NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, May 13 (game #801)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 12 (game #800).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #801) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… You’ve got…

NYT Strands today (game #801) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• PRUNE
• TEAM
• BRIEF
• PURE
• RUNT
• TIME

NYT Strands today (game #801) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 11 letters

NYT Strands today (game #801) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 3rd column

Last side: bottom, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #801) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #801, are…

• SPUNK
• PLUCK
• GRIT
• NERVE
• GUMPTION
• FIBER
• HEART
• SPANGRAM: WHATITTAKES

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

The theme confused me to begin with, then after finding “what” as I hunted for any words to give me a hint, the mists cleared and I completed the sentence “you’ve got…” WHATITTAKES.

There were some great words in today’s search, a task which was made easier by finding the two containing the letter K in SPUNK and PLUCK and moving onwards from here.

GRIT and NERVE are still spoken about a lot particularly in sports commentaries, but GUMPTION is a word due a revival both in use and in spirit. It is also a quality unique to humans — more GUMPTION coupled with HEART makes the world a better place.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Tuesday, May 12, game #800)

• TUXEDO
• PALAZZO
• HAREM
• GAUCHO
• TOREADOR
• SAILOR
• SPANGRAM: FANCYPANTS

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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Discord Nitro is actually worth it now, and it's all thanks to this new partnership with Xbox

• Discord has announced its Nitro subscription service will now include Xbox Game Pass
• The new starter edition will include access to 50+ games and 10 hours of cloud gaming
• All of Nitro's benefits will also be available alongside Game Pass at no extra cost

Discord has been at the center of controversy in 2026, due to its push for global age verification on the social platform, but its latest move may win some users over.

In a new blog post, Discord announced that its Nitro subscription will now include the new Xbox Game Pass starter edition membership, at no extra cost, allowing users to enjoy the benefits of Nitro's high-quality streaming capabilities and customization, alongside access to 50+ games via Game Pass.

This comes after it was effectively leaked earlier in April, serving as one of the big moves from Xbox under the helm of new CEO, Asha Sharma. It's a big move for both Xbox and Discord, but more so for the latter, considering the large number of its users who were threatening (or proceeded) to cancel Nitro subscriptions to stop the age verification plans.

Those plans haven't gone anywhere, as they're still slated for the latter stage of 2026, but adding Game Pass to Nitro benefits may help shift the attention elsewhere — and while the library is significantly smaller compared to PC Game Pass (which has 300+ games), it's two birds with one stone for consumers, for only $9.99 / £9.49 / AU$14.99 (which may vary due to localized pricing).

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Some of those games included are Fallout 4, Stardew Valley, Deep Rock Galactic, and Overcooked 2, including access to 10 hours of cloud gaming each month. There's no clarity on how upgrades to higher tiers will work via Discord's Nitro subscription, and whether the cost to upgrade is cut, but it's a great start.

The new addition to Nitro is currently within its rollout phase, which will span over the next few weeks, and Discord emphasizes that this collaboration is essentially its way of encouraging users to join Nitro specifically, "if you've been on the fence" about the service.

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 12 (game #800)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 11 (game #799).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #800) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Quite the pair

NYT Strands today (game #800) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• CURE
• POEM
• CATS
• RAIL
• YEARS
• STOP

NYT Strands today (game #800) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 10 letters

NYT Strands today (game #800) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: left, 4th row

Last side: right, 4th row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #800) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #800, are…

• TUXEDO
• PALAZZO
• HAREM
• GAUCHO
• TOREADOR
• SAILOR
• SPANGRAM: FANCYPANTS

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 2 hints

Rare letters are always a good place to start a Strands search, but TUXEDO left me a little baffled as I associate it with shirts and the theme “quite the pair” didn’t seem to go with that.

The other rare letters on the board — a double-Z, no less — were the key to finally getting me going. Not that I am exotic enough to know anyone who owns a pair of them, but I now knew after getting PALAZZO that we were looking for types of pants; or, to be precise (as I soon discovered via the spangram), FANCYPANTS.

My fancy pant knowledge is not the best, so I opted for hints to get me the next couple of trousers and from here on in I was able to shimmy my way to a conclusion.

Can the world, I wonder, be divided between those who own and those who would never be seen dead in FANCYPANTS? Quite possibly.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Monday, May 11, game #799)

• JUMBLE
• HODGEPODGE
• VARIETY
• MISHMASH
• RAGBAG
• SPANGRAM: ODDSANDENDS

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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'Completely off the rails': TikTok is scaling back its AI summaries feature after it creates bizarre and inaccurate captions — as if TikTok wasn't bad enough for misinformation already

• TikTok has been testing AI summaries for its videos
• The feature is throwing up wildly inaccurate text captions
• TikTok says it will now pull back on the technology

In the age of AI deepfakes, it's a good idea to treat everything you see on social media with a certain degree of skepticism, but the misinformation problem on TikTok has been made worse with some wildly inaccurate AI captions — and it's bad enough that the video platform is now scaling back this captioning technology.

As reported by Business Insider, TikTok had been testing AI-powered text summaries for videos with a limited number of users. However, after numerous mistakes and hallucinations, the technology is going to be limited to identifying products in videos, rather than fully describing the video's contents.

Those mistakes and hallucinations included describing a video of celebrity Charli D'Amelio talking to the camera as showing a "collection of various blueberries with different toppings", and labeling a dog-training video as "a captivating display of intricate origami art, meticulously folded from a single sheet".

You don't have to look far on social media to find further examples: there's what seems to be an image of two cats with the caption "a person demonstrating an impressive new robot arm with multiple dexterous fingers", for example.

'Garbage that has nothing to do with the video'

super glad tiktok added this new ai overview feature. not sure how i’d survive the app without it. pic.twitter.com/Y5P31nridiMay 3, 2026

It's not clear exactly what's been going wrong that's causing TikTok's AI summaries to get the wrong idea so regularly (though presumably the feature did work at least some of the time). Recognizing the contents of images and videos is usually something AI can do pretty reliably.

That clearly hasn't been the experience of many TikTok users, however. One Redditor described the captions as "completely off the rails", while another said they were seeing "garbage that has nothing to do with the video" — with the AI summary also serving to distract from the actual caption on the video.

Other examples online show a Kentucky Derby horse race video described as "showcasing an intricate piece of calligraphy", and a cookery video with an overhead shot of a gray pan getting the label "a single ball bouncing and rolling on a green surface" — although these screenshots could also be faked, of course.

Even as AI is pushed into more and more of our apps and devices, hallucinations and errors remain a significant problem, which AI companies don't like admitting to. Whether it's a TikTok video or a legal document, if you're getting AI to summarize something, you'd be wise to run additional checks.

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 11 (game #799)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 10 (game #798).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #799) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… A nice medley

NYT Strands today (game #799) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• DRIES
• GAPE
• MULES
• BEND
• STIR
• SOAR

NYT Strands today (game #799) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 11 letters

NYT Strands today (game #799) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: left, 5th row

Last side: bottom, 3rd column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #799) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #799, are…

• JUMBLE
• HODGEPODGE
• VARIETY
• MISHMASH
• RAGBAG
• SPANGRAM: ODDSANDENDS

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

After struggling to see yesterday’s blatantly obvious words I roared through today’s messy selection — all of which probably says a lot about my brain and/or my organizational skills.

I really love all of these words and personally I think they sum up the glorious VARIETY and reality of life, where nothing is in straight lines or ordered and everything comes at you in a MISHMASH.

I also really enjoyed how today’s words revealed themselves to me, with the spangram slowly becoming obvious after I solved the words surrounding it.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday, May 10, game #798)

• OVERT
• BRAZEN
• GLARING
• BLATANT
• OBVIOUS
• FLAGRANT
• SPANGRAM: CLEARCUT

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, May 10 (game #1567)

Looking for a different day?

A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, May 9 (game #1566).

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,400 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles, while Marc's Wordle today column covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #1567) - hint #1 - Vowels

How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #1567) - hint #2 - repeated letters

Do any of today's Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 3.

Quordle today (game #1567) - hint #3 - uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• Yes. One of Q, Z, X or J appears among today's Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #1567) - hint #4 - starting letters (1)

Do any of today's Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today's Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you're not ready yet then here's one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #1567) - hint #5 - starting letters (2)

What letters do today's Quordle answers start with?

• D

• F

• R

• E

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #1567) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle, game #1567, are…

• DONOR
• FAITH
• ROBOT
• EXILE

This was a very testing game that almost beat me.

After taking a risk to get EXILE I struggled to find my final word before concluding that the letters I had were ordered A-I-T and from here I got FAITH.

Daily Sequence today (game #1567) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1567, are…

• PHONY
• GRAPH
• PARTY
• ROAST

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #1566, Saturday, 9 May: SHALL, ERUPT, WISER, DRIER
• Quordle #1565, Friday, 8 May: TOXIN, HELIX, FLOUT, ADULT
• Quordle #1564, Thursday, 7 May: DEALT, LOWLY, AHEAD, CHEEK
• Quordle #1563, Wednesday, 6 May: DRESS, SWIFT, HOARD, STEAD
• Quordle #1562, Tuesday, 5 May: SNEER, NEVER, RAMEN, TODDY
• Quordle #1561, Monday, 4 May: IMBUE, FIFTY, STEEP, PINTO
• Quordle #1560, Sunday, 3 May: HATER, FORCE, BASTE, TROUT
• Quordle #1559, Saturday, 2 May: DENIM, WAIVE, CHANT, RENAL
• Quordle #1558, Friday, 1 May: LUMEN, LINEN, GOING, THANK
• Quordle #1557, Thursday, 30 April: LOYAL, CACHE, SWEAT, LIGHT
• Quordle #1556, Wednesday, 29 April: TRAIL, RENEW, BELLE, GREED
• Quordle #1555, Tuesday, 28 April: CLINK, BONUS, BRUSH, DRIER
• Quordle #1554, Monday, 27 April: ARGUE, LUNAR, SEVER, THEIR
• Quordle #1553, Sunday, 26 April: PITHY, BOAST, PRIED, BLIMP
• Quordle #1552, Saturday, 25 April: RESET, DRINK, DEITY, SLACK
• Quordle #1551, Friday, 24 April: LOWLY, RELAX, BRASS, LUNCH
• Quordle #1550, Thursday, 23 April: KNEAD, PULSE, CRUST, TASTE
• Quordle #1549, Wednesday, 22 April: WEEDY, OMEGA, CLEFT, GAVEL
• Quordle #1548, Tuesday, 21 April: FLUTE, KITTY, AFIRE, GRANT
• Quordle #1547, Monday, 20 April: QUART, TUMOR, STAFF, EAGLE

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, May 9 (game #797)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, May 8 (game #796).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #797) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Garden variety

NYT Strands today (game #797) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• PAIRS
• DIGGER
• GASP
• CHIN
• GUIDE
• TIDES

NYT Strands today (game #797) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 13 letters

NYT Strands today (game #797) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: left, 8th row

Last side: right, 8th row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #797) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #797, are…

• ARTICHOKE
• LETTUCE 
• RADISH
• ONION 
• ASPARAGUS
• SPANGRAM: SPRINGVEGGIES

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

I initially thought I was playing yesterday’s game again but the themes are subtly different — yesterday it was “garden variety” as in commonplace and today it’s “garden varieties” as in the many vegetables one may grow in an actual garden, specifically in springtime. 

That sorted out, I spotted ARTICHOKE almost immediately. Well, that’s a lie, I spotted “choke” immediately and then wondered if it could actually be ARTICHOKE. 

After getting LETTUCE it was all pretty rudimentary, as each word was layered over each over in a growing heap — a bit like compost I suppose.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Friday, May 8, game #796)

• BASIC
• PROSAIC
• COMMON
• ORDINARY
• PEDESTRIAN
• SPANGRAM: RUNOFTHEMILL

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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The Wayback Machine faces another threat from AI — ridiculously expensive hard drive prices

• The Wayback Machine is under threat from AI once more
• The AI boom has tripled the price of the large hard disks needed for this expansive archive of the web
• This is a further danger posed to the Wayback Machine, which is also in trouble due to news sites blocking its web crawler, which is again due to AI

It's an increasingly desperate time for those trying to keep a record of the history of the web, as AI is again proving a serious stumbling block to the efforts made by the likes of the Internet Archive — and this time it's about soaring hard drive prices.

You may recall that last month, we covered another angle on the difficulties AI has been causing the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This is the non-profit organization's history of the web, and there's a problem in that, as part of measures designed to foil AI scraping their content, online news sites are increasingly blocking the web crawler the Internet Archive uses to compile the snapshots of web pages that comprise the archive.

And now, 404 Media reports (via Tom's Hardware) that the Internet Archive is suffering due to the hard drive shortage brought on by AI (as more large drives are needed in data centers for AI workloads).

Yes, the AI boom is not just about LLMs (Large Language Models) eating your RAM and SSDs, but also hard drives (as well as indirect effects on other components).

The huge hard disks — on the order of 30TB — that the Internet Archive needs to host the Wayback Machine's historical record are now up to three times more expensive, or indeed completely out of stock. In this way, the AI boom is now a "very real issue costing us time and money," the Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle commented to 404 Media.

With some 210 petabytes (210,000TB) of web page snapshots in its library, which is expanding by 100TB daily, you can appreciate the scope of the web archiving that's going on here.

Wikipedia's parent non-profit, the Wikimedia Foundation, is reportedly facing similar struggles, as you'd imagine. It has some 65 million articles to host, which takes up a lot of drive space. A Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told 404 Media that the main problems are the "purchase of memory and hard drives", but also lead times on server deliveries.

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Analysis: workarounds aplenty — but what about tape?

So, is the Wayback Machine really in danger? Are we going to see the wheels start to come off the 'living history of the internet'? Well, there's no immediate peril, as apparently donors and the community around the Wayback Machine are pulling together to work around the issue of spiralling drive costs.

Still, this is clearly a concern going forward — and the blocking of the Internet Archive's web crawler is even more so. The problem there is that the news sites are blocking AI scraping, but those blocks can be circumvented if the owner of the AI targets the content via the Wayback Machine instead. It's a thorny issue, but talks are ongoing, and hopefully both sides can come to some kind of resolution.

And on the drive front, if you're wondering why the Internet Archive can't switch to tape as a storage medium, the catch there is that it's a 'living' archive of the web — as in it's online, for people to access those web page snapshots on demand. As such, hard drives are needed for that access to be responsive. Tape simply isn't up to snuff performance-wise in this case.

The Internet Archive does use tape, mind, for longer-term backups of content, but it's only part of the puzzle in that respect. Hard drives are vital for the actual day-to-day functioning of the Wayback Machine as we know it, in terms of being able to quickly serve users the content they need online.

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, May 8 (game #796)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, May 7 (game #795).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #796) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Garden variety

NYT Strands today (game #796) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• SCRUB
• RISE
• TIDE
• THEME
• POEM
• DROID

NYT Strands today (game #796) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 12 letters

NYT Strands today (game #796) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: top, 2nd column

Last side: bottom, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #796) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #796, are…

• BASIC
• PROSAIC
• COMMON
• ORDINARY
• PEDESTRIAN
• SPANGRAM: RUNOFTHEMILL

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 1 hint

OK, I’ll be honest — I spent the first minute of this game looking for flowers and, not seeing any, took a hint from my non-game words.

BASIC triggered a head slap for not realizing the meaning of “garden variety” and the damning collection of synonyms for mundane.

From here on in, the game was pretty straightforward — indeed, you could almost say PEDESTRIAN.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Thursday, May 7, game #795)

• BLESS
• APPROVE
• ALLOW
• LICENCE
• PERMIT
• SANCTION
• SPANGRAM: GIVETHENOD

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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'This is not facial recognition' — Meta wants to scan kids' height and bone structure to verify their age

• New AI tools for verifying ages are being rolled out by Meta
• Instagram and Facebook is for users aged 13+
• A "visual analysis" will weigh up height and bone structure

Age verification for sites, apps, and devices is fast becoming the norm as regulators look to protect children from potentially harmful content — including content on social media. Now Meta has announced new "age assurance measures" for teen users and predictably, they are powered by AI.

Specifically, the system will use contextual clues associated with a profile (such as mentions of birthdays or school grades) together with a "visual analysis" to help figure out how old a user is.

"We want to be clear: this is not facial recognition," says Meta. "Our AI looks at general themes and visual cues, for example height or bone structure, to estimate someone's general age; it does not identify the specific person in the image."

Users suspected of being too young for Facebook and Instagram (so under 13) will have their accounts deactivated. They'll then need to provide some form of proof of age through a specific age verification process to get their account back.

'Safe, positive experiences online'

Teen protections for Instagram and Facebook are heading to more regions (Image credit: Meta)

Other Facebook and Instagram users can report accounts that they think are being used by kids under the age of 13, and Meta says it hopes to "significantly increase the number of underage accounts we identify and remove" through these methods.

"We want young people to have safe, positive experiences online," says Meta (though some would disagree). "For over a decade, we've built tools, features, and resources to help teens have safe, age-appropriate experiences on our apps."

Similar AI techniques are already being used to spot teenagers on Meta's platforms, and shepherd them into teen-appropriate spaces on these platforms. This tech is now expanding into more regions (including Facebook in the US and the UK).

Meta's announcement ends with a familiar call that we've heard before from the developers of apps and websites: to force age verification at the device level, so it's a problem for Apple, Google, and Microsoft rather than Meta.

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Vine is coming back, and it’s being relaunched by the guy who killed it — say hello to Jack Dorsey’s Divine, a TikTok and Instagram Stories rival with a ferocious ambition to end AI slop

• Vine is being relaunched as a new app called Divine
• It's being funded by Jack Dorsey, who acquired the original Vine platform in 2013
• It's invite-only for the time being, but a wider rollout is on the way

Vine was the social media platform that defined the 2010s, and it’s making a comeback after a nearly 10-year absence. Well, kind of.

The platform that spearheaded short-form vertical feeds with its iconic six-second looping videos is being relaunched as Divine and funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, AKA the same guy who acquired Vine in 2013, and later put it to sleep in 2017. But the funniest thing about the reboot is that Dorsey has beaten Elon Musk to the punch, who previously teased restoring user access to the 2010s social media staple.

While this sounds like a dream come true for those who lived through the Vine days, Divine is invite-only for now, but the company is planning a wider rollout in the coming months. The company has also noted that while Divine is inspired by the original Vine platform, it operates entirely independently and has no affiliation with Twitter/ X.

That said, a lot has changed since Vine was shut down. Social media algorithms are smarter, and consumer habits have shifted — so how will Divine live up to TikTok, Instagram, and other rival kingpins?

vine reboot? there was something special about the original. hoping this takes off.April 29, 2026

Divine’s aim is two-fold: the first being nostalgia, which I think will be the catalyst for luring users. Divine will play host to an archive of over 500,000 videos from Vine’s golden days, giving you a one-stop place to relive some of the most famous online videos you probably still reference with your friends today, as well as allowing you to create and upload new content.

As far as its algorithm goes, Divine is taking an alternative approach and will let users choose how content reaches them, offering four options: Home feed, Discovery, Trending, and Hashtag feed.

“We believe that the monoculture of a single advertising-oriented algorithm is responsible for many of the issues experienced by other social media,” Divine details in its FAQs page.

(Image credit: Divine / iOS App Store )

The second part of Divine’s goal is to take a stance against AI-generated content, which involves combining a plethora of methods to create a robust AI detection tool.

ProofMode, the main component of this, is a tool that inspects metadata to detect AI that's used to generate audio, images, and videos. On top of this, Divine has a user reporting system in place in addition to machine-learning detection and human-in-the-loop (HITL) techniques.

Despite having to wait for the broader rollout, there’s no denying that Vine’s relaunch will excite an entire generation of internet nerds who got their first online video kick from Vine. Unlike the old musical.ly platform, which was then merged with TikTok, this is a different scenario.

It’s a full-on resuscitation of an app that, despite having a significant influence on the evolution of short-form videos, was quite short-lived, and you can best believe you’ll be getting a full review when I finally get my hands on it.

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'Protection isn't a setting you turn on; it's the foundation' — Norton Neo's new update makes it the ultimate AI browser with an adaptive built-in VPN, anti-phishing, and anti-tracking tools that work by default

• Norton has updated its Neo browser with an adaptive, built-in VPN
• It adds proactive anti-phishing and advanced anti-fingerprinting
• The features run quietly in the background by default

Norton has rolled out a major update to its AI-native browser, Norton Neo, embedding a suite of powerful security tools directly into the browsing experience.

With a new built-in adaptive VPN, proactive anti-phishing defenses, and robust anti-fingerprinting features, users no longer need to rely on third-party extensions or complicated setups to stay safe online — Norton Neo handles your privacy seamlessly in the background.

The update arrives at a critical time for web security. According to Gen Threat Labs — Gen Digital is Norton's parent company — roughly 83% of attacks blocked in early 2026 were web-based, heavily driven by phishing and spam ads.

"People can get a lot done on a browser, but digital threats, including spam and phishing, are rampant. Every AI feature added to a browser is another attack surface, and people shouldn't need to be security experts to feel safe online," said Howie Xu, Chief AI and Innovation Officer at Gen.

By baking protection directly into the browser's architecture, Norton aims to secure users who want the productivity benefits of AI without the added attack surface.

Intelligent protection without the friction

As AI tools become a daily staple, they also introduce new vulnerabilities. Norton Neo is tackling this head-on by addressing threats at the browser level.

Powered by the recently launched Norton VPN for Agents — Norton VPN's AI-native app — the browser's built-in VPN intelligently adapts to your activity, stepping up encryption for sensitive tasks like online banking, while scaling back for casual browsing. This, without requiring users to turn the VPN on or off.

Phishing protection is also a big part of the update. Now, the browser actively detects and blocks malicious websites before you ever land on them, while Norton's Scam Analyzer extends that defense to your webmail.

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Crucially, Norton Neo is also defending against a rising AI-specific threat: indirect prompt injections. The browser acts as a shield, preventing its AI features from being hijacked by hidden, malicious instructions buried within web page content.

As Xu explains: "With Norton Neo, protection isn't a setting you turn on; it's the foundation. The VPN adapts on its own, phishing is caught before you click, and your AI queries can't be turned against you."

On the privacy front, Norton Neo delivers true anonymity with advanced anti-fingerprinting tech. Instead of relying purely on cookie blocking, the browser randomizes your device's hidden signals, like screen size and installed fonts, preventing sites from building a persistent profile on you.

Coupled with granular ad-blocking controls and streamlined cookie consent, the browser aims to cut down on annoying banners while keeping you firmly in control.

An AI assistant you can trust

Norton Neo's AI capabilities have also been upgraded to support deeper reasoning and complex tasks. To ensure your data remains yours, all chats are stored locally by default.

Norton enforces a strict zero-retention policy with its AI providers, meaning your queries are never used for model training, and your IP address remains completely hidden.

Available across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, Norton Neo offers a consistent, private experience across all your devices. The latest update also grants users early access to a new agentic AI assistant, a private, always-on helper designed to manage your online activities securely.

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Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, May 6 (game #1563)

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A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Tuesday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #1562).

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,400 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.

Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles, while Marc's Wordle today column covers the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

Quordle today (game #1563) - hint #1 - Vowels

How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Quordle today (game #1563) - hint #2 - repeated letters

Do any of today's Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.

Quordle today (game #1563) - hint #3 - uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today's Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #1563) - hint #4 - starting letters (1)

Do any of today's Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today's Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 2.

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you're not ready yet then here's one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #1563) - hint #5 - starting letters (2)

What letters do today's Quordle answers start with?

• D

• S

• H

• S

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #1563) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle, game #1563, are…

• DRESS
• SWIFT
• HOARD
• STEAD

Having two words starting with S helped narrow things down today and with most letters used, SWIFT was an easy get as the end.

Had I not already used the H, I may have guessed “shift” — but fortunately I solved the columns in a very advantageous order.

Daily Sequence today (game #1563) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle Daily Sequence, game #1563, are…

• SHELL
• CANOE
• OFTEN
• CLASH

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #1562, Tuesday, 5 May: SNEER, NEVER, RAMEN, TODDY
• Quordle #1561, Monday, 4 May: IMBUE, FIFTY, STEEP, PINTO
• Quordle #1560, Sunday, 3 May: HATER, FORCE, BASTE, TROUT
• Quordle #1559, Saturday, 2 May: DENIM, WAIVE, CHANT, RENAL
• Quordle #1558, Friday, 1 May: LUMEN, LINEN, GOING, THANK
• Quordle #1557, Thursday, 30 April: LOYAL, CACHE, SWEAT, LIGHT
• Quordle #1556, Wednesday, 29 April: TRAIL, RENEW, BELLE, GREED
• Quordle #1555, Tuesday, 28 April: CLINK, BONUS, BRUSH, DRIER
• Quordle #1554, Monday, 27 April: ARGUE, LUNAR, SEVER, THEIR
• Quordle #1553, Sunday, 26 April: PITHY, BOAST, PRIED, BLIMP
• Quordle #1552, Saturday, 25 April: RESET, DRINK, DEITY, SLACK
• Quordle #1551, Friday, 24 April: LOWLY, RELAX, BRASS, LUNCH
• Quordle #1550, Thursday, 23 April: KNEAD, PULSE, CRUST, TASTE
• Quordle #1549, Wednesday, 22 April: WEEDY, OMEGA, CLEFT, GAVEL
• Quordle #1548, Tuesday, 21 April: FLUTE, KITTY, AFIRE, GRANT
• Quordle #1547, Monday, 20 April: QUART, TUMOR, STAFF, EAGLE
• Quordle #1546, Sunday, 19 April: PEACE, ERECT, ASSAY, SPILL
• Quordle #1545, Saturday, 18 April: STEAL, CURIO, SCOOP, BETEL
• Quordle #1544, Friday, 17 April: SMOCK, CRACK, SAINT, YIELD
• Quordle #1543, Thursday, 16 April: LIBEL, COURT, SULLY, VERSE

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, May 5 (game #793)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Monday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #792).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #793) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Get up!

NYT Strands today (game #793) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• CLAM
• MEAL
• SPIRE
• TONE
• ZOOT
• SOON

NYT Strands today (game #793) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 12 letters

NYT Strands today (game #793) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: left, 2nd row

Last side: right, 8th row

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #793) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #793, are…

• ALARM
• SNOOZE
• TIME
• RADIO
• DATE
• DISPLAY
• TUNER
• SPANGRAM: DIGITALCLOCK

• My rating: Easy
• My score: Perfect

Does anyone still use a DIGITALCLOCK? I know they do in TV shows and movies — especially when the storyline needs to indicate the drudgery of the daily grind. But in real life? 

My memory was instantly jogged by today’s search, back to simpler times and this piece of tech’s most-used feature: the SNOOZE button.

Today, I use my phone as an alarm clock and set three alarms to nag me awake. The first is the ideal waking time if I was a properly functioning adult, the second is the “you need to wake up now” alarm, and the third is the “if you have not cancelled this alarm you are going to be late” alarm.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Monday, May 4, game #792)

• CEDAR
• ASPEN
• DOGWOOD
• BIRCH
• CYPRESS
• EUCALYPTUS
• SPANGRAM: BRANCHOUT

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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Ask Jeeves quietly shuts down after nearly three decades, after pioneering conversational web search long before ChatGPT and Gemini

• Ask Jeeves has closed after almost 30 years
• It pioneered natural language web searches
• Today, ChatGPT and Gemini work in similar ways

With AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini available, it's now easy to run web searches like "what are the best sights in Rome?" or "how do you fix a leaky shower?", but this natural language format was actually pioneered almost 30 years ago — and by a search portal that just closed down.

The portal was Ask Jeeves, later rebranded to Ask.com, and it opened fully to the public on June 1, 1997. As XDA Developers reports, what remained of Ask.com has now been shuttered by its current owner, InterActiveCorp (IAC).

If you were online just as the internet was taking off, you'll remember Ask Jeeves and its eponymous butler character — named after the valet Jeeves in the PG Wodehouse stories. The idea was to ask questions and get answers from the growing amount of information on the web, not just look for topics like "sports" or "movies".

At the time that Ask Jeeves launched, Google was still a prototype university project, and it offered something genuinely different to the search engines and web directories of the time (including Yahoo, AltaVista, and Lycos).

'Deeply grateful'

(Image credit: Ask Jeeves / Ask.com)

Google of course entirely changed the web search landscape, and after its initial success, Ask Jeeves struggled. It was renamed Ask.com in February 2006 as Jeeves was removed from the search portal, although the butler character did reappear on the UK version of the site between 2009 and 2016.

IAC took over operations in 2005, and has now made the decision to close the search engine down to "sharpen its focus" on other areas. The official end date for Ask Jeeves and Ask.com was May 1, 2026.

"We are deeply grateful to the brilliant engineers, designers, and teams who built and supported Ask over the decades," says IAC. "And to you — the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world — thank you for your endless curiosity, your loyalty, and your trust. Jeeves' spirit endures."

It's interesting that as Google and other AI-led companies try and make web search like a natural conversation again, the site that first pioneered the approach is closing. Ask Jeeves really was ahead of its time, back in 1997.

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, May 4 (game #792)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #791).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #792) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… May the forest be with you

NYT Strands today (game #792) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• STUB
• CHASE
• CHART
• ESCAPE
• HEAP
• SHOUT

NYT Strands today (game #792) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 9 letters

NYT Strands today (game #792) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: bottom, 3rd column

Last side: top, 3rd column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #792) - the answers

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The answers to today's Strands, game #792, are…

• CEDAR
• ASPEN
• DOGWOOD
• BIRCH
• CYPRESS
• EUCALYPTUS
• SPANGRAM: BRANCHOUT

• My rating: Hard
• My score: Perfect

May 4th is, of course, “May the Fourth/Force be with you” day but “forest” seems to be stretching the pun a little too far, unless we are discussing the Forest Moon of Endor, Takodana, which we are patently not.

Instead, this was a search for trees found in woods and forests, made more complex by some tricky twists and turns to connect the letters.

The longest word of the game, EUCALYPTUS, was my final find — not the most obvious of trees, so I’ll forgive myself for not seeing it sooner.

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Sunday, May 3, game #791)

• WEIRD
• PECULIAR
• STRANGE
• UNUSUAL
• BIZARRE
• QUIRKY
• SPANGRAM: THATSODD

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 3 (game #791)

Looking for a different day?

A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, May 2 (game #790).

Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.

Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc's Wordle today page for the original viral word game.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.

NYT Strands today (game #791) - hint #1 - today's theme

What is the theme of today's NYT Strands?

• Today's NYT Strands theme is… Something fishy

NYT Strands today (game #791) - hint #2 - clue words

Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.

• TRAIN
• PATRIAL
• SIRE
• WIPE
• QUART
• LOSER

NYT Strands today (game #791) - hint #3 - spangram letters

How many letters are in today's spangram?

• Spangram has 8 letters

NYT Strands today (game #791) - hint #4 - spangram position

What are two sides of the board that today's spangram touches?

First side: bottom, 3rd column

Last side: top, 4th column

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

NYT Strands today (game #791) - the answers

(Image credit: New York Times)

The answers to today's Strands, game #791, are…

• WEIRD
• PECULIAR
• STRANGE
• UNUSUAL
• BIZARRE
• QUIRKY
• SPANGRAM: THATSODD

• My rating: Hard
• My score: 1 hint

I couldn't help thinking that today’s task was about fish, but this was something that I instantly dismissed after spotting the letter Q on the board.

Despite this very heavy clue I still failed to see QUIRKY until the very end of the game and needed a hint to get going.

I’m putting today’s slowness down to tiredness from a big night last night rather than anything STRANGE or PECULIAR. 

Yesterday's NYT Strands answers (Saturday, May 2, game #790)

• SHUFFLE
• KICK
• COASTER
• PONY
• SCUFF
• SAILOR
• WIZARD
• SPANGRAM: LINEDANCE

What is NYT Strands?

Strands is the NYT's not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It's now a fully fledged member of the NYT's games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.

I've got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you're struggling to beat it each day.

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Some good news for Elon Musk: FCC ruling means 'faster speeds, lower costs, and greater reliability' for SpaceX Starlink and other satellites

• The FCC has relaxed low-orbit satellite restrictions
• It works out to a 7x capacity increase for internet satellites
• The move is welcomed by SpaceX and Amazon

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has delivered some good news to Elon Musk's Starlink and other satellite internet providers, by removing several key restrictions on how much energy satellites can transmit to and receive from ground stations.

Technically, these are the Equivalent Power Flux Density (EPFD) rules set in the 1990s, as PC Mag reports. In simple terms, it means Starlink and others will be able to operate a much denser array of satellites for providing services to customers.

We're talking as much as a sevenfold increase in satellite network capacity, which should mean a connection that's more reliable and faster. However, it's going to take a while before satellite companies will be able to take advantage.

"This is a major step toward enhancing the satellite broadband experience for millions of Americans by enabling faster speeds, lower costs, and greater reliability," says the FCC. "This change could also unlock more than $2 billion in economic benefits for the American people and up to seven-fold more capacity for space-based broadband services."

Sharing spectrum

@BrendanCarrFCC @FCC's rule change for next-generation satellite systems will bring help to those who need it most. Exactly. Huge! 📡🛜April 30, 2026

The rules were introduced to prevent radio signal interference between satellites in non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) — also known as low-Earth orbit — from affecting geostationary satellites (GSO) higher in orbit. Now, both NGSO and GSO satellites will be able to share more of the communications spectrum.

It's a change that's been welcomed by Starlink's David Goldman, as well as Brian Huseman, a Vice President at Amazon — another company looking to build out a network of internet-providing satellites with Amazon Leo.

As Gizmodo reports, Viasat is one of the GSO satellite companies that has warned that the move could potentially lead to more interference without proper regulation. Viasat has also raised concerns about Starlink getting a monopoly on this particular market.

The view of the FCC is that modern satellites are designed to share spectrum more effectively than they did in the past, and the 1990s rules no longer apply. Starlink, owned by SpaceX, will no doubt be keen to get its next batch of satellites launched.

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