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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…

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 August 30’s Wordle solution revealed. But if…

When Industry actor Sagar Radia first heard that Season 3 would devote an entire episode to his character, Rishi Ramdani, he didn’t quite believe it. “I remember [Industry co-creator] Mickey [Down] mentioning it to me about a year prior, and I kind of threw it away and took it with a pinch of salt, thinking,…

‘Industry’ creator Mickey Down is joined by Sagar Radia to break down the latest episode, one that Mickey calls “the most intense, fast paced, most quintessential episode of ‘Industry’ ever.” Please follow and like us:

Heart-warming little adventure games have really found a place to thrive in the Playdate. I picked up Electrolight this weekend while looking for something in the same vein as the bite-sized puzzle/exploration game, Eyeland — cute, low-commitment, not particularly difficult — and found it to be utterly charming. Electrolight is described as “a tiny game…

Image: NASA US astronaut Barry Wilmore called NASA ground crew on Saturday, asking for help with a repetitive knocking sound that was coming from the Boeing Starliner craft. The interaction was captured by a NASA Space Flight forum member, who included a recording of it in a post that was spotted by Ars Technica. In…

2024 has had more than its fair share of crime-comedies, for better or worse. For better, there was the on-point Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, which saw Eddie Murphy back in action and riotously funny; Drive-Away Dolls, a proudly trashy Coen Bro comedy with a queer perspective; and The Fall Guy, an action-packed comedy that…

Starliner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and make its return trip to Earth uncrewed in just a matter of days, but it apparently still has a few new mysteries left in it to throw at the team before it departs. On Saturday, astronaut Butch Wilmore alerted NASA’s Mission Control about an…

Apple’s M4 Mac mini will boast a ton of ports, but not a single one of them will be USB-A, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In the Power On newsletter, Gurman reports that Apple is ditching USB-A ports with the upcoming Mac mini. The company is working on a standard and Pro version of the…

The next version of the Mac Mini may be so much smaller than this. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s next Mac Mini won’t have USB-A ports, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in today’s Power On newsletter that the new desktops will start to hit Apple’s warehouses in September….

Story expansions, full-size console exclusives, Indiana Jones and Flight Simulator headline a packed lineup for Xbox and Xbox Game Pass between September and the end of the year, when all eyes are on video gaming’s parade of major releases in time for Black Friday shopping. Xbox Game Pass isn’t just for Xbox Game Studios’ expansive…

Video gaming’s launch calendar is hitting prime time, the stretch between fall and Christmas when PlayStation, as well as other platform holders and major third-party publishers roll out 2024’s biggest and longest-awaited titles. The PlayStation 5 is a mainstay of third-party gaming, even if some of those third parties are now owned by Microsoft. Call…

The wide-open nature of PC gaming rarely follows the conventions of a console’s release calendar — but it does when multiplatform AAA titles are also launching for PC, and that means fans with Steam and Epic Games Store accounts will be boarding video games’ holiday hype train for the rest of 2024, too. There are…

We’re heading into the home stretch of 2024’s gaming release calendar, and a four-month stretch when Nintendo, as well as other platform holders and major third-party publishers will unload their splashiest and most-anticipated wares for the year. Nintendo is very heavily a first-party platform, and launches in the Legend of Zelda, Mario Party, and Mario…

Image: Nintendo Sure, it’s not straight-up horror as the early teasers suggested, but even still, Emio — The Smiling Man is among the darkest games Nintendo has ever made. It’s a murder mystery that doesn’t skimp on the murder and throws in an unsettling urban legend for good measure. More than that, though, it’s just…

The fediverse has the potential to help create enduring and interoperable social networks. But many creators and businesses rely on bigger, closed platforms because they offer direct ways to make money from their audiences, which is hard to do in the fediverse right now. Sub.club is trying to solve that. The idea is that this…

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 50, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I promise it’s not always this many expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been…

Image: Getty Let’s get one thing out of the way: contrary to what you may have heard, electric vehicle sales are up. I know, recent headlines suggest otherwise. Tesla sales are down. Ford is scaling back its EV rollout. General Motors is delaying an electric truck and holding back on investments in EV battery mining….

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Summer is in the rearview, but fret not. Though 2024 has already offered us some absolutely sensational (and sexy) cinema with the first half of the year, fall means FYC season is upon us. And with that comes an avalanche of tantalizing movies. For Your Consideration, we’ve not only highlighted festival favorites and prestige dramas…

TL;DR: September 1 at 11:59 p.m. PT is the deadline to get Windows 11 Pro for $19.97.  Let’s face it: keeping your computer’s operating system up to date is a must if you want it to run like a dream. An outdated OS? That’s just asking for trouble, especially when Microsoft is closing up shop…

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