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• Chinese EV company BYD plans to introduce its bargain hatchback Seagull to Europe in 2025.
• The car's base model sells for less than $10,000 in China.
• Meanwhile, automakers operating in the US are still slow to provide a more affordable EV option. 

As some US drivers pine for more affordable electric vehicle options, America is left to watch the rest of the world

• A former Facebook executive says coding alongside an AI copilot is a "mind meld."
• Aditya Agarwal described the copilot coding experience in a Thursday post on X.
• "The lines between the creator and the tool will blur," he wrote.

A former Facebook director is praising AI's prowess, likening the

A year after the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser took its last flight, here’s a look back at the best of Disney Parks’ bold venture into the immersive entertainment space—and why in the end, it couldn’t quite work.

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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for May 24's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Where did Wordle come

• Victoria Ou and Justin Huang, both 17, won $50,000 for their microplastic filtration device.
• It's the first filtration system to successfully use ultrasound to filter microplastics from water.
• They hope to scale their device

• Tech titans like Elon Musk and Tim Cook run some of the world's biggest companies.
• In so doing, they've employed some outright strange management practices.
• From banning PowerPoints to having 50 direct reports, here are tech leaders' most unconventional management habits.

They're

• Paradise Valley, Arizona, is attracting wealthy residents from across the US, especially California.
• The average resident of Paradise Valley is older and wealthier than the rest of the state.
• Nearly everyone in Paradise Valley owns their home, with a median sale price of $3.3 million

Put on your best white tux, smuggle a diamond, and throw on “Anything Goes.” May 23 is the birthday of Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom—the franchise’s weirdest entry,for a whole lot of reasons. And since it was released in 1984, that makes today its 40th anniversary. Happy birthday Indy!

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Google is now letting users securely share passwords with members of their own family group over the internet, making it easier for everyone in the household to access passwords for shared services like Netflix. The new ability is included in the Google Play services update for May 2024 that’s rolling out now, as reported by Android

Meta and Google are offering Hollywood studios millions of dollars with the hope of striking licensing deals that could improve their models for AI-generated video, according to a new report in Bloomberg. The companies have reportedly offered “tens of millions of dollars,” though it’s unclear what will come from the talks.

According to the report, Netflix and Disney “aren’t willing to license

Netflix is a go-to for must-watch series like 3 Body Problem and Stranger Things, but it’s not really a cult movie destination. If you dig deep, though, you can turn up some offbeat sci-fi and horror gems. With io9's previous Netflix cult-movie guide now mostly outdated, here’s a fresh list culled from the streamer’s…

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