Technologies

Get 12 Games a Month for Just $12 With Humble Choice Premium

April games are out now on Humble Bundle. Get them while you can.

Whether you’re an avid gamer or just a casual fan, having a wide variety of games to choose from is never a bad thing, right? With Humble Bundle, you can easily stock up on a bunch of PC games. From first-person shooters to cozy forest games, you can get 12 games per month for just $12 with Humble Choice Premium.

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When you sign up for Humble Choice, you get a monthly mix of PC games to own forever. But you don’t just get a dozen games each month, you also get exclusive access to the Humble Games Collection and discounts for up to 20% off in the Humble Store. Check out this month’s bundle.

When you purchase something on Humble Bundle, you’ll be sent a key to redeem on platforms such as Steam, GOG, Ubisoft Connect Desktop App and others. I personally love Humble Bundle and have purchased a variety of bundles. There are games I still have access to and enjoy playing even after 10 years and switching devices and platforms. Humble Bundle has also exposed me to games I wouldn’t normally have bought myself but have enjoyed playing nonetheless, and it’s turned me on to indie games I would’ve never known existed.

Another cool thing about Humble Bundle is you can choose where your money goes. Outside the monthly subscription (where 5% of your subscription fee goes to charity), you get to choose not only how much you pay for a game or bundle, but also how much of your payment goes to charity. Since 2010, Humble Bundle has picked a charity each month to donate to, and the Humble community has contributed more than $200 million.

Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, July 2

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for July 2.

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s Mini Crossword wasn’t too tough, although there are a couple of different ways to go on some of the clues. Need the answers? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.

The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times’ games collection. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword

Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.

Mini across clues and answers

1A clue: Clean with elbow grease
Answer: SCRUB

6A clue: Fruit to which wrinkly fingers are compared
Answer: PRUNE

7A clue: «Meenie miney» preceder
Answer: EENIE

8th A clue: Light bulb units
Answer: WATTS

9A clue: «Meenie miney» follower
Answer: MOE

Mini down clues and answers

1D clue: Erupt with force
Answer: SPEW

2D clue: Doughnut filling
Answer: CREAM

3D clue: Total, as expenses
Answer: RUNTO

4D clue: Come together as one
Answer: UNITE

5D clue: They’re often abuzz about coneflowers
Answer: BEES

Technologies

Amazon Reaches Automation Milestone by Deploying Its Millionth Robot

The company is also upgrading its entire fleet with a new generative AI model.

Amazon’s fleet of warehouse robots just hit a new milestone. The company announced Monday that it deployed its millionth bot to begin operations at a fulfillment center in Japan.

Amazon’s ambitions for robot use have long surpassed the company utilizing them for delivery service. The business juggernaut is the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile robotics, and aims to sell them to you for use at home as well — if you have $1,600 to spare.

The robotic workers operate in over 300 Amazon warehouses across the world, creating an ever-expanding automated delivery network. More than 75% of Amazon’s global deliveries are assisted in some way by robot automation, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon has also developed a new generative AI model called DeepFleet to make the robots in the delivery system «smarter and more efficient.» According to Amazon, this new model will coordinate robots across the fulfillment network to improve package travel times by 10%.

The company’s robots currently lift thousands of pounds of packages at a time, integrate conveyor belts to move along individual items and move autonomously around the warehouse with heavy carts.

The most recent fleet upgrade, Vulcan, uses force feedback sensors to create a sense of touch, physically lifting and moving items all by itself.

Amazon’s robots work in tandem with more than 1.6 million human workers worldwide. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is on track to have more automated workers than employed humans, while Amazon workers have begun to unionize in recent years.

A representative for Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.