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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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Wondering what you're seeing when you look up at the moon tonight? Wonder no more, we've got all the information you need about the current lunar cycle.

What's the lunar cycle, you ask? This is a series of eight unique phases of the moon's visibility. The whole cycle takes about 29.5 days, according to NASA, and these different phases happen as the Sun lights up different parts of the moon whilst



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Collecting all your favourite snacks and drinks, surrounding yourself with comfortable cushions and blankets, and then spending hours in front of a screen can be a truly therapeutic experience. Unfortunately, there is one big problem with this hobby: There is a limited amount of content out there to keep you entertained.

We're a greedy bunch, and regular streamers can easily get to a point where it



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VPNs are seriously useful security tools that can protect your identity and data, bypass online restrictions to access extra content, and much more. If this is all very new to you, you've probably got a lot of questions. Don't worry, because we can help.

We've done all the hard work for you and thoroughly researched these services to provide the information that matters to you. Here's everything



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OpenAI raises $14 million for Endex, the first AI agent tool for Microsoft Excel.
  • Endex, the first AI agent tool for Microsoft Excel, raises $14 million led by OpenAI's startup fund.
  • Endex said the tool would be capable of hour-long tasks and "change how financial analysts do work."
  • It is unclear whether this tool is welcomed by Microsoft, both an investor and competitor to

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Brian Chesky said he thinks all the most popular apps will be AI apps in the future.
  • CEO Brian Chesky said Airbnb is undergoing a transformation to an AI-first app.
  • Airbnb has rolled out AI for customer service and said its expanding on what agents can do.
  • Chesky predicted that all top apps will be AI apps.

Not only does Airbnb want to be the "everything app" — where


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The Grok and ChatGPT apps on a smartphone

AI assistants from companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are getting super-smart super fast. New models, agentic features, and new tools now drop on a weekly basis, making AI chatbots more capable and more helpful. ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok are some of the biggest and most famous, and easily the three that get the most attention.

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Following in Eddie Murphy's footsteps is one thing; working with him is next-level. Pete Davidson can attest to this, having gone from being Saturday Night Live alumni to co-stars in the new action-comedy The Pickup, from The Blackening director Tim Story.

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Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 is even more of an Addams Family affair than Season 1, looping in extended family members like Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) and Grandmama Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley). But the show keeps bringing up one key relative we haven't met yet. No, I'm not talking about Cousin Itt (but where is he?). I'm talking about Ophelia Frump.

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Tinder and Bumble face an uphill climb to win back users.
  • Bumble is gearing up to launch a new version of its friend-making app, Bumble For Friends.
  • Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said BFF is a "long-term growth" opportunity for the company.
  • The dating app company also outlined its plan to "return to growth."

Bumble isn't giving up on helping people find and make new friends


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Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook tour a Flextronics plant in Texas that makes Apple Mac computers, November 2019
During Donald Trump's first term, Apple CEO Tim Cook built a relationship with the president, in part via photo opportunities like this tour of a Texas plant that made Apple computers in 2019.
  • Apple is going to spend another $100 billion investing in US facilities.
  • That's on top of a $500 billion pledge the company made earlier this year.
  • Is that a lot? Sort of. Is it