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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



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The Google Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro are still several months away, but case makers are already hard at work crafting accessories for Google's next flagship phones.



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Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider blog posts say that when it comes to testing new Copilot features in Windows 11, “We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback.” For people who already have the feature, “Copilot in Windows will continue to work as expected while we continue to evolve new ideas with



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Google has had a longstanding ban on sexually explicit ads — but until now, the company hasn’t banned advertisers from promoting services that people can use to make deepfake porn and other forms of generated nudes. That’s about to change.

Google currently prohibits advertisers from promoting “sexually explicit content,” which Google defines as



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I wouldn’t call portable in the traditional sense, but it sure as hell beats lugging a 65-inch OLED around. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

As my colleague Chris Welch pointed out in his review of the LG StanbyME Go, there’s something refreshing about a TV that takes a chance on a less familiar concept, especially at a time when beastly OLED panels and art-inspired TVs



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Though Prime Video may be seen as a secondary benefit to your Amazon Prime membership (after that glorious free two-day shipping), the streamer’s deep catalog of great movies deserves more fanfare. We’ve pored over their huge selection of new releases and classics to bring you the films we love that you can stream today. 

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X is using Grok to publish AI-generated summaries of news and other topics that trend on the platform. The feature, which is currently only available to premium subscribers, is called “Stories on X,” according to a post from the company’s engineering account.

According to X, Grok relies on users’ posts to generate the text snippets. Some seem to be more news-focused, while others are summaries of



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  • Hope Hicks, a former longtime advisor to Donald Trump, took the witness stand in his hush-money trial Friday.
  • Just after Trump's lawyer began cross-examining her, she broke down in tears.
  • Hicks was Trump's 2016 campaign press secretary and later his White House communications director.

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Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan living in Indonesia, chewed medicinal leaves and applied them to his own facial wound to speed healing.
  • For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant.
  • A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.
  • This never-before-seen behavior goes to show just