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Hurdle game on a smartphone

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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Connections game on a smartphone

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you love the theater.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games 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


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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you love looking things up.

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



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A 'new home for sale' sign is displayed in front of a newly built residential area  in Rockville, Maryland.
Mortgage rates have dropped sharply from a year ago.
  • The 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.99%, tying the lowest level since 2022.
  • A stock sell-off pushed investors into bonds, pulling yields and mortgage rates lower.
  • Refinancing is rising, but homebuying remains subdued.

Prospective homebuyers are seeing the lowest 30-year fixed mortgage rates since


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An AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song
AI research sparks global stock sell-off amid fears of job loss and economic slowdown.
  • New AI research sparks a global stock sell-off amid fears of job loss and economic slowdown.
  • The paper's coauthor warned that blue-collar workers won't be safe from an AI-triggered recession.
  • The research theorizes an economy hinged on "white-collar productivity growth."

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Punch and his Ikea toy
TikTok fell in love with Punch, a lonely baby monkey hugging an Ikea toy.
  • A sad baby monkey that went viral on TikTok turned an Ikea plush into a global must-have.
  • Ikea's Djungelskog orangutan is flying off shelves and out of stock in most stores in the US.
  • The $19.99 toy is also reselling for hundreds on resale platforms.

A sad baby monkey has turned an Ikea plushie into a viral


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Tarang Amin.
ELF Beauty CEO Tarang Amin said TikTok live helps him decide his product launch timeline.
  • ELF Beauty's CEO said he goes on TikTok Live to ask his customers what they want from the brand.
  • Tarang Amin said hearing them demand bronzing drops prompted him to move it up in the development pipeline.
  • He joked that the process leaves him "a little traumatized

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Ukrainian interceptor drones sit on a shelf.
Ukrainian interceptor drones are often propeller-driven.
  • 30% of Russian air threats downed over Ukraine were hit by interceptor drones, a top commander said.
  • It's a further sign of how the novel, inexpensive technology is growing in the country.
  • Ukraine said in December that it was producing nearly 1,000 of these drones per day.

Ukraine's interceptor drones now account


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Elon Musk at Davos 2026.
Elon Musk at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2026.
  • Elon Musk posted a meme to weigh in on OpenClaw getting full system access.
  • The meme compared full AI control to handing a rifle to a monkey.
  • Musk's comments about OpenClaw come amid his increasingly heated rivalry with Altman.

Elon Musk has weighed in on the risks of handing AI agents sweeping


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JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon said he sees echoes of pre-2008 excess as competition heats up.
  • JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon sees parallels with pre-2008 markets today.
  • He said some people are doing "dumb things" to boost lending income.
  • Dimon's comments come as worries swirl over risks in the private credit markets.

Jamie Dimon has a warning for Wall Street: The scramble to juice profits is


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An image of a full moon.

It's a new lunar phase tonight, which means the moon is nearly 50% lit up. With each night the Moon will appear bigger and brighter in our sky, until we reach the Full Moon, so keep reading to see what you can spot tonight.

What is today’s Moon phase?

As of Tuesday, Feb. 24, the Moon phase is First Quarter. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 48% of the Moon will be lit up tonight.

Without any