YouTube is upgrading its AI labeling system, including a new automatic detection tool, as tech companies ramp up their investments in content provenance.

Previously, videos featuring photorealist AI had to be tagged by their creators or face a strike — once it was tagged as AI, a disclosure label would be added to the description. Now, that label is moving up to the top, more prominently displayed for all to see next to the video's title and in the bottom corner of YouTube Shorts.

In a first since the platform introduced labels in 2024, YouTube will also begin scanning content and automatically adding labels to any unmarked videos with significant AI use. "It’s important to note that a disclosure label alone does not change how a video is recommended or whether it’s eligible to earn money," the platform wrote in a recent blog post. "In a world where AI is changing what’s possible, our goal is simple: make it as easy as possible for creators and viewers to have the right information."

YouTube has faced criticism for an abundance of AI "slop" and AI-generated advertising, and the platform has removed millions of channels and videos in response. YouTube CEO Neil Mohan stated that curbing AI slop is a top priority.

Meanwhile, child safety advocates have recently called on the platform to address what they call a dangerous proliferation of AI-generated, animated content aimed at children. In an April letter sent to Mohan and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, a coalition of child advocacy groups urged the platform to ban AI-generated content on YouTube Kids, institute clear AI labels for all content, and implement new parental controls aimed at limiting AI videos.

At the time, YouTube told Mashable it was working on developing labels for YouTube Kids. The company also explained that its current labeling approach doesn't apply to YouTube Kids because of other safety policies, including a lack of descriptions on Kids content.

For now, the new labels only apply to the main YouTube website, not content found on YouTube Kids. In addition, the automatic labelling system will only scan for "photorealistic and meaningfully AI altered or generated" content, a policy which so far has excluded animated or highly stylized video.

Google users are flocking to the alternative search engine DuckDuckGo.

According to data provided to Mashable by DuckDuckGo, U.S. installs of the search engine's mobile app are up 18.1 percent week-over-week on average following Google's big I/O event, where the search giant introduced a slew of new AI features into its search product. DuckDuckGo app installs peaked at 33 percent growth on May 25.

Just looking at DuckDuckGo's iOS installs, the growth following Google I/O is even more astonishing, with 33 percent week-over-week growth and peaking at a whopping 69.9 percent on May 25.

According to DuckDuckGo, traffic also spiked to its AI-free search page, noai.duckduckgo.com. This DuckDuckGo search page has every AI featured turned off by default and saw an average of 22.7 week-over-week growth following Google I/O, with a peak of 27.7 percent on May 24.

DuckDuckGo said it wasn't only the timeframe that was relevant, either. The growth happened mainly in the U.S. following Google's "U.S. centric announcement" and does not indicate a coincidental global trend.

The alternative search engine said this growth held throughout the Memorial Day weekend, when traffic usually tends to drop as well.

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"Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out," DuckDuckGo Founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg said in a statement. "As result, their results are getting worse, not better. We want to be the place that puts users in charge and allows them to decide how much or how little AI they want. That's why we're seeing a spike in people coming to DuckDuckGo this week, it's as simple as that.” 

For years, DuckDuckGo has enticed privacy-seeking users to switch from Google to its alternative with a focus on a pro-privacy feature set. Now, it looks like DuckDuckGo has found a market among users tired of AI taking over the internet as well.

“Not only do we respect user choice, but also user privacy: everything you do in DuckDuckGo is private, we don’t collect search histories or chats and nothing is used for AI training," Weinberg said.

DuckDuckGo has previously launched AI features for its search engine. Search Assist, for example, is DuckDuckGo's version of Google's AI Overviews. The search engine also has a Duck.AI product, which is similar to Google's AI Mode.

However, DuckDuckGo has maintained that these AI features are optional and never forced on users. The company has also launched features that actively remove AI as well, such as AI Image Filter, which filters out AI images from DuckDuckGo's search results.

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Xreal is taking a swing at the budget end of the smart glasses market. The company announced the a01, a $299 pair of display glasses launching under a new sub-brand called X by Xreal (xbx) is arriving in the U.S. in July, according to a press release shared with Mashable.

As our colleagues at CNET noted, the more affordable AR glasses will compete with the TCL RayNeo Air 4 Pro glasses, which significantly undercut Xreal when they launched at $299 earlier this year and introduced HDR10 support to the category.

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Like Xreal's other glasses, the a01 functions as a wearable USB-C tethered monitor. It does make some trade-offs to hit that price — the field of view is 50 degrees, slightly narrower than the pricier Xreal One Pro and 1S, and it drops the dimming lens and the chipset that locks a display in place.

Where the a01 makes up ground is brightness. The micro OLED panels push significantly higher nits than previous Xreal hardware and add HDR10 video support. The glasses go up to 1,600 nits and have 14 levels of adjustment. The whole frame comes in under 65 grams. A "anti-shake" mode also aims to smooth out video playback during movement.

The most interesting wrinkle, though, is aesthetic: the a01 comes with snap-on swappable faceplates, letting users swap between clear and sunglass lens styles on the fly. It's a small thing, but it's the kind of detail that makes a budget product feel considered rather than stripped down.

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The a01 hits China first, then the U.S. in July. An English-language website for the X by Xreal brand is live, but the "Shop" button links to a Chinese order page.

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TL;DR: Live stream Crystal Palace vs. Rayo Vallecano in the Conference League final for free on SRF or TRT1. Access these free streaming platforms from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

Aston Villa secured an impressive victory in the Europa League final last week, and now the attention turns to the Conference League final. OK, most neutrals are probably looking further ahead to the resolution of the Champions League, but try telling that to fans of Crystal Palace and Rayo Vallecano. For this dedicated bunch, this is the one that really matters.

It's really difficult to pick a winner from this contest. Crystal Palace haven't enjoyed the most fruitful domestic campaign, but they've saved their best for this competition. Ray Vallecano finished in the top half of La Liga, and beat a strong Starsbourg team to make it to this showpiece event. It's going to be a real battle at the Red Bull Arena, and you can follow all the action without spending anything.

If you want to watch Crystal Palace vs. Rayo Vallecano in the Conference League final from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

When is Crystal Palace vs. Rayo Vallecano?

Crystal Palace vs. Rayo Vallecano in the Conference League final kicks off at 3 p.m. ET on May 27. This fixture takes place at the Red Bull Arena.

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Crystal Palace vs. Rayo Vallecano in the Conference League final is available to live stream for free on SRF or TRT1.

SRF and TRT1 are geo-restricted to Switzerland and Turkey respectively, but anyone can access these free streaming platforms with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Switzerland or Turkey, meaning you can unblock SRF and TRT1 to stream the Conference League for free from anywhere in the world.

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but most do offer free-trials or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can access free live streams of the Conference League final without actually spending anything. This obviously isn't a long-term solution, but it does give you enough time to stream Crystal Palace vs. Rayo Vallecano before recovering your investment.

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SAVE $40: As of May 27, get the Google Pixel Watch 4 for $309.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $349.99. That's a discount of 11%.

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There are plenty of smartwatches out there, but if you're ready to pick one out today, you can get a great deal on one that can pull double duty as a fitness tracker. The Google Pixel 4 is up for grabs at a significant discount, so it's a good time to go ahead and take the plunge, especially if you're a Pixel or Android phone user.

As of May 27, get the Google Pixel Watch 4 for $309.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $349.99. That's a discount of 11%.

This smartwatch has plenty of features, whether you're looking to track your runs, keep an eye on your sleep quality, or manage your day. It has a bright, large Actua 360 domed display with scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass, and a comfortable band that's perfect for wearing while working out, going out, or just living your life.

It features over 40 exercise modes with real-time stats you can check at any time, heart rate tracking, SpO2 metrics, and much more. Plus, it offers 30 hours of battery life, or up to 48 hours on Battery Saver mode.

Mashable's Senior Culture Reporter and resident marathon runner Christianna Silva praised the Pixel Watch 4 for its brighter domed display than its predecessor, clearer speaker audio, smoother interface, and faster charging as well as its "serviceable design".

If you're ready to upgrade your current smartwatch or get one outright, now's the time to pick up a Pixel Watch 4. Be sure and grab it while it's discounted to save some serious cash.

It might be cold in Saskatchewan but now we have the Heated Rivalry fleece to keep us warm! We asked (begged, relentlessly) for a brand to make the Canada fleece we all fell in love with from the hit HBO/Crave show, and Canadian brand Province of Canada was listening. After months of waiting, we finally have pre-order information. Here's everything we know so far ahead of the launch on June 3.

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Set your alarm, tell work you're busy, hire a sitter, because pre-orders go live at Province of Canada on June 3 at noon ET. Since the brand expects high demand, they're limiting pre-orders to one fleece per customer.

In June, Province of Canada met with Heated Rivalry costume designer Hanna Puley to design the fleece as a "collectible piece for fans of the series," according to the brand's press release. As of now, we don't have photos that depict the final fleece design. That information will become available on June 3.

It's worth mentioning that while pre-orders go live on June 3, the brand expects to ship all fleece jackets sometime between October 1 and 15. So we won't be wearing the fleece at the cottage this summer. Fall is a more appropriate time for a fleece anyway, right?

How much will the fleece cost with shipping to the U.S.?

So far, we don't have pricing information for the Heated Rivalry fleece. Province of Canada says that information will go live during pre-order launch on June 3. We do, however, have shipping information. Orders heading to the U.S will have a shipping fee of $25 CAD, which works out to about $18 USD with the exchange rate as of May 27.

Hoodies listed on Province of Canada's site sell for about $100 USD and some sweatshirts and fleece overshirts go up to about $150 USD. Since the fleece is limited edition, we wouldn't be surprised to see it selling for more than average.

Province of Canada is donating 10% of net profits from the fleece to support You Can Play, a nonprofit that works with LGBTQ+ inclusion in sports. In addition, both the NHL and NHLPA are matching these donations up to $25,000 CAD each, for a potential total of an extra $50,000 CAD.

Sizing and return information

We're thrilled to see Province of Canada will be making the fleece in sizes that range from XS to 5XL. You can check out the size chat here to get an idea of which size will work best. Keep in mind, all sales on the fleece are considered final sale. Province of Canada says that, due to demand, the fleece won't be eligible for returns or exchanges.

How to order official Heated Rivalry merch before June 3

If you can't wait until June 3 to pre-order the fleece or for it to arrive in October, check out the official Heated Rivalry merch store. What was completely sold out for months is now stocked with t-shirts, hats, and accessories.

SAVE 30%: As of May 27, you can get the DJI Osmo Action 4 for $208.98 at Amazon, down from $299. That's a 30% discount or $90.02 savings.

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If you've ever tried to awkwardly hover your phone over a swimming pool or hang it out of a moving vehicle just to get a good vacation video, it's probably time to invest in an action camera.

As of May 27, you can get the DJI Osmo Action 4 for $208.98 at Amazon, down from $299. That's a 30% discount or $90.02 savings. It's also the lowest price we've tracked and a great price point for beginners who literally can't afford to put their phone in danger anymore.

The Osmo Action 4 shoots 4K video at 120fps and features a 155-degree ultra-wide field of view. It also has a 1/1.3-inch sensor that handles low light well enough to keep your underwater and evening clips from getting grainy.

SAVE $500: As of May 27, the Mova LiDAX Ultra 2000 robot lawn mower is on sale for $1,299 at Amazon. That's nearly 30% off its list price of $1,799 and its lowest price on record.

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Still pushing a heavy lawn mower through your yard? It may be time to consider a robot lawn mower. Similar to robot vacuums, these battery-powered, AI-boosted machines are a low-maintenance alternative to traditional gas mowers. Not to mention, they're better for the environment and can give you hours of your time back this summer. If you're ready to make the jump, the Mova LiDAX Ultra 2000 robot mower is a solid all-rounder and is on sale for $500 off.

As of May 27, the Mova LiDAX Ultra 2000 robot lawn mower is on sale for $1,299 at Amazon. That's nearly a 30% price drop from its $1,799 list price and marks its best price on record.

While most robot mowers are marketed towards specific types of lawns, the Ultra 2000 is designed to be an all-rounder. Of course, if you have an extremely complex, large, or hilly yard, you may want to adjust your expectations. It packs 360-degree 3D Lidar and AI vision to accurately auto-map your yard and cut with precision, while avoiding obstacles along the way. It also has UltraTrim, a precision-focused edge-trimming feature that cuts within two inches of walls, hedges, and raised edges. It can also handle 45% grade terrain and overcome obstacles up to 1.6 inches high.

Using the app, you can adjust the cutting height between 1.2 inches and 3.9 inches, set mowing zones and schedules, switch up the mowing style and efficiency, and even design custom mowing patterns for your lawn.

If lawn care is the bane of your existence and you have over $1,000 to put towards outsourcing it to a robot, the Mova LiDAX Ultra 2000 robot lawn mower is a solid deal at $500 off.

Stop us if you've heard this before: A popular tech brand is increasing the price of some of its products because of the ongoing RAM shortage. That's right, RAMageddon strikes again.

This time, the culprit is Samsung. Greek outlet TechManiacs (via Android Authority) reported that Samsung will increase the prices of flagship phones in Greece starting in June. These price hikes will apply to Galaxy S series phones, the Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold 7 devices, and Galaxy FE handsets. All of those devices will see their prices go up by roughly the equivalent of $116 USD, but versions with higher storage capacities could see even bigger price increases.

While these price hikes are limited to the Greek market at this point in time, they could very well spill over to the rest of Europe and even the U.S. over time.

Samsung already applied slight price increases to the Galaxy S26 lineup in the U.S. earlier this year. Motorola recently hiked prices on some of its phones by 50 percent, and the new Motorola Razr Ultra arrived this month with a $200 price increase. With the next Galaxy Unpacked event scheduled for July, more Samsung price increases could be coming this summer.

The global shortage of memory (which is widely attributed to the high demand for RAM and memory components in AI data centers) has prompted several major tech companies, such as Lenovo, Nintendo, and Dell to raise prices on their products throughout this year, a trend that will likely continue into 2027.

So, if you want a flagship Samsung device, now might be the time to go grab one.

SAVE $312.90: The DJI Power 1000 V2 is on sale at Amazon for $386.10, down from the list price of $699 at DJI. That's a 45% discount.

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Sure, the calendar doesn't say it's summer, but we all know the unofficial start of summer was last weekend. That means it's time to dig out the camping gear, hope to get a campsite reservation, and take off for the great wilderness. Pack the bug spray. But instead of dealing with dead phone batteries this year, upgrade to a portable power station. There's a great model on sale today at Amazon.

As of May 27, the DJI Power 1000 V2 is on sale for $386.10 at Amazon, marked down from the normal price of $$386.10, marked down from the list price of $699 at DJI. That's a 45% discount.

I've tested dozens of portable power stations over the last few years, and it's clear that DJI is making great models for content creators. The SDC port is unique to DJI and means those with DJI drones can quick-charge drone batteries, getting them back into the air with less time on the ground recharging.

However, if you're not out flying drones, the DJI Power 1000 V2 is still a noteworthy option. That's especially true since today's sale price brings the station down to under $400. By comparison, the Anker Solix C1000 is on sale at Amazon for $449.99 and the Jackery Explorer 1000 V2 is $449. Both of those have similar battery capacity to the Power 1000 V2.

The DJI Power 1000 V2 comes with 1,024Wh of battery with a stable output rated at 2,600W. It has four standard AC ports, two USB-A, and two USB-C ports, in addition to dual SDC. I also found the station to be relatively easy to carry thanks to the side handles.

If you're a content creator needing extra off-grid power or you're taking the family camping this summer, consider this low price on the DJI Power 1000 V2. Order it soon and it might even arrive before your next adventure.

SAVE $50: As of May 27, get the Anker Solix C1000 power station for $449.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $499.99. That's a discount of 10%.

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The summer heat is finally starting to roll in, and that means storms, for many, aren't far behind. If you live somewhere that often finds you losing power when they hit, you might want to pick up a power station to avoid these issues now that it's the season for sizzling temperatures and unpredictable weather. One reliable option you can go for is up for grabs at Amazon at a significant discount right now.

As of May 27, get the Anker Solix C1000 power station for $449.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $499.99. That's $50 off and a discount of 10%.

This portable power station offers up to 2,400W of output and has 11 ports that you can hook up multiple appliances and other devices into. You can use the accompanying Anker app to alter charging speeds and monitor how much power the unit is using as well. You've got full control that way, so you can cover all the important items you need to juice back up to 100%.

The power station itself is lightweight and portable as well. Anker says it's 15% smaller than other comparable models as well, so if you aren't primarily using it at home, it's easy to transport back and forth. When the battery's depleted, you can charge it up back to about 80% in under an hour as well. With a LiFePO4 battery that offers about 3,000 cycles' worth of capacity, it'll last about 10 years.

Be ready for the storms and power outages you might face this season and grab this power station while it's discounted.

SAVE 27%: As of May 27, you can get the Bluetti Elite 30 V2 for $218.98 at Amazon, down from $299. That's a 27% discount or $80.02 savings.

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If your neighborhood is prone to randomly losing power the second a summer thunderstorm rolls through (or you just really like camping but aren't ready to totally say goodbye to your electronics for the weekend), a portable power station could be the best purchase you make this season.

Right now, the Bluetti Elite 30 V2 is on sale at Amazon for $218.98, down from $299. That's a 27% discount and about $80 and some change in savings. It's also a pretty reasonable price if you want emergency backup power but don't want to drop a grand on a gigantic generator.

Although this unit is on the smaller side, it delivers 600W of continuous power and features a "Power Lifting Mode" that surges up to 1500W for more demanding electronics (e.g., camping lights, car fridges, CPAP machines). If the power cuts out suddenly at home, it has a 10ms ultra-fast UPS switch to keep your Wi-Fi router or laptop from dying mid-task. Plus, when you need to recharge the unit itself, plugging it into the wall gets you from zero to 100 percent in just 70 minutes.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has set her sights on a new target: AI data centers.

The activist and consumer advocate has just recently launched the Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website, which tracks AI data centers being built across the country. The project maps quite a few data centers that are already in operation and under construction. Users can submit AI data centers that are being built or proposed in their community as well.

"The RACE to build AI infrastructures is unfolding town by town across America," reads a statement by Brockovich on the website. "In some places, data centers are welcomed. In others, they are delayed, contested or abandoned altogether. This MAP captures the real-world footprint of that race — revealing patterns of growth, conflict and uncertainty."

Data center construction has become a flashpoint in state and local politics, with some communities organizing to stop new construction. Environmental groups and the NAACP have also joined the fight.

Brockovich taking on AI data centers is significant.

In the 90s, while working as a legal clerk, Brockovich discovered major corporate malfeasance from Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich uncovered that the company was covering up the contamination of the water in Hinkley, California. The legal battle that ensued resulted in PG&E paying out a historic $333 million settlement, which at the time was the largest direct-action lawsuit settlement in U.S. history.

Brockovich's story was turned into a movie, titled Erin Brockovich, with Julia Roberts portraying the activist. The film, which was released in 2000, was both a commercial and critical success. Roberts would go on to win an Oscar for her portrayal of Brockovich.

The current map detailing AI data center locations. Credit: Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting

The Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website currently lists 33 operational data centers, 44 locations under construction, and 27 proposed facilities. There are also 2,716 data center locations submitted by users across the country.

The vast majority of AI data center reports are in Texas, with 612 reports. Sulfur Springs, TX, alone has 297 data center reports.

Users who submitted reports shared that the biggest concerns regarding AI data centers in their city involved water, electricity, and the overall health of the people in their community. 

According to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, large AI data centers can consume as much as 5 million gallons of water per day, or the equivalent of what a town with 10,000 to 50,000 people uses. Another report from the UK found that AI data centers "could emit nearly one million more tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than previously estimated."

The website also provides interesting events on its Community Impact page, showing how people can actually make a difference. According to the Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting website, more than 15 moratoria or pauses on AI data centers have been passed due to community backlash. In Festus, MO, four city council members were removed from office after an AI data center vote.

SAVE 40%: As of May 27, you can get the Samsung 98-inch Class Neo QLED 4K Smart TV for $8,997.99 at Amazon, down from $14,997.99. That's a 40% discount or $6,000 savings.

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If you've been looking for a TV that'll impress your guests and do your favorite films the justice they deserve (or you just want a screen that takes up your entire wall), the Samsung 98-Inch Class Neo QLED 4K QN90F Smart TV (2025) is on sale for its best price yet.

As of May 27, you can get the Samsung 98-inch Class Neo QLED 4K Smart TV for $8,997.99 at Amazon, down from $14,997.99. Yes, $9K is still an astronomical amount of money to spend on a TV, but that's a 40% discount — or $6,000 in savings.

The 2025 QN90F runs on Samsung's NQ4 AI Gen2 processor, which uses 128 neural networks to automatically upscale older, non-4K content. (So you can watch the goodies like The Golden Girls, The Nanny, and whatever other nostalgic TV shows you like in HD.) The screen also has a glare-free coating designed to block out reflections from nearby windows and lamps.

And if you plan to hook up a console, the TV has you covered there, too. It supports tear-free VRR gaming at up to 4K 165Hz.

SAVE $20: The DJI Mic Mini (2 transceivers, one receiver) is on sale at Amazon for $79, down from $99. That's a 20% discount that matches the record low price at Amazon.

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The calendar for summer content creation is getting full. If you've been managing with recording audio on your phone, it might be time for an upgrade. Before you start your next recording session, check out this deal.

As of May 27, the DJI Mic Mini (2 transmitters, one receiver) is on sale at Amazon for $79, marked down from the standard price of $99. That's a 20% discount that saves $20 on the recording bundle. This sale price also matches the record low at Amazon.

Spend just a few minutes on YouTube, TikTok, or even Instagram, and you'll spot the DJI Mic Mini. It looks like almost every creator is using the DJI Mic Mini, and there's good reason. Mashable Lead Shopping Reporter Bethany Allard reviewed the DJI Mic Mini and mentioned it's one of the best upgrades a content creator can buy.

When testing near a busy street on a windy day, Allard found the Mic Mini to have impressive performance. "With and without the noise-cancelling feature, the mic picked up my voice while barely picking up the sound of wind — birds and car engines were lost in many cases," she wrote. Mashable also used the DJI during VidCon when conducting interviews in a loud setting. The DJI had no issues recording crisp and clear audio.

For today's sale price of $79, you get an entire mic bundle that includes one DJI receiver, two transmitters, the DJI Mic Mini charging case, four windscreens, two magnetic mic clips, a carrying pouch, and more.

If you have content creation plans this summer and need a mic upgrade, consider the record-low price on the DJI Mic Mini. For under $80, you'll be able to upgrade to an industry favorite that excels in performance and ease of use.

SAVE $30: As of May 27, get the Apple AirPods 4 for $99 at Amazon, down from their usual price of $129. That's a discount of 23%.

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If you're spending time out and about ahead of summer and listening to your favorite songs, a new pair of earbuds may be in order. There are plenty of options out there, thankfully. You just need to pick a pair that's right for you. We'd like to suggest going with Apple AirPods, which aren't just comfortable and great-sounding: you can also save $30 on them right now if you go with the AirPods 4 right now at Amazon.

As of May 27, get the Apple AirPods 4 for $99 at Amazon, down from their usual price of $129. That's $30 off and a discount of 23%.

The AirPods 4 are all about great sound and comfort while listening. They've been revamped from their prior iteration, and they're perfect for long listening sessions, calls, or just catching up on podcasts. With the Apple H2 chip, they're great with audio, but also excellent for sound as well thanks to voice isolation, spatial audio with head tracking, and advanced computational audio that isolates your voice while cutting background noise.

They're also compatible with Siri on iOS, and work in an interesting way: just nod your head yes or shake your head no to reply to Siri and interact with the voice assistant. They'll also pair just with you putting your AirPods 4 near your phone. With up to 5 hours of listening time and 30 hours total thanks to their battery case, you get plenty of time to jam out as well.

If you're ready to choose a new pair of earbuds and save some cash while you're at it, this is definitely a model you can go with right now. Just be sure to get them before they sell out.

SAVE $200: As of May 27, the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air (M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is on sale at Amazon for just $1,099.99. That's 15% or $200 off its list price and its lowest price on record.

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The 13-inch Apple M5 MacBook Air dipped below $900 for the first time for Memorial Day (and is still holding strong). While I highly recommend grabbing that deal while it's still around, there's one reason you might want to pass: the 15-inch model is on sale for just $1,099.99. They're both nearly perfect machines, but "most folks will make good use of the larger screen on the 15-inch M5 MacBook Air," writes Mashable's resident laptop expert Haley Henschel.

As of May 27, you can grab the 15-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip, 16GB RAM, and 512GB of solid-state storage for only $1,099.99. That's 15% or $200 off its list price and — just like the 13-inch model — its lowest price to date.

Mashable named the larger M5 Air the "best MacBook for most people." Besides a couple of extra inches of screen real estate, it also packs two more speakers and two more GPU cores than the 13-inch option. Otherwise, they're exactly the same, with the M5 chip's wildly impressive performance and speed, sizable base storage, and support for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 6 technology.

If you're rocking an M3 or M4 MacBook Air, the M5 might be a hard sell. It's not all that different from the M4 Air, with the same vivid Liquid Retina display, 12MP Center Stage webcam, dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, 18-hour battery life, sleek all-aluminum build, and spectacular speakers. "By boosting its performance even further...the Air is now too powerful for its own good," writes Mashable Tech Editor Tim Werth.

The one complaint about the M5 Air in Werth's review was that he wishes it was $200 cheaper. Well, wish granted. Grab the 15-inch MacBook Air while it's down to $1,099.99 post-Memorial Day.

Writer/director Jane Schoenbrun has been shaking up horror with such critically heralded indies as We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw The TV Glow. Now MUBI, the distributor that brought The Substance to the U.S., has teamed with Schoenbrun for their next offering, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

After scoring rave reviews out of its Cannes Film Festival debut, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma reveals its first trailer, giving audiences a taste of what had critics giddy.

Hacks' Hannah Einbinder stars as Kris, a queer filmmaker determined to relaunch the long and maligned slasher franchise, Camp Miasma. To get it right, Kris believes she must get the film series' original Final Girl (Gillian Anderson) on board. But little could she know how meeting this hero would go. From the looks of this trailer, their meeting of the minds not only resurrects the movie's possibilities but also its slasher, known as Little Death.

Opposite Einbinder and Anderson is a cast that includes Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Quintessa Swindell, Kevin McDonald, and Jack Haven.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma will open in theaters on Aug. 7.

It's a blink-and-you-miss-it moment but Pheobe Bridgers' feature film acting debut is teased in the trailer for Primetime. Honestly, you can't stop multi-talented musicians making their way into Hollywood.

In the latest A24 unsettler, the Grammy-winning artist joins a talented cast including Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, and Skyler Gisondo. Pattinson plays investigative journalist and TV presenter Chris Hansen, who famously hosted the controversial Dateline series To Catch a Predator in the mid-2000s.

Directed by Lance Oppenheim, Primetime draws inspiration from Hansen's mission to make the notorious NBC show, which has a complicated legacy — Jimmy Kimmel once referred to it as "Punk'd for pedophiles." Hansen's team deployed hidden surveillance and undercover reporting to expose — and assist in arresting — men soliciting sex with minors in online chatrooms. It was true crime on primetime TV, with Hansen's decoy actors and production team working with police and online watchdog group Perverted Justice to confront accused sexual predators as the cameras rolled. And the ratings were through the roof.

It's not clear who Bridgers will play yet, however, with the talent of this cast and the complex notoriety of the show it's channelling combined, we're absolutely in.

Primetime will hit cinemas autumn 2026.

Sherlock Holmes' clever sister Enola (Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown) is back with a new mystery to solve, and Netflix has an overtly romantic teaser trailer for you.

Following the cases of the missing mum and sister, Enola Holmes 3 will see the young sleuth leave Victorian England behind for Malta with the love of her life, Lord Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge). As the trailer shows, marriage is afoot! But what's a wedding without a kidnapping interruption and a spot of gunfire?

Henry Cavill returns as world famous detective Sherlock, as does Helena Bonham Carter as their mother, Eudoria, Himesh Patel as Dr. John Watson, and Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Moriarty/Mira Troy.

Enola Holmes 3 debuts on Netflix July 1.

SAVE $51.99: As of May 27, the new Sony PS-LX3BT Bluetooth turntable is on sale for $348 at Amazon (normally $399.99). That's a 13% savings and its best price ever.

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After testing Sony's updated PS-LX3BT turntable earlier this spring, I can confirm it's still one of the best record players for beginners.

It sounds great, it's super easy to set up, and its Bluetooth connectivity and automatic operation are both very convenient. To quote my review: Having come from a regular manual turntable, "It made me feel so spoiled that I was genuinely bummed to ship it back at the end of my testing period."

The PS-LX3BT also has a USB-B port that lets you rip vinyl tracks onto a laptop — a pretty nifty feature. (If you managed to snag the new Charli xcx singles on vinyl, you can use it to digitize those exclusive B-sides.)

One of the only things I didn't love about the PS-LX3BT was its price. It retails for $399.99, which is significantly more than the competition, so I'd try to find it on sale for less. Right now, it happens to be on sale for its lowest price ever: Amazon has it marked down to $348, or roughly $52 off. Best Buy and Sony also have it on sale with free shipping, but for a buck or two more.

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The only other thing I dinged the PS-LX3BT for was having a heavy tracking force of 3.5 grams. You generally want it to be between one to three grams to minimize wear and tear on your records. If that concerns you, Sony's higher-end PS-LX5BT turntable has a removable cartridge with a tracking force of just two grams.

The PS-LX5BT is even more expensive, but it's also on sale right now. Amazon's discounted price of $473 (or about $27 off) also beats competing deals at Best Buy and Sony by a teensy bit.

Google AI Overviews hallucinated more than Ken Kesey when it first launched in 2024, fabricating facts about drizzling "glue on pizza," among other offences.

And though the Gemini-powered technology has improved its accuracy dramatically over the last two years (unfortunately for publishers), AI Overviews still gets basic questions wrong. And that includes spelling tests.

Google's AI tools remain abysmal at answering questions about spelling, having gone viral two years ago for responding to the question "how many r's are in the word strawberry?" incorrectly. But it's still bad. On Tuesday, X user Naomi Rohatyn tested the large language model's (LLM) current ability to answer to a spelling question.

"How many e's in the word astronomical?" they asked.

"There are exactly 2 'e's in the word "astronomical" (a-s-t-r-e-n-o-m-i-c-a-e-l)," replied AI Overview.

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We tried it ourselves, getting the same answer.

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It appears to work for any word with four or more syllables:

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Suffice to say, people are having another gleeful round of testing the technology's spelling weakness, sharing their findings on social media.

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Why can't Google AI Overviews spell correctly?

I don't want to be all Billy Madison spelling bee about this, but considering users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results, surely the information provided in AI Overviews should be accurate. But it's complicated.

AI chatbots need exact context and specifics to answer as well as they can, so surely spelling words within their training data seems easy. However, things get knotty when you ask an LLM to consider words letter-by-letter, as the model will process text in chunks rather than individual characters (it's called tokenisation).

I thought I'd ask Google's Gemini itself, to see what it had to say for itself. Defend your poor spelling!

"The short answer is that I don't look at or write text the way you do," Gemini told me. "When you write the word 'apple,' your brain processes five distinct letters. When I read or write text, I see the word as a single unit called a token (a numerical representation of a word or part of a word).

"Because I process words as whole blocks of meaning rather than strings of individual letters, I don't naturally 'spell' out words sequentially. I know exactly what 'apple' means and how it relates to other words, but I don't inherently focus on the fact that it contains two 'p's unless specifically asked to break it down."

Mashable has reached out to Google for human comment.

Samsung unveiled a batch of next-generation monitors earlier this month, and right now, most of them are available for purchase. Over half cost well over $1,000 — you didn't think the world's first 6K gaming monitor would be a bargain, did you? — but Samsung is taking the edge off their prices with some freebies.

For a limited time, the new Samsung monitors come with your pick of a free credit worth up to $300 or a free bonus gadget worth up to $499.99. (The credit can be applied to any future purchase.) The latter options include Samsung's Music Studio 5 and Music Studio 7 smart speakers, valued at $299.99 and $499.99 apiece, as well as its latest Galaxy Buds4 Pro noise-cancelling earbuds. Those normally go for $249.99 on their own.

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This offer is only available through Samsung's website, not at other tech retailers that carry them, so be sure to buy direct.

The lineup includes updated Odyssey, ViewFinity, and The Movingstyle Essential monitors that "push the boundaries of performance and visual quality," said Hun Lee, Samsung's Executive Vice President of Visual Display (VD) Business, in a press release. The star of the show is the new 32-inch Odyssey G8 ($1,599.99), the first-ever 6K gaming monitor, which our sister site PCMag called "pure overkill — in the best way." It's joined by a 27-inch Odyssey G8 with an almost-as-crisp 5K resolution ($949.99).

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Samsung 32-inch Odyssey G8 G80HS 6K Gaming Monitor

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Includes free $300 credit or Music Studio 7.

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Samsung 27-inch Odyssey G8 G80HF 5K Gaming Monitor

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Samsung has also fleshed out its roster of OLED gaming monitors with the new Odyssey OLED G7 and G8 displays. The OLED G7 comes in one 32-inch size ($1,099.99), while the OLED G8 comes in 27- and 32-inch variants ($1,099.99 and $1,299.99, respectively) and adds a glare-free finish. The larger Odyssey OLED G8 also features VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification, which indicates elite brightness and contrast.

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Samsung 32-inch Odyssey OLED G8 G80SH 4K Gaming Monitor

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On the productivity side, Samsung has launched two new work-ready ViewFinity S8 monitors. A 40-inch model with a curved 1440p display is now available for $1,399.99. A 27-inch version with a sharper 5K resolution will arrive in July — stay tuned for its pricing.

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Samsung 40-inch ViewFinity S8 S85TH 5K2K Curved Monitor

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Last but not least is The Movingstyle Essential, Samsung's new 43-inch 4K monitor on an adjustable rolling stand. It's the cheapest of the bunch at $899.99.

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Read Mashable's launch coverage for more details about all of the new Samsung monitors.

SAVE OVER $50: As of May 27, the Soundcore AeroFit 2 by Anker open-ear earbuds are on sale for $79.98 at Amazon. This is $50.01 off their full price of $129.99.

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Even though Memorial Day sales have officially come to an end, we've still spotted some excellent deals that are worth a look. If you've been searching for some new earbud , the Soundcore AeroFit 2 by Anker open-ear earbuds are still discounted at Amazon.

As of May 27, every color of the Soundcore AeroFit 2 is marked down to $79.98. This is just over $50 off their full price of $129.99, which is an excellent offer to jump on. They're one of our favorite pairs of open earbuds as well, so we certainly think they're worth picking up at this new low price.

As for why they're one of our favorites? Well, we think they offer the best ear hook design, which is good news for those who like to listen to music while they're working out. Mashable's Bethany Allard writes in our roundup of the best open earbuds: "While most ear hook earbuds come with some degree of flexibility, the AeroFits offer four locked-in angles, making them the most comfortable (and snug) open-ear hook buds we've tried so far."

That's not all, though. They even offer "Solid sound quality for the price", per our best open earbuds roundup. Pair that with up to 10 hours of battery on a single charge (that can even be pushed up to 42 with the case), and the Soundcore AeroFit 2 are a worthy pick.

This deal may not last long beyond Memorial Day sales. If they've caught your eye, now is the time to make a move on the Soundcore AeroFit 2 while they're still on sale.

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SAVE $50: As of May 27, the Garmin Lily 2 is on sale for $199.99 at Amazon. This is $50 off its list price of $249.99.

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Retailers like Amazon have wrapped up their Memorial Day sales, but if you're quick, you can still score some excellent savings. The Garmin Lily 2 is one deal that's still hanging around, though not for long.

As of May 27, the Garmin Lily 2 is discounted to $199.99 at Amazon, but the countdown has already started on how long it'll stay at this price. Through the rest of May 27, shoppers can take advantage of this $50 discount before it goes back up to its full price of $249.99.

What makes the Garmin Lily 2 stand out is it doesn't have the chunky design of most other smartwatches. It's much sleeker, and can blend in as more of a stylish watch on your wrist rather than a bulky tracker. Our review from writer RJ Andersen said it's "a great option for someone who wants a stylish, simple smartwatch to track activity without a ton of bells and whistles."

If you're just looking to track the basics, the Garmin Lily 2 still boasts plenty of features to help with your day-to-day routines. These include a sleep score, respiration tracking, hydration tracking, all-day stress tracking, heart rate monitoring, and a Body Battery energy monitor. It can even track a variety of activities like yoga, pilates, dance fitness, and more. Plus, it offers up to five days of battery life before it needs a recharge.

If you're not looking for a techy timepiece packed with advanced features, the Garmin Lily 2 is a stylish pick worth checking out.

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SAVE OVER $60: As of May 27, Beats Fit Pro are on sale for $134.99 at Amazon. That's a 32% discount on the list price.

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The 1st generation edition of the Beats Fit Pro are back on sale, and according to camelcamelcamel, they're at their best-ever price at Amazon.

Beats audio is always impressive, and I've said before that the Fit Pro are my favorite earbuds of all time. Years down the line, that hasn't changed.

There's a lot that makes these earbuds so good, but their secure-fit wingtips stand out for making them the perfect workout earbuds. This design helps keep them firmly in place during workouts of all intensities, as well as for general use.

The custom acoustic platform also delivers powerful sound, and you'll get Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking to create a more immersive listening experience for music. You'll also get three different listening modes: Active Noise Cancelling, Transparency Mode, and Adaptive EQ, so you can switch between blocking out noise completely or staying aware of your surroundings.

And for battery life, these will not let you down. They promise up to six hours of listening time on a single charge, extending to up to 24 hours with the charging case. Having used these for several years, I've never been let down by the battery.

Get this Beats deal at Amazon now.

TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Triple Pack on sale for $37.72, which is $5.01 off its current $42.73 price.

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Since its release last week, products across the Pokémon TCG’s Chaos Rising expansion have taken dips in market price — resulting in price drops that make it the best time to expand your trading card collection with more boosters for less. 

As of May 27, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Triple Pack (the 3-Pack Blister) available from $37.72, down from its usual $42.73 price. That knocks 12% off the sealed blister, with this lowest Amazon listing shipped and sold by Collectors Expedition for June 2-3 delivery. 

If you want your new Chaos Rising Blister as soon as possible, the $37.74 listing from TCG & MORE has an option for delivery as soon as May 29 at the time of writing. 

This 3-Pack Blister comes with three booster packs from the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution set’s Chaos Rising expansion, plus a special foil promo card featuring Charmeleon. Each booster pack includes 10 cards, one Basic Energy, and one Pokémon TCG Live code card.

Chaos Rising is built around a city falling into havoc, featuring many Pokémon from the Pokémon Legends: Z-A game as valuable chase cards (available to buy separately) — including SIR Mega Greninja ex, the Mega Hyper Rare Mega Greninja ex, SIR Cinccino ex, SIR Mega Dragalage ex, and SIR Mega Floette ex. 

If you’re open to saving more money by shopping beyond Amazon, Walmart currently has the Chaos Rising 3-Pack Blister listed at $29.95 with free shipping, sold by Realgoodeal and fulfilled by Walmart, while TCGplayer listings start at $21.50 plus shipping.

Buying the 3-Pack Blister at Amazon will still save you 38 cents per pack compared to buying single Chaos Rising Boosters individually — with the Charmeleon promo card included as a great bonus.

To save even more money per pack, Amazon also has the Pokémon TCG’s 36-pack Chaos Rising Display Box for around $275. Meanwhile, a surprising Amazon price drop now has the Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box available for just under $95. 

The Pokémon TCG’s newly-announced Pitch Black expansion is available to pre-order at TCGplayer.

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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're an avid reader.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

What is Connections?

The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of 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 until the game ends.

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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.

Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: A collective

• Green: Game night picks

• Blue: To glare

• Purple: Classic literary characters

Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Small community

• Green: Classic board games

• Blue: Homophones of ways of looking

• Purple: Ending in the "Little Women" March sisters

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 #1081 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Small community: COMMUNE, HAMLET, TOWNSHIP, VILLAGE

• Classic board games: BATTLESHIP, OPERATION, OTHELLO, TROUBLE

• Homophones of ways of looking: AYE, LEAR, PIER, STAIR

• Ending in the "Little Women" March sisters: BANJO, MACBETH, MONOGAMY, NUTMEG

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new 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? Get all the Strands hints you need for today's puzzle.

If you're looking for more puzzles, Mashable's got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you love a good dog.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Ketchup or mustard?

The words are related to food.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe a sausage.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Hot Diggity Dog.

NYT Strands word list for May 27

• Brat

• Banger

• Weenie

• Hot Diggity Dog

• Footlong

• Frankfurter

Looking for other daily online games? Mashable's Games page has more hints, and if you're looking for more puzzles, Mashable's got games now!

Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Strands.

Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you tend to overpack.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Where did Wordle come from?

Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:

To cram.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

The letter F appears twice.

Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter S.

The Wordle answer today is...

Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today's Wordle is...

STUFF

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle 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.

Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Wordle.

Apple is reportedly working on a new iOS feature that will lock users' phones immediately should they get grabbed by a phone snatcher.

The new feature would leverage technology already on the iPhone, including its accelerometer as well as potentially its connection to an Apple Watch, to detect the snatching and immediately lock the device, according to 9to5Mac.

Phone snatchers in large metropolitan areas often use motorbikes to steal phones from the hands of the unwary. In addition to a quick escape, this strategy allows phone snatchers to potentially obtain unlocked phones. An unlocked phone can be worth up to $1,000 to a thief, about $800 more than a locked phone, according to a recent Wired report.

An unlocked device is more valuable because thieves can access users' personal data and apps and have a much easier route to the phone owner's bank account, the publisher wrote.

This new feature would be the latest in Apple’s Stolen Device Protection features that include Activation Lock, which stops thieves from disabling tracking or resetting the phone without the correct Apple Account login, and the Find My app, which allows users to track their missing or stolen Apple devices.

Users already have access to features requiring biometric authentication to unlock their devices, as well as other security features like Security Delay, which forces anyone changing major passwords or performing similar actions to wait an hour and confirm the decision with an additional biometric authentication.

It’s unclear when Apple might debut this new feature if the 9to5Mac report proves accurate. The next opportunity would be at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Scheduled for June 8-12, this is where Apple often reveals details about the next iOS. So we may hear more about this feature sooner rather than later.

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.

Here are the clues and answers to NYT's The Mini for Wednesday, May 27, 2026:

Across

Rare U.S. bills

• The answer is Twos.

94-foot-long model at the American Museum of Natural History

• The answer is Whale.

"Cool it, okay!"

• The answer is Relax.

Bohemian

• The answer is Arty.

Candy in a dispenser

• The answer is Pez.

Down

When repeated, "It'll be all right"

• The answer is There.

Classic ballroom dance

• The answer is Waltz.

Maker of the Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream

• The answer is Olay.

Reason for an R rating

• The answer is Sex.

Tortilla sandwich

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The world of tennis is focused on clay courts right now. Top players sharpened up in the Barcelona Open and Madrid Open, and now it's time for the main event: Roland-Garros.

Two-time champion Carlos Alcaraz will not defend his title, but this year's tournament is not short of star names. Expect the likes of Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic, Aryna Sabalenka, and Iga Świątek to be battling it out in the latter stages. It's always a special tournament filled with huge moments.

If you're interested in watching the 2026 French Open from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

What is the French Open?

The French Open, also known as Roland-Garros, is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. It's the only Grand Slam tournament held on a clay surface, and is the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments.

The current singles champions are Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff.

When is the 2026 French Open?

The 2026 French Open is the 131th edition of the competition. This year's event takes place from May 18 to June 7.

How to watch the 2026 French Open for free

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If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

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• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

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We're only a few days into the 2026 French Open but already it feels blockbuster, with a triple header today that sees Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev, and Iga Swiatek all take to the clay.

As always, Djokovic will be one of the most intriguing players of the tournament. Though he's almost 40-years-old, the Serbian remains world class and reached the final of this year's Australian Open. That said, it has been three years since he won the last of his 24 Grand Slam titles, so the No. 3 seed is sure to give everything he's got to make it 25 at Roland-Garros.

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How to watch Royer vs. Djokovic for free

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9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

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There's nothing quite like the sizzling excitement of a major tennis tournament, and the 2026 French Open is no exception.

Next up in men's singles action is Tomas Machac vs. Alexander Zverev. German star Zverev is the No. 2 seed, having bumped up a place due to the absence of Carlos Alcaraz, and he powered through the first round in straight sets.

Zverev has already ruffled some feathers at the tournament with comments about the gulf in quality between Jannik Sinner and the rest of the men's field, saying that Sinner is in a league of his own and that himself, Novak Djokovic, and Carlos Alcaraz are just a step behind. Now it's up to Zverev to prove he belongs in that group by claiming a trophy.

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9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

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ExpressVPN (1-Month Plan)

$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

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It's no surprise that Iga Swiatek is one to watch in the 2026 French Open. The Polish superstar is the world No. 3 and won last year's Wimbledon.

A tournament win at Roland-Garros would have special significance. At just 24-years-old, she's already a four-time French Open winner, and taking the title for a fifth time would put her in an elite bracket — something that hasn't been done since Steffi Graf became a five-time French Open Champion exactly 30 years ago.

But Swiatek must now get through a second-round match with Sara Bejlek, an unseeded 20-year-old from the Czech Republic. Bejlek exited in the second round last year, but she did win the Abu Dhabi Open in February.

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9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

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$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

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TL;DR: Live stream Starodubtseva vs. Rybakina in the 2026 French Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The 2026 French Open is now entering its second round and the action is already hotting up. Elena Rybakina coasted through the first round in straight sets, setting up this match with the unseeded Yuliia Starodubtseva.

Rybakina is the obvious favorite to win this contest — the Kazakhstani superstar is the No. 2 seed and has already won the Australian Open title this year, her second Grand Slam title. That said, it wouldn't be a tennis tournament without some surprises in the early rounds, and Ukrainian hopeful Starodubtseva showed respectable form at last year's Roland-Garros, reaching the third round. Can she cause the biggest upset so far at the French Open and knock out Rybakina?.

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Starodubtseva vs. Rybakina in the 2026 French Open is available to live stream for free on 9Now.

9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

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ExpressVPN (1-Month Plan)

$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

Get Deal

The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

Live stream Starodubtseva vs. Rybakina in the 2026 French Open for free with ExpressVPN.

Just in time for summer gaming and streaming shows while we hide away from the heat, Samsung is dropping new gaming monitors, work-worthy monitors, and an updated portable monitor with a stand. Some of these Samsung upgrades are industry firsts and will set the benchmark going forward.

Now, all but one of the new monitors are available to order on Samsung's website and at major retailers. Shoppers who buy direct will earn a free Samsung credit worth up to $300, which you can put toward on a future purchase, or a bonus Samsung gadget worth up to $499.99.

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High-performance gaming monitors with better resolution

The Samsung Odyssey lineup of gaming monitors has long been considered some of the best. Naturally, Samsung has decided to outdo itself and we now have 5 and 6K monitors to replace the previous 4K. Both new models feature a DisplayPort 2.1 and have computability with both AMD FreeSync Premium and NVIDIA G-Sync.

The Samsung Odyssey G8 is the world' first 6K gaming monitor. Credit: Timothy Beck Werth / Mashable

Samsung's new 32-inch Odyssey G8 (G80HS) marks the very first time we've seen a 6K gaming monitor. That means we'll be treated to better clarity and exceptional details. Samsung used a 224PPI and an IPS panel on this model that'll reach the wild 6K resolution with a refresh rate of 165Hz. Dual mode will give access to up to 330Hz at 3K resolution. It retails for $1,599.99 and comes with your choice of a free $300 credit or a free Music Studio 7 smart speaker (worth $499.99).

Going a bit smaller in size, the new 27-inch Odyssey G8 (G80HF) comes with 5K resolution at up to 180Hz with 218PPI. Dual mode brings that to 360Hz. It costs $949.99 and nets you a free $200 credit, a Music Studio 5 smart speaker (worth $299.99), or a pair of Galaxy Buds4 Pro (worth $249.99).

Upgrades to OLED gaming monitors

For great contrast and ultra-quick performance, you might prefer to head into the OLED range of gaming monitors. Samsung has a couple new models to check out.

The 32-inch Odyssey OLED G7 (G73SH) comes with 4K resolution at up to 165Hz which is great news for high-performance with smooth gameplay. A 0.03ms response time is also welcomed for competitive, fast-paced games. Priced at $1,099.99, it comes with a free $200 credit, Music Studio 5, or pair of Galaxy Buds4 Pro.

The OLED G8 is ready for gaming at 240Hz with a focus on deep blacks. Credit: Timothy Beck Werth / Mashable

The 27- and 32-inch Odyssey OLED G8 monitors (G80SH) have a higher refresh rate of 240Hz. Samsung also used its Glare Free technology on these models, which might make them a more appealing option for those who game in bright rooms or during daylight hours. Samsung also mentioned the 32-inch model has VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification which is an ideal feature if you prioritize deep black and bright, vibrant colors.

The 27-inch Odyssey OLED G8 costs $1,099.99 and unlocks a free $200 credit, Music Studio 5, or pair of Galaxy Buds4 Pro. The 32-inch version is $1,299.99 and comes with a free $300 credit or Music Studio 7.

Work stations made better

Of course, Samsung didn't forget about those of us who are looking for an upgrade to monitors designed for work.

The curved 40-inch ViewFinity S8 adds in a Thunderbolt 5. Credit: Timothy Beck Werth / Mashable

The 40-inch Samsung ViewFinity S8 (S85TH) has a curved display with 144Hz and a Thunderbolt 5 for intensive tasks and 80Gbps data transfer. Going smaller, the 27-inch ViewFinity S8 (S80HF) has impressive 5K resolution and USB-C connectivity.

The 40-inch model costs $1,399.99 and includes a free $300 credit or Music Studio 7. Samsung hasn't announced pricing for the 27-inch model yet.

Improvements to a versatile, rolling display

For those who want ultimate versatility, Samsung's new The Movingstyle Essential is designed for portability. It has a 43-inch display with 4K UDH resolution that sits on a rolling stand with adjustable height. Plus, it can tilt, swivel, and pivot to your needs. It's ideal for home use that spans gaming, working, or viewing your favorite shows from whatever room you're currently in.

The 43-inch 4K display on the Movingstyle Essential is ready to move from room to room. Credit: Timothy Beck Werth / Mashable

The Movingstyle Essential is going for $899.99 and comes with a free $200 credit, Music Studio 5, or set of Galaxy Buds4 Pro.

UPDATE: May. 27, 2026, 5:00 a.m. EDT Most of Samsung's new monitors are now available for purchase. This story has been updated with pricing and links.

As a full-time content creator and the person behind the popular BookTok account aymansbooks, influencer Ayman reads upwards of 70 books in a year. 

Based just outside of Chicago, Ayman has amassed a large audience of like-minded readers on TikTok, where her following is quickly approaching 1 million. (As of this writing, the count is 911.2K on TikTok and just over 300K on Instagram.)

The 25-year-old weaves together regular posts about daily life, celebrations of Pakistani food and culture to celebrate her family’s heritage, and a steady stream of book-related posts, memes, reviews, and more.

Ayman says that when it comes to posting content, window lighting is preferred. 

“Sunlight is the best,” she says.

Her favorite products include the DJI Pocket 3, which she calls “the best nonchalant camera,” or simply her iPhone.

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For shooting still photos, Ayman says that 35mm film is her “recent hyper fixation because it’s so nostalgic.”

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Ayman says she edits everything on CapCut because “it’s so easy to use and there’s so many creative features on there.”

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We caught up with the content creator about her favorite books, her opinion about e-readers, and the other gear she relies on as a BookTok regular.

Favorite bookish gear and accessories while reading?

Annotating tabs and pens, a really nice bookmark, a reading light, and a good comfy place to sit (my bed usually).

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Printed books or e-reader?

It really depends because I love both. If I already have the physical book, I’ll read that. If it’s on [Kindle Unlimited], a fanfic, or I just wanna save money, then e-reader. Even through I have a huge books collection, I believe I would still end up choosing e-reader if that was my last option, simply because it’s convenient. I currently use a Kindle Colorsoft and Kobo Colour with the Kobo Stylus 2. I really like both but now I keep most of my fanfics on my Kobo since they take up so much storage. 

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What is your preferred reading set-up?

In bed at night with my lamp on. The setting has to be quiet. No sounds at all. Pillows all around me. 

Top 5 desert island books?

• The Scorched Throne by Sara Hashem

• Alchemised by SenLinYu

• Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi

• The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab

• Mate by Ali Hazelwood 
  

If you start reading a book and realize you don’t like it — what do you do?

It depends. 90% of the time I push through because when I review the book I wanna stay honest and let my audience know it doesn’t get better. I’ve been getting better at DNFing recently because life is too short to read boring books.

Editor’s note: DNF stands for “Did Not Finish” and is an abbreviation that has been widely adopted by the BookTok community.

What do you love about what you do?

I love that I get to connect with like-minded people that love and enjoy the same books I do. I love that this jobs gives me opportunities that I could only dream of, [for example] attending premieres and meeting authors.

What goals do you have for your digital footprint:

My thoughts lately have been “full-send, just go for it, cringe is dead,” while also staying safe of course. 

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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SAVE $230.50: As of May 27, the Aiper Scuba S1 is on sale for $549.49 at Amazon. That's a 36% discount on list price.

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Having a pool on hot summer days is one of life’s biggest luxuries. Keeping it clean and properly maintained, however, is anything but.

That’s where a robot pool cleaner comes in. Instead of spending your time skimming and scrubbing the pool, these smart devices do the hard work for you. And as of May 27, the Aiper Scuba 1 is on sale for $549.49 at Amazon. That's over $200 off the list price and the best-ever price at Amazon.

This robotic pool cleaner is designed to make pool maintenance easy and low-effort. In Eco Mode, it can run for up to 240–270 minutes for general daily upkeep, while Auto, Floor, Wall, or Scheduled modes will provide up to 180 minutes for more intensive cleaning. There is also a Scheduled mode that allows a weekly custom cleaning plan, so your schedule can be totally hands-free.

It also uses a dual-path navigation system that's powered by 11 high-precision sensors, to make sure the whole pool is cleaned efficiently, without missing any spots. And to make sure even the smallest dirt and debris is caught, it used a dual-layer filtration system, combining a 180-micron filter with a 3-micron ultra-fine filter.

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Whether you should get a robot vacuum or a stick vacuum boils down to one question: How picky are you about cleaning?

Everyone can probably acknowledge the appeal of not lifting a finger to clean their floors. But to some, that convenience may not be worth the cringe sparked by watching a robot vacuum ignore a crumb or eat a phone charger. Despite notable upgrades in smart mapping and cleaning performance over the past half-decade, even the best robot vacuums of 2026 can't match the precision of the best cordless stick vacuums operated by, you know, an actual human with a brain.

Cordless vacuums also just have the physical advantage in a lot of tricky spots. If you'd like to keep up with couch cushions, car seats, stairs, or the dusty abyss lying behind every door, a stick vacuum that can go handheld (and go outside) is the only option with that flexibility.

But to be real, your willingness to do all the cleaning yourself also matters — if you dread vacuuming by hand so much that you'll just put off doing it, your floors might actually be cleaner with a robot vacuum. I personally have both at the ready at all times and can argue for the value and practicality on either side, depending on the situation. And while the convenience of a robot vacuum is undeniable, I still reach for a cordless vacuum in more cases than not.

Other cordless vacuums I've tested

I've tested several other vacuum cleaners that didn't make the most recent cut for this list. Some, like the Shark Detect Pro with auto-empty station and LG All-in-One Cord Zero with auto-empty station, were a top recommendation at one point, but have since been overshadowed by newer, more powerful models that are a better bang for your buck.

There are also a few Dyson vacuums from years past that still garner substantial search interest, but that I no longer think are worth your money compared to what else is out there. The Dyson V8 and (seemingly discontinued) Dyson V10 that my parents have lying around have a tendency to push large debris like cat food and rocks around, and leave behind a layer of pet hair on many dark rugs. While these Dysons may have been powerhouses in the late 2010s, $300 could get you a more powerful option — maybe even automatic emptying, like with the Shark Detect Pro I just mentioned. The only upside would be that Dyson includes the motorized hair screw tool with the V8 and V10.

I also bumped the Dyson V15 Detect Submarine out of the list. The Roborock 2-in-1 cordless mop that took its place just offers a more seamless mopping system all around. The swappable wet roller head that turns the V15 Detect into a "mop" completely cuts off airflow to the dust bin of the vacuum, meaning there's no real wet suction going on. During my testing, this just pushed liquid around instead of soaking up spills, which then led to a soggy manual cleaning process that was super prone to leaks and weird smells. It just required way too much maintenance by hand, compared to the self-cleaning features of the Roborock F25 Ace Combo.

I also test robot vacuums. Are they as powerful?

I also test a ton of robot vacuums at home. While I think the convenience of robot vacuums is worth for, say, keeping up with the layer of dust and crumbs that accumulate during the work week, I have found that cordless vacuums are consistently tougher on elusive debris like pet hair or fine powders. This is especially when they've been pressed down into rug fibers or have been caked into corners.

Cordless stick vacuums are generally more powerful than robot vacuums. The upright design is optimal for airflow and has the real estate to house larger motors and more complex cyclone systems that create extra force on top of suction power alone. A robot vacuum's motor can't exceed the three or four-inch clearance that the vac needs to scoot its whole body under furniture. The motor of an upright vacuum typically lives completely separately from the vacuum head and roller brush and is thus under fewer constraints.

Physics aside, you could argue that a cordless vacuum is less likely to leave debris behind because a person is actively assessing where the suction needs to be focused. This includes tricky spots that aren't even on a robot vacuum's radar, like staircases or cars.

There are some one-to-one comparisons where a robot vacuum could be as powerful or more powerful than a stick vacuum. For instance, I've tested both the Roborock Saros 10R robot vacuum and Roborock F25 Ace cordless vacuum, and both offer 20,000 Pa suction power. But robot vacuums with that kind of power typically reside in the $1,000+ category, while it's much more affordable to hit that number with a stick vacuum. Even with identical stats on paper, the cordless vacuum would probably have a higher pickup rate over time just because the person operating it can see when more passes are necessary.

Dyson has a slew of new cordless vacuums up its sleeve for 2026. Most of them are apparently being saved for the second half of the year, but one unique little machine was squeaked out in February. Whatever comes to mind when you picture a traditional Dyson stick vacuum, I promise the Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones isn't that.

The PencilVac is so thin that it could be stored in just a few inches of free space. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

Prior to the PencilVac's launch, Dyson hadn't released a new cordless vacuum since 2023, and even those weren't overly groundbreaking. (We've seen what happens when a once-prestige brand gives up on innovating, à la The Fall of the House of iRobot.) I've had the PencilVac at home for nearly four months now, and the delightful experience further validates my stance that Dyson is such a pro cordless vacuum company that there's no reason to keep forcing the Dyson robot vacuum thing.

Considering that the PencilVac is somewhat a successor to my absolute favorite cordless vacuum of the past three years, I jumped at the opportunity to test them against each other in my apartment. Since 2022, I've been recommending the Dyson V12 Detect Slim nonstop for two main reasons: It's incredibly lightweight, and the dust-illuminating laser completely changed the way I clean. The Dyson PencilVac weighs even less and has two lasers instead of one. Is unseating the GOAT really that simple?

Comparing the Dyson V12 Detect Slim (left) and PencilVac (right). Credit: Leah Stodart

Four "Fluffycones" give the PencilVac an unbelievably smooth sweep on hardwood and tile. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

Setting up the vacuum itself is incredibly easy because the PencilVac design is the definition of minimal. The box is compact and flat, and since it only comes with one attachment, you don't have to dig around through a ton of packaging. Just click the motor, wand, and cleaning head together and find a spot near an outlet for the charging stand. I'm not a huge fan of being forced to use an app with an appliance just for the sake of using an app. But since the PencilVac's screen is so tiny, I'm sure the app will come in handy for notifications about clogged airways or filter replacement.

What's special about the Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones?

The Dyson PencilVac is a stick vacuum in the most literal sense of the term. It's legitimately shaped like a pencil and measures less than 1.5 inches around. The battery, motor, dustbin, buttons, and screen are built into the wand, lying completely flush. That means that the wand can reach much further into tight spaces without being hindered by a big cylindrical dustbin or heavy battery pack.

The Fluffycones head can spin vertically to fit right between these table and stool legs. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

In wand form, the PencilVac can slip behind my dresser to reach the dusty baseboards. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

The Fluffycones cleaning head can swivel 360 degrees around, so it can spin to clean in awkward spots that would typically require you to move furniture or be at a really specific angle. (There's also a cheaper version of the PencilVac with a "Micro Fluffy" cleaner head, which has a singular roller like the V12 Detect Slim's.)

The Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones weighs in at less than four pounds with the main Fluffycones cleaning head attached and less than three pounds with the precision wand attachment. That's more than a pound lighter than the V12 Detect Slim (that I already find incredibly ergonomic), and less than half of the weight of the heaviest Dyson stick vacuum.

Holding the PencilVac in the air doesn't feel like a workout. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

The PencilVac can go the whole way to the back of my Litter-Robot's waste drawer slot. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

One of my first orders of business with the PencilVac was to vacuum the ceiling corners and any cobwebs that I'd previously been pretending weren't there. Without the top-heaviness from a clunky dustbin, the PencilVac was comfortable to hold above my head with one hand. (I certainly can't say the same for the 8.6-pound Dyson Gen5outsize that my mom has.)

The wand doesn't bend, so you'll have to be awkwardly far away from certain nooks and crannies while you're detailing them. But the long wand also makes it easy to keep up with dusty baseboards without kneeling down, and that's huge news for my allergies and my back.

I'm definitely being normal about the double laser situation

The PencilVac also has two of my favorite Dyson feature ever, the dust-illuminating laser: One that lights the cleaning path ahead and one that lights the trail directly behind the cleaning head.

I've been religiously laser vacuuming since I got my V12 Detect Slim in 2023, so the concept of dual lasers is monumental to someone who can barely remember life B.L. (Before Laser). You truly have no concept of how much dust, dander, and hair accumulate on your floors within the span of a day. Barring any egregiously huge obvious crumbs, hardwood and tile always look pretty spotless to the naked eye... until the laser enlightens you. You can never go back after that.

I can simultaneously see how much litter was tracked in and out of the bathroom. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

For such a tiny vacuum, the PencilVac musters some pretty strong suction. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

I love that the double-headed laser provides a 360-degree view of the floor before and after you sweep it. After making a pass with my V12 Detect Slim, I'd often turn around to shine the laser where I just cleaned to make sure no minuscule stragglers would get stuck to my bare feet later. The double-headed laser shows you where the dirty spots are, then provides real-time proof of its debris pickup in the path behind it.

With this flexibility and precision, the PencilVac quickly became a core piece of my cleaning routine. A routine that actually takes longer now, but only because the PencilVac unlocked easy access to spots that were a pain to clean before: the tight space between furniture or the washing machine and the wall, beside and behind the toilet, and small slivers of open floor under crap in various closets.

Conveniently, I got the PencilVac around the same time that I started spiraling over the fact that microplastics live in dust. I'm not sure that I would have been able to sleep without an easy way to keep up with the dust that builds up behind the dresser and TV in my bedroom.

Considerations: The dustbin, carpet use, and one other annoying thing

To empty, you still point the dustbin over the trash and click a button to release debris. But any veteran stick vacuum user knows that a piece of the dust bunny will inevitably need to be pulled out by hand. Since it's so damn thin, the PencilVac dustbin and suction airway are a little harder to keep clear. I realized that a water bottle sponge (one we will NOT be using to wash dishes) fits well enough to wipe out any fine hairs or dust stuck to the sides, but I'm not sure what to do when a wad of hair gets wrapped around up there.

The tiny dustbin just wouldn't be practical for large homes. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

Debris compresses in layers that looks like nasty sand art. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable

If the 0.02-gallon dustbin sounds tiny, that's because it is. I'm always shocked by the chunk of brown and gray fluff that compiles on the first cleaning session after I've emptied it. I swear it's nearly half full after vacuuming the kitchen, bathroom with a litter box, and living room once — and that's without even attempting the living room rug, because the PencilVac's suction and fluffy fibers just aren't built for digging into carpet.

The PencilVac is also one of the only Dyson stick vacuums in recent memory that doesn't come with a mini motorized pet hair tool. I'm just picturing the PencilVac as the sole vacuum in my friend's and her golden retriever's apartment and can't help but laugh. Since I'm constantly testing robot vacuums at home, my Dyson PencilVac's dustbin probably doesn't fill up as fast as it would without all of the automated help with shedding from two cats. Shoppers centering their vacuum purchase around serious pet hair pickup should definitely keep looking for something stronger with automatic emptying.

Lastly, the Dyson PencilVac's battery life isn't great. You're lucky if you get 30 minutes out of the lowest cleaning mode, and maybe 10 minutes out of the strongest. With that in mind, the charging stand situation is also worth complaining about. It'd be a lot more convenient to have the PencilVac charging all the time if it could charge lying down under a couch or something — aren't we trying to sell the small space fantasy here? Instead, it has to charge between magnetic prongs on the stand, which doesn't feel super stable in a high-traffic area.

So while I would call it the best cordless vacuum for small spaces and hardwood, it'd be an equally bad choice for homes larger than 1,000 or 1,500 square feet or homes with multiple pets.

TL;DR: Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 is on sale for $44.97 (reg. $219) through May 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote.

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Paying monthly just to use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can add up without you even realizing it. If you prefer to own your word processing suite outright, this Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 deal trims the price down to $44.97 (reg. $219) through May 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

This deal is aimed at Mac users who want the classic Microsoft Office experience without overcomplicating things.

You’ll get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote installed on one Mac device. Whether you’re managing spreadsheets, building presentations, organizing email, or drafting documents, the core Office apps are all here in one bundle.

Word is still one of the most widely used document editors around, while Excel remains a staple for budgeting, data tracking, and business tasks. PowerPoint continues to be useful for presentations and school projects, and Outlook helps keep email and scheduling in one place.

Office 2021 may especially appeal to students, freelancers, remote workers, and small business owners who want dependable desktop apps they’re familiar with. Since this is a standalone version, the features stays consistent, which some users may actually prefer over constantly changing software layouts and tools.

The system requirements are also relatively manageable, requiring at least 4GB of RAM and 10GB of storage space.

Unlike Microsoft 365, this version doesn’t include bundled cloud storage or ongoing major feature updates, so if your priority is reliable access to the traditional Office apps on your Mac, this deal keeps the upfront cost low.

Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021 is currently available for $44.97 through May 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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TL;DR: Get Pok Pok Lifetime for $44.97 through May 31 and give kids 2–8 an ad-free, Montessori-inspired play app designed to encourage curiosity and learning.

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If you’ve ever handed your toddler a tablet and instantly regretted it, Pok Pok might just restore your faith in screen time. This innovative, Montessori-inspired app turns digital play into something that actually feels okay for both kids and parents.

Designed for ages 2 to 8, Pok Pok replaces those noisy, overstimulating apps with calm, open-ended play that encourages creativity, independence, and curiosity.

Kids explore a beautifully hand-drawn world filled with toys that grow alongside them — from early cause-and-effect puzzles to more advanced STEM-style challenges. It’s like a digital game sandbox for little minds.

Every sound, color, and motion in Pok Pok is crafted to feel soothing and natural — no flashing ads, no pressure to “win,” and no hidden purchases. It’s also fully COPPA-certified, meaning it meets strict safety standards for children’s digital content. Parents can relax knowing their kids are learning, not zoning out.

Perfect for travel, quiet time, or rainy afternoons, Pok Pok runs offline, so playtime never depends on WiFi.

At this low price, this lifetime subscription is the kind of tech investment that doesn’t come with a side of parental guilt — giving your child a fun, educational start in a calm digital space built just for them.

Get lifetime access to Pok Pok while it’s on sale for just $44.97 (reg. $250).

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TL;DR: Get a Grade A refurbished Shark Matrix Plus 2-in-1 Self-Empty Robot Vacuum and Mop for $129.97 (reg. $299.99) and let it vacuum, mop, and empty itself.

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There’s definitely optimism involved when you spot some debris and tell yourself you’ll vacuum later. Later turns into tomorrow, tomorrow turns into next weekend, and suddenly there’s a suspicious amount of dust under the dining table that everyone has collectively agreed not to acknowledge.

That’s why robot vacuums are becoming less of a gadget and more of a lifestyle adjustment. For $129.97 (reg. $299.99) through May 31, this Grade A refurbished Shark Matrix Plus 2-in-1 Self-Empty Robot Vacuum and Mop makes a pretty compelling argument for retiring at least one household chore.

This one has been cleaned and inspected to work like new, which is the reason why your are getting it for much less than retail.

The Shark Matrix Plus combines vacuuming and sonic mopping in one machine while using Matrix Clean technology to make multiple passes over dirt and debris instead of assuming one lap was enough.

It also uses 360° LiDAR mapping to build a layout of your home, navigate around objects, and clean more methodically.

The details are what make this feel like a practical buy. CleanEdge Detect helps pull dirt out of corners. The self-cleaning brush-roll handles pet hair without turning maintenance into another chore. The HEPA filtration system helps trap dust in the base.

And, amazingly, the self-emptying base can hold up to 60 days of dirt without requiring replacement bags.

For less than the cost of ordering takeout for a group, this is one of those purchases that doesn’t feel like simply buying a gadget; It really is like buying back a little of your time.

Get the Grade A refurbished Shark Matrix Plus 2-in-1 Self-Empty Robot Vacuum and Mop for just $129.97 (reg. $299.99) through May 31.

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So, you've decided to watch Spider-Noir. Good choice, it's a fun ride! But before you press play and settle in for an episode of Nicolas Cage slinging webs and taking names, Prime Video offers you one more choice. Do you want to watch the series in "Authentic Black and White" or "True-Hue Full Color"?

Both options will give you the same story, just in a different color format. The former mimics the black-and-white look of film noir movies, which Spider-Noir references heavily throughout. The latter, on the other hand, offers up a vibrantly colored experience, but one that still feels fairly vintage.

According to star Cage, either option is great, with the color potentially appealing to younger audiences. "The truth is, they both work and they're beautiful for different reasons," Cage told Esquire. "The color is super saturated and gorgeous. I think teenage viewers will appreciate the color, but I also want them to have the option. If they want to experience the concept in black and white, maybe that would instill some interest in them to look at earlier movies and enjoy that as an art form as well."

But Cage's endorsement of both choices aside, which Spider-Noir option really wins out? I watched the season in both black-and-white and color, and one format does reign supreme. However, the race was closer than I thought, and the runner-up does have some merits that make it worth checking out.

You should watch Spider-Noir in black and white.

The show is called Spider-Noir for a reason. It — and the very character of Spider-Man Noir! — is inspired by classics of the film noir genre, the majority of which are shot in black and white. (While "noir" is French for "black," not every film noir movie is in black and white. The "noir" refers more to films in the genre's pessimistic outlook.)

Spider-Noir wears these influences on its sleeves, especially when it comes to lighting. The show is chock-full of chiaroscuro, a technique that contrasts bright highlights with dark shadows, and the result is a visual feast. Light frames detective Ben Reilly's (Cage) head in a darkened bar, cut occasionally by the blades of a fan. Street lamps cast long shadows down New York City streets. Lounge singer Cat Hardy's (Li Jun Li) sparkly gowns stand out against pitch-black mirrors.

These images and more immerse you fully in the world of Spider-Noir, drawing you back into a bygone era. Here, the power of good lighting is more apparent than ever, especially in a growing crowd of underlit TV shows. (Remember the too-dark House of the Dragon debacle?)

To put it more bluntly, Spider-Noir just looks cooler in black and white. That option most clearly matches the show's inspirations, plus it offers viewers the novelty of seeing a new show that's mostly missing from the current TV landscape.

Be sure to check out Spider-Noir in color too!

That being said, you should definitely make time to watch at least one Spider-Noir episode in color. In this format, you're able to see the wide array of hues the show's creative team was working with, from set designers to costume designers to makeup artists.

Take Robbie Robertson's (Lamorne Morris) suits. They're sharp in black and white, but they truly pop in color. At one point he sports an orange ensemble that I wouldn't expect many people to carry off, but somehow he manages it!

The same goes for Cat's dazzling makeup looks, or the walls in almost any room. As I alternated between black-and-white and full-color episodes, I was always astonished that people had been having discussions in bright yellow- or red-painted rooms. Clearly, the interior designers in Ben's New York were having a blast.

Just like how Spider Noir's black-and-white version outdoes underlit TV shows, its colorful version fixes another complaint I tend to have with modern film and TV. They tend to be undersaturated to the point of flatness, but Spider-Noir is happy to go buck wild and prove just how vibrant TV can be.

My only complaint with the colorful version of Spider-Noir is that occasionally, surfaces take on a waxy or even plasticky sheen. This is especially true for flat, unadorned walls, although the effect was lessened somewhat when I moved from a laptop to a TV.

Both Spider-Noir options offer viewers to appreciate different elements of the show's craft, and I'd recommend checking out both just to take in what a difference a lack of color can make. Still, if you want the best encapsulation of the show's tone and atmosphere, you can't beat black and white.

Spider-Noir is now streaming on Prime Video.

Out of SXSW, Power Ballad got a lot of love from critics, who cheered its feel-good comedy vibe. I'll concur that it's a warmly silly movie with a big heart, an appreciation of music, and a happy ending. But frankly, I still hope for more from writer/director John Carney. 

In 2007, he gave audiences the wondrous Once, an original musical drama about an Irish busker (Glen Hansard) who falls for a struggling musician (Markéta Irglová) in Dublin. Visually, it was scrappy, shot in the early days of digital filmmaking. But emotionally, it resonated with lived-in performances and a soundtrack that won an Academy Award for Best Song, launched a real band, and led to a Broadway adaptation. That movie felt like magic. And I know that by writing this I risk turning this review into a reprise of my take on his last film, Flora and Son. But Carney can do — and has done — better. 

Once was so alive in its songs and their performances that it felt blisteringly original, like no one but Carney could make it. Then in 2016, he thrilled with Sing Street, a enchanting coming-of-age comedy that also relied on a crackling soundtrack and lesser-known actors. But then Carney made Begin Again, Flora and Son, and now Power Ballad, all of which lean into tedious Hollywood tropes about love and music, making for middling movies. 

Sure, the promotional posters and feisty trailers for Power Ballad promise comically fired-up Paul Rudd facing off against an untouchable Nick Jonas, a busted has-been versus a pop prince. But Power Ballad itself never ignites, or even sizzles. Its flame is squelched before it begins. 

What's Power Ballad about? 

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Paul Rudd stars as Rick Power, a middle-aged American who came to Dublin 15 years ago on tour with his rock band. What might have been a path to fame and fortune was rerouted when Rick met the cool girl who'd become his wife (Marcella Plunkett), and they had a daughter (Beth Fallon) together. Nowadays, he still rocks, but as the lead of a wedding band called the Bride and Groove. As such, he mostly plays cover songs, though he still yearns to make music of his own. So, when one wedding gig throws him in the path of former boy bander Danny Wilson (Nick Jonas), Rick is giddy to spend the night jamming and talking shop. 

Both men walk away feeling great and grateful for the camaraderie. That is, until Danny struggles to create a single for his first solo album. That's when he snatches a chorus Rick played for him to construct a song that becomes a smash hit in record time. Now, in a genuinely charming turn, Carney scripts Rick to be not furious but hopeful. He believes he just needs to get in touch with Danny to get his due, be it credit or a check. But when it becomes increasingly clear that Danny is dodging him — thanks to his snarling manager, Mac Darling (Jack Reynor) — Rick and his weird bestie, Sandy (Peter McDonald), set off to Los Angeles to set things right. Hollywood hijinks ensue, but the laughs are cheap and the humanity is shallow. 

Power Ballad is infuriatingly thin. 

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After their pivotal meeting, it seems Power Ballad will shift into two-hander mode, by paralleling each man’s journey home. Rick returns to the cozy but cramped house he shares with his wife and child in the suburbs of Dublin, Danny nods to fans at LAX, piles into a luxury convertible, then pulls up to a mansion in the Hollywood hills, with no one to greet him. 

Danny has a girlfriend. But she is barely given a name, much less any personality, which is a real waste of Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms). This thinness applies to the women in Rick‘s life too. His daughter, in her early teens, chiefly exists to roll her eyes at her dad. His wife either bursts with horny enthusiasm for him, or stern scorn. 

This might be expected if this was supposed to be about two men in arrested development facing their own shortcomings, but the film quickly loses interest in Danny’s psychological journey. There are some glancing scenes where he talks about whether or not he feels like he stole the song, but there will be no satisfying answer on who he is and what he wants, beyond avoiding the pitfall of being a failed solo artist.

This leaves the film to center firmly on Rick Powers. His middle-aged bitterness is tempered by his chaotic sidekick Sandy, who is similarly undeveloped, though thoroughly entertaining. The same cannot be said for Power Ballad as a whole.

The film's pace is meandering at best, swerving from moments of sentimentality to scenes of Rick’s impotent frustration, to comedy set-ups that are just never as funny as one might hope for a Paul Rudd movie. For a film that is centered on someone who is undeniably angry, Power Ballad is weirdly toothless. The aforementioned happy ending feels like a forgone conclusion, even if it’s not remotely earned by plotting or emotional flow. 

And none of this is helped by the fact that the music is just not that good. When Carney broke out with Once, he offered songs that felt soul-shakingly earnest. They were so beautiful that the tiny Irish film with no big stars would not be ignored by the world at large. Power Ballad isn’t looking to change the world. In playing to mainstream audiences who love Paul Rudd, pop music, and Nick Jonas, Carney has sacrificed spark and soul. 

To Paul Rudd's credit, he throws himself into the comedy here. But when it comes to singing, everything feels processed and potentially enhanced with autotune, which undercuts the movie's message about musical authenticity. Jonas, on the other hand, can sing the hell out of these pop songs. But when it comes to the comedy, he's as wooden as the acoustic guitar Danny gifts to Rick.

In the end, Power Ballad is an unchallenging comedy that is sure to make many smile, maybe even laugh. But it’s a far echo from the cinematic magic that Carney has shown himself to be capable of. 

Power Ballad opens in limited release on May 29, expanding on June 5. 

Dr. Matthew Leahy, a licensed psychologist, treats adolescents who've developed such an intense relationship with an artificial intelligence chatbot that they stop confiding in their parents.

Sometimes, their parents are shocked to discover a chatbot has won over their child so dramatically. In other cases, the parents seek out Leahy at the Momentous Institute, a Dallas mental health services provider, precisely because they know the extent of their child's chatbot relationship and want his help regaining their child's confidence.

Intense chatbot relationships can have disastrous mental health consequences for adolescents who become isolated, develop a romantic relationship with the chatbot, or routinely consult a chatbot instead of a human for anything. Last fall, child experts declared AI chatbots unsafe for teen mental health.

"When you're talking to a computer as opposed to even your peer, but especially your parents, that's when it starts to get really messy, really quickly," Leahy says.

The effects can be short-lived if parents spot chatbot dependency and work on it with their child, Leahy says. The goal? Rebuilding the rapport that convinces a child their parent is willing to guide them through anything.

Just how much are teens talking to chatbots?

Leahy's anecdotal observations about childhood and adolescent chatbot relationships might seem like outliers. Reddit posts authored by concerned parents who've experienced something similar, however, suggest the phenomenon isn't unique to Leahy's office.

Recent survey data from Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) also illustrate a broader gravitation toward AI assistants and chatbots, at least among girls.

Nearly half of the 1,000 girls ages 5 to 13 surveyed believe AI is superior to their parents for homework help. Admittedly, some parents might be relieved to let AI handle that work, but they might be unnerved to learn that a full 50 percent of respondents preferred it for music, TV show, and movie recommendations.

The start of chatbot intimacy

If tutoring and entertainment suggestions lay the groundwork for a child-chatbot relationship, then asking more sensitive questions is likely to deepen it. Half of 11 to 13-year-old girls surveyed said they'd asked AI for help when they felt sad, anxious, or lonely.

The survey, which polled girls and their guardians, also indicates that parents significantly underestimate how frequently their child talks to a chatbot. Half of girls said they used AI once a day, but only a third of parents believed their child used it that often.

Sarah Keating, vice president of Girl and Volunteer Experience at the GSUSA, told Mashable that the survey data demonstrates that girls turn to AI chatbots and advice apps when dealing with topics that are uncomfortable to discuss with their parents or trying to understand questions they don't think their parents can answer.

"What that says to me is that it's all about opening up lines of communication again," said Sarah Keating, vice president of Girl Experience at the GSUSA.

Get your child to start opening up to you instead of a chatbot

When he's working with parents, Leahy maps out a strategy to help them do exactly that.

But first, he must persuade parents skeptical that there's even a problem with their child's relationship to a chatbot. The parents may think it's entertaining or educational, not dangerous in any way.

To reframe their thinking, Leahy closes his laptop, points to it, and says, "That's your child's best friend right now." Leahy says he watches the parent's face change in real time as they register the alarm.

The importance of one-on-one time

Leahy's approach to helping parents re-establish a relationship with their child varies depending on the context.

Some parents, he says, are starting from scratch. Others once had close ties to their child that weakened with adolescence and chatbot use.

Either way, it's crucial that parents intentionally set aside one-on-one time with their child. One father he works with plays catch with his son. Another parent has a standing boba date with their child.

Leahy says parents shouldn't start out by asking their child deep questions. The point of these experiences is to build rapport, which is why parents must stay present rather than distracted by their phone. The groundwork laid in those moments, over weeks or months, eventually gives way to conversations about their life.

Be curious instead of offering advice or judgment

This is where things get tricky, Leahy says. Once adolescents open up, they might share something that makes their parent feel uncomfortable. A chatbot, by contrast, is unlikely to have the same reaction.

"Especially if you're not used to these conversations, it's going to raise emotion in you," he says. "You might be disappointed in what you hear. You might get angry pretty quick about what you hear, and that's where the test is."

To pass this test, Leahy recommends listening with curiosity and not offering advice. While that skill takes time and effort to hone, Leahy says the payoff is invaluable because it demonstrates trustworthiness.

That doesn't mean parents silence concerns about safety or behavior. Instead, Leahy suggests coming back to those issues and asking the child to collaboratively discuss them.

Don't expect them to immediately abandon their chatbot

In Leahy's experience, it takes time for teens to reset their chatbot use. In the beginning, they might still talk to it "feverishly," but Leahy generally recommends gradual scaling back. Parents can consider limiting the time the child is on their device.

Leahy isn't necessarily worried about teens who spend a half hour talking to a chatbot then return to their regular activities. That might be the sweet spot of engagement, he notes.

Importantly, parents should ensure their child has in-person activities like sports or social engagements so a chatbot can't so easily command all of their attention. Those experiences can also help build their confidence in ways that a chatbot cannot.

It's normal for teens to not tell their parents everything

Dr. Dana Suskind, a pediatric physician and child development expert who studies how language and human connection shape the developing brain, says teens typically seek counsel from sources who aren't their parents, like peers, trusted adults, and the internet.

The challenge with chatbots, she explains, is that they're very effective at building intimacy and attachment, which can displace human relationships.

Suskind encourages parents to reflect on AI technology, particularly with their child, and consider questions such as what the product was designed to do, whether it interacts with them and their child, and how so.

"It is the slippery slope issue, because these technologies...engage the social aspect of us," says Suskind, author of the forthcoming book Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity, and Lifelong Learning in the Age of AI.

Red flags to watch for

Leahy says parents should be concerned and consider consulting a mental health professional in the following circumstances:

• A child under 12 years old using a chatbot for personal conversations.

• When chatbot use takes up a lot of time and displaces other healthy activities, including socializing, exercise, and sleep.

• Constant consultation of a chatbot, including for basic decision-making.

• When a child personifies a chatbot so that it seems like a real person to them, or they believe they're talking to a sentient being.

• Regular sexual role-play with a chatbot.

• Developmental conditions, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or autism spectrum disorder, that may put the child at risk for dependency.

Leahy is optimistic that parents can restore their relationship as their child's guide with the right investment of time and energy.

"A restored relationship looks like parents feeling they have their child back, and children feeling their parents have their back," Leahy says.

TL;DR: Watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The world will stop this summer for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

16 cities across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada will welcome the best international sides from around the world as they compete for arguably the biggest prize in sport. Huge names like Kylian Mbappé, Vinícius Júnior, and Lamine Yamal are likely to steal the spotlight, but new stars always shine brightly in this prestigious competition. It's going to be a wild ride.

If you're interested in watching the 2026 FIFA World Cup from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

What is the FIFA World Cup?

The World Cup is an international football competition between senior men's national teams. The 2026 World Cup has been expanded to 48 teams, split into 12 groups of four teams. The top two teams in each group and the eight best third-placed teams will progress to the knockouts rounds.

The defending champions are Argentina. They won their third title at the 2022 World Cup after defeating France in an epic final.

When is the 2026 FIFA World Cup?

The 2026 World Cup is the 23rd edition of this famous competition. This year's tournament takes place from June 11 to July 19.

How to watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup for free

A number of streaming platforms are offering free coverage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup:

• Australia — SBS

• Austria — ORF and ServusTV

• Belgium — RTBF and VRT

• France — M6

• Germany — ARD and ZDF

• Ireland — RTÉ

• Italy — RAI

• Norway — NRK

• Netherlands — NOS

• Spain — RTVE

• UK — BBC iPlayer and ITVX (recommended)

These streaming services are geo-restricted, but anyone can secure access with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in another location, meaning you can live stream the 2026 FIFA World Cup for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 FIFA World Cup for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in the UK

4. Visit BBC iPlayer or ITVX (recommended)

5. Watch 2026 FIFA World Cup for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream this tournament before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for the FIFA World Cup?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for accessing live sport on free streaming platforms, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

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If you’ve even so much as glanced in the direction of the online dating world, you're surely aware of AdultFriendFinder. It's one of the founding fathers of online hookups. Created all the way back in 1996, it had become one of the 100 most popular sites in the U.S. by the late 2000s. But despite its obvious popularity, it’s never managed to break into mainstream consciousness like Tinder or Hinge.

There’s a very good reason for that.

AFF, as it’s known among members, is explicitly an “adult” dating site (and we do mean explicit). It's a badge that AFF wears proudly, but one that also has hindered its mainstream reach. Users aren't likely to talk about their AFF activity in the same way they talk about their Tinder hit rate.

But what if you’re curious about how it works, whether it works, or who it works for? What if you’ve always wondered whether you’re missing out on the best-kept online dating secret and want to join the party? Or maybe you’re worried it’s more hype and chatbots than organic, spicy fun. Don't fret about FOMO — we've done the work for you.

Here's a breakdown of the AdultFriendFinder experience and what you can realistically expect to get from it if you decide to dip your toe into these naughty waters.

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AdultFriendFinder isn’t a traditional dating site

If you sign up for AdultFriendFinder expecting a traditional online dating experience, you’ll be disappointed. It’s not that AFF members aren’t interested in serious dating; it’s more that sex and sexuality are placed front and center, with everything else emerging from there.

You'll see that for the first moment to logon. Unlike mainstream dating sites, which ban nudity from profile photos, AFF allows it — encourages it, even — so that regular dating-app selfies sit side-by-side with full-on full-frontal nudity and live webcam feeds. There is a content filter, accessible in your profile settings, but it defaults to "off," so if you would rather not see any nudity, or only see it when you deliberately choose to click on a NSFW picture, you should navigate to this setting ASAP.

For some people who aren't looking for a bare-all experience, this might be off-putting, but to those who are looking for exactly that, it’s refreshing. (And if you're not on AFF to see a little nudity, what are we even doing?) Unlike traditional dating apps, where early conversations often revolve around figuring out what the other person actually wants, AFF members tend to be refreshingly upfront and transparent (wink wink) about their intentions. Kinks and sexual preferences are the whole point.

How to meet people on AdultFriendFinder

Every online dating site lives or dies by its algorithm, with new platforms constantly rolling out novel ways to connect singles. AdultFriendFinder, however, takes a maximalist approach to interacting with strangers.

You can search for members the conventional way, using specific criteria like gender, sexual orientation, age, location, and more, but you can also jump into themed chat rooms or follow members’ live streams. Through the “Who’s Hot” tab, which highlights popular members as well as trending photo and video uploads, you can easily discover someone you might otherwise never have come across.

One thing you’ll notice quickly, however, is the presence of obviously fake profiles. When I searched for singles near me, I encountered a surprising number of stunningly beautiful women in a small rural town near my city — all with airbrushed photos and vague, AI-sounding profile descriptions.

AFF makes it extremely easy to sign up and create a profile, requiring little more than a username, password, and basic personal information. The upside is that it lowers the barrier to entry; the downside is that scammers can exploit that same simplicity. You'll be fine as long as you're aware of scams and stay vigilant on AFF and use good old common sense.

To help counter this, AdultFriendFinder offers a blue checkmark verification system and even incentivizes users to complete it by boosting their visibility as a reward. Verification requires a government-issued ID, which AFF uses to confirm your age, photo authenticity, location, and gender. It's an optional step, but one worth completing since it helps you signal to others that you are who you say you are.

If avoiding scammers and catfishers is a priority, looking for that blue checkmark before engaging is a smart move.

What kind of success rate can you expect from AdultFriendFinder?

So far, so good, but there is a catch. While you can browse and explore AFF for free, meaningful one-on-one interaction requires a paid Gold membership, available in one-month ($39.95/month), three-month ($26.95/month), or one-year ($19.95/month) packages, all of which renew automatically.

Understandably, most people hesitate to pay for a dating site from the off. And because AFF places its best features behind a paywall, it requires a leap-of-faith to enter those credit card details. But in our experience, a premium AFF membership largely justifies its price.

With an AFF Gold membership, you unlock all kinds of features including unrestricted messaging, high-resolution member videos and webcam streams, expanded profile galleries, and advanced filters that make narrowing down potential matches far easier. You'll quickly see the benefits of AFF's paid tier.

Does paying guarantee attention from everyone you message? Of course not. The usual dating-app dynamics still apply — heterosexual men, for instance, should expect to work harder for responses than heterosexual women. Being attractive, fit, or witty helps. Being all three helps even more, though we're not all so lucky when it comes to attracting the opposite sex.

What will work in your favor regardless is the sheer breadth of the AFF community. Members span a wide range of ages, body types, orientations, and interests, all of which makes it easier to find someone — particularly if you’re looking for something casual and fun as opposed to a long-term commitment.

Based on my personal experience of using AFF, as well as the limited statistics AFF has released, the platform skews male (roughly 60:40 in my area) and slightly older. That male/female ratio mirrors most dating sites, which tend to edge towards more men. The older skew can actually be an advantage if, like me, you prefer connecting with people closer to your own age.

Here's one final piece of advice: Don’t ignore AFF’s broader community features. If you rely solely on search results and direct messages, you’ll face roughly the same odds as any other dating app. But if you explore the themed chat rooms — which can span everything from erotic fiction to body modification (whatever floats your boat) — you’re more likely to find a connection you’re actually looking for.

TL;DR: PSG vs. Arsenal in the Champions League final is available to live stream for free on RTÉ Player. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The top club competition in the world of football has to be the Champions League. There is nothing else that brings the very best teams in the world together in a battle for footballing immortality. Sure, winning your domestic league is great. But winning the Champions League is on another level.

If you want to watch the 2025-26 Champions League for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

What is the Champions League?

The Champions League is an annual club football competition organised by UEFA and contested by top-division European clubs. This year's tournament begins with a 36-team round robin group stage to determine which sides qualify for the double-legged knockout rounds, followed by a single leg final.

The defending champions are PSG.

When is the 2025-26 Champions League?

The 2025-26 Champions League is the 71st edition of the competition (and the 34th since it was renamed the Champions League). This season's tournament runs from July 8 to 30 May.

How to watch the 2025-26 Champions League for free

It is possible to live stream the 2025-26 Champions League for free on the following streaming platforms:

• Ireland — RTÉ Player and Virgin Media (select fixtures including the final)

• Turkey — tabii (select fixtures)

• UK — Prime Video (select fixtures including semi final with 30-day free trial)

These free streaming platforms are geo-restricted, but anyone can bypass these restrictions with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure servers in other countries, meaning you can unblock free live streams of the Champions League from anywhere in the world.

Access free live streams of the 2025-26 Champions League by following these simple steps:

1. Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in a location with free coverage of the Champions League

4. Visit RTÉ Player, Virgin Media, tabii, or Prime Video (free trial)

5. Watch Champions League fixtures for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but leading VPNs do tend to offer free-trial periods or money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can gain access to free live streams of the 2025-26 Champions League without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term solution, but it does give you time to watch select fixtures before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming services from around the world, the fact is you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for the Champions League?

ExpressVPN is the best service for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is always secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to eight simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

Live stream the Champions League for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

If you're on a budget and things look bleak in the relationship department, don't panic. You don't need to shell out hundreds to find a genuine connection. As the weather warms up and the spring dating pool thaws out, there are plenty of free dating apps that let you chat, match, and meet a partner without shelling out cash upfront.

Dating itself will cost you time and money, so why should dating apps eat at your wallet, too? Especially when some platforms are rolling out premium subscriptions that cost as much as a car payment (yes, we're looking at you, Grindr). You don't have to resort to dating an AI to save money. Most popular apps are free to use — no credit card required.

What dating apps are completely free?

Mainstream dating apps like Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge all have robust free membership tiers that compete with paid subscriptions. Some free, more niche dating apps, like Archer and Lex, are also worth checking out. It just depends on what you're looking for and how much work you're willing to put in to get it.

Critics will tell you that the big-name dating apps (like Bumble, or Match Group giants such as Tinder and Hinge) are all the same, forming a single, amorphous dating platform. However, these apps still have distinct differences. For instance, Bumble just announced it's officially killing its iconic swipe feature to change how users match. That said, dating app companies are moving more features behind paywalls, frustrating daters on a budget.

Below, find our top picks for the best free dating apps. Use them to find your forever partner, a casual encounter, or something in between — all without paying a dime.

Note: All the free dating sites listed below offer a free membership option that allows you to talk and match with people at no cost. Though most offer paid premium memberships, these aren't apps like Match or eharmony, where you need to pay to match or chat with other users. And if you're being pressured to send money to someone on a dating app, you might be involved in a romance scam.

SAVE $61: As of May 27, Sony XM6 headphones are on sale for $398 at Amazon. That's a 13% discount on the list price.

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If you're looking for a quality pair of headphones for a great price, head to Amazon because the Sony XM6 headphones are on sale for an all-time low price. As of May 27, these popular headphones are on sale for $398, down from $459.99.

These headphones are truly designed to give you the best possible sound at all times. They have been specially designed with a carbon fiber dome driver to keep sounds true to the original recording. If you're a true audiophile, these are a great choice.

These are also designed with long listening sessions in mind, with a comfortable foldable build with a compact carry case to make listening on the move easier. Plus, they have a wider headband and smooth synthetic leather for reduced pressure over time.

The battery life is impressive, giving you up to 30 hours of listening. It also has a quick charging feature that gives you three hours of playback in just three minutes. You'll also get different listening options, with support for both Bluetooth and wired listening. And to suit your environment, you can choose between different noise cancellation: Adaptive NC Optimizer and Auto Ambient Sound modes.

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SAVE $190: As of May 27, the Dyson V8 is on sale for $349.95 at Amazon. That's a 35% discount on the list price.

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The Dyson V8 is back on sale at Amazon. As of May 27, this vacuum is down to $349.95 from $539.99, saving you $190 on list price.

This cordless vacuum is ideal for whole-home cleaning, capable of cleaning messes of all levels. This is thanks to its Motorbar cleaner head that deep cleans all floor types at the same time as actively detangling long hair and pet hair as you go. It comes with three attachments, all designed for different cleaning needs and those hard-to-reach areas.

For run time, you'll get up to 40 minutes of suction when in standard mode, or up to five minutes of maximum power for tougher, targeted messes.

It's also lightweight and incredibly easy to handle, and it even converts into a handheld vacuum for cars, stairs, or upholstery. And like you'd expect from a Dyson, it has an advanced filtration system that captures 99.99% of particles as small as 0.3 microns, helping to put out cleaner air while you clean.

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TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Booster Bundle on sale for $55.49, down from its $59.99 price. That's a $4.50 discount on the six-pack bundle, with this listing shipped and sold by Amazon.

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Chaos Rising preorder prices were on the high side, but now that the Mega Evolution set has fully hit the Pokémon TCG, we’re starting to see welcome price drops from various retailers. 

As of May 27, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Booster Bundle available for as low as $55.49, after knocking 8% off its $59.99 list price. At the time of writing, this listing is shipped and sold by Amazon, with free delivery for June 5-19.

This bundle includes six booster packs from the Pokémon TCG’s titular Mega Evolution Chaos Rising expansion. Each pack includes 10 trading cards, which puts Amazon’s $55.49 listing at about $9.25 per pack before taxes. 

The Booster Bundle has dipped in price, but there are still plenty of high-value individual chase cards you can pull — such as SIR Mega Greninja ex, the Mega Hyper Rare Mega Greninja ex, SIR Cinccino ex, SIR Mega Dragalage ex, and SIR Mega Floette ex.

There are cheaper listings elsewhere if you’re open to buying trading cards from sites other than Amazon. For instance, TCGplayer has unopened Chaos Rising Booster Bundles starting at $49.98 with shipping included (only $1.11 above market price), while Walmart has a marketplace listing at $52.95 — but is sold and shipped by third-party retailer VMG Enterprise.  

To add more packs to your Pokémon TCG haul, you can buy single Chaos Rising Booster Packs at Amazon for just under $13. To get the lowest price per pack, you can purchase the 36-pack Chaos Rising Booster Display Box for under $275. 

Although currently not available on Amazon, the Pokémon TCG’s newly-announced Pitch Black expansion is available to pre-order at TCGplayer.

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TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box on sale for $94.95, down from its $119.99 list price. That’s a $25.04 saving on an ETB that’s only just come out, with free delivery from June 6-13.

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Even though the expansion was only released last week, the very popular Chaos Rising ETB has had a huge price cut on Amazon.

As of May 27, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box available for $94.95, down from its usual $119.99 price. With this 21% discount, you’ll be saving $25.04 on the trading card game’s newest collector-friendly Greninja-themed box. What’s more, this listing is sold and shipped directly by Amazon rather than a third-party listing — with free delivery from June 6-13 at the time of writing, with the fastest delivery window listed for June 6-11.

Walmart is selling the Chaos Rising ETB for $94.95 — though through third-party seller Realgoodeal. TCGplayer is sitting slightly lower, with unopened listings starting from $82.98 plus shipping. That's close to the current market price of $91.

Inside the Pokémon TCG’s Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box, you’ll get nine titular booster packs of trading cards, one full-art foil Fennekin promo card, 65 card sleeves, 40 Energy cards, a player’s guide, six damage-counter dice, one competition-legal coin-flip die, one plastic coin, a collector’s box with six dividers, and a Pokémon TCG Live code card. 

With Chaos Rising now fully out in the wild, there are plenty of valuable single chase cards to pull (which are also available to buy at TCGplayer separately) — including SIR Mega Greninja ex, the Mega Hyper Rare Mega Greninja ex, SIR Cinccino ex, SIR Mega Dragalage ex, and SIR Mega Floette ex. 

If you want to grab even more of the Pokémon TCG expansion’s new packs, you can buy single Chaos Rising Booster Packs for just under $13. To pay even less per booster pack, you can also buy the 36-pack Chaos Rising Booster Display Box for under $270. 

Although currently not available on Amazon, the Pokémon TCG’s newly-announced Pitch Black expansion is now available to pre-order at TCGplayer.

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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will require knowledge of sports roles.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Here's a hint for today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Where to watch games from home

• Green: Diamond points

• Blue: Gridiron spots

• Purple: Same last name

Here are today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Sports TV networks

• Green: Baseball positions, abbreviated

• Blue: Football positions, abbreviated

• Purple: ____ Smith

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 #611 is...

What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?

• Sports TV networks: ESPN, FS1, NBA TV, NBCSN

• Baseball positions, abbreviated: C, OF, P, SS

• Football positions, abbreviated: CB, DT, K, TE

• ____ Smith: JR, LOVIE, OZZIE, STAN

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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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to yesterday's Connections.

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.

Hurdle Word 1 hint

To growl.

Hurdle Word 1 answer

GNARL

Hurdle Word 2 hint

Poison.

Hurdle Word 2 Answer

TOXIN

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Hurdle Word 3 hint

Nearby.

Hurdle Word 3 answer

CLOSE

Hurdle Word 4 hint

TV character Ted ___.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

LASSO

Final Hurdle hint

Aim.

Hurdle Word 5 answer

SHOOT

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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 Pips

If 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.

The 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.

Easy difficulty hints, answers for May 27 Pips

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 0-3, placed vertically.

Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 0-3, placed vertically; 2-5, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (15): Everything in this space must be greater than 15. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally; 6-4, placed vertically; 5-3, placed vertically.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 5-3, placed vertically.

Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 6-4, placed vertically; 4-0, placed horizontally.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for May 27 Pips

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 4-6, placed horizontally; 2-6, placed horizontally.

Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 4-6, placed horizontally; 1-4, placed horizontally.

Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 4-5, placed horizontally; 1-4, placed horizontally.

Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 4-5, placed horizontally; 3-0, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (0): Everything in this space must be greater than 0. The answer is 1-2, placed horizontally.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 1-2, placed horizontally; 4-0, placed horizontally.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for May 27 Pips

Number (4): Everything in this light blue space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this light blue space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this light blue space must add up to 4. The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally.

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Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 5-0, placed horizontally.

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Number (4): Everything in this light blue space must add up to 4. The answer is 1-4, placed horizontally.

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I wasn't prepared for Pressure. Walking into the World War II drama, which stars Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser, I knew it was about the lead up to D-Day. As such, I braced myself for a serious, stiff-upper-lip drama about soldiers and the cruelty of war. And it's not that Pressure isn't about those things. Rather, adapted from David Haig's 2014 stage play of the same name, Pressure comes from an unexpected angle in exploring war strategy.

Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg, a Scottish meteorologist for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, who was assigned to aid American ally General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) by figuring out the forecast for the beaches of Normandy for D-Day.

Now, you might be thinking that weather and war don't sound like rich terrain for laughs. But Pressure's humor comes from the crackling cultural conflict between this no-nonsense Scot and the American general in desperate need of a sunny day.

Pressure is as much about social pressure as it is weather and war.

Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott in "Pressure." Credit: Alex Bailey / Focus Features / STUDIOCANAL

Pressure begins with bloodshed in 1944. Before the Allies carried out the biggest seaborne invasion in history (aka D-Day), there was a test run known as Operation Tiger, which failed miserably. Pressure begins in the immediate aftermath of this disastrous exercise, where a boyish young man in uniform stares blankly into the sky, blood washing around his prone body as the tide comes in.

Up and down the beach, there's a scramble among the survivors to aid whatever soldiers may be saved. Eisenhower looks on, stricken, cursing under his breath. With one brief yet brutal scene, director Anthony Maras, who adapted the screenplay with playwright David Haig, has succinctly established the life-or-death stakes of planning an invasion.

Six weeks later, Eisenhower is in a remote country estate filled with U.S. and UK military, all planning to launch D-Day in 72 hours. The fatal failure of Operation Tiger hangs over him, whether he's being barked at by a brash British field marshal (Damian Lewis), cajoled by his Irish aide, Kay Summersby (Kerry Condon), or placated by the American's lead meteorologist, Irving Krick (Chris Messina).

While the energy of these allies ranges from stern to abrasive, patient to bombastic, they're all pushing for D-Day to launch on Monday morning. Then, on a Friday arrives Stagg, who warns major storms could sink D-Day out the gate.

Introduced in his home in the midst of a cozy morning ritual, Stagg prepares breakfast for his very pregnant wife (Tamsin Topolski), gently assuring her he has time for this bit of intimacy. He is a man of few words, and this will come to frustrate his colleagues as the pressure builds. No sooner does he reach the estate than he's making curt commands. He points out errors in his men's work, dismisses the directives of another meteorologist, and is visibly vexed to discover Summersby in his office.

To borrow from reality TV, Stagg is not here to make friends; he's on mission. Like in Conclave, another excellent Focus Features release, there's a brilliant humor that erupts when this very serious setting collides with cutting replies to arrogance.

Krick is Stagg's foil, a suave American who literally performs a lively song and dance ("Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy") to amuse his troops. Stagg, by contrast, demands the piano be taken away, and literally hits a bad note when slamming its cover closed.

Where others swoon over Krick's easy-going attitude, name-dropping stories, and retellings of professional glory, Stagg simply stares, seeming to resent the wasting of time. Later, when arguing against Krick's proposed forecast of beautiful sunny weather, Stagg flatly calls the man "moronic." And when Krick complains that Stagg is insulting him to his face, Stagg responds sharply, "I'm not insulting you. I'm describing you."

In this ruthless honesty, there's an exciting — and yes, funny — rejection of social norms. And maybe even the thrill of vicariously being so good at your job that you don't need a charm offensive to be heard.

Pressure is competency porn.

Andrew Scott and Chris Messina in "Pressure." Credit: Alex Bailey / Focus Features / STUDIOCANAL

Fun fact: I'm the person who introduced this bit of slang to Pressure's leading men. In an interview with Scott and Fraser, I explained how Pressure reminded me of HBO Max's hit series The Pitt, because both feature people who are so dedicated to their work, and so skilled at it, that it's deeply — almost orgasmically — satisfying to watch.

While it's tempting to flatten Eisenhower, Krick, Summersby, and Stagg into symbols to make them broader critiques of American attitudes versus British ones, Pressure bristles against such simplicity. For one thing, Stagg is Scottish, Summersby is Irish, and Eisenhower and Krick are two very different representations of American masculinity. The former is a tall, stern man, haunted by his failures. The other is a dynamic hero, held up by his wins and charm.

Looking at the two of them, it's tempting to think Krick gives Eisenhower the sunny forecast to please him. But in Messina's intensity opposite Stagg, it's easier to believe that a soldier with so many victories may be blind to his own potential defeat. None of these people are stupid or lazy or incompetent. But, as Stagg declares almost as soon as he arrives, it's incredibly difficult to determine the weather in Northern Europe for sure, more than 24 hours in advance. No matter how much these military leaders want the answer to be something else, Stagg won't bend on being certain.

Here's where the tension becomes satisfying and humane. This is not one man's battle to be heard in a realm where he's surrounded by fools. Pressure presents people who are the best at what they do. Their forces combined, we might think it's easy to see how D-Day was a success, marking a major turning point in World War II. But Stagg, staunch and soft-spoken, is like a mountain, unmovable as he reminds them that nature, that science, cannot be bellowed at or bullied into submission.

There's a glint in Eisenhower's eyes that reminds us of the dying boy on the beach without the need of a flashback. The stakes are clear. It's electrifying to witness humans who are determined to do the hard, right thing, while having to face that we're not as in control of the world as we wish to be. So, who will make the tough call, stay or go?

Andrew Scott is remarkable in Pressure.

Andrew Scott and Kerry Condon in "Pressure." Credit: Alex Bailey / Focus Features / STUDIOCANAL

There's an incredible restraint in Scott's performance that allows the humor to reverberate without feeling forced. It's not that Stagg is trying to be funny or cutting. Scott gives no wink or smile to suggest Stagg enjoys dressing down Krick (though who could blame him?).

Whether caressing his wife or arguing his position against the towering wrath of Eisenhower, Stagg is a man who values time and truth above all else, and so will waste none of the former with a denial of the latter. Because Messina's boogie woogie American is scripted as the dashing dynamo, Scott suppresses the sultriness and mischievousness that made fans of Fleabag and Sherlock go wild. He holds in the throbbing heartache that made All of Us Strangers radiant in its grief, and the anchoring empathy of Blue Moon. He plays none of the biting barbs as punchlines or reads. Resolute and restrained, he is nonetheless riveting, perhaps especially as Stagg's anti-social tendencies irk those around him.

Maras smartly sets Stagg apart from his peers with a hint of color. Cheers to Maras and his cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay for rejecting the contemporary obsession for desaturated palettes. In Pressure, a rich saturation brings depth to ornate rooms filled with soldiers in brown, khaki, and more brown. Flesh is allowed to flush red in frustration. But most notably, Stagg, in a crisp blue dress shirt, is visually in opposition to the troop of brown around him. Even in a group shot, even with his back turned, this simple choice of embracing color and a simple choice from costumer Liza Bracey, makes him stand out. Perhaps to remind us of how he feels alone in this fight. Or perhaps, stripped down from his dress jacket in moments of high stress, this blue shirt is meant remind us that these icons of history are also just men, as flawed and fearful as they may be revered and brave.

Created with care and great humanity, Pressure explores the hard work, intense co-operation, and tricky social dance of warfare, in a way that is enlightening and entertaining. Maras is respectful without ever falling prey to a stony reverence that would make his characters statues instead of people. Fraser is committed and suitably stern as Eisenhower. Condon balances warmth and clarity as the middleman between Eisenhower and Stagg. Messina is delightfully smarmy. Along with Scott, they create portraits that don't feel stiff, but are pulsating, precious, and alive.

Pressure is outstanding cinema, propelled by passion, intellect, and spirit. Don't overlook it.

Pressure opens in theaters May 29.

TL;DR: The Bitcoin Ticket Miner gives you a chance to passively win block rewards, and it’s only $40.

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Most people who are curious about Bitcoin mining assume it requires serious hardware, a technical background, and an electricity bill that makes the whole thing pointless. Bitcoin Ticket Miner is a compact desktop miner that sidesteps all of that. It plugs into any outlet, connects to Wi-Fi, and starts generating solo-mining tickets for a chance at a Bitcoin block reward, with no PC and no complicated setup. It’s on sale for $39.99 (reg. $99.99) right now, too.

Instead of competing in a standard mining pool, it uses a solo-mining approach where the device continuously generates and submits tickets for a chance at a block reward, which the Bitcoin network awards approximately every 10 minutes. Running at 1,000 KH/s through a BM1370 ASIC chip, it submits tickets up to 18 times faster than traditional ticket miners, which compounds your odds over time. There’s no guaranteed payout, and odds shift as network difficulty changes. Think of it less like an investment and more like a lottery ticket that runs itself in the background.

Day to day, it barely makes its presence known. Power consumption sits at around 18 watts, less than a standard light bulb, and the silent cooling fan keeps temperatures in check without adding any noise. The 2.8-inch display shows hashrate, mining status, temperature, and power usage at a glance, so there’s nothing to log into or monitor remotely. Pool mining, solo mining, and lottery mining modes are all supported, giving you options depending on how you want to approach it. Lifetime firmware updates keep the software improving after purchase, and universal voltage support means it works anywhere.

At 3.3 by 2.2 by 0.3 inches and under 2 ounces, it fits on any desk without taking up meaningful space. A USB-C power cable and a one-year manufacturer’s warranty are included.

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Adobe Acrobat costs around $15 a month. If you’re using it to convert the occasional PDF or merge a few documents, that math stops making sense pretty quickly. AcePDF Converter and Editor handles converting, editing, merging, splitting, and protecting PDF files on both Windows and Mac, and a lifetime license is on sale now for $23.99 (reg. $99.99).

AcePDF makes working with PDFs quick and painless. If you need to switch between file formats, you can convert a PDF to Word, turn a spreadsheet or presentation into a PDF for sharing, or pull text out of a scanned document using the built-in OCR, which preserves the original formatting rather than spitting out a garbled mess. Conversions work both ways between PDF and Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and image formats, and everything processes fast enough that you’re not sitting around waiting.

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For anyone dealing with high document volume, batch processing is worth calling out specifically. Instead of converting files one at a time, you can run multiple PDFs through in a single pass, which makes a real difference if you manage contracts, invoices, or client files on a regular basis.

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NASA has started locking in the first missions it says will turn the moon's south pole into a place where astronauts can actually stay and work.

The U.S. space agency announced Tuesday that three initial moon base-building missions this year will send cargo and vehicles for moving crews across the surface to the lunar south pole. The work builds on the recent Artemis II crewed flight around the moon and sets up a busier end to this decade, when astronauts start spending more time on the lunar surface.

The accelerated plan unfolds amid a broader rivalry with China, which has mounted a series of lunar missions and sketched out a long‑term research station for its own astronauts, known as taikonauts. Both countries now see the moon as the next stage for human exploration and a race for leadership in deep space.

China has its first human landing in its crosshairs and could beat NASA back to the surface of the moon. The United States' last crewed landing occurred in 1972, and no other nation has ever put boots on the lunar ground. Right now, NASA is targeting a landing of its Artemis IV mission in late 2028. 

"What we are embarking upon is extremely challenging, and we know so little from what is a combined 80 hours of lunar astronaut EVA time across the Apollo missions, and that was more than a half-century ago. So we are not jumping right into the glass-dome moon base," said NASA administrator Jared Isaacman in Washington during a news briefing. "We are leveraging the NASA playbook from the 1960s, figuring out what works and what doesn't, in this epic science of survival."

The moon base's construction at the south pole is split into three phases. First, it focuses on making landings reliable, trying out ways to survive the brutal polar environment, and delivering an initial trickle of cargo. Next, NASA and its partners add bigger power systems, more cargo runs, and, eventually, places where astronauts can live and work for longer stretches.

In the final phase, heavy cargo versions of commercial landers haul larger hardware — habitats, bigger power plants, more capable rovers, and science instruments — so astronauts can assemble the base over dozens of flights.

The moon base push comes as a clear pivot from NASA's earlier plan. Until recently, the agency's roadmap leaned heavily on Gateway, a small space station proposal that would have orbited the moon rather than established an outpost on the ground. Leaders now say they will shift their funding and workforce toward the base effort and look for ways to reuse some Gateway components.

The south pole sits at the center of the new strategy. Craters there stay in permanent shadow and likely hold frozen water. Nearby ridges can get sunlight for most of the lunar day. Water could supply drinking water, oxygen, and even rocket fuel. Steady light makes solar power easier. NASA wants to learn how to run a base in this region before it sends people on months‑long trips to Mars.

"The moon base is as beautiful as it is hostile," Isaacman said. "We go for the technology we will pioneer to get there, the science, and all that we will learn that will make life better here on Earth."

The first big step is Moon Base I, which will fly Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance lander to a spot NASA calls Shackleton Connecting Ridge near the rim of Shackleton crater. The mission, targeted for launch no earlier than fall 2026, will carry NASA instruments, including stereo cameras to watch how rocket exhaust throws lunar dust and rocks and a laser reflector that helps orbiting spacecraft pinpoint their exact location using bounced laser light. NASA says this flight will cut risk for crewed Artemis landings.

Two more missions follow. Moon Base II, planned for launch later this year, will ride on Astrobotic's Griffin lander and deliver more than 1,100 pounds of cargo, including Astrolab's FLIP rover, to shake out early mobility systems. Moon Base III, also targeted for this year, will fly on Intuitive Machines' Nova‑C Trinity lander and carry the Lunar Vertex science package to study strange bright "swirl" markings on the surface, along with instruments from the European Space Agency and South Korea's astronomy institute.

NASA has begun to stage missions intended to deliver hardware and vehicles to the lunar south pole for the construction of a moon base. Credit: NASA illustration

To help crews and robots get around, NASA picked two companies to build lunar terrain vehicles — essentially moon‑ready utility trucks. The agency awarded about $219 million to Astrolab and $220 million to Lunar Outpost for the first phase of these rovers, which it wants operating by 2028. Astrolab's CLV‑1 rover weighs about 2,000 pounds in its stowed form, carries two astronauts plus cargo, and can top 6 mph on flat ground. Lunar Outpost's Pegasus rover can drive for up to a year, run under manual, remote, or autonomous control, and reach more than 9 mph.

NASA also plans a hopping‑drone mission, called Moonfall. In 2028, a Moonfall flight will send four small drones that make short hops across the south pole, then settle in and keep working for several months through the harsh lunar night. They will scout rough terrain, search for signs of buried ice, and beam back sharp images that help later landers avoid hazards. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California leads the drone design, and Firefly Aerospace will build the spacecraft that ferries them from Earth orbit to the Moon.

All of this plugs into the broader Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the surface and then push on to Mars. Artemis III, targeted for mid‑2027, will test more of the pieces the moon base needs, including docking with commercial landers. 

NASA officials say they do not know yet exactly where a long‑term base will sit or what it will look like. For now, they want many landers, rovers, and drones to explore different ridges and craters, then gradually build up something more like a small lunar neighborhood spread across a wide area, said Carlos García-Galán, the program executive for the moon base.

"With crews coming to the surface twice a year, we can expand the time that they can expend there before they come back home," said García-Galán. "Eventually, when we've matched the assets, habitation modules, with the logistics and all the things to move the logistics around, then we'll be able to say, 'Hey, we're permanently here, and we're not giving it up.'"

Be careful, Grand Theft Auto fans. Cybercriminals are already weaponizing your excitement for GTA 6 to hack your devices and scam you out of money.

According to a new report from NordVPN’s Threat Intelligence research unit, multiple malware and scam campaigns have rolled out recently, looking to capitalize on the impending release of perhaps the most anticipated video game of all time, Grand Theft Auto IV.

Developer Rockstar Games finally announced a release date of Nov. 19, 2026 for GTA 6, which means it'll be 13 years between its release and its predecessor, GTA 5. Bad actors know GTA 6 fans can hardly wait a few more months and are itching to purchase a pre-order or download a beta release. And those cybercriminals are looking to take advantage of that.

"GTA VI is one of the most anticipated releases in gaming history, and that level of public excitement is exactly what criminals look for," says NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis. "When people are desperate to get early access to something, their guard comes down. That's the window attackers exploit."

Fake GTA 6 beta websites

According to NordVPN, its researchers have uncovered fake GTA 6 beta websites. These fake GTA sites claim to offer beta keys for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles. Users are asked to fill out a form, go through a verification process, and then asked to pay for a subscription service or download an unknown application.

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Rockstar Games have yet to announce any sort of public GTA 6 beta. These fake websites don't actually have beta keys to offer. Instead, they're looking to charge a user for a service they don't want or, even worse, steal their information or install malware on their device.

Fake piracy websites

Malicious actors are even faking "legitimate" piracy websites in order to scam GTA 6 fans. 

NordVPN has uncovered fake clones of gaming piracy websites that are being used to spread malware to Grand Theft Auto fans. While downloading pirated or cracked games inherently has their own risks, gamers have come to trust certain well-known sites like FitGirl, DODI, and ElAmigos.

According to NordVPN, in one instance detected earlier this month, a "malicious package" on one of these clones "presented itself as a legitimate game installer." However, once downloaded, a trojanized malicious file hides under the disguise of a NVIDIA graphics driver component.

Operating undetected, this malware modifies a computer's memory, downloads other malware, and connects to external servers where cybercriminals can send instructions to the malicious file.

Fake GTA 6 Android apps

NordVPN has already uncovered at least one Android app masquerading as a GTA 6 beta application.

The fake GTA 6 app has branding and an intro video that makes it look officially connected to Rockstar Games. However, there's no actual game in this app. Instead, the app tricks users into believing that they just need to download additional data to run the app.

Fake GTA 6 beta Android app Credit: NordVPN

A prompt sends users to full-screen ads and external page redirects that pressures the user to subscribe to a paid service or to download malware. The report says that the bad actors even disguised the actions they want users to take as steps in a fake human verification process.

According to NordVPN, researchers discovered that the app was connected to a domain with a "documented history of distributing infostealers, banking trojans, adware, and ransomware on both Android and Windows."

Rockstar Social Club phishing campaigns

GTA fans who have an account on the Rockstar Social Club platform are specifically being targeted as well, according to NordVPN.

Researchers have already tracked "hundreds of amateur phishing pages targeting Rockstar Social Club credentials through fake login forms." 

NordVPN says that scammers often weaponize trusted platforms like GitHub and Vercel as hosts for these fake pages in order to perpetuate their phishing schemes. 

Once a bad actor compromises a user's Rockstar Social Club account, they often try to sell the account on the dark web or utilize the account for in-game fraud.

GTA 6 fans should be extra careful in the coming months as hackers are likely to ramp up their campaigns as the game's release date gets closer. The notorious hacking collective ShinyHunters breached Rockstar Games just last month, so it appears no one is safe from GTA inspired schemes.

The New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals, thanks to some help from a pro wrestling ghoul.

That's not a bit. That's just what happened. The Knicks are heading to their first Finals since the Clinton administration, and a meaningful portion of the internet is crediting Danhausen — a vampire-gremlin-ghoul character from the world of professional wrestling who makes a habit of cursing people who irritate him — with nearly derailing the whole thing.

We say 'derail' because Danhausen initially cursed the Knicks ahead of their first-round series against the Atlanta Hawks. During his appearance on ESPN's First Take, Stephen A. Smith, who has never been accused of being easy to deal with, apparently rubbed Danhausen the wrong way. Danhausen then cursed the Knicks, and the New York team went down 2-1 to a Hawks team they were heavily favored to beat.

He then uncursed the New York Knicks after a pro wrestling podcaster paid him on Cameo to do so. "Alright, I guess I've been paid, so the New York Knicks, I guess you can be uncursed."

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The uncursing happened the morning of Game 6. The Knicks won by 51 points, the sixth-largest margin of victory in NBA playoff history. They then won their next eight games without losing, finishing the postseason on a 10-0 run — the fifth-longest playoff winning streak in NBA history, one game shy of the 11-game runs by the 1989 and 2003 Lakers.

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The collision between the NBA and pro wrestling is not rare. Dennis Rodman famously appeared on an episode of WCW Nitro in the middle of the 1998 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz. Shaquille O'Neal has made multiple WWE appearances and got speared through a table in the early days of All Elite Wrestling. That iconic meme of a young LeBron James taking a picture with his flip phone is from a 2003 episode of Monday Night Raw. More recently, in 2024, Knicks star Jalen Brunson got in the ring with Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton on a June episode of Smackdown — just weeks after Haliburton knocked New York out of the Eastern Conference Finals.

So a vampiric wrestling gremlin getting paid on Cameo to uncurse the Knicks is, to anyone who has watched pro wrestling, probably the least surprising thing on this list. For everyone else, it's admittedly pretty weird.

Danhausen, for his part, is having a blast with it. He's already selling t-shirts commemorating the uncursing. He debuted for WWE this past February and got off to a rocky start, but has since become the company's second-highest merchandise seller despite having wrestled exactly two matches since his debut.

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So, did a wrestling ghoul's Cameo alter the trajectory of a professional basketball team? Probably not. Jalen Brunson is very good at basketball. Karl-Anthony Towns is a seven-footer who can shoot threes and run the offense. These things matter more than curses. However, they did win a playoff game by 51 points, the same morning Danhausen got paid to nonchalantly uncurse them. They're going to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years.

Probably a coincidence. Almost certainly a coincidence. The kind of coincidence, though, that Knicks fans are going to be telling their kids about.

American Air inked a deal with Starlink to equip 500 of the airline’s planes with the satellite internet provider’s WiFi.

In an announcement made today, American described Starlink "as the world’s most advanced satellite constellation" and touted its ability to deliver powerful broadband internet via its thousands of satellites flying in low Earth orbit.

Starlink will connect to American’s narrow body planes — smaller aircraft that typically fly shorter routes — starting in the early months of 2027. Starlink, part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will connect to the planes via its Aero Terminal, which can support up to 1 Gbps of data per antenna.

American promises that Starlink WiFi will enable fliers to not just smoothly access their email, but stream entertainment and play online games.

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"American is committed to elevating every aspect of our customers’ travel journeys, which in the air means keeping them connected and comfortable with the assurance they won’t have to download documents ahead of a flight or worry about lag time," American Airlines Chief Customer Officer Heather Garboden said in a statement. "Starlink’s high speed and low latency make the Wi-Fi more reliable, which matters when customers are trying to load pages, join real-time collaboration tools or stay connected consistently throughout a flight."

American, the largest airline in the world, uses Viasat or Intelsat for WiFi on its larger, wide-body planes. It was just in January that the company announced it would start offering free AT&T WiFi for nearly all of its AAdvantage rewards members.

Starlink is already working with several major airlines, including United and Lufthansa. However, Starlink is also facing competition for control of the internet at 30,000 feet. Amazon Leo, the satellite internet service from Amazon, will support WiFi on Delta planes starting in 2028.

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I'm Mashable's Tech Editor, and I drew the short straw as the editor on call for Memorial Day. But I'm kind of glad I did, because we spotted an unexpected price drop on the new M5 MacBook Air. While the long weekend is technically over, almost all of these deals are still live.

In my review of the latest MacBook Air, I said that this is a pretty much perfect laptop, though I wasn't in love with the price. So, with the new record-low price of just $899 at Amazon, the MacBook Air just erased my one and only gripe. In the days of RAM-ageddon, this is a phenomenal price — and it's not the only Apple product on sale today.

At Best Buy, you can pick up previous-gen iPad Airs starting at $499, or save $200 on the M5 iPad Airs with 1TB of memory. At Woot, you can score a 4-pack of the original AirTags for only $59.99. And at Amazon, Prime Members can save $50 on iPads and AirPods.

Get your clicking and scrolling fingers ready as we break down the best Memorial Day Apple deals that are still kickin', with big savings on Apple AirPods, MacBooks, AirTags, iPads, and Beats headphones.

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As we mentioned above, we weren't expecting this one. We were excited when the newest MacBook Air dropped to $949, but here we are after MDW, and this sleek Apple laptop is still at its lowest-ever price: $899. With the lightning-fast M5 chip, Apple's famous Liquid Retina display, powerful and well-balanced speakers, and a svelte form factor, I think this is the best laptop in the world for the money, full stop.

With a worldwide memory shortage causing tons of price hikes in the laptop space, I highly recommend jumping on this price while you still can!

More Memorial Day deals on Apple products:

• Apple AirPods 4 — $99 $129 (save $30 at Walmart)

• Apple AirPods Pro 3 — $199 $249 (save $50)

• Beats Studio Pro Noise-Cancelling Headphones — $249.95 $349.99 (save $100.04)

• Apple Watch Series 11 (GPS 42mm) — $299 $399 (save $100 at Amazon and Walmart)

• Apple iPad, 11 inches — $299 $349 (save $50)

• Apple Watch Ultra 2, Refurbished — $399 $799 (save $400)

• Apple AirPods Max 2 — $509 $549 (save $40)

• Apple iPad Air, 11 inches (M3, 128GB) — $549 $599 (save $50)

• Apple iPad Air, 11 inches (M4, 1TB) — $899 $1,099 (save $200 at Best Buy)

• Apple iPad Pro, 11-inches (M5, 256GB) — $899 $999 (save $100)

Apple accessories deals

• UGreeen Qi2 MasSafe Charging Stand — $29.99 $45.99 (save $16)

• Anker Nano MagSafe Portable Charger — $45.99 $54.99 (save $9)

• Apple AirTag 4-pack (1st Gen) — $59.99 $99 (save $39.01 at Woot)

• Belkin 3-in-1 MagSafe iPhone Charger — $89.99 $119.99 (save $30)

SAVE $150: As of May 26, the Shark PowerDetect Speed stick vacuum with Clean & Empty System is on sale for $349.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. That's 30% off of its usual $499.99.

Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean & Empty

$349.99 at Amazon
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There's a new best Shark stick vacuum in town, but you don't even have to pay close to full price to bring it home. Less than two months after launching in April, the Shark PowerDetect Speed and its self-empty dock are on sale for just $349.99 at Amazon and Best Buy — a massive 30% discount that's surprising to see on a vacuum so new. In my humble opinion as Mashable's resident vacuum reviewer, this is one of the absolute best Memorial Day deals on a vacuum, beating Dyson.

The PowerDetect Speed is the chicer version of my favorite cordless vacuum for pet hair on carpet, the original Shark PowerDetect. The suction power hasn't changed much — it's still wickedly powerful, and you'll literally be able to feel the TurboPro brush roll digging into rug or carpet fibers to untether fur or crumbs. Since this stick vac empties itself whenever it's hung up to charge, the transparent dustbin starts with a clean slate every time. You'll be able to see exactly how much debris was embedded in the current room you're cleaning. And trust me: There's way more gray fluff embedded in your floors than you think.

The Speed model's cleaning head looks a little different from the original PowerDetect, and not just because it's orange. This one is a little more compact and shoots out a blue LED light to illuminate debris that you may not see with the naked eye. The PowerDetect Speed just has a more slender build overall, too. It barely weighs over seven pounds, shaving more than two pounds off the bulky OG PowerDetect.

Despite the smaller design (and presumably smaller battery), the PowerDetect Speed can still clean for up to an hour on one charge.

The New York Knicks are headed back to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, and that sentence still doesn't feel real.

Think about the timeline: A kid born the last time the Knicks played for a championship is now 27 years old. An entire generation of Knicks fans, including Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet, reached adulthood having never once watched their team play meaningful basketball in June.

Now here they are. Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges, and OG Anunoby are four wins away from a championship. Four wins from ending a 53-year title drought. Four wins from becoming the first New York men's team in one of the Big Four sports to win it all since 2011, with the New York Liberty championship banner in 2024 still very much acknowledged and respected.

The strangest part of it all is the vibe. Knicks fans are known for their "passionate" feelings toward their team and other teams around the league (ex. Trae Young). As one X post bluntly states, if the Knicks win it all, "the city might actually become ungovernable."

For right now, at least, New York City just seems happy. Genuinely, quietly, almost disbelievingly happy. Like an immense weight has been lifted off everyone's shoulders, and the city that never sleeps is legitimately just relaxing right now.

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After sweeping the Cavaliers, Knicks fans filled the streets of New York, which was fair enough. While the Thunder and Spurs are legit going to war out West, there's no anxiety in New York. Just fans who are genuinely enjoying being fans of their team for maybe the first time in their lives.

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Even the city's politics have gotten swept up in it. The city's recently elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was seen at Game 2 last week in the nosebleeds at Madison Square Garden, rooting for the Knicks.

After the Game 4 win, Mamdani tweeted NYC Sanitation to report a sweep. It's the kind of corny, earnest post that makes you like a politician more. It also helps that he's been a lifelong fan of England's Arsenal football team, which also just recently broke a championship drought after years of choking allegations.

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It's the exact right energy. Meanwhile, former mayor Eric Adams, never one to miss a moment, marked the occasion by posting what appeared to be an AI-generated video of dancing brooms, which somehow perfectly summarizes where his relationship with the city stands right now.

There's a decent comparison to be made with Detroit over the last few years. The Lions finally got good after decades as one of the NFL's favorite punching bags, and something shifted in the city alongside them. Detroit's violent crime dropped to its lowest levels in 60 years in 2023 — the same season the Lions went 12–5 and won their first playoff game since 1991.

Now, criminologists will tell you causation is complicated, and sure, they're right. But there's a kind of magic in an entire city having a team worth believing in again.

UPDATE: May. 27, 2026, 11:22 a.m. Since we first published this story, Motorola confirmed it fixed the issue and provided a statement to Mashable. We've udpated this piece to include the statement.

A few years ago, a massive affiliate code hijacking scheme rocked the internet. YouTubers and other influencers discovered that PayPal's money-saving Chrome extension, Honey, was sneakily inserting its own e-commerce affiliate codes — sometimes even replacing creators' affiliate codes — in order to take credit for the sale and profit from the commission. 

The whole ordeal resulted in lawsuits and even Google getting involved, changing its Chrome extensions policy and how the company handles affiliate links.

Now, a Reddit user and 9to5Google have uncovered yet another over-the-top instance of affiliate hijacking that's reportedly affecting Motorola smartphone users.

Over the weekend, a Reddit user noticed that their Motorola Razr Ultra was behaving oddly when trying to shop on Amazon. 

"When I tried to open the Amazon app, it would instead open the browser and send me to some sketchy looking url, which then redirects to amazon.com with an affiliate code," Reddit user u/Trypocopris said.

The user found that his device was making requests to "devicenative.com," a service that claims to offer "personalized, on-device mobile ad serving without sharing user data."

9to5Google was able to replicate the issue. The outlet found the issue on a Razr Fold with the latest Smart Feed v2.03.0070. However, 9to5Google was unable to replicate the behavior on the latest Razr running the older Smart Feed v2.03.0056. While some Motorola phones on the latest version would not replicate the issue, 9to5Google believes the issue is related to Smart Feed v2.03.0070.

The affiliate hijacking only appears to occur when a user opens the Amazon app from the app drawer. Opening Amazon from the home screen does not cause the issue. (Mashable was also redirected when opening the Amazon shopping app from the Smart Feed, but not when opening the app from the home screen.) When selecting Amazon from the app drawer, the user's mobile web browser briefly opens up before quickly directing the user to the Amazon app.

Interestingly, 9to5Google found that users are briefly redirected to a website containing the term “kira-abboud,” an apparent reference to fashion influencer @kirasfashionfinds. However, as the outlet discovered, neither this URL nor the Amazon affiliate code being injected matches anything publicly shared by the influencer herself. 

So, did a bad actor find a way to inject their affiliate code into certain Motorola smartphones? Did a rogue employee insert their own? Mashable reached out for comment, and we'll update this story if they provide more information.

However, users can stop the behavior by turning the Smart Feed feature off. Simply go to Settings, followed by Apps, then search for Smart Feed and choose the Disable option. 9to5Google reports that doing this immediately stopped the redirect.

A Motorola spokesperson sent the following statement to Mashable:

Motorola and Device Native jointly developed an app search and suggestion experience for the Moto App Launcher, designed to help users quickly find and launch apps they already have installed on their devices.

Recently, Motorola acted quickly to resolve an issue that was identified, which caused some users in the U.S. launching the Amazon Shopping app to be routed through a web tracking link before opening the app. This behavior was unintended and resulted in an inconsistent user experience.

Upon identifying the issue, we promptly corrected the routing configuration. Users can now expect all installed apps to launch directly as intended.

Motorola takes user experience, privacy, and platform integrity seriously and will continue to closely monitor the system to ensure expected behavior across devices.

We are committed to responsible disclosure, and to transparent, collaborative engagement with researchers to identify and address potential issues swiftly.

GET A KINDLE PAPERWHITE FOR UNDER $70: Woot has refurbished scratch and dent Kindle Paperwhite e-readers (11th Gen, 32GB) on sale for $69.99. These models have been tested to be fully functional but could have physical imperfections like scratches or dings.

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If you're not one for needing the very latest model of tech, buying a previous generation tends to come with a big savings. Take that one step further and buy a used model of a previous generation and you're in a major discount. If you've been eyeing a Kindle Paperwhite but don't feel like dishing out full price, check out this limited-time offer.

As of May 26, Woot is selling refurbished scratch and dent Kindle Paperwhite e-readers (11th Gen, 32GB) for $69.99. These models have been tested to be fully functional but could have physical imperfections like scratches or dings. A new Kindle Paperwhite (12th Gen, 16GB) costs $159.

I love to score a bargain price, which is why I don't shy away from buying used tech, especially when it's certified refurbished from Amazon. I treated myself to a scratch and dent used Kindle Paperwhite from Woot last spring, and I was shocked at what showed up. I expected plenty of damage, but instead, I got a Kindle with one minor scratch on the back. Otherwise, it's in perfect shape.

Of course, buying a scratch and dent Kindle is playing Roulette. Some might have significant wear and tear, but they're all certified by Amazon to be in full working condition, but perhaps with some blemishes. For me, taking the chance on some physical issues was well worth the savings. It certainly paid of in my case since my Kindle is nearly perfect.

This sale price applies to the 11th Gen model which launched in 2021. Amazon is currently selling the 12th Gen. While this is an older model, it comes with massive storage space — a whole 32GB. The current Kindle Paperwhite doesn't even have the option to get this much storage. You'd have to upgrade to the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition to get 32GB which sells for $199.99.

Keep in mind that you probably don't have much time to ponder if you're willing to take a chance on a scratch and dent model. These Kindle sales at Woot tend to vanish quickly. There's only one color and storage combo remaining, so this deal will likely be gone before the end of the work day.

If you're like me and prioritize a great deal over a perfect product, hop on this $69.99 Woot deal and get yourself a Kindle Paperwhite for the summer.

SAVE $1,501.99: As of May 26, get the Sony QD-OLED 77 inch Bravia XR A95L Series 4K TV for $3,498 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $4,999.99. That's a discount of 30%.

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There are plenty of new movies and TV shows being paraded out over the next few months that having a great living room display is a must. If you're thinking about upgrading your TV, now's the time to get on the bandwagon, especially as we've found a fantastic price on one of Sony's best TVs. You can save some serious cash and be ready for summer watch parties in the blink of an eye.

As of May 26, get the Sony QD-OLED 77 inch Bravia XR A95L Series 4K TV for $3,498 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $4,999.99. That's $1,501.99 off and a discount of 30%.

This enormous 77-inch TV is the perfect addition to your living room, or anywhere else for that matter. It offers fantastic picture quality, with a QD-OLD display with 4K resolution for the crispest picture possible. It uses Acoustic Surface Audio+ with support for Dolby Atmos as well, for immersive audio that lets you feel as though you're right in the middle of the action.

For games, you can rely on the Game Menu options to control all the important gaming settings exclusive to the TV (with assist options as well), so no matter what kind of titles you play, you can optimize your display. It might even help you improve your game, if you can find enemies or puzzles and secrets a bit clearer.

This is the perfect time to upgrade your display, and you're saving quite a bit, so be sure to pick one up while the discount is still live.

The best Memorial Day 2026 deals at a glance:

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Best Apple Deal

M5 MacBook Air, 13 inches (M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)

$899 (save $50 at Amazon)

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Best Amazon deal

Ninja Slushi

$259 (save $90.99)

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Best TV deal

Toshiba 65-inch C350 LED 4K Fire TV

$264.99 (save $265)

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Best tech deal

Bose QuietComfort headphones

$229 (save $120)

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Best home deal

Ruggable

save up to 25% sitewide

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Best Anker Deal

Anker USB-C Display Charger, 45W

$27.99 (save $12)

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Best Outdoor Deal

Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 Power Station

$449 (save $350 at Amazon)

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Best Amazon Device Deal

Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus

$29.99 (save $20 at Amazon)

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Best Memorial Day Deal Under $50

Sony WH-CH520 Wireless Headphones

$36.95 (save $33.04)

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Best Gaming Deal

Samsung 34-inch Odyssey G5 Ultra-Wide Gaming Monitor

$279.99 (save $120 at Amazon)

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Our first warm weather long weekend has come and gone, but most Memorial Day sales are sticking around for an extra day or two.

From the big retailers like Amazon and Best Buy to internet favorite brands like Ruggable, Dyson, and KitchenAid, we've found all of the best Memorial Day deals still live as of Tuesday, May 26. While many sales don't disclose a specific end date, we wouldn't be surprised if Tuesday is the last day. So, use your post-holiday downtime to grab some summer staples on sale — it's likely that we won't see prices like this again until Prime Day in June.

Best Memorial Day Amazon deals

Ninja Slushi

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Why we like it

What says start of the summer better than slushies on demand? When Mashable's Leah Stodart reviewed the Ninja Slushi, she pointed out the merits of the Slushi over a regular blender: no ice is required, and it keeps drinks frozen while in its cooling cylinder. From cola slushies to frosé, this might just be the ultimate summer drink machine. It has some downsides (sugar-free beverages are a no-go), but if you're a frozen drink enthusiast, this deal is worth a closer look.

More Amazon deals

• Amazon Fire TV Stick HD (newest model) — $21.99 $34.99 (save $13)

• Acer USB-C docking station — $36.99 $47.99 (save $11)

• Levoit Tower Fan for Bedroom — $54.96 $74.99 (save $20.03)

• TP-Link Deco 7 BE25 (3-pack) — $199.99 $249.99 (save $50)

• Bose QuietComfort headphones — $229 $349 (save $120)

• Sony WH-1000XM5 — $248 $399.99 (save $151.99)

• Ninja Slushi — $259.99 $349.99 (save $90)

• Ninja FrostVault Cooler — $279.99 $349.99 (save $70)

• Samsung 34-inch Odyssey G5 Ultra-Wide Gaming Monitor — $279.99 $399.99 (save $120)

• Sonos Move 2 — $399 $499 (save $100)

• Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 portable power station — $449 $799 (save $350)

• Anker SOLIX C1000 portable power station — $449.99 $499.99 (save $50)

• Dyson Airwrap i.d. — $499.99 $649.99 (save $150)

• Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar — $899 $1,099 (save $200)

Best Memorial Day TV deals

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$264.99 at Best Buy
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Best Buy and Amazon have been racing to match prices on this Fire TV. Best Buy was initially $75 cheaper than Amazon, so Amazon dropped its sale price to keep pace. But that's only a piece of the picture, demonstrating just how good this deal is. Our resident TV expert, Leah Stodart, pointed out that this $264.99 price point is so good that it's less than the sale price of the 43-inch version of Amazon's most basic Ember 4K Fire TV. In other words, if you're looking to score a solid deal on a smart TV this Memorial Day, this could be the one for you.

More TV deals

43-inch to 50-inch TVs

• Hisense 43-inch E6 Cinema QLED 4K TV — $209.99 $349.99 (save $140)

• Amazon 43-inch Ember 4-Series 4K TV — $269.99 $329.99 (save $60)

• Amazon 50-inch Ember QLED 4K TV — $419.99 $479.99 (save $60)

• Hisense 50-inch S7 Canvas QLED 4K TV — $798.99 $1,299.99 (save $501)

55-inch TVs

• Insignia 55-inch F50 LED 4K TV — $209.99 $349.99 (save $140)

• Hisense 55-inch E6 Cinema QLED 4K TV — $299.99 $429.99 (save $130)

• TCL 55-inch QM6K Mini-LED 4K TV — $499.99 $799.99 (save $300)

• Hisense 55-inch U6 Pro Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $599.99 $849.99 (save $250)

• LG 55-inch 75B QLED Mini-LED 4K TV — $429.99 $599.99 (save $170)

• LG 55-inch C6 OLED 4K TV — $1,599.99 $1,999.99 (save $400)

65-inch TVs

• LG 65-inch 70A QNED AI 4K TV — $429.99 $579.99 (save $150)

• Hisense 65-inch U6 Mini LED QLED 4K TV — $547.97 $679.90 (save $131.93)

• TCL 65-inch QM6K Mini-LED 4K TV — $599.99 $999.99 (save $400)

• Hisense 65-inch U7 Mini-LED ULED 4K TV — $948.99 $1,499.99 (save $551)

• Hisense 65-inch S7 Canvas QLED 4K TV — $1,098.99 $1,999.99 (save $901)

• LG 65-inch C6 OLED 4K TV — $1,999.99 $2,699.99 (save $700)

• Samsung 65-inch S95F OLED 4K TV — $2,199.99 $2,599.99 (save $400)

• Sony 65-inch Bravia 8 II QD-OLED 4K TV — $2,598 $3,299.99 (save $701.99)

70-inch TVs and up

• Insignia 75-inch QF QLED 4K TV — $449.99 $649.99 (save $200)

• TCL 75-inch QM6K Mini-LED 4K TV — $899.99 $1,299.99 (save $400)

• Hisense 85-inch U6 Mini‑LED 4K TV — $1,198.99 $1,999.99 (save $801)

• TCL 85-inch QM6K Mini-LED 4K TV — $1,199.99 $1,999.99 (save $800)

• LG 77-inch B5 OLED 4K TV — $1,499.99 $2,399.99 (save $1,500)

• LG 75-inch C6 OLED 4K TV — $2,999.99 $3,699.99 (save $700)

Best Memorial Day mattress deals

• Avocado: Get up to 20% off organic mattresses, bed toppers, and bedding.

• Amerisleep: Get up to $1,000 off all mattresses and 40% off bundles

• Bear: Get 35% off sitewide, plus $275 worth of free accessories

• Casper: Get up to 30% off select mattresses and 35% off bundles

• DreamCloud: Save up to 60% on mattresses and 66% on bundles

• Purple: Get up to $900 off a mattress and a base

• Helix: Get 25% off sitewide with code MEMDAY25

• Leesa: Get 30% off select mattresses

• Mattress Firm: Get up to 60% off select mattresses with queens starting at $189.99

• Nectar: Get up to 50% off select mattresses and 66% off bundles

• Saatva: Save up to $650 on mattresses, including the Saatva Classic and Memory Foam Hybrid mattresses

• Serta: Save up to $600 on select mattress and adjustable base sets

• Sleep Number: Save up to $1,200 on ClimateCool and ComfortNext mattresses, BOGO free Ultimate Shape Pillows, and BOGO 50% off sheets

• Tempur-Pedic: Save 40% on the Tempur-Cloud Mattress or up to $500 on adjustable mattress sets, plus free gifts

Best Memorial Day home deals

• AirDoctor: Save 20% on air purifier bundles

• Brooklinen: Save 25% sitewide

• Buffy: Save up to 25% sitewide

• Caraway Home: Save up to 30% on cookware and bakeware

• Cozy Earth: Save 30% sitewide

• Crate & Barrel: Save up to 60% on rugs, 35% on kitchen brands, and 30% on furniture

• Dyson: Save up to $290 on Dyson vacuums and floor cleaning appliances

• Home Depot: Save up to 40% on select appliances, 20% on select patio furniture, and up to $175 off on select tools now through May 27

• Joybird: Save up to 45% off on bestselling furniture and up to 35% off sitewide

• KitchenAid: Save up to 25% on select countertop appliances

• Kohl's: Save up to 50% sitewide on clothes, kitchen appliances, bedding, patio furniture, and more

• Lego: Spend $100 and get a free duck family Lego set

• Lovesac: Save 40% sitewide through May 31

• Lowe's: Save on appliances, grills, patio furniture, gardening supplies, and more through June 3

• Mellow Sleep: Get $20 off $100, $50 off $200, or $100 off $300

• Nest New York: Save 25% sitewide with code 25OFF

• Parachute: Save 25% sitewide plus 30% on bundles

• Pluto Pillow: Save 15% with code MEMDAY

• Pottery Barn: Save up to 60% on select furniture, decor, bedding, and more, plus an extra 20% on select styles

• Revival Rugs: Save 20% on $350+ or 25% on $750+

• Ruggable: Save up to 25% sitewide

• Rugs Direct: Save up to 80% sitewide on brands like Safavieh, Chris Loves Julia, Loloi, Rifle Paper Co., and Rugs USA

• SharkNinja: Save up to 30% on Ninja kitchen appliances and Shark vacuums, hair tools, and fans

• Target: Save up to 50% on outdoor furniture, up to 40% on inflatable pools and water toys, up to 40% on swimsuits, and more

• Wayfair: Save up to 70% sitewide

Best Memorial Day tech deals

• Best Buy: Save on TVs, Apple products, laptops, monitors, Sony cameras, Bluetooth speakers, and more

• BJ’s Wholesale Club: Get up to 50% off TVs and electronics, 25% off mattresses, and 15% off home and kitchen

• Brick: Save 15% on one Brick and 20% on two Bricks

• HP: Save up to 72% on OmniBook laptops, Omen gaming PCs, All-in-One desktops, and more

• Lenovo: Save up to 30% on ThinkPad, Yoga, ThinkBook, IdeaPad, and Legion laptops

• LG: Save up to 44% on TVs, 40% on monitors, and up to 58% on appliances

• Tile: Save up to 40% on trackers

• Sonos: Save up to 25% on smart speakers, soundbars, and subwoofers at Sonos and Amazon

• TP-Link: Save up to $220 on select products, including the Tapo C460 (4-Pack) + H500, plus get an additional 10% off sitewide with code USA10

Best Memorial Day beauty deals

• Dyson: Save up to $150 on the Dyson Airwrap i.d., Airstrait, and Supersonic Nural

• FabFitFun: Save 40% on your first box, plus get a free Vacation bonus box ($250 value) with an annual membership signup

• L'ange: Save up to 44% on select tools with code MEMORIAL, plus an extra 15% off your entire order with code EXTRA15

• Nuface: Save 25% on all Mini+ kits plus get a free gift

Best Memorial Day outdoor deals

• Bote: Save 15% sitewide

• Diadem Sports: Save up to 50% sitewide on pickleball paddles, grips, and more

• Dick's Sporting Goods: Save up to 50% on bikes, kayaks, tents, grills, and golf gear, save up to to 40% on Nike and adidas

• Huffy: Save 25% on select bikes

• Gozney: Take up to $100 off select ovens and up to 20% off accessories

• HOVERAir: Save up to 47%

• Oru Kayak: Save 20% sitewide

• Rumpl: Save 25% sitewide

• Shibumi: Spend $350 to get a free $50 gift card

• Solo Stove: Save 15% on select fire pits and pizza ovens

• TGW: Save 25% on $50+ golf club purchases with code MDWSALE

Anthropic has announced plans to eventually release a public version of Mythos, its AI model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities. First, the AI company needs to develop adequate safeguards, which, by its own admission, don't yet exist.

The company revealed in an update to Project Glasswing, its limited-access security program, that it intends to expand access to U.S. and allied governments before pursuing a broader public release of "Mythos-class models" in the "near future."

As reported by The Register, Anthropic was candid about the timeline's uncertainty, stating that no company, including itself, has built safeguards sufficient to prevent the model from being misused. Even so, Anthropic said in a related blog post that it believes "Mythos-level models will become widely available in the next 6-12 months."

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Claude Mythos was initially revealed in April. Anthropic said that the model succeeded at generating working exploits 72.4 percent of the time during testing — compared to just above zero percent for Claude Opus 4.6. In those reports, Anthropic researchers with no formal security training reportedly asked Mythos to hunt for vulnerabilities overnight and woke up to complete, functional exploits.

Since then, the model has scanned over a thousand open-source projects and identified more than 23,000 flaws, including more than 6,000 rated high or critical severity. Among them was a vulnerability in the wolfSSL cryptography library, used by billions of devices, that would have allowed attackers to forge certificates and impersonate legitimate websites. It has since been patched.

As AI tools get better at finding exploits, they've sparked a zero-day bug discovery crisis, with some bug bounty programs shutting down entirely. Open-source maintainers have reportedly asked Anthropic to slow its disclosure rate, saying the flood of bug reports exceeds their capacity to address them.

Anthropic's suggested solution to the capacity crunch is, of course, more AI. The Claude Mythos system card predicts that AI tools will ultimately benefit cybersecurity defenders, though Anthropic also notes that hackers may have an advantage for the time being.

SAVE $600: As of May 26, the Samsung 85-inch Q7F QLED 4K TV is on sale at Amazon for only $899.99 instead of its usual $1,499.99 list price. That's 40% off and its best price ever.

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Samsung 85-inch Q7F QLED 4K TV

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Upgrading your TV doesn't have to cost you a fortune, especially if you opt for last year's models. The 2025 Samsung Q7F TV might fall into budget-friendly territory, but it doesn't skimp on features. And it's currently the cheapest it's ever been for the 85-inch option.

As of May 26, the Samsung 85-inch Q7F QLED 4K TV is just $899.99 at Amazon. That's $600 or 40% off its list price of $1,499.99 (as seen on Samsung's own website). Not only is that the lowest price on record, but it's beating Best Buy and Samsung's sale price by $100.

The Q7F is not the fanciest QLED TV in Samsung's lineup, but it's still a QLED TV, which means its 85-inch display is packed with millions of quantum dots to offer a more vibrant range of colors and brightness. It pairs that with a Q4 AI processor that upscales your content, as well as integrated sensors that monitor ambient sound and auto-adjust for an optimal listening experience. In other words, it looks and sounds more expensive than it is.

The 120Hz refresh rate is just OK, but the TV does come with a free month of Xbox Game Pass. So, we'd recommend it for casual gamers just getting their feet wet.

If you just want a low-cost TV from a premium brand that packs a brilliant, large screen for streaming, the Samsung Q7F is one of the best budget options out there. And at less than $900, it's going to be a hard deal to beat.

SAVE $600: The 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 gaming monitor is on sale at Amazon for $1,499.99, down from the normal price of $2,099.99. That's a 29% discount.

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The temperature is slowly creeping into uncomfortable territory. If you're more of a spring and fall person, the upcoming summer might not be as welcomed as others feel it is. Instead of toughing it out, spend the summer indoors with a fancy new gaming monitor. There's a massive model on sale today at Amazon that's worth checking out.

As of May 26, the 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 gaming monitor is on sale at Amazon for $1,499.99, marked down from the list price of $2,099.99. That's a 29% discount that takes $600 off the price.

Samsung makes some of the best premium gaming monitors and if you have the space to go big, the 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 could be an awesome upgrade to your gaming setup. It has an immerse 1000R curve and great specs like a 240Hz refresh rate and a one millisecond GTG. There's also the 2.1 HDMI and 2.1 DP port.

Samsung mentions this is the world's first dual UHD monitor. Split your screen in half and get dual 32-inch UHD displays with 3840 x 2160. Overall, the display can reach 1,000 nit peak brightness and it has a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.

Samsung included an ergonomic stand with this model that tilts, swivels, and has height adjustment, so you can get the most comfortable gaming experience possible. The Odyssey Neo G9 also comes with Samsung's CoreSync technology which projectors the on-screen colors on the backside of the monitor, adding a new immersive element to gameplay.

Before today's sale price expires, consider upgrading to the 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 gaming monitor. The sale price will get you a savings of $600 while the gaming monitor will get you set for the best summer of gaming yet.

SAVE $151.99: As of May 26, get the Sony XM5 Headphones for $248, down from their usual price of $399.99. That's a discount of 38%.

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Looking to pick up a new pair of headphones? You've got plenty of choices out there, but in the realm of over-ear models, Sony has one in particular that you'll appreciate, and it's on sale right now at Amazon.

As of May 26, get the Sony XM5 Headphones for $248, down from their usual price of $399.99. That's $151.99 off and a discount of 38%.

While technically these aren't the newest of Sony's cadre of XM headphones anymore (with the XM6 headphones available), the XM5s are still every bit worth picking up. Now four years out from their 2022 debut, we chose them for our selections of the best headphones, praising them as being "legendary" for "unbeatable ANC and sound for the money".

They offer excellent noise cancellation, great hands-free calling with four beamforming mics and advanced audio signal processing, and lengthy battery life, giving you up to 30 hours of playtime on just one charge. You can boost them back up to 3 hours in just 3 minutes via USB-C charging.

If you want a pair of comfortable, lightweight headphones that feel as good to listen to as they do to wear, you'll want to snap these up quickly. Be sure to grab them while they're still discounted.

SAVE $801: As of May 26, the Hisense 75-inch U7 Mini LED ULED 4K TV is on sale for just $1,198.99 at Amazon. That's 40% in savings and its best price to date.

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It's typical to see spring price drops on 2025 TV models once the 2026 models hit the shelves. But to see a brand-new 2026 TV on sale for 40% off is a bit more surprising. Nevertheless, Hisense is delivering the best TV deal of the season.

As of May 26, the Hisense 75-inch U7 Mini LED ULED 4K TV from 2026 is down to just $1,198.99 at Amazon. That's a full 40% or $801 off its list price and its best price since its debut last month, even beating its Memorial Day Weekend discount by a dollar.

The 2026 U7 is an iterative upgrade from last year's model. It features an improved anti-glare coating to keep your picture crisp and clear despite overhead lights or the afternoon sun blaring in, as well as an enhanced AI processor that can analyze scenes in real time and make auto-adjustments to color, contrast, and detail. Otherwise, it still offers the same 165Hz refresh rate, 2.1.2-channel Dolby Atmos sound, up to 3,000 nits of peak brightness, and the Google TV with Gemini interface.

Hisense says the U7 delivers "Mini LED performance typically reserved for higher price tiers," and we can certainly get behind that notion. Hisense is one of our favorite budget TV brands for its wallet-friendly prices that don't skimp on quality. A 75-inch Mini LED model with premium features for under $1,200 is a pretty epic deal whichever way you slice it.

SAVE $850: As of May 26, get the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 for $949.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $1,799.99. That's a discount of 47% and the lowest price we've seen.

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Let's face it. Mowing the lawn is one of those chores that no one actually wants to bother with. But today, like vacuuming, there are robots to handle that as well. That means you can unleash a robot lawn mower on your yard to have it take care of everything you'd normally be handling and then some. And if you're looking to save some cash on the very gadget that can do this, we've found one that's perfect for handling it all this summer.

As of May 26, get the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 for $949.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $1,799.99. That's $850 off and a discount of 47%. It's also the lowest price we've seen.

The Eufy Robot Lawn Mower E15 offers hands-free mowing all on is own, without any special equipment to buy or wires to connect. It uses high-precision stereo cameras and AI algorithms to explore, map, and navigate your yard all on its own, all without external wires or stations. Set up its base, use its companion app, and it'll tackle the rest.

It uses smart mapping to create a complete layout of your lawn on your phone, which you can manipulate and customize to your liking with special exclusion areas, virtual walls, and more. Thanks to its 3D perception system, it can also detect low obstacles like rocks to help re-route before it collides with these items, making its operation safer for your garden and pets. And with parallel cutting, it gives your lawn nice clean, uniform lines to make it look like a pro just went through.

If you're ready to farm out this often irritating lawn task, now's the time to jump in and safe while robot lawn mower is on sale. You'll be glad you did when you're sitting inside watching it make your grass look gorgeous.

SAVE $700: The Husqvarna 420iQ Robotic Mower is on sale at Amazon for $2,599.99, down from the normal price of $3,299.99. That's a 21% discount and the best price we've spotted at Amazon.

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Now that Memorial Day weekend is in the past, we're full on into summer. While the calendar is full of fun activities, the list of household chores is getting longer now that yard maintenance is back on the agenda. If you'd love to never touch a lawn mower again but still enjoy a freshly manicured lawn, check out this deal.

As of May 26, the Husqvarna 420iQ Robotic Mower is on sale at Amazon for $2,599.99, down from the normal price of $3,299.99. That's a 21% discount that takes a massive $700 off. It also matches the best price we've spotted at Amazon.

A trusted brand in the industry, Husqvarna makes a handful of robot lawn mowers for our residential yards. The 420iQ is designed to maintain lawns of up to 1 acre in size with slopes as steep as 45%. While you won't be physically pushing the mower, you still get control over how the lawn gets cut. Select a length between 1 and 4 inches in height and select your desired pattern. The Husqvarna can cut in parallel lines, a checkerboard, triangle, or an irregular pattern.

Most robot lawn mowers have the ability to manage multiple zones, but that comes with a limited number. The Husqvarna, however, can handle an unlimited number of zones. From the app, you can create as many areas as you'd like, and select areas the robot should avoid.

Today's sale price on the Husqvarna 420iQ includes the robot mower, the charging station, an RS1 EPOS reference station for GPS, and one year of replacement blades. Since the sale price of $2,599.99 matches the lowest we've seen at Amazon, there's no reason to delay. Upgrade to the Husqvarna 420iQ and ditch your current battery-powered push mower.

The global RAM shortage has forced many PC makers to increase their laptop prices over the past few months. Now, it's Dell's turn.

Select configurations of the new Dell XPS 14 have gotten up to 31 percent more expensive since its launch at the start of the year. Mashable first noticed the price changes in mid-May and confirmed them with a Dell spokesperson.

"We’re managing this environment in real time, applying lessons from prior cycles and continuing to offer customers value," the spokesperson said. "We’re differentiated by our scale, go-to-market model and long-standing supplier relationships."

The starting price of the XPS 14 used to be $1,599.99 on Dell's website, making it slightly cheaper than Apple's M5 MacBook Pro. But it now costs $1,889.99 — a $290 jump. That's a steep admission fee for a Windows laptop with an entry-level Intel Core Ultra 5 325 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of solid-state drive (SSD) storage.

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A next-tier XPS 14 with the slightly faster Core Ultra 7 355 CPU now costs $1,989.99 with the same amount of memory and storage. It used to cost $1,699.99, marking another $290 increase.

In the most dramatic change, an upgraded XPS 14 with the premium Core Ultra X7 358H CPU, Intel Arc B390 graphics, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and an OLED touchscreen display now costs a whopping $2,879.99, representing a $680 bump from its $2,199.99 launch price.

Most prices for the larger Dell XPS 16 appear to be holding steady, though Mashable noticed that the base model was listed for $2,279.99 on May 21 — a $240 increase from its initial starting price of $2,039.99. Dell was selling it for that original lower number by the time of publication on May 26.

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Dell announced at CES 2026 in January that it was resurrecting the XPS laptop brand, exactly one year after it tried to pull off a questionable Apple-y rebrand. Since its Q1 release, the XPS 14 has earned positive reviews for its sleeker design, solid performance, and gorgeous tandem OLED display option. But it was already expensive at its launch price, and these new hikes make it an even tougher sell.

To return to Dell's statement: What about "this environment" is making laptops so expensive? You can blame AI.

Data center construction is gobbling up the world's RAM and SSD supplies, making these components vastly more expensive. In turn, many consumer electronics that rely on them have also gotten more expensive — laptops included. This crisis has been dubbed "RAMageddon."

In April, Microsoft told Windows Central that it raised the prices of its Surface devices by up to $500 because of "recent increases in memory and component costs." The same circumstances have prompted Framework, a modular PC company, to adjust its RAM and SSD prices almost every month this year.

Earlier this month, Mashable reported that Lenovo and Acer both quietly raised the prices of their premium Chromebooks by up to $250. Lenovo didn't get back to us, but an Acer spokesperson said the company "is adopting flexible pricing and promotional strategies to support demand and stabilize product availability as component costs increase."

Just last week, Dell announced that its new entry-level gaming laptop, the Alienware 15, would start at $1,299.99 — a higher price than expected. "The rising cost of RAM is affecting pricing across the industry," a company rep told Mashable. "The Alienware 15 is priced to be competitive against this new backdrop."

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Women-loving-women now have their own dedicated site on Pornhub.

Today, the ubiquitous tube site is launching Pornhub Sapphic, a space dedicated to lesbian and nonbinary content and creators. Pornhub Gay has been around for awhile, so it's about time sapphics (which include lesbians, bisexual women, and typically any non-man who loves non-men) have a site of their own.

The move makes sense, considering that many women watch lesbian content on Pornhub. In 2022, lesbian was by far women's favorite category on the site, and women watched scissoring content 155 percent more than men. Last year, "lesbian" was the most-viewed video category overall. Searches for scissoring, lesbian MILF, and strap-on content soared.

Pornhub Sapphic will be "built for the female gaze," according to a press release shared with Mashable, and designed for WLW audiences. The site will apparently be free of male-targeted ads like penis enlargement promos.

"Pornhub Sapphic was created in direct response to feedback from lesbian, queer, and straight women who told us they wanted an experience that felt made for them," Pornhub's vice president of brand and community, Alex Kekesi, stated in the press release.

"By working with creators and users, we've built a space where women-loving-women content is featured and celebrated," Kekesi continued. "For viewers, it's about providing women with a dedicated place to explore and enjoy adult entertainment with their experiences and desires in mind."

The launch of Pornhub Sapphic also features prominent sapphic creators like The JellyFilledGirls.

"We know firsthand how much demand there is for authentic women-loving-women content," The JellyFilledGirls also stated in the press release. "We're thrilled to welcome Pornhub Sapphic and be part of bringing it to the sapphic community."

Pornhub has made headlines recently for more political reasons, usually related to age-verification laws. These laws require viewers to submit their government ID, facial scan, or other method to prove they're of age. Last month, Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, sued Utah and delayed the enforcement of a new law banning VPNs for porn sites. Pornhub also reinstated itself in the UK after a self-imposed block, due to the introduction of device-level age filters on some Apple devices.

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TL;DR: Watch the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships for free on IIHF.TV. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

We're still buzzing from the international hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics, but 2026 is not done yet. We know the focus of the ice hockey world is firmly fixed on the resolution of the NHL season right now, but the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships is here to offer something to fans without a vested interest in the Stanley Cup.

This tournament doesn't have quite the same prestige as the Winter Olympics, but the 2024 World Championship was the most successful in terms of overall attendance. We're expecting this tournament in Switzerland to be just as popular as the USA, Canada, Czechia, Sweden, Finland, and other top sides battle it out on the ice.

If you're interested in watching the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

What is the Ice Hockey World Championships?

The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. 16 teams are divided into two groups for the Preliminary Round played in a single round robin format. The top-four ranked teams of each group advance to the knockout rounds.

The defending champions are Czechia.

When is the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships?

The 2026 IIHF World Championships will take place from May 15-31. This year's tournament will be hosted by Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland.

How to watch the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships for free

The 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships is available to live stream for free on IIHF.TV.

IIHF.TV is not available in some locations due to regional broadcasting restrictions (blocked locations listed here), but anyone can secure access with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in a location with access, meaning you can stream the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in a location with access

4. Connect to IIHF.TV

5. Watch the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships for free from anywhere in the world

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch the 2026 Ice Hockey World Championships without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the tournament before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for the Ice Hockey World Championships?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for streaming live sport on free platforms, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're competitive.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

What is Connections?

The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of 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 until the game ends.

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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.

Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Winnings

• Green: Topic

• Blue: Old-school films

• Purple: Same letters

Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Championship awards

• Green: Matter at hand

• Blue: '80s comedies

• Purple: Anagrams

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 #1080 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Championship awards: CUP, MEDAL, PENNANT, RING

• Matter at hand: CONCERN, FOCUS, POINT, SUBJECT

• '80s comedies: AIRPLANE, BIG, CLUE, TWINS

• Anagrams: ENLIST, LISTEN, SILENT, TINSEL

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new 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? Get all the Strands hints you need for today's puzzle.

If you're looking for more puzzles, Mashable's got games now! Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Connections.

Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're outdoorsy.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: On the nature trail

The words are related to the outdoors.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe natural surroundings.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Scavenger Hunt.

NYT Strands word list for May 26

• Pawprint

• Feather

• Daisy

• Scavenger Hunt

• Puddle

• Moss

• Acorn

Looking for other daily online games? Mashable's Games page has more hints, and if you're looking for more puzzles, Mashable's got games now!

Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Strands.

Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're a homebody.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Where did Wordle come from?

Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:

Sofa.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

The letter C appears twice.

Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter C.

The Wordle answer today is...

Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today's Wordle is...

COUCH

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle 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.

Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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SAVE OVER $30: As of May 26, the Sony LinkBuds Clip open-ear earbuds have returned to their lowest-ever price of $198 at Amazon. This is $31.99 off their full price of $229.99.

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Memorial Day weekend had some excellent earbuds deals to look through, but just because those sales are winding down doesn't mean the offers are completely gone. Amazon still has some discounts available, including on the Sony LinkBuds Clip open-ear earbuds, which we called the "best-sounding open-ear wireless earbuds you can buy" in our review.

As of May 26, all available colors of the Sony LinkBuds Clip open-ear earbuds are on sale for $198 at Amazon. This is a discount of $31.99 from their original price of $229.99, but it also marks a return to their lowest-ever price at the retailer. That's a deal you definitely don't want to miss.

As mentioned earlier, writer Simon Cohen had plenty of praise for the Sony LinkBuds Clip in his review for Mashable. He writes that they're "comfy, sound great, and have very good call quality, all of which are important traits for any open-ear earbuds you may be considering." They also have quite a solid battery life that can last up to nine hours with the earbuds, or up to 28 when you use the charging case.

They have also landed on our list of the best open earbuds as the best upgrade pick. This is because, "Separate from the Bose buds, if you're looking to get some of the most detail-rich sound out of a pair of open earbuds, you don't need to look any further."

If open earbuds have been on your shopping list, this deal on the Sony LinkBuds Clip is well worth taking advantage of while it's still available at Amazon.

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TL;DR: Amazon has the ASUS ROG Strix 32-inch 4K OLED Gaming Monitor (the XG32UCWMG model) on sale for $899, down from its $1,099 list price. This means you’re getting $200 off on a premium-level dual-mode display with 4K at 240Hz, 0.03ms response time, and FHD at huge 480Hz.

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ASUS’ ROG Strix series is one of the slickest ranges of OLED gaming monitors, and Amazon is now offering an all-time low price as the perfect opportunity to jump in. 

As of May 26, Amazon has the ASUS ROG Strix 32-inch 4K OLED Gaming Monitor (XG32UCWMG) on sale for $899, an 18% discount from its usual $1,099 list price. This display, built for high-end PC and console gaming, now with a $200 saving, is sold and shipped by Amazon itself — with free delivery available and faster delivery for Prime members.

With that $200 drop, you’re also getting the lowest price this monitor has ever seen on the site — as shown with price tracker camelcamelcamel. 

In case stock runs out at Amazon, Walmart has a similar listing on sale for $899.99. Be aware, however, that this is a third-party listing through Newegg Inc., although 15-day returns are still available. 

With this ROG Strix monitor’s dual-mode panel, you can run games in 4K resolution with a 240Hz refresh rate when you want sharp detail for immersive RPGs like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, hit open-world games such as Crimson Desert, and cinematic single-player showcases like the new 007: First Light.

Then, when speed matters more than pixels, you can switch to Full HD at 480Hz for competitive games like Fortnite and Marathon.

It also helps that this is a 32-inch TrueBlack Glossy WOLED display, giving you the deep blacks, high contrast, and crisp image quality that make OLED monitors so tempting in the first place. ASUS has also promised 99% DCI-P3 color coverage, true 10-bit color, Delta E

As a unique bonus, the monitor also includes ASUS OLED Care Pro with a Neo Proximity Sensor, which can detect when you step away and switch the display to a black screen to help reduce burn-in risk.

If you’re keen for an ultrawide display instead, you can grab the 34-inch QD-OLED version of the ASUS ROG Strix at $300 off. For those who don’t mind shopping around different brands, the 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Gaming Monitor is on sale at $600 off. 

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TL;DR: Live stream Birrell vs. Pegula in the 2026 French Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

There's more top seed action in the first round of the 2026 French Open, with women's No. 5 seed Jessica Pegula taking on Kimberly Birrell. American star Pegula is yet to win a Grand Slam title though the 32-year-old has some momentum in top-level competition after she reached the semi finals of the Australian Open.

Kimberly Birrell has never progressed from the first round at Roland-Garros, so the 28-year-old Australian is sure to give it her all on the court this time around.

If you want to watch Birrell vs. Pegula in the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

How to watch Birrell vs. Pegula for free

Birrell vs. Pegula in the 2026 French Open is available to live stream for free on 9Now.

9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

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ExpressVPN (1-Month Plan)

$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

Get Deal

The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

Live stream Birrell vs. Pegula in the 2026 French Open for free with ExpressVPN.

TL;DR: Amazon has the Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster Box on sale for $134.99, down from its default $143.95 price.

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Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster Box

$134.99 at Amazon
$143.95 Save $8.96

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Magic: The Gathering’s return to Strixhaven is getting cheaper, and Amazon’s latest price puts the 30-pack Play Booster Box at an all-time low price on the site.

As of May 26, Amazon has the Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster Box available for $134.99, down from its usual $143.95 price. With this added 6% discount, you’re saving an extra $8.96 on a 30-pack box — now at its lowest-ever price on Amazon (confirmed with price tracker camelcamelcamel). 

In terms of price per pack, this means you’ll only be paying $4.49 per booster.

This new low for Amazon also only puts it $2.26 over TCGplayer’s $132.73 market price. The dedicated trading card retailer is selling the MTG Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster Box for the same price of $134.99. 

Inside the box, you’re getting 30 Secrets of Strixhaven Play Boosters, each with 14 Magic cards. Each pack includes one to five cards of Rare rarity or higher, three to six Uncommons, five to eight Commons, one Land card, and one Traditional Foil card of any rarity. A Traditional Foil Land also replaces the Land in 20% of boosters. 

One of the best things about these Strixhaven boxes is, of course, the Mystical Archive card in every pack, bringing back an iconic Instant or Sorcery spell from Magic’s history with special art and a showcase frame. Plus, for those new to MTG, Play Boxes like these are perfect for draft nights with friends, building out new decks, or just cracking packs to build out your binder. 

If you’re catching up on other expansions, you can also buy MTG’s 30-pack Edge of Eternities Play Booster Box for just under $145. If you’re a beginner with Magic: The Gathering, you can also get the game’s Final Fantasy Starter Kit for around $20. 

If you’re a Pokémon TCG fan, the newly-announced Pitch Black expansion is available to pre-order at TCGplayer.

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TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box available from $79.99, down from its $93.99 list price.

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Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box

$79.99 at Amazon
$93.99 Save $14

 

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As of May 26, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box available from $79.99, with a $14 price cut on its $93.99 list price. The lowest Amazon option we found is sold and shipped by DSTStore, with free delivery listed for June 1-3.

If you’re keen to get yours delivered as soon as possible, Amazon’s featured buying option is higher at $83.90 from BlueProton, with free delivery May 28-30. BlueProton only has one unit left at the time of writing, so another backup is the $83.50 listing from TODeals — which has fastest delivery for as soon as May 27 available. 

On the other hand, if your goal is to get one of these new and sealed ETBs for as cheap as possible, Walmart has the same Perfect Order Elite Trainer Box for $72.99. Over on TCGplayer, Perfect Order ETBs are listed from as low as $75, only slightly higher than its market price of $73.34 and lower than the listed median of $79.99.

No matter where you buy, you’re getting nine Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Perfect Order booster packs, one full-art foil Tyrunt promo card, 65 card sleeves, 40 Energy cards, a player’s guide, six damage-counter dice, one competition-legal coin-flip die, a plastic coin, a collector’s box with six dividers, and a Pokémon TCG Live code card. 

Rare and valuable chase cards you can pull include the SIR Meowth ex, Mega Hyper Rare Zygarde ex, the SIR Mega Zygarde ex, Mega Clefable ex, and the SIR Rosa’s Encouragement. 

If it’s the ETB from the latest expansion you’re shopping for, you can still buy the new Pokémon TCG Chaos Rising ETB for under $110 on Amazon. To pay even less for each pack, you can also grab the Chaos Rising Booster Display Box for under $275.

SAVE OVER $40: As of May 26, select models of the Fitbit Versa 4 have been discounted to $154 at Amazon. This is $45.95 off their full price of $199.95.

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Fitbit Versa 4

$154 at Amazon
$199.95 Save $45.95

 

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Memorial Day deals may be winding down, but there are still some offers floating around that are worth grabbing before they're gone for good. For those shopping for a fitness tracker to assist with workout goals this summer, the Fitbit Versa 4 is one deal that's still available at Amazon.

As of May 26, select models of the Fitbit Versa 4 are marked down to $154.

Usually the Fitbit Versa 4 is listed for $199.95, so this is a chance to save $45.95 on a model before its price goes back up. Again, this discount only applies to select models right now — the pink sand/copper rose and black/graphite — but if one of these has been on your radar, this is an excellent opportunity to save on them.

The Fitbit Versa 4 is a tracker that writer Lois Mackenzie said is: "The model I recommend to anyone in need of something functional, but also simple and affordable." Not only is this because it has a nice design for showing off on your wrist, but it's also because "In terms of fitness features, the Versa 4 covers all the basics and then some. You get heart rate tracking, step counting, sleep tracking, SpO2 monitoring, stress tracking, and built-in GPS."

It also has a battery life that can keep up with your activities, or just day-to-day tracking, lasting up to six days. And on top of that, it even comes with lifestyle features like the ability to receive notifications, calls, and texts from your phone. Mackenzie says in her review: "When it comes to lifestyle, this is my top pick."

This deal on the Fitbit Versa 4 may not last long beyond Memorial Day. Act fast to save on it at Amazon while select models are still discounted.

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TL;DR: Live stream Gauff vs. Townsend in the 2026 French Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

It may be the 2026 French Open but this first-round matchup is an all-American affair, as U.S. stars Coco Gauff and Taylor Townsend take to the court.

Gauff is the No. 4 seed — not to mention the defending women's French Open champion following her stunning victory last year over Aryna Sabalenka. She's also coming off a loss in the Italian Open final and is now aiming to bounce back with a dominant win over the unseeded Townsend.

If you want to watch Gauff vs. Townsend in the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

How to watch Gauff vs. Townsend for free

Gauff vs. Townsend in the 2026 French Open is available to live stream for free on 9Now.

9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

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ExpressVPN (1-Month Plan)

$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

Get Deal

The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

Live stream Gauff vs. Townsend in the 2026 French Open for free with ExpressVPN.

TL;DR: Live stream Auger-Aliassime vs. Altmaier in the 2026 French Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

French-Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime takes to the court today for the 2026 French Open. The 25-year-old is the No. 4 seed following a semi-final at last year's U.S. Open — his best Grand Slam performance so far. Now he's looking to repeat — or improve on — that success at Roland-Garros.

But first he has to get past the unseeded German player Daniel Altmaier. And while Auger-Aliassime is the clear favorite in this first-round matchup, there's no such thing as an easy round when you're playing at this level. Auger-Aliassime will need to put in a top performance to prove he can match the likes of No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner, who bested him at last year's U.S. Open.

If you want to watch Auger-Aliassime vs. Altmaier in the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

How to watch Auger-Aliassime vs. Altmaier for free

Auger-Aliassime vs. Altmaier in the 2026 French Open is available to live stream for free on 9Now.

9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

Opens in a new window

Credit: ExpressVPN

ExpressVPN (1-Month Plan)

$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

Get Deal

The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

Live stream Auger-Aliassime vs. Altmaier in the 2026 French Open for free with ExpressVPN.

TL;DR: Live stream Sabalenka vs. Bouzas in the 2026 French Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The 2026 French Open now serving up its first-round action, and Aryna Sabalenka is preparing to dazzle tennis fans with another world class campaign.

The 28-year-old Belarusian is coming off an incredible run, reaching the semi finals of last year's Wimbledon, winning the U.S. Open, and then making the final of this year's Australian Open. She also reached the final of last year's French Open, but the French title has eluded her so far in her career.

As the No. 1 seed, she's expected to power through this first-round contest against Jessica Bouzas Maneiro and set her sights on the silverware. But don't count Bouzas out — the 23-year-old Spaniard has shown good form at Grand Slam tournaments and is battling for her first career victory over Sabalenka.

If you want to watch Sabalenka vs. Bouzas in the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

How to watch Sabalenka vs. Bouzas for free

Sabalenka vs. Bouzas in the 2026 French Open is available to live stream for free on 9Now.

9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

Opens in a new window

Credit: ExpressVPN

ExpressVPN (1-Month Plan)

$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

Get Deal

The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

Live stream Sabalenka vs. Bouzas in the 2026 French Open for free with ExpressVPN.

TL;DR: Live stream Sinner vs. Tabur in the 2026 French Open for free on 9Now. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

The first round of the 2026 French Open sees Jannik Sinner face off against unseeded Frenchman Clement Tabur.

With defending champion Carlos Alcaraz missing the tournament due to an ongoing wrist injury, Sinner is the favorite to win the whole thing — not to mention the fact that the 24-year-old Italian is the world No. 1 following victories in the 2025 Australian Open and Wimbledon.

The French Open is the only Grand Slam title that Sinner is yet to win — he lost the final against Alcaraz last year — so expect him to bring his A-game this time around.

If you want to watch Sinner vs. Tabur in the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world, we have all the information you need.

How to watch Sinner vs. Tabur for free

Sinner vs. Tabur in the 2026 French Open is available to live stream for free on 9Now.

9Now is geo-restricted to Australia, but anyone can access this free streaming platform with a VPN. These tools can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you to a secure server in Australia, meaning you can stream the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world.

Live stream the 2026 French Open for free by following these simple steps:

1. Sign up for a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

2. Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

3. Open up the app and connect to a server in Australia

4. Connect to 9Now

5. Watch the 2026 French Open for free from anywhere in the world

Opens in a new window

Credit: ExpressVPN

ExpressVPN (1-Month Plan)

$12.95 only at ExpressVPN (with money-back guarantee)

Get Deal

The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer pretty generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch Roland-Garros without committing with your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream the 2026 French Open before recovering your investment.

If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming platforms from around the world, you'll need a subscription. Fortunately, the best VPN for streaming live sport is on sale for a limited time.

What is the best VPN for sport?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99 (with money-back guarantee).

Live stream Sinner vs. Tabur in the 2026 French Open for free with ExpressVPN.

Maintaining fitness and health is a constant struggle, with a lazy morning in bed often much more alluring than a sweaty gym session. As such, anything which might help encourage you and keep you on track can make a significant difference.

Here are five fitness gadgets that may help set you up for success in reaching your health goals.

1. WalkingPad C2 foldable walking treadmill

Credit: WalkingPad

Incorporating enough movement into your day can be difficult when you work a desk job. As such, many health-conscious employees who work from home have turned to walking pads, grinding out their daily steps during their daily grind.

The WalkingPad C2 foldable treadmill is a good option to consider for this purpose, especially for anyone working with limited space. Its ability to fold in half means it can be neatly tucked away when not in use — albeit only under furniture that is significantly elevated off the ground. The walking pad measures over five inches (13 centimetres) thick when folded, so storing it under a table may be more realistic than sliding it under a couch. Wherever you position it, the C2's foldable design means it won't have a large footprint of your living space. It also has a set of wheels on one end, so you can move it in front of your TV while you binge The Bachelor.

With a top speed of six kilometres per hour, the WalkingPad C2 comes with a handy three-button remote control for adjusting the pace. It also has an auto mode which ostensibly detects your speed and adjusts accordingly, though Mashable's testing found it felt precarious and accelerated too quickly (which is particularly dangerous considering the C2 has no handlebars). Even so, manual mode is all you really need, and is enjoyable and easy to use. Combined with its ability to fold for storage, the WalkingPad C2 is a tempting choice for apartment dwellers.

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