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Eric Trump's robotics company reportedly landed a $24 million deal with the Pentagon, with Foundation Future Industries contracted to deliver its Phantom MK1 humanoid robots for use by the U.S military.
If the president's son receiving millions for his tech startup from the government sounds like a conflict of interest, Seth Meyers agrees with you.
During his "A Closer Look" segment on Late Night, the host examined the deal made with Trump, the company's chief strategy advisor.
"Now, for anyone surprised that Eric Trump's title is 'chief strategy advisor,' I can explain it was too hard to fit 'dipshit who just happens to be the president's son' on the business card," said Meyers.
"So, the president's family is dining at the taxpayer trough," Meyers added. "Meanwhile, the rest of us are getting hit with price hikes and supply shortages as a result of Trump's war with Iran."
He's not wrong.
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Opens in a new window Credit: eufy eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 $949.99 at AmazonThe warmer, brighter days are fast approaching and with it comes the task of keeping the lawn neat and tidy. But thankfully, long gone are the days where you need to pull out the decades-old lawn mower to tackle the overgrown grass. Like most things in life, you can now let the robot do the work.
Robot lawn mowers have grown in popularity in recent years, and with that popularity comes advancements. Models like the eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 can self navigate across your lawn while avoiding obstacles and leave it uniformly cut in parallel lines. And as of April 24, it's on sale an all-time low price.
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This is a $50 price drop from the Bose QuietComfort Ultra's list price of $299, and it applies to every available color at Amazon. Don't fancy the black pair? You can also choose from deep plum, desert gold, midnight violet, and white smoke at this price. Not to mention, Amazon also has a notice on the store page that says these will arrive before Mother's Day (if you're hoping to give them as a gift).
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The content and format of Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles seem antithetical to each other — a novel about the internet. Yet, Thorpe's book manages to perfectly encapsulate navigating life as a creator and sex worker online. The experience of motherhood and OnlyFans Thorpe captured in her 2024 novel is now an Apple TV series of the same name, starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Nick Offerman.
But before the show got to the small screen and the book hit shelves, Thorpe had to immerse herself in the world of OnlyFans and content creators: "I think I'm spoiled as a fiction writer. Normally, I can just call up people, and no one's interested in anyone else's job, so people will often talk to you in depth about their jobs." But that wasn't the case with researching Margo. As she broached the topic of content creators, especially those on OnlyFans, she noted that their job is to protect themselves and their privacy.
But to write the successful novel that she did, Thorpe needed to do the research. So how did she do it and earn her sources' trust in the process? At BookCon 2026, I chatted with Thorpe about her OnlyFans research and the Margo's Got Money Trouble adaptation.
Samantha Mangino: Margo's Got Money Troubles has such an accurate depiction and understanding of the internet and content creation. How did you do your research?
Rufi Thorpe: I started an OnlyFans account, and I would send a $50 tip to creators and say, "Hey, I'm a novelist. I've written these books. I'm writing a book about it, and it has a character who has an OnlyFans account. I want to explore sex work as work. The book has no moral agenda, and I can't do a good job unless I do research. Would you please talk? I will pay you per question that I ask."
A lot of girls have automated bot responses, and they're not even reading their own messages. So you have to find an account that's small enough that someone — a human — will answer you. In order to be a sex worker, you have to have really, really good boundaries. So they are very clear that their internal life is not for sale, whether it's me, a creepy middle-aged woman novelist, or a John. So some questions were very easy for them to talk about, like the business side of things, marketing and promotion, and even the back end of how their system looked and how money worked. But any questions that I considered relatively open-ended, like, "How do you feel differently about this work now than when you first started?" A lot of times, they'd be like, "I don't feel comfortable talking about that." In a weird way, their reticence was an education in itself.
SM: Have you gotten any feedback from creators on the book and how they received it?
RT: I've heard from maybe five different OnlyFans models, and it's been really positive. One challenge of the research and book is that it's kind of historical fiction. The show is set in contemporary times, but the book is really set in 2018. When TikTok and OnlyFans were these baby fledglings, which is part of how Margo can go viral as easily as she does.
But finding people who were on the platform at that time was really challenging, because when I was writing this in 2020 and 2021, this boom happened. I'm sure all sorts of inaccuracies would really bother someone who was on the platform in 2018, but overwhelmingly, there's a kindness and good intention behind the portrayal that I think people found.
SM: As a reader of the book, I wholeheartedly agree with that. You approach all the characters with a really spectacular humanity that another writer might not do. Was there any lesson you learned from your research that was really important to include in the book?
RT: One of the things that I found most inspiring, as someone who grew up in the '90s in a kind of MTV and Playboy-centered universe where what is sexy in the culture, as like one thing — blonde, skinny, big, fake boobs — is that what men actually are attracted to is so much weirder and more varied. And also, when you let content creators have creative control, deciding who they're going to work with, what kind of content they're going to make, it is much more varied. And there are lots of creators making fun, weird, funny, silly content. I think that seemed really joyful and exciting to me, and that's kind of what I wanted to put across in the book. When you have this democratization of media, people are just cooler and stranger than you could ever predict.
SM: The turnaround from a 2024 publication to a 2026 adaptation release seems so quick. Can you tell me about that process?
RT: It was optioned before the book was published, which enabled it to achieve that rapid turnaround. It's been just such a wildly positive experience. The whole team, from the very beginning, you know, all of the producers and David E. Kelly [creator of the Margo's Got Money Troubles TV show], and they were so open and generous with me, allowing me to be as involved as I wanted. I had a meeting early on in the writers' room where they asked me, "What are you afraid we'll do?" and really thoughtful questions about what I wanted and what I thought was important. The whole thing has really been a dream from an author's perspective.
SM: I think adaptations can stand on their own, but the Margo TV show truly captures the essence of the book. What do you think contributed to making that happen?
RT: From the beginning, I was like, "You guys should change anything you want and need to, to make it work as a show." There are certain elements, like the meta-narration element, that I was like, I don't really see how you're gonna transfer this over. But what I never said to them was, "You need to capture this essence." And yet, I feel like they got the heart of the book, that is, the almost ineffable, unsayable thing. Like, how do you even communicate that? And yet they got it, and they somehow translated it. I remember going on set and getting to see [Margo's] apartment. And I was like, "Oh my God, these are the closet doors that were on my house when I was a little kid." Like, the architecture of California was just so right.
SM: With the show being out, have you heard from the books' fanbase? And new fans of it who are coming from the show?
RT: So far, it's been just a lot of squealing and joy because the acting and the cast are so incredible. It's exciting for me because only the first three episodes are out, and I feel like the show gets even stronger as it goes along, so I'm just incredibly excited for people to get to see all of it and to see more of the wrestling. Rico Nasty is in it, too. I'm such a huge fan of her.
So when I was writing the book, I would have a playlist of songs that I would listen to when I was stuck on a scene. I'd go take a walk and listen to music while I figured out the problem. Of the 20 songs on the playlist, four were by Rico Nasty. I'm an old-school Rico fan, and I didn't even know they were considering casting her. It felt like this really serendipitous, full-circle thing: she was part of the book's writing without knowing it, and then she gets to be in the show.
SM: You were talking about how the people who made the show clearly understand the book, so I think just being on that same wavelength led to Rico's casting in a way that was never said aloud.
RT: When David E. Kelly first expressed interest in it, I was like, in a weird way, this makes sense, because I grew up watching David E. Kelly's storytelling. It's almost like he wrote me.
Privacy, as a thing of value in the human experience, is perhaps as old as clothes, or doors, or whispers. As a legal concept, though, it’s younger than the Kodak camera.
And that’s not a coincidence.
The concept of a right to privacy was first sketched out in 1890 by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in direct response to the emerging threats posed by "instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise." These new technologies, they wrote, had "invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life" — requiring a fresh evaluation of personal rights.
This fact is worth reflecting on: It wasn’t until cameras began invading our privacy that we recognized a need to protect it — and even then, it took decades to enshrine a right to privacy in law.
SEE ALSO: Character.AI opens a back door to free speech rights for chatbotsYou could call this period, in which innovation sprints forward, yanking culture with it, while the law limps along behind, the messy middle of any technological revolution. In the messy middle, things you can’t anticipate, and maybe never even considered, suddenly become essential to address.
You can see this phenomena in the development of the printing press, the steam engine, the automobile, the mobile phone, and more — and it’s a defining characteristic of the burgeoning Age of AI we’re now living through.
This moment, in which world-changing AI technology collides with a world unprepared for change, is calling us to action. We must imagine new rights, laws, and cultural norms to protect our basic humanity.
The AI technologies rapidly diffusing through society are extracting, refining, commoditizing, and monetizing our deepest psychological and social resources. Just as the new technologies of the industrial revolution harvested physical resources on a global scale, AI products today are mining our humanity at its most intimate — replacing our relationships, defiling our inner worlds, and calling into question our very purpose.
I know this is true because it’s my job to track AI’s increasing capabilities, research its effects, catalog its harms, and develop policies to keep it safe and humane.
But I also know it’s true — and I suspect you do, too — because I can feel it. I’m often reminded of Adam Raine, who began using ChatGPT as a homework helper — until its engagement-at-any-cost product design allegedly isolated him from his family, validated his darkest impulses and coached him to suicide.
Adam’s experience is far from unique — and such psychosocial dangers are just one of many AI-driven harms metastasizing through society. AI’s intrusion on our humanity is now a lived experience spanning workplaces, classrooms, home life, online encounters, and even our most private moments.
At the Center for Humane Technology, we’ve identified five pillars of the human experience under direct threat and rapid transformation from AI. Each is worth exploring in its own right.
Our human relationships: There’s nothing more fundamental to human existence than our relationships. They make us happy, successful, and safe. They provide the essential friction necessary for empathy, resolution, and growth. They give life meaning.
But as Adam’s story shows, AI products are increasingly designed to supplant these connections. AI "friends" and "therapists," marketed as superior substitutes to real-life humans, encourage isolation and exploit our desire for acceptance with sycophantic validation. As we retreat from the challenges of human connection, our interpersonal skills atrophy and social trust frays.
Our cognitive capacities: AI developers promise machines that do our thinking for us. What we’re getting are products that fry our brains and make us dumber. While past technologies assisted human thought, AI marks a shift toward offloading cognitive processes entirely, bypassing the "slow work" that builds insight and creativity.
When essential skills like reasoning and problem-solving are allowed to deteriorate, individuals and society become ill-equipped for complex challenges.
Our inner worlds: Think of the AI interface you use every day: an open-ended question, an empty text box, and a blinking cursor. It’s a deliberately unassuming invitation, a seemingly guileless lure to share anything and everything with the most powerful data-analysis system ever built.
AI products are engineered to infiltrate our most private thoughts, uncertainties, desires, and beliefs — and then commoditize them. This exploitation renders us vulnerable to psychological and financial manipulation, ultimately threatening our sense of self and moral decision-making.
Our identities: Our identity — comprising our likeness, voice, and reputation — is our most valuable possession. It anchors us as individuals and ensures social accountability.
AI coopts that value, turning every facet of our identity into mere data, enabling the replication of our personal traits and weaponizing fundamental aspects of who we are. This exploitation happens in any number of ways — from nonconsensual deepfakes to grandma scams to political manipulation. In every instance, the result is a loss of agency and dignity.
Our work: Contributing to our communities through work and creativity is a primary source of human dignity, purpose, and belonging. To AI companies, though, the fruits of our labor — whether language, writing, art, or ideas — amount to nothing more than raw inputs for automating knowledge.
AI developers are actively accumulating human intelligence in order to replace human labor. While the economic risks are immense, the deeper loss is the erosion of the "toil" that provides structure, meaning, and the joy of creation.
Safeguarding our humanityAs early as we are into the AI revolution, we’re already deep in the messy middle. Existing rights and protections are inadequate to these threats, leaving our humanity at risk. But dehumanization, disconnection, and alienation are not inevitable.
We must imagine and enact new shields — in culture, law, and governance — to protect against AI’s immediate threats and those to come. We must address these challenges as quickly as possible, before they change us beyond recognition.
We’ve done it before. The printing press sparked a right to free expression. The Industrial Revolution demanded new workers’ rights. The Kodak camera instigated a right to privacy. The messy middle of these revolutions lasted for decades before we found durable solutions — but we found them. Society has successfully fortified humanity against technology before, and we must again.
At the Center for Humane Technology, we’re working to preserve what makes us human in the age of AI. We’ve developed an AI Roadmap with actionable policy solutions, and we’re crafting a new bill of rights to defend our essential humanity.
Like Warren and Brandeis staring into the lens of the Kodak camera, we must confront AI’s disruption. We must fight through the messy middle and exercise a new imagination for protecting the qualities that make us deeply, unequivocally human.
Camille Carlton is the senior director of strategy and impact at the Center for Humane Technology.
This article reflects the opinion of the writer.
Filmmakers often express frustrations about the genre labels put on their work by studio marketing, the media, and even their fans. Perhaps this is why David Lowery's tagline for his latest film, Mother Mary, focuses on what it's not. "This is not a ghost story. This is not a love story." Maybe he doesn't want his rapturous work described in such simple terms.
But here's the thing. It is a ghost story. It is a love story. It's also more.
Written and directed by Lowery (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story), Mother Mary plunges its audience into the unreal world of the eponymous pop icon, played by Anne Hathaway. Wearing a ferociously cinched body suit with gothic flair and religious iconography like her signature halos, Mother Mary is giving Lady Gaga. But it's not just the iconography. A stunning long take meant to show how Mother Mary must parade from one show to the next to the next without respite recalls the Gaga meme of "No sleep, bus, club, another club, 'nother club, plane, next place, no sleep."
However, Mother Mary's songs are written by Charli xcx, Jack Antonoff, and FKA twigs, who also has a small but pivotal role in the film. The music they bring is otherworldly, evoking not just Mother Mary's power over her audience, but also the paranormal darkness that plagues her wherever she goes.
Could it be that reconnecting with her former best friend/costume designer, Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), will bring an end to her agony? Can collaboration on a dress heal years of estrangement and resentment?
The premise might sound like the stuff of tearjerker melodrama. But in Lowery's hands, Mother Mary is a gothic horror story — surreal, evocative, and breathtakingly gorgeous.
Anne Hathaway is a vision in Mother Mary. Credit: A24Across a smattering of arena tour performances, Hathaway must swiftly convince us that Mother Mary is an incomparably popular, intensely compelling talent. In her long, long wigs and cinched and bedazzled costumes, she projects an enchanting confidence and cool. She is instantly mesmerizing, strutting, dancing, and singing with the stage presence many performers would maim for.
It's fascinating to see this film hit so close to Hathaway's reprisal of the gawky fashion-averse heroine Andy Sachs with The Devil Wears Prada 2. Back-to-back, Hathaway reminds us how she can easily play an average girl and a literal icon with aplomb. In Mother Mary, however, she must pull off a double act. Not only is she embodying this perfectly fierce and feminine facade, but also a beleaguered woman on the brink of collapse, creatively and psychologically.
When she comes into Sam's rural sanctuary, a chicly decaying estate where models, designers, and hangers-on flutter about with ballerina-like precision to execute Sam's vision, Mother Mary is disheveled, sheepish, and fragile. In sweatpants and a hoodie, she practically cowers as she humbly requests her former confidante to create a new gown for her, custom, and with only three days turnaround time for her public relaunch. It's outrageous. It's impossible. And yet, Sam cannot resist.
Michaela Coel is transcendent in Mother Mary. Michaela Coel is Sam Anhein in "Mother Mary." Credit: A24While Mother Mary will flow into flashbacks to show us its titular figure's career highs and personal lows, much of the film takes place in a humble barn, which Sam uses as a design studio. There, Sam will poetically muse about creation, friendship, hatred, ghosts, and letting go. Hathaway's role demands that she transform physically and thrust herself into a complicated contemporary dance number — without music — that feels like a brutal exercise in penance through humiliation. By contrast, Coel's portrayal is more grounded in her face and voice.
Where Mary must move to enchant us, Sam can stand still, resolute and just talk. Coel makes it seem so easily, so effortless to be this beguiling. Through her, pages and pages of Lowery's melodic monologue flow like a river, glittering, deep, and rapid. The actress, who broke through mugging and slapsticking it up in Chewing Gum, is intense yet restrained here. Her screen presence is unparalleled.
Cinematographers Andrew Droz Palermo and Rina Yang meticulously light this dark barn with care to be sure that Coel's eyes and cheekbones shine. She is truly radiant, even when withering.
Wrapped in cool blues and probing reds, these two hurt women engage in a metaphorical dance that is collaboration and confrontation. Lowery's direction trusts in these actresses to find a rhythm without theatrics. Hushed tones lure us in, as if we are a fly on the wall or a ghost in the hallway. Theirs is a story of love, but one that fully recognizes the role hate and even indifference play in such a story.
Theirs is a ghost story, but not in the traditional sense. Sure, there was a haunting and a seance — conducted by a possessed FKA twigs. But nothing else about this supernatural tale will play to the lore you might predict.
Instead, Lowery embraces darkness and bold color, flowing fabric, and structured gowns to create a visual world that illustrates his heroines' fears and hopes, emotions so raw and reckless they can't be said out loud.
This is a story of connection, told through beauty, torment, fabric, and flesh. Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel co-star in "Mother Mary." Credit: A24Hathaway and Coel are electrifying together. A small female supporting cast, boasting Hunter Schafer and Sian Clifford along with FKA twigs, provides a swift and solid structure, suggesting a world beyond the barn without much fuss or distraction. The cinematography celebrates pop idols and couture fashion with the same adoration it offers Lowery's silky black abyss. The music throbs like a mind racing or a mouth catching a ragged breath.
All of this comes together into a vision grotesque and gorgeous. Mother Mary is not only slippery, riveting, unnerving, and haunting, but also one of the most enthralling films 2026 is likely to reveal.
Mother Mary is now playing in select theaters, opens nationwide on April 24.
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Hooking up is hard enough without getting in your own way. Online dating is perilous enough when the main anxiety is vibing with another person, not protecting your digital privacy. And yet, people repeatedly sabotage their chances of success — often before they've even made a match.
If you're a loyal AdultFriendFinder user and want to use the site safely and effectively, here are three things you need to keep off your profile.
Opens in a new window Credit: AdultFriendFinder AdultFriendFinder Learn More Public-facing NSFW contentAdultFriendFinder is very permissive when it comes to NSFW content, and many of its members take advantage of this freedom, but we advise against it, especially if you also plan on sharing pictures or videos of your face.
There are plenty of more private ways to bare all, but reserve your profile photos for non-nude content. Once you post naked content online, you lose all control over where it ends up or what it gets used for.
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Unnecessary personal informationAnother major security concern people often overlook: oversharing. No, your potential hookups don't need to know what you do for a living, at least not from your profile, and they certainly don't need to know specifics about your employer or your marital situation.
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Save your sexual boasting for one-on-one conversations, once some rapport has been established and you have a sense of the other person's turn-ons.
The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.
With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.
So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.
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Opens in a new window Credit: Jackery Jackery Explorer 2000 v2 $1,298.99 at AmazonThe Jackery Explorer 2000 v2 with solar panels is back on sale at Amazon, and for a limited time, you can save $300.
This stacked unit can power anything from a fridge to a laptop, and now it's down to $1,298.99 from $1,599. This deal includes the unit plus two 200W solar panels, however there are various upgrade options including charging cables, protective cases, or even additional units.
Mashable Deals Be the first to know! Get editor selected deals texted right to your phone! Get editor selected deals texted right to your phone! Loading... Sign Me Up By signing up, you agree to receive recurring automated SMS marketing messages from Mashable Deals at the number provided. Msg and data rates may apply. Up to 2 messages/day. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help. Consent is not a condition of purchase. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Thanks for signing up!This is a great option if you're looking for a high-capacity portable power station designed for strong, reliable backup. It'll see you through power outages at home, at work, and keep you well connected when camping. It delivers a 2,200W output with a 2,042Wh capacity, along with multiple AC outlets and a 100W USB-C port for fast charging devices.
But despite its performance, Jackery states it's more compact than many similar units, weighing 39.5 pounds and built with cell-to-body technology to help improve space efficiency and durability. It's also built with a LiFePO4 battery, which gives it serious longevity. You're looking at around 10 years of use.
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SAVE OVER $400: As of April 24, the Bluetti Elite 100 V2 is on sale for $394.97 at Amazon. That's a 51% discount on the list price.
Opens in a new window Credit: Bluetti Bluetti Elite 100 V2 $394.97 at AmazonIf you're on the lookout for a new portable power station, Amazon has some incredible deals on brands like Jackery, DJI, and Bluetti right now.
As of April 24, there's a new deal on the Bluetti Elite 100 V2 that's caught our eye. Right now, this compact unit is over $400 off, taking the price down from $799 to $394.97. That's more than half off for a limited time.
Mashable Deals Be the first to know! Get editor selected deals texted right to your phone! Get editor selected deals texted right to your phone! Loading... Sign Me Up By signing up, you agree to receive recurring automated SMS marketing messages from Mashable Deals at the number provided. Msg and data rates may apply. Up to 2 messages/day. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help. Consent is not a condition of purchase. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Thanks for signing up!If you're looking for something that's both powerful and compact, this model has been designed to deliver strong performance without taking up too much space. It has a 1,024Wh capacity with 1,800W AC output (up to 2,700W lifting power) and a total of 11 ports, making it suitable for powering multiple devices at once. It's ideal for both off-grid camping trips and power outages at home, and can run anything from your phone to a fridge.
It also supports fast recharging, reaching a full charge in around 70 minutes with a high-speed AC or solar input.
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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.
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If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.
SEE ALSO: Hurdle: Everything you need to know to find the answers Hurdle Word 1 hintA babysitter.
SEE ALSO: Apple’s new M3 MacBook Air is $300 off at Amazon. And yes, I’m tempted. Hurdle Word 1 answerNANNY
Hurdle Word 2 hintTo spread.
SEE ALSO: Wordle today: Answer, hints for April 24, 2026 Hurdle Word 2 AnswerSMEAR
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Hurdle Word 3 hintAn aquatic animal.
SEE ALSO: NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for April 24 SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for April 24, 2026 Hurdle Word 3 answerOTTER
Hurdle Word 4 hintCrazy.
Hurdle Word 4 answerBATTY
Final Hurdle hintA popular Adidas shoe.
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We’ve now reached the First Quarter Moon, where roughly half of the visible surface is lit up. Keep reading to find out what you may be able to spot on its surface tonight.
What is today’s Moon phase?As of Friday, April 24, the Moon phase is First Quarter. Tonight, 52% of the moon will be lit up, according to NASA's Daily Moon Guide.
If you're looking at the Moon with just your naked eye, you should be able to catch a glimpse of the Mares Crisium, Tranquillitatis, and Fecunditatis. If you have binoculars, the Mare Nectaris and Endymion and Posidonius Craters should also come into view, appearing from halfway up the Moon to near the top. And, finally, with a telescope you'll see all this plus the Apollo 16 landing spot, Rupes Altai, and Linne Crater.
When is the next Full Moon?The next Full Moon is predicted to take place on May 1, the first of two in May.
What are Moon phases?NASA says that the Moon completes a full orbit around Earth in about 29.5 days, during which it passes through eight stages. Although the same face of the Moon is always turned toward us, the portion illuminated by the Sun shifts as it travels along its path, producing the familiar cycle of full, half, and crescent shapes. These variations are referred to as lunar phases, and there are eight altogether:
New Moon - The Moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it's invisible to the eye).
Waxing Crescent - A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).
First Quarter - Half of the Moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-Moon.
Waxing Gibbous - More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.
Full Moon - The whole face of the Moon is illuminated and fully visible.
Waning Gibbous - The Moon starts losing light on the right side. (Northern Hemisphere)
Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) - Another half-Moon, but now the left side is lit.
Waning Crescent - A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.
Today's Connections: Sports Edition definitely has some red herrings that could get you off track. But if you have a decent level of ball knowledge, you should be able to get the right answers.
As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a 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 the latest 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: Sports Edition?The NYT's latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication's sports coverage. The sports Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Each puzzle features 16 words, and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.
If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake — players get up to four mistakes before the game ends.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.
SEE ALSO: Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL. Here's a hint for today's Connections: Sports Edition categoriesWant a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:
Yellow: Verbs
Green: March Madness
Blue: Ball Knowledge
Purple: Half of a whole
Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:
Yellow: Move Smoothly
Green: First Words of College Conferences
Blue: Basketball Hall of Famers
Purple: Road ____
Looking for Wordle today? Here's the answer to today's Wordle.
Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.
Drumroll, please!
The solution to today's Connections: Sports Edition #578 is...
What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?Move Smoothly — COAST, FLY, GLIDE, SOAR
First Words of College Conferences — ATLANTIC, BIG, MOUNTAIN, SOUTHEASTERN
Basketball Hall of Famers — ENGLISH, HILL, PIERCE, WEST
Road ____ — GAME, GRADER, RACE, TRIP
Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new sports Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.
Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.
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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.
Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.
Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.
How to play PipsIf you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match.
SEE ALSO: Wordle today: Answer, hints for April 24, 2026The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible — and common — for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.
Here are common examples you'll run into across the difficulty levels:
Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.
Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.
Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.
Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.
Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.
If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.
SEE ALSO: NYT Strands hints, answers for April 24, 2026 Easy difficulty hints, answers for April 24 PipsNumber (3): The domino half in this purple space must have 3 pips. The answer is 3-5, placed vertically.
Equal (0): Every domino half in this red space must have 0 pips. The answer is 2-0, placed horizontally; 0-3, placed horizontally; and 5-0, placed horizontally.
Equal (3): Every domino half in this light blue space must have 3 pips. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally; 1-3, placed horizontally.
Number (10): Everything in this yellow space must add up to 10. The answer is 3-5, placed vertically; 5-0, placed horizontally.
Less Than (2): The domino half in this dark blue space must have less than 2 pips. The answer is 1-3, placed horizontally.
Medium difficulty hints, answers for April 24 PipsNumber (7): Everything in this purple space must add up to 7. The answer is 3-1, placed vertically; 3-3, placed horizontally.
Number (7): Everything in this red space must add up to 7. The answer is 5-5, placed horizontally; 1-1, placed vertically.
Less Than (2): The domino half in this light blue space must have less than 2 pips. The answer is 0-1, placed vertically.
Less Than (5): The domino half in this yellow space must have less than 5 pips. The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally.
Number (7): Everything in this dark blue space must add up to 7. The answer is 0-1, placed vertically; 6-3, placed horizontally.
Number (7): Everything in this green space must add up to 7. The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally; 5-2, placed vertically.
Less Than (3): The domino half in this purple space must have less than 3 pips. The answer is 5-2, placed vertically.
Hard difficulty hints, answers for April 24 PipsNumber (2): The domino half in this purple space must have 2 pips. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally.
Number (5): The domino half in this red space must have 5 pips. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally.
Number (0): The domino half in this light blue space must have 0 pips. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically.
Less Than (2): Everything in this yellow space must add up to be less than 2. The answer is 1-6, placed vertically; 0-3, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (2): The domino half in this dark blue space must have more than 2 pips. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (5): The domino half in this green space must have more than 5 pips. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically.
Greater Than (5): The domino half in this purple space must have more than 5 pips. The answer is 1-6, placed vertically.
Number (2): The domino half in this red space must have 2 pips. The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.
Number (5): The domino half in this light blue space must have 5 pips. The answer is 5-0, placed horizontally.
Number (0): The domino half in this yellow space must have 0 pips. The answer is 5-0, placed horizontally.
Equal (2): Every domino half in this dark blue space must have 2 pips. The answer is 2-6, placed vertically; 2-4, placed horizontally.
Less Than (2): Everything in this green space must add up to be less than 2. The answer is 0-0, placed horizontally; 1-3, placed vertically.
Number (2): Everything in this purple space must add up to 2. The answer is 2-1, placed vertically; 1-5, placed vertically.
Equal (1): Every domino half in this red space must have 1 pip. The answer is 1-1, placed vertically; 0-1, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (5): The domino half in this light blue space must have more than 5 pips. The answer is 2-6, placed vertically.
Less Than (5): The domino half in this yellow space must have less than 5 pips. The answer is 1-3, placed vertically.
Greater Than (5): The domino half in this dark blue space must have more than 5 pips. The answer is 6-4, placed horizontally.
Equal (4): Every domino half in this green space must have 4 pips. The answer is 6-4, placed horizontally; 4-1, placed horizontally.
Less Than (2): Everything in this purple space must add up to be less than 2. The answer is 4-1, placed horizontally; 0-2, placed horizontally.
Number (2): The domino half in this red space must have 2 pips. The answer is 0-2, placed horizontally.
Number (5): The domino half in this light blue space must have 5 pips. The answer is 1-5, placed vertically.
Number (0): The domino half in this yellow space must have 0 pips. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally.
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