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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're an NCAA fan.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There


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Burger King Oscars ads
Burger King's new ad campaign says the customer is king.
  • Burger King took the crown for Oscars 2026 ad domination.
  • It ran several spots and got host-read callouts throughout the ceremony.
  • Its main ad saw the fast-food chain fess up to missteps and promise changes.

And the Oscar for splashiest ad campaign during the 2026 Academy Awards goes to… Burger King.

The fast-food giant went


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The average marketing agency juggles between six and 12 different software tools to manage clients: one for email, another for CRM, a third for funnels, something else for scheduling, a separate platform for reputation management, and probably a spreadsheet holding the whole thing together. Every new client means another round of logins, another integration to […]



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Which genre film reigned supreme at the Oscars? Find out here.



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The 2026 Academy Awards was a bumper night for horror, with Sinners picking up four awards (watch Michael B. Jordan's passionate acceptance speech), and Amy Madigan picking up Best Support Actress for her iconic role in Zach Cregger's Weapons.

In her entertainingly chaotic acceptance speech above, Madigan starts things off with an Aunt Gladys-style cackle before nodding to the fact she was last


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CDP Venture Capital leads the round for the Milan-based company behind Alo, an AI operating layer already deployed in finance, manufacturing, and pharma. Alomana, a Milan-based AI startup building an operating layer for enterprise automation, has raised €4 million in a seed round led by CDP Venture Capital through its Corporate Partners I, ServiceTech fund. […]



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It was one Oscar after another for Paul Thomas Anderson at the 98th Academy Awards.

The director's three-hour-long epic One Battle After Another picked up the Oscar for Best Picture, along Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Casting. With six Oscars to its name, it was the most awarded film of the night.

Ryan Coogler's Sinners also won


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