and answers
1D clue: Measure of a country’s economic output, for short
Answer: GDP
2D clue: N.Y.C. mayor Adams
Answer: ERIC
3D clue: Vegas casino shaped like a pyramid
Answer: LUXOR
5D clue: ___ monster (venomous lizard)
Answer: GILA
7D clue: Have a bite
Answer: EAT
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Last Chance: Nab These RayNeo Air 3s Pro AR/XR Glasses for $249 This Cyber Monday
Level up your gaming experience with these smart glasses while they’re $50 off.
Cyber Monday is here for a few more hours, and it’s a great time to save money on the latest tech. If you’re a gamer, there are plenty of deals that’ll save you big bucks. We’ve spotted this pair of RayNeo Air 3S smart gaming glasses for just $249 at RayNeo. This saves you $50 over its usual price of $299.
These RayNeo Air 3s Pro smart gaming glasses are lightweight, include built-in speakers and spatial audio that makes your experience immersive. They’re compatible with Android, iOS and Windows operating systems and consoles such as Nintendo Switch 2.
Love playing for hours on end? These glasses are TÜV SÜD Low Blue Light & Flicker-Free certified, which essentially means they’re gentle on your eyes and can reduce strain associated with being in front of a screen. These RayNeo Air 3s smart gaming glasses are also bright enough to let you see more detail than you’d get playing on a screen.
If you use glasses you can also take the Air 3s to your optician to get prescription lenses installed for a more comfortable view.
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These RayNeo Air 3s Pro AR/XR glasses are compatible with multiple operating systems and consoles. They offer brightness, excellent sound quality and low blue light exposure. On a typical day they cost $299, but this deal brings these smart gaming glasses down to $249. Keep in mind that this deal is live for just a few more hours.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold Is Coming to the US Early Next Year
This triple-display foldable looks like a slim phone-tablet hybrid. It’ll first arrive in Korea later this month.
After months of teasing a triple-display foldable phone, Samsung is gearing up to launch what it’s calling the Galaxy Z TriFold — because foldables with just one hinge are so last year.
The phone is slated to become available first in Korea on Dec. 12, and will then launch in other locations including China, Taiwan, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. It’ll arrive in the US in the first quarter of 2026.
To get this caveat out of the way: a trifold phone doesn’t actually fold three times. Rather, devices like the Z TriFold have a main screen with two hinges, allowing the phone to fold into three sections. They appear to be more of a hybrid between a phone and, when unfolded, a tablet. The Z TriFold boasts a 10-inch display when unfurled and a 6.5-inch cover display.
«The company’s decade-long experience in foldable category innovation inspired Galaxy Z TriFold’s uniquemulti-folding form factor, which uses an inward-folding design to protect the main display,» Samsung said in a blog post. «The foldingmechanism has been precisely engineered for easy opening and closing, with an auto-alarm alerting the userof incorrect folding through a series of on-screen alerts and vibrations.»
A Galaxy of features comes together
The Galaxy Z TriFold appears to borrow elements from two of its siblings: the Galaxy S25 Edge and the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Both phones are impressively thin, with the Edge measuring 5.8mm and the Z Fold 7 measuring 4.2mm thick when unfolded.
The Z TriFold goes one step further. It’s just 3.9mm thick «at its thinnest point,» Samsung says. Reading the fine print reveals that measurement excludes «the camera and the preinstalled protective film.» The thickest panel is the center one, which measures 4.2mm. The panel with the side button is 4mm thick. Still, that should all help to reduce bulk when the three screens are stacked shut on top of one another.
The rear triple-camera system includes a 200-megapixel wide-angle camera, similar to the Galaxy S25 Ultra, S25 Edge and Z Fold 7. There’s also a 12-megapixel ultrawide and 10-megapixel telephoto camera. For selfies, you’ll find 10-megapixel front-facing cameras on both the cover and main screens.
Like Samsung’s other premium phones released this year, the Z TriFold is powered by a custom Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. It also has a 5,600-mAh three-cell battery — a nice upgrade over the 4,400-mAh battery on the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Samsung notes this system «has been placed ineach of the three panels of the device for balanced power delivery and all-day endurance.» The phone supports 45-watt super-fast charging.
The Z TriFold has two different-sized hinges, «creating a smoother, more stable fold despitevarying weight and components across the device,» Samsung notes. This also helps to reduce the gap between the screens. The titanium hinge housing «resists wear over time,» and the phone’s Advanced Armor Aluminum frame should also help with durability, while preventing the screens from touching when folded shut.
The Z TriFold borrows another trait from the Z Fold 7: an IP48 rating. That means the phone can be submerged under 1.5 meters of water for up to 30 minutes and is protected against solid particles larger than 1 millimeter, but not against dust. Meanwhile, Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold boasts an impressive IP68 rating for water and dust resistance.
Samsung’s triple-display foldable has Corning’s Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 on the front, while the back is made of ceramic-glass fiber-reinforced polymer.
Why would someone buy the Galaxy Z TriFold?
So what’s the point of a phone that unfolds into a giant 10-inch display? Samsung says the Z TriFold is ideal for multitasking.
«Users can use the screen with endless versatility — they can create across three different portrait-sized apps side-by-side without interruption, resize apps inmulti-window to view the most important information clearly, or hold it vertically when reviewing documents forimproved focus,» the company notes.
Samsung also says a wider screen can be good for watching movies and TV shows. And if you’re watching a YouTube video, you can simultaneously read the comments on the neighboring display. Samsung notes that «minimized creasing on the device keeps content seamless anduninterrupted.» That’ll be a crucial element.
The phone’s AMOLED cover and main screens have a refresh rate up to 120Hz. The cover display boasts 2,600 nits of peak brightness, while the main screen features a peak brightness of 1,600 nits.
The Galaxy Z TriFold will arrive with Android 16 and One UI 8. It’s not clear how much the phone will cost, but given the Z Fold 7’s $2,000 starting price, it’ll probably be a pretty penny.
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DeepSeek Releases New Reasoning Models to Take On ChatGPT and Gemini
China’s DeepSeek is set on beating American AI firms.
DeepSeek, the China-based AI company, has released two new reasoning-capable AI models, V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale, with the latter outperforming Gemini 3.0 Pro and GPT-5 High in benchmarks, the company said in news release on Monday. At the moment, V3.2 is available on the app and web, whereas V3.2-Speciale can only be accessed via the API.
DeepSeek V3.2 is a follow-up to V3.2-Exp, which stands for experimental and was released in September. The Hangzhou-based AI company says V3.2 surpasses the performance of OpenAI’s GPT-5 in reasoning benchmarks and has reasoning performance «on par» with Gemini 3.0 Pro. DeepSeek didn’t release testing against GPT-5 Pro. That could be because ChatGPT is blocked in China. What’s more, DeepSeek said it’s committed to staying open source, meaning any company can load DeepSeek’s models for free. But considering V3.2 has 685 billion parameters, it can only run on a giant server stack with millions of dollars in hardware.
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DeepSeek didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
DeepSeek’s release of 3.2 comes as the company continues to put American AI companies on notice. The company first gained worldwide attention earlier this year when it released a reasoning-capable model online, for free.
It immediately turned the narrative about reasoning models on its head, showing that it’s possible to run smarter, more capable AI models at a fraction of the cost. This spooked Wall Street, with some wondering if OpenAI, Google and Anthropic weren’t innovating fast enough.
Since then, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude have all released reasoning-level models for free, with higher-level «thinking» models being available for paid subscribers.
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale won gold in the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the company said.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
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