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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 you several clues or none, depending on the words.

For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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TL;DR: Replace your AI subscriptions with DeskSense while a lifetime subscription is only $38 (reg.

$179).

  Opens in a new window Credit: DeskSense DeskSense AI Assistant £38 £179 Save £141 Basic Plan: Lifetime Subscription Get Deal AI has practically become an essential part of the professional world almost overnight.

Though many people have settled into using AI all the time, one thing that hasn't quite become sustainable is AI pricing.

All those subscriptions are seriously expensive.

It's a good thing you don't have to pay for all of them, even if you rely on them every day.

 With DeskSense AI, you get a full suite of AI tools on one platform.

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You can actually get a lifetime subscription to DeskSense for $38 (reg.

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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 it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections?The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit.

The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section.

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Last week, Nintendo made waves across the game industry by announcing that Mario Kart World would sell for a suggested price of $80 in the US.

That nominal price represents a new high-water mark both for Nintendo and for the game industry at large, which has generally reserved prices above $70 for fancy, trinket-laden collectors' editions or Digital Deluxe Editions that include all variety of downloadable bonuses.

Console gaming's nominal price ceiling has gone up pretty consistently in the last 40+ years.

Credit: Kyle Orland / Ars Technica After adjusting for inflation, an $80 price level doesn't seem all that out of the ordinary.

Credit: Kyle Orland / Ars Technica When you adjust historical game prices for inflation, though, you find that asking $80 for a baseline game in 2025 is broadly in line with the prices big games were commanding 10 to 15 years ago.

And given the faster-than-normal.

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Windows 11 has become so synonymous with Microsoft's push into generative AI that it's easy to forget that it originally launched as a mostly cosmetic overhaul of Windows 10.

But Microsoft continues to work on fundamental elements of the operating system's design.

Case in point, Windows tester phantomofearth enabled an overhauled version of the Start menu from a recent Windows 11 beta build, the menu's first substantial rethink since Windows 11 launched a little over three years ago (via The Verge).

The new, larger Start menu displays up to two rows of eight pinned apps—you can't see more than two rows by default, but you can expand this section to show more apps—and then shows the scrollable list of apps installed on your PC.

This list is hidden behind an "All" button on the current Start menu.

These apps can be displayed as a vertically scrollable list, in a horizontal.

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El universo de Yellowstone está más vivo que nunca y no da señales de desaceleración.

Con la conclusión oficial de 1923 luego de su séptimo episodio, algunos se preguntan cuál será el siguiente capítulo de los Dutton.

Mientras la producción avanza con The Madison y la secuela de Yellowstone con Kelly Reilly y Cole Hauser, … .

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La industria cinematográfica de Estados Unidos podría sufrir un tremendo bofetón por culpa de los aranceles de Donald Trump.

Según recoge Bloomberg, China analiza restringir o prohibir la importación de películas de Hollywood como represalia por las medidas proteccionistas implementadas por la Casa Blanca.

El citado medio indica que la presunta posibilidad comenzó a circular … .

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A unas horas de que entren en vigor los aranceles a China, la administración de Trump ya fantasea con producir el móvil de Apple en Norteamérica.

Tanto el secretario de Comercio como la Casa Blanca declararon que Estados Unidos tiene los recursos para fabricar el iPhone.

De acuerdo con 9to5Mac, la secretaria de prensa de … .

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Con la Nintendo Switch 2 en el centro de la escena (tanto por motivos buenos como por aquellos no tan buenos), día a día vamos conociendo más novedades en profundidad sobre ella.

Esta vez, la propia compañía ha confirmado que va a continuar con su ya extensa tradición de no incorporar una función de logros … .

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Microsoft está preparando un rediseño del menú de Inicio de Windows 11 que resolverá una de las quejas más frecuentes de sus usuarios.

A casi cuatro años de su lanzamiento, el sistema operativo sigue sin convencer a muchos, que prefieren quedarse en Windows 10.

El nuevo menú de Inicio es uno de los factores por … .

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Ha pasado casi una semana desde que Donald Trump anunció aranceles recíprocos para una gran cantidad de países, desatando la brutal caída de los principales mercados bursátiles del mundo.

Situación que le ha costado muchísimo dinero a un sinfín de empresas de los sectores más diversos, incluyendo las del tecnológico.

Y es aquí donde Apple … .

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Una nueva filtración masiva de datos ha puesto de cabeza a España luego de que un hacker revelara que tiene en su poder la información de cientos de miles de ciudadanos que se inscribieron a la Lista Robinson.

La base de datos ya está a la venta en la dark web y su autor ha … .

Una filtración masiva de la Lista Robinson expone los datos de 600.

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Grok, la inteligencia artificial de xAI que muchos conocen por su integración con X (Twitter), ahora tiene una app dedicada para dispositivos Android.

De esta forma, la tecnología desarrollada por la empresa de Elon Musk busca ofrecer una experiencia más independiente de la que brindaba hasta el momento, para así plantarse con mayor fuerza contra … .

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El Galaxy S25 Ultra no es el único móvil con lápiz óptico.

Tan solo una semana después de presentar su apuesta para la gama de entrada, Motorola acaba de anunciar un nuevo smartphone perteneciente a su familia Moto G: el Moto G Stylus.

Este nuevo móvil de gama media llega con un atractivo diseño en … .

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Android Auto 14.

1 ya es oficial.

La versión más buscada y esperada de los últimos años acaba de desembarcar en la Google Play Store de una vez por todas.

Su éxito no es para menos, pues esta actualización es la encargada de convertir los coches de toda España en una especie de consola de videojuegos.

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Cuando comenzaron los despidos masivos en las grandes tech, los ex empleados pasarona desvelar secretos de las dinámicas laborales en empresas de Silicon Valley.

Una muy sorprendente llegó de antiguos empleados de Meta que confesaron que no había trabajo que hacer y que estaban convencidos de que la empresa los contrató para quedarse con el talento de la competencia en un momento, como los años de pandemia, en que se consumían muchos contenidos online y eso daba grandes beneficios a las empresas del sector.

Se hizo realidad una práctica famosa en la serie 'Silicon Valley'.

Pues, según información que ha sido filtrada, esto parece que se mantiene ahora en la carrera por tener mejores herramientas de IA que las empresas de la competencia.

Se ha publicado que Google paga a algunos empleados de IA para que no hagan nada durante un año en lugar de unirse a sus rivales.

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Este sábado Meta lanzó sus nuevos modelos de Llama 4: Scout y Maverick.

La compañía destacó entre sus principales avances la capacidad de comprensión visual mejorada, que busca ofrecer una experiencia más personalizada.

La atención se centró especialmente en Maverick, que prometía superar a competidores como GPT-4o y Gemini, según los primeros resultados publicados por la plataforma de referencia LMArena.

LMArena evalúa modelos de lenguaje de manera sencilla, pero efectiva: diferentes IA responden a una misma pregunta y, posteriormente, una persona valora cuál es la mejor respuesta.

Es, en esencia, un enfrentamiento directo entre inteligencias artificiales en una arena virtual, del que sale una puntuación que genera el ránking global.

La valoración del modelo enviado con Meta no se correspondía con la realidad Según Meta, Maverick obtuvo una puntuación de 1.

417 puntos, colocándose rápidamente en segunda posición, por delante de GPT-4o y Gemini 2.

5 Pro.

Sin embargo, las cosas comenzaron.

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La confianza en la privacidad digital ha recibido un duro golpe tras revelarse que la Lista Robinson, un servicio utilizado por millones de españoles con el fin de evitar el acoso publicitario, podría haber sido víctima de un ciberataque masivo: distintos foros de hacking sostienen desde hace horas de hoy que una base de datos con más de 600.

000 registros personales de usuarios de dicha lista se encuentra actualmente a la venta en la 'red oscura'.

Aunque la Asociación Española de la Economía Digital (ADigital) —la entidad gestora del servicio— niega que se haya producido ninguna intrusión en sus sistemas, la filtración ya ha encendido las alarmas entre los expertos en ciberseguridad y los usuarios afectados.

¿Qué es la Lista Robinson y por qué es relevante? La Lista Robinson es un registro gratuito que permite a los ciudadanos inscribirse para no recibir publicidad no deseada.

Desde llamadas telefónicas hasta correos.

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Curious what all the fuss over shows like Severance and The Studio is about? If you’re interested in streaming either, new and eligible returning subscribers can sign up for Apple TV Plus through April 24th for just $2.

99 a month for the first three months.

Apple TV Plus would normally cost you $9.

99 a month, meaning you’re saving $21 over a three-month period.

In addition to Severance and The Studio, Apple TV Plus also grants you ad-free access to other originals — including Ted Lasso and For All Mankind — all of which you can stream in 4K HDR, download to watch offline, and share with up to five family members.

The platform also features a wide variety of movies, including Killers of the Flower Moon, Napoleon, The Gorge, Wolfs, and The Instigators.

More into sports? Apple TV Plus is home to Friday Night Baseball and select Major League Soccer matches.

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Meta is developing a version of Instagram for iPad, according to The Information.

Currently, running Instagram on an iPad is just a blown-up version of the iPhone app, so an official Instagram app from Meta would be a very welcome change.

Why would Meta do this now, after ignoring Apple’s tablet for over a decade? According to The Information, the uncertain legal status of TikTok amid the divest-or-ban law and Trump’s tariffs might be the push required.

The company has publicly resisted building an iPad Instagram app before.

In February 2022 (more than three years ago!) Instagram boss Adam Mosseri replied to a post from Marques Brownlee about Meta still not having an Instagram app for iPad to explain why.

“We get this one a lot,” Mosseri said.

“It’s still just not a big enough group of people to be a priority.

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The original Arduboy.

Kevin Bates managed to quit his day job and move to China after his game-playing business card, the Arduboy, went viral in 2014.

But a decade later, Trump’s staggering and inexplicable new US tariffs are driving him out of business.

Just as he was about to turn a profit for the first time, just before he was about to bring a new product to retail, he tells The Verge that his company can no longer survive as-is.

He says that despite lifetime Arduboy sales of over $1 million, much of it from recent growth in 2023 and 2024, Trump’s new 104 percent China tariffs will be the beginning of the end.

“I just like making circuit boards and helping people learn to code games.

This is all too much,” he says.

Even if he wanted to — Bates admits he’s been looking to sunset Arduboy for a.

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A number of excellent models are on sale right now, including the Dreame L20 Ultra.

| Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re in an age where you can realistically delegate tasks to smart hunks of metal, whether it’s a self-driving car or a robot that can clean on your behalf.

Most of us probably won’t be able to afford the helpful sentient humanoids being developed in our lifetimes, but robot vacuums are an affordable way to experience that promised utopia right now.

Today’s floor cleaners are also more advanced than ever.

In addition to vacuuming, many of the best models can now mop, allowing you to tackle both carpet and hardwood flooring.

Some can automatically dispense of their trash and dirty water, too, and clean their own components without intervention.

Soon, we’ll even have models that can pick up dirty laundry and purify the air in your.

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Samsung’s smart home platform SmartThings now works with Matter 1.

4, the latest version of the interoperable smart home standard, adding compatibility with things like water heaters, heat pumps, and solar panels that use the spec.

The company has also introduced new smart home automation triggers, as well as a broadcast feature for SmartThings-connected speakers.

Matter 1.

4 makes it easier to use one device with multiple platforms at once, and also adds more granular control.

While the 1.

3 spec added support for controlling robot vacuums, with 1.

4, your smart home platform can direct them to clean a specific room.

However, support for much of the spec is optional.

We’ll learn more about how Samsung is implementing it later, but for now, here’s what it mentions in its release:  The latest version of the standard includes a wide range of energy management devices — such as water heater, heat pump, solar power.

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Bluetooth trackers come in all shapes and sizes.

| Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge Some people rarely lose things.

Wallets are always exactly where they’re supposed to be, keys never go missing, and remotes never slip between the couch cushions.

And then there’s the rest of us — the folks who can’t ever seem to find the thing that was right there a few seconds ago.

For us, there are Bluetooth trackers.

Bluetooth trackers have been around for a long time, and they all generally work the same way.

You stick the tracker onto an object, pair it with your phone, and then, when you lose said object, you can go into an app and ring the tracker.

But these days, Bluetooth trackers can do a lot more.

Some have ultra-wideband chips that enable precision tracking, so you can find exactly where in a room your item is.

Others.

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Each season, Max's popular series The White Lotus gives itself the ambitious task of telling essentially the same story about greed and lust but featuring different wealthy characters enjoying a new exotic locale.

The just-concluded third season brought the concept to an imagined luxury White Lotus hotel in Thailand.

 Despite its aspirations, the show's latest installment strained under the weight of a sluggish plot, overly familiar character types, tired narrative arcs, and unsurprising twists — and at least one bafflingly offensive monologue.

 If you watched the show, you've probably catalogued these shortcomings, and maybe a few others.

But these predictable creative problems aren't what made the season a disaster.

  SEE ALSO: 'The White Lotus' Season 3 ending explained: Who died? Instead, the show's sensationalist handling of two plots involving suicide and incestuous sexual assault sent White Lotus hurtling into new territory — exploiting some of the most painful common human experiences for.

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I’m a firm believer that the internet runs on two things: catchy beats and weird little guys.

This week’s weird little guy? A French fish with arms, legs, and undeniable star power.

Le Poisson Steve, a chiptune earworm by French musician Tomo, found its way into virality through an animated clip by illustrator Vigz.

The concept is delightfully minimal.

Steve is a fish.

He is orange.

He has arms and legs.

That’s the whole thing — and it works.

The language barrier doesn’t matter.

Even with a handful of French, the song’s appeal cuts through.

Steve’s pixelated strut and absurd confidence have already sparked a tidal wave of fan art and edits.

Steve the Fish now belongs to the internet — another funky little guy for the digital canon.

Plus, there's a longer version of the song you can listen to on Spotify.

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Creating strong, complex passwords is your most powerful tool against getting your data stolen, but actually remembering those passwords? Oh, man.

Enter: password managers.

AKA your best friend in keeping your online accounts safe and saving you the frustration of having to remember all those different passwords.

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SPEND $100, GET $30: As of April 8, Target will give you a free $30 gift card when you spend $100 on select baby care, like diapers and wipes.

Opens in a new window Credit: Parasol Free $30 Target gift card When you spend $100 on diapers or wipes Get Deal Diapers are expensive.

It's a fact of life that new parents find out before the baby's even born, and a fact that baby shower attendees find out as they're shopping for the diaper raffle.

Whatever your need for buying diapers this spring, you'll save some money by stocking up at Target.

As of April 8, Target is giving away free $30 gift cards to anyone who spends $100 on select diapers or wipes in-store or online.

The gift card will have to be used on a later purchase, but it's still an indirect savings of 30%.

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Dr.

Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.

5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.

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Side Quest, Severance, and The Studio are among the best shows on Apple TV+ this month.

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A 104 percent tariff on imports from China will likely see rising prices on smartphones and laptops in the coming months.

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A proprietary polymer lets these skis switch between soft and stiff to help keep your legs fresh on the hill.

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This 2-in-1 gaming laptop might not have the best performance-to-price ratio, but it delivers a thinner, lighter, quieter, and cooler experience than its peers.

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What size should you get? Do you need a subwoofer? Here’s everything you need to know when upgrading your TV’s audio.

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If you ever call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear the buzz of a drone well before a police cruiser pulls up.

And there’s a good chance that it will be one made by Brinc Drones, a Seattle-based startup founded by 25-year-old Blake Resnick, who dropped out of college … ... Read More

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the company is looking to improve the app’s search functionality, admitting this is an area where Instagram could do more to compete.

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A new company, Deep Cogito, has emerged from stealth with a family of openly available AI models that can be switched between “reasoning” and non-reasoning modes.

Reasoning models like OpenAI’s o1 have shown great promise in domains like math and physics, thanks to their ability to effectively fact-check themselves by working through complex problems step … ... Read More

Last week, details emerged about an application that fintech giant Stripe had submitted for a U.

S.

banking license.

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Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto that could start production as soon as next year, according to multiple sources and documents that link the billionaire’s family office to the startup.

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On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf.

These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years and made famous by the HBO show “Game of Thrones.

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Tech giants like Microsoft might be touting AI “agents” as profit-boosting tools for corporations, but a nonprofit is trying to prove that agents can be a force for good, too.

Sage Future, a 501(c)(3) backed by Open Philanthropy, launched an experiment earlier this month tasking four AI models in a virtual environment with raising money … ... Read More

Tapestry, a new app designed to organize the open social web, is adding a valuable feature to help people who are keeping up with multiple social networks: It will now remove duplicate posts from your feed.

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The most severe security bug can be exploited without user interaction, per Google.

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Twitch has struck a deal with Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) to eject itself from a lawsuit over an ad boycott shortly following Musk's takeover of Twitter in October 2022.

In a court filing Monday, X lawyers provided no details on the deal but explained that "X and Twitch have entered into a memorandum of understanding resolving the action as to Twitch," so long as "certain conditions" are met by December 31.

Musk has called for "criminal prosecution" of anyone involved in the ad boycott.

But while Twitch was one of about a dozen companies that X directly accused of conspiring to withhold billions in ad revenue from then-Twitter, it was not part of X's initial complaint.

The livestreaming service was only added to the lawsuit after X amended its complaint in November to pull in more advertisers, and since then, Twitch has never responded to any of X's accusations.

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A US appeals court ruled yesterday that DOGE can access personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), overturning an order issued by a lower-court judge.

The US government has "met its burden of a strong showing that it is likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal," said yesterday's ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of judges granted the Trump administration's motion to stay the lower-court ruling pending appeal.

"The Supreme Court has told us that, unlike a private party, the government suffers an irreparable harm when it cannot carry out the orders of its elected representatives.

Judicial management of agency operations offends the Executive Branch's exclusive authority to enforce federal law," wrote Court of Appeals Judge Steven Agee, a George W.

Bush appointee.

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Enthusiasm was understandably high for Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel's revival of the hugely popular series in the Netflix Defenders universe.

Not only was Charlie Cox returning to the title role as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, but Vincent D'Onofrio was also coming back as his nemesis, crime lord Wilson Fisk/Kingpin.

Their dynamic has always been electric, and that on-screen magic is as powerful as ever in Born Again, which quickly earned critical raves and a second season that is currently filming.

(Some spoilers for the series below, but no major reveals beyond the opening events of the first episode.

) Born Again was initially envisioned as more of an episodic reset rather than a straight continuation of the serialized Netflix series.

But during the 2023 Hollywood strikes, with production halted, the studio gave the show a creative overhaul more in line with the Netflix tone, even though six episodes had been largely completed by then.

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