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Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from time to time. If you’re stuck and need to know the answers to today’s Strands puzzle, check out the solved puzzle below. How to play Strands You start every Strands puzzle with the goal of finding the “theme words” hidden in the grid of letters.…

Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for! A bite-sized version of the New York Times’ well-known crossword puzzle, The Mini is a quick and easy way to test your crossword skills daily in a lot less time (the average puzzle takes most players just over a minute to solve). While The Mini is smaller and simpler than a normal crossword, it isn’t always easy. Tripping up on one clue can be the difference between a personal best completion time and an embarrassing…

Nothing says “surround sound” like a full-on Dolby Atmos soundbar system. While many of these bar-speaker bundles cost upwards of $1,000, one of the best Atmos rigs has a crazy-good discount at Woot today: For a limited time, you’ll be able to score the Samsung HW-Q990D 11.1.4ch Dolby Atmos Soundbar for only $868. That’s a $1,132 markdown from its original $2,000 price!  Why you should buy the Samsung HW-Q990D Soundbar More than just an upgrade for your TV speakers, the Samsung HW-Q990D is a true, all-hands-on-deck surround sound, but minus a bulky AV receiver and all that speaker wire. Thanks…

Team Rocket takes center stage in the latest Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion. Scarlet & Violet – Destined Rivals puts the likes of Giovanni, his Mewtwo, and various other well-known Pokémon used by the nefarious organization in the spotlight. The Pokémon Company sent us a bunch of booster packs of this latest expansion to crack open and share our favorites. Pokémon Trading Card Game: Scarlet & Violet – Destined Rivals adds more than 240 new cards to the perpetually growing TCG catalog. Of those cards, over 85 are Trainer Pokémon, with more than 45 belonging to Team Rocket. I loved opening…

There’s a reason that Steven Spielberg has the reputation that he has. For decades, Spielberg has been considered one of the best directors in film history, and he’s got the movies to back that assertion up. Opinions are, quite naturally, going to differ on which movies of Spielberg’s are the best. One movie that often winds up near the top of the list is Saving Private Ryan. The film, which follows a group of soldiers in the aftermath of the D-Day invasion as they are given a mission to receive a fellow soldier in France, is considered one of the…

TDK is readying a new generation of batteries to power smartphones through AI tasks at a time that major client Apple Inc. is also preparing to launch a slimmer handset.The Tokyo-based component maker will begin shipping its third iteration of silicon-anode batteries by the end of June, Chief Executive Officer Noboru Saito said. That’s ahead of TDK’s original schedule for shipments in the September quarter and may give smartphone makers enough time to use these cells in thinner models launching this year, he said.“We’ve made good progress, and we’re shipping them very soon,” he said in an interview. “Some handset makers…

Artist Antireal claimed yesterday that she found her art spread throughout the environment in Bungie’s recent Marathon alpha. With copious examples (and others online finding even more as people pour through alpha footage) as proof, Antireal’s posts on Bluesky began to blow up, with many calling out Bungie for what looked like apparent plagiarism. Less than 24 hours later, the Marathon Dev Team X account posted a thread confirming the “unauthorized use” of Antireal’s work.“We immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon and confirmed that a former Bungie artist included these in a texture sheet…

Father’s Day is just around the corner, and we can’t think of a better way to show Dad his TV obsession has been accepted by the family than by buying him a new 4K OLED. And hey, why not a Samsung? Right now, there’s an insane discount on one of Samsung’s best models of 2024 that you can still buy brand-new.  We’re talking about the Samsung 55-inch S90D 4K OLED, which you’ll be able to snag through B&H Photo-Video or Samsung for only $1,200. The retail price on this model is $2,000, so you’ll be saving you and yours a…

Samsung is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that can turn images into videos. As per a tipster, the South Korean tech giant is developing an AI-powered image-to-video feature that can convert any photo in the user’s gallery into a “few-second-long” video. There are no other details about the feature available, but it is likely to be part of the company’s Galaxy AI suite of features, and could be introduced with the upcoming One UI 8.0 operating system (OS) update in the coming months.In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), tipster PandaFlash claimed that Samsung…

Netflix’s upcoming film adaptation of Gears of War may have its director. The Hollywood Reporter states that David Leitch, director of The Fall Guy and Bullet Train, is negotiating to helm the project.The film was first announced in 2022, and David Leitch’s production company, 87North, will help produce the feature alongside Gears developer The Coalition. Leitch’s other directorial credits include Deadpool 2, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, and Atomic Blonde.Netflix’s Gears movie already has Dune screenwriter John Spaihts as the scriptwriter, but there have been no casting announcements since the film is likely still a ways out. Netflix is also creating…