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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you



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IT: Welcome to Derry is only a couple of episodes in, but we're already awash with Stephen King Easter eggs — and the show's opening credits are no exception.

Set to Patience and Prudence's discordantly cheery 1956 song "A Smile and a Ribbon", the opening theme is made up of a series of retro cartoon images that veer between wholesome and terrifying.

Of these scenes, there are certain moments and


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Warning: Contains possible spoilers from Stephen King's IT novel.

Another episode into IT: Welcome to Derry, and the Stephen King crossovers are quickly stacking up.

Along with the clue-filled opening credits and the numerous IT references in the first episode, episode 2 widens the scope, introducing a character best known from a different Stephen King novel entirely.

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The premiere of IT: Welcome to Derry was not only jaw-dropping and stomach-churning in its gore and horror, but also in the sheer number of characters it was willing to axe right out the gate. Truly, Game of Thrones walked so that IT: Welcome to Derry could run like those kids from Weapons — fast, furious, and towards hellish fates. 



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TL;DR: Live stream FC Augsburg vs. Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga for free on BBC iPlayer. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.


Can any team keep pace with Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga standings? That job usually falls at the feet of Borussia Dortmund, but they're a little off the pace after eight games. Borussia Dortmund find themselves in



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Wondering what's happening with the moon tonight? Wonder no more, we have all the information about tonight's place in the lunar cycle, just keep reading.

What is today’s moon phase?

As of Friday, Oct. 31, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. There will be 69% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.

Without any visual aids, there's lots for you to see tonight, including



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OpenAI has started selling power users extra credits for its Sora AI video generation tool. An extra 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple’s App Store. The company currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day, a rate that will likely decrease as OpenAI starts to monetize the offering. Bill Peebles, who heads OpenAI's Sora, posted on X about the changes. 

"Eventually we will need to bring