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Wordle today: Here’s the answer hints for October 3
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 October 3’s Wordle solution revealed. But if…
NYT Connections today: Hints and answers for October 3
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…
Ring just doubled the price of its alarm monitoring service for grandfathered customers
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Did you, like me, buy a Ring Alarm system for your home because it offered the most affordable professional 24/7 monitoring around, at just $10 a month or $100 a year? Then I expect you — like me — just got an email stating you’ll now pay twice…
Charter will offer Peacock for free with some cable subscriptions next year
Image: The Verge Charter’s Spectrum TV Select cable plan will include a free ad-supported Peacock Premium subscription next year, reports Reuters. The addition comes as Charter announced today that it has reached a new “multi-year deal” with NBCUniversal, which owns Peacock, to keep its TV channels in Charter’s cable lineup. Charter recently lined up a…
Bill Nye will only take a selfie with you if you’re voting pro-climate
If you spot famed childhood science entertainer Bill Nye on the streets and feel compelled to ask for a brag-worthy selfie, you better be able to show where you stand on climate policy. That’s because the celebrity and newly minted “Climate Guy” is drawing a line: He’ll take your photos, but only if you’re voting…
The creepy Crow Country is coming to Nintendo Switch on October 16
One of the year’s scariest and most engrossing horror games is clawing its way to a new console. SFB Games’ Crow Country will launch on the Nintendo Switch on October 16. Crow Country may look like a cheerier, grainier Animal Crossing but that just adds to the horror adventure’s creepy and dark atmosphere. You play…
Tesla has stopped selling its cheapest car
Tesla’s least expensive car is off the market: the Model 3 Standard Range Rear-Wheel Drive is no longer available in the online configurator. Electrek first reported on the absence of that Model 3 build. It was the cheapest option from the electric vehicle brand with a price tag of $39,000. Now the Model 3 Long-Range…
All Elite Wrestling will start streaming on Max in January
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Welcome to the streaming era of the wrestling wars. WWE’s flagship weekly show, Raw, is ditching cable and headed for Netflix in January. And today, Warner Bros. Discovery and All Elite Wrestling announced a multiyear rights extension that will bring AEW content to Max starting in… you guessed…
Epic will extend its free games program to its mobile store
Until now, the mobile version of the Epic Games Store has mostly been focused on the brand’s staples like Fortnite and Fall Guys. It won’t be that way for long. Epic Games Store general manager Steve Allison announced at Unreal Fest in Seattle that it plans to expand the Epic Games Stores’ mobile library with…
Nintendo is limiting how much merch you can buy from its new museum’s gift shop
Image: Nintendo The Nintendo Museum opened today in the company’s hometown of Kyoto, and it is already limiting some gift shop items to one per person in an attempt to discourage visitors from flipping exclusive merch online. The two-story museum highlights the company’s history dating back to 1889, when Nintendo started making hanafuda playing cards….
Tesla’s cheapest Model 3 is no longer available
Image: Tesla Tesla is no longer selling the sub-$40,000 rear-wheel drive Standard Range version of the Model 3 that has been in the company’s lineup since 2023. The most affordable trim is now the Model 3 RWD Long Range that starts at $42,490. The change was first pointed out by Electrek and comes as Tesla…
The feds still can’t get into Eric Adams’ phone
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted last week on charges including fraud, bribery, and soliciting donations from foreign nationals, told federal investigators he forgot his phone password before handing it over, according to charging documents. That was almost a year ago, and investigators still can’t get…
How to follow live sports scores on your iPhone lockscreen
With a few steps, you can put live sports scores on your iPhone lockscreen and stay on top of your team’s race to the playoffs. | Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge When it introduced iOS 16, Apple added a feature called Live Activities as part of a broader update to notifications and the lockscreen….
The Garmin Lily 2 Active watch finally adds GPS and buttons
Image: Garmin Today, Garmin announced the Lily 2 Active, a sportier version of the fashion-forward Garmin Lily 2. For $50 more, you get buttons and built-in GPS, which addresses some of our main complaints with the original Lily 2. Built-in GPS is a particularly welcome update, as it means you can now accurately track outdoor…
Meta’s smart glasses can now tell you where you parked your car
Meta is rolling out some of the previously announced features to its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses for users in the US and Canada. CTO Andrew Bosworth posted on Threads that today’s update to the glasses includes more natural language recognition, meaning the stilted commands of “Hey Meta, look and tell me” should be gone. Users…
Zelda’s new solo adventure on the Nintendo Switch is already on a small sale
“Duh-nuh-nuh-nuhhhhhh!” | Image: Nintendo Zelda’s first time out as a playable character in the lands of Hyrule launched less than a week ago, but you can already get her new game with a modest discount. The physical cartridge version of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is on sale at Woot for $51.99 ($8…
OpenAI funding round values company at $157 billion
Leadership turmoil, rumblings about an AI bubble, and a failed CEO coup last year didn’t stop OpenAI from raising $6.6 billion. On Wednesday, OpenAI completed its latest funding round according to the New York Times, giving it a valuation of $157 billion. That makes it the largest VC round of all time, a distinction that…
A Bank of America outage is showing blanked-out account balances
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images First, it was Spotify, then Verizon, then PlayStation, and now it’s apparently Bank of America’s turn to have an outage this week. Some customers have reported problems accessing their bank accounts on Wednesday, with the balances showing $0 or “—-” instead of what should be there. Reports…
Prime Day deals include 32 percent off Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite Kids
Physical books are heavy and given everything else a youngster has to carry around in their backpack, who needs to deal with those as well? An ereader can help to lighten the load and there’s a good deal on a kid-friendly option at the minute. Just ahead of the October edition of Prime Day, Amazon…
PUBG developer is making Palworld mobile amid Nintendo lawsuit
Image: Pocketpair Palworld developer Pocketpair may be facing a lawsuit from Nintendo, but that’s not stopping it from pursuing a mobile version of the game. On Wednesday, Krafton — the publisher behind PUBG: Battlegrounds — announced that it acquired the license for Palworld and will optimize it for mobile gaming, as reported earlier by Polygon….
OpenAI rakes in over $6 billion in new funding
Now that OpenAI is becoming a for-profit company, it’s making a tidy profit in the process. The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion in new funding from investors, nearly doubling its value to $157 billion. The new funding also makes it the largest venture capital deal in history. The new investors…
Facebook cracks down on celebrity deepfake scams after $43 million in losses for Australians
Scams are getting more complex as artificial intelligence gets more advanced. That in mind, Meta launched a new Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (FIRE) tool in Australia in an effort to cut down on the massive financial losses suffered by victims in the country. Australia saw a rise in celebrity deepfakes pushing investment scams amid the…
More ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video
Can you hear the soft, cherubic voices of corporate executives singing in unison? That can only mean one thing. They’ve figured out a new way to squeeze money out of our eyeballs. Amazon is adding even more ads to Prime Video, according to reporting by Financial Times. This uptick in corporate-sponsored splendor will go into…
Bitcoin slides under $61,000 amid Middle East escalation
The world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) fell under $61,000 earlier today, apparently unaffected by Iran’s recent attack on Israel. According to CoinMarketCap data, Bitcoin is trading just under $61,200 after an intraday low of under $60,300 reported earlier today. Bitcoin is trading at about 1.15% lower than its price of over $62,500, which was reported…
Gen Z is shopping more on Snapchat than TikTok or Instagram, study shows
If it feels like every time you log onto social media you’re being marketed to, there’s good reason — you are, and that’s because it works. According to a new report from research firm EMARKETER, “high shares of shoppers” across the board are buying content from creators on all platforms. The people most influenced by…
ChatGPT added 50 million weekly users in just two months
It’s little wonder that investors were clamoring to plow money into OpenAI. Alongside an announcement that the company had raised $6.6 billion in funding, OpenAI revealed that “every week, over 250 million people around the world use ChatGPT to enhance their work, creativity, and learning.” That’s a sharp rise since late August, when OpenAI said…
How to connect your iPhone to a satellite to send messages
A cell phone can feel like a Swiss Army knife of the 21st century — until you lose cellular or data service. Then it becomes a so-called brick that you obsessively pick up, hoping to see that WiFi or cell signal has returned. Whether you’ve lost connectivity because of an unexpected outage, natural disaster, or…
Top Gainer Solana Meme Coin Moo Deng Poised for 5x October Rally
Moo Deng (MOODENG), a meme coin inspired by the viral hippo baby sensation, surged over 20% in the past 24 hours, defying the broader market downturn. This popular meme coin has experienced rapid growth in recent weeks. Similar to other meme coins, the MOODENG token offered traders a chance to profit quickly. The coin currently…
FCC is offering $200 million to protect schools and libraries from hackers
Illustration: Beatrice Sala The Federal Communications Commission is making up to $200 million available to help schools and libraries make their computer systems more secure. The Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program will be used to evaluate whether to fund this kind of program on a more permanent basis. The funding will come through a…
OpenAI just raised $6.6 billion to build ever-larger AI models
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI just closed a historic funding round, taking in a $6.6 billion investment at a $157 billion valuation, to continue pursuing its mission to build artificial-general intelligence according to a company blog post. The funding round was led by Thrive Capital, which committed $1 billion, according to…