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NYT Strands hints, answers for January 23

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.

Strands 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. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special,...

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NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for January 23

Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, 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 of this article for...

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Wordle today: Answer, hints for January 23, 2025

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 today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for January 23, 2025

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 and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve...

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33 Kitchen Products That’ll Help You Compete With Your Cookbook’s Optimistic Prep Times

If prepping ingredients, boiling water, deciding when the meat is fully cooked, and cleaning up makes mealtime take forever — these clever items are here to help.

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Green still sorry but tells Poole: 'Move on, bro'

Warriors star Draymond Green has apologized for punching former teammate Jordan Poole and says it is time to move on from the incident that fractured their locker room over two years ago.

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What's a wedding tradition you wish everyone would stop doing?

Tossing the bouquet is an insult to single women, okay! And don't even get me *started* on the concept of "giving" the bride away.

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If You’re Starting To Look Your 30s In The Eye, You'll Want These 36 Things

These will help with the culture shock of entering your third decade of existence.

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Elizabeth Dias

The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’

Bishop Budde locked eyes with President Trump and made a plea for mercy — and the war over spiritual authority in America was ignited anew.

Fast Company

Reuters

How Davos leaders are responding to Trump’s DEI crackdown

Investment in diversity is unlikely to dry up because of Trump’s moves, said bankers at World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.

President Donald Trump‘s escalating pressure on the private sector to ditch diversity programs has left some in Davos searching for new words to describe workplace practices they say are essential to their businesses.

The Verge

Jay Peters

Celeste developers cancel follow-up game Earthblade

Image: Extremely OK Games

Earthblade, the next game from the developers of Celeste, has been canceled. The fantasy-inspired game got its first trailer in late 2022, and the game would have let you explore a “free-roaming, dynamically-loading map,” Extremely OK Games’ Maddy Thorson said at the time. But the team decided to cancel the game in December after a team conflict and because of the pressure of trying to follow up on Celeste, Thorson says in a post detailing what...

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Wes Davis

Tumblr’s experimental GIF feed finally launches after 10 years

Illustration: The Verge

Tumbler has finally launched Tumblr TV as a new tab at the top of its app, the company said today in a brief set of update notes spotted by TechCrunch. Tumblr TV first debuted as a GIF-finding feature in 2015, but now it includes video content as well.

Screenshot: Tumblr TV

According to Tumblr, “New users will have this tab enabled by default in the third position, while existing users will have it available in the Dashboard Tabs configuration, if not...

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Resources for people worried about Trumps anti-LGBTQ executive orders

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued executive orders that transgender rights activists described as "hateful."

Invoking biological definitions of sex that are contested, one order effectively argues that "trans-ness is not real," and directs federal agencies to change their policies accordingly, said Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, in a media briefing Tuesday.

He noted that the State Department, which issues passports, had already...

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge: The ultra-slim smartphone teased at Unpacked

Samsung spent the bulk of its Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event this year talking about its brand-new AI features. In fact, it took about 30 minutes into the presentation to get to the new S25 line of smartphones before the company once again pivoted to the new AI features packed into the phone.

However, no matter how hard Samsung tried, the thing everyone is buzzing about from Unpacked isn't AI but a surprise Samsung tucked away at the very end of the event: the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge.

We...

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NFL bars teams from using Bluesky

The NFL is sticking to its guns about how its team members use social media — namely, by keeping teams off of X competitor Bluesky.

This tidbit comes courtesy of the sports media site Awful Announcing, which caught an exchange on Patriots Unfiltered. In response to a fan suggestion that the team expand its social media footprint to Bluesky, Patriots VP of content Fred Kirsch revealed that "right now we’re not allowed to."

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Drop trailer: Murderous memes threaten to ruin Meghann Fahys first date

First dates are a near-universally stressful experience, but I can guarantee you've never had as bad of a first date as The White Lotus star Meghann Fahy has in the upcoming horror film Drop.

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From director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day) and Blumhouse (M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy's), Drop introduces us to widowed mother Violet (Fahy) as she embarks on her first date in...

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35 Products That Might Unexpectedly Become Your Favorite Thing You’ve Ever Owned

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Maya C. Miller

Congress Clears Laken Riley Act to Deport Immigrants Accused of Crimes

Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants charged with crimes, to President Trump’s desk.

The Verge

Umar Shakir

Nvidia’s triple-fan GPU cooler was one step along the way to a slimmer RTX 5090

The RTX 4090 is a lot thicker than the RTX 5090. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge

Nvidia has posted a new video showcasing a history of Founders Edition graphics card designs that explores the design of its new RTX 5090 and confirms a previously leaked prototype that used an unconventionally large four-slot design.

As noted by VideoCardz, the prototype “Titan ADA” card first revealed by leaker Kopite7kimi included a triple-fan cooling system, and earlier this month, Gamers Nexus...

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