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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 31, #781

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun numerical theme, with each category playing along with that topic, but featuring different clues. Once you see it, it might be simple. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bo

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 31, #311

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is heavy on NFL clues, so football fans should do well. The purple category felt like an easy one for me today and it has nothing to do with the NFL. Keeping reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 30, #780

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Oh man, today's NYT Connections puzzle is a true brain-buster. The blue and purple categories are tough, but I found the green group to be tough as well. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wo

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 30, #310

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. The purple category for Connections: Sports Edition was extra sneaky today. The theme went right over my head, but made sense once it was revealed. Read on for hints and the answers if you run into problems like I did. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super

CashApp’s cross-platform Pool tool means none of your friends have an excuse for not pitching in

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Cash App is rolling out a new feature called “Pools.” Pools is a group payment feature that allows people to chip in money toward a large payment, whether they use the app, Google Pay, or Apple Pay. Members can be invited to a Pool in-app via their $cashtag or through a shareable link for external payments. Rounding up people for a group purchase can be a hassle, especially if some of those people use different payment apps. However, Cash App is intr

You Can Now Use Apple Pay and Google Pay on Cash App

Cash App/CNET You and your pals can now use Apple Pay and Google Pay to contribute to group payments through Cash App. The popular digital payment app announced its peer-to-peer group payment feature, Pools, which lets you set up and track group payments, including those from Apple Pay and Google Pay. "With Pools, our customers now have a dedicated, easy-to-use solution for group payments," Cameron Worboys, head of product design at Cash App, said in a statement. "They can start a pool to coll

Cash App lets you pool money from friends through Apple Pay – no app required

One of the most popular uses for the Cash App is collecting payments from groups of friends, whether that’s an immediate need like paying a restaurant bill or a future one, like collecting money for a shared gift. The company has today announced a new feature which lets you ask friends to contribute to a money pool even if they don’t use the app … First, the company is formalizing a common use for the app with a Cash App pool feature. Cash App today announced the launch of pools, a new peer-t

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Cash App now lets you pool money with friends who don’t use the app

Cash App is introducing a new peer-to-peer feature that allows you to pool money together for group payments, even with people who aren’t Cash App users. When a pool is created, the organizer can request contributions with in-app “$Cashtag” invitations, or via texts and shareable links for group members who use Apple Pay and Google Pay. “We know that many of our customers already use the platform as a way to collect payments from groups,” Cash App product design head Cameron Worboys said in the

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 29, #779

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Card players, today's NYT Connections puzzle is for you. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze you

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 29, #309

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition features two categories with references to specific places. One is a state and one is a city, so you should be able to sort them out without too much difficulty. Read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta

Here’s everything new for the Messages app in iOS 26

iOS 26 is the next major iPhone update, packing big updates for Apple Wallet, CarPlay, Apple Music, and a variety of new features for the Messages app too. Here’s what’s coming to your iPhone later this year. iOS 26 upgrades Messages with new design, group chat features, and more Apple’s Messages app is getting a handful of solid upgrades in iOS 26. Messages gains the new ‘Liquid Glass’ redesign that impacts the app, of course. Buttons have been updated, UI elements have a fresh look, and ove

France's warship builder Naval Group investigates 1TB data breach

France's state-owned defense firm Naval Group is investigating a cyberattack after 1TB of allegedly stolen data was leaked on a hacking forum. The company characterized this as a "destabilization attempt" and a "reputational attack," to which it has responded by filing a complaint to protect its client's data. Meanwhile, Naval Group is investigating with the assistance of external experts to determine if the leaked data originated from them. Despite the gravity of the claims, the company main

Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked and systems ‘destroyed’

In Brief Flights across Russia have been grounded after a cyberattack hit the country’s largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday. Details of the cyberattack remain limited, but a pro-Ukrainian hacker group known for targeting Russian organizations called Silent Crow took credit for the cyberattack alongside Belarusian hackers, citing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. The group said in a Telegram post, seen by TechCrunch, that it had taken control of Aeroflot’s critical systems, including terabytes

Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hit by cyberattack

In Brief Flights across Russia have been grounded after a cyberattack hit the country’s largest airline, Aeroflot, on Monday. Details of the cyberattack remain limited, but a pro-Ukrainian hacker group known for targeting Russian organizations called Silent Crow took credit for the cyberattack alongside Belarusian hackers, citing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine. The group said in a Telegram post, seen by TechCrunch, that it had taken control of Aeroflot’s critical systems, including terabytes

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 28, #778

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features another movie category, so cinema fans, dig in. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 28, #308

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. I learned enough during gym-class track days to ace today's Connections: Sports Edition green category. Need an assist with the game today? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the

After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

Hot on the heels of a major ransomware group being taken down through an international law enforcement operation comes a new development that highlights the whack-a-mole nature of such actions: A new group, likely comprised of some of the same members, has already taken its place. The new group calls itself Chaos, in recognition of the .chaos name extension its ransomware stamps on files it has encrypted and the “readme.chaos[.]txt” name given to ransom notes sent to victims. Researchers at Cis

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 27, #777

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle slyly threw a couple horror movie titles in there, but they don't get their own category. Need help figuring out what word goes where? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for W

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 26, #776

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Are you traveling this summer? Today's NYT Connections puzzle has two travel-related categories, blue and purple. The purple one requires you to think about places you might travel to, while the blue one is more about how you get around. Need help? Read on for clues and to

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 26, #306

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition includes some Olympics-connected sports. The yellow and green categories should be simple, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign t

Nuclear Reactor SIM by PeteTimesSix

A simple nuclear reactor simulator with basic explanations of how a nuclear reactor works provided. Controls: Q/Kp4 - A/Kp1 - Raise/Lower rod group 1 W/Kp5 - S/Kp2 - Raise/Lower rod group 2 E/Kp6 - D/Kp3 - Raise/Lower rod group 3 X/Kp- - C/Kp+ - Decrease/Increase water flow rate Heavily based on the following videos: Uses Maaack's Game Template and a few CC0 sounds from Pixabay.

ICE Plans to Track Over 180,000 Immigrants With Ankle Monitors: Report

ICE plans to expand its use of electronic surveillance of immigrants from about 24,000 people currently fitted with GPS ankle monitors to about 183,000 people, according to a report from the Washington Post. The move will continue to shovel money to the private prison industry, which has been making money hand over fist since President Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second time in January. ICE released an internal memo on June 9 about the so-called Alternatives to Detention program, which a

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 25, #775

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features that very rare thing -- an easy purple category! Or maybe my fascination with the royal family helped me out there. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 25, #305

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition tested my breadth of sports knowledge. The blue category pays tribute to one of the greatest players of all time. See if you can figure it out. We've got hints and the answers in case you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its

UnitedHealth Group Says It Is Cooperating With a DOJ Investigation

UnitedHealth Group, the company that owns healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth, said on Thursday that it is cooperating with the federal government as it fields criminal and civil requests from authorities. The company announced its cooperation with the feds in a statement published to its website on Thursday. “UnitedHealth Group (the “Company”) proactively reached out to the Department of Justice after reviewing media reports about investigations into certain aspects of the Company’s participa

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 24, #774

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has one of those purple categories that asks for sound-alike words that all have something in common. It's a toughie. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 24, #304

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Nice one, New York Times. That purple category for today's Connections: Sports Edition is pretty tricky. I'll admit, I didn't solve this one correctly! Stuck like me? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb.

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 23, #773

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun purple category. Look carefully at some of the words and see if you can break them into smaller words. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 23, #303

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition made me hungry with a food-themed category. The blue category might be tricky for some folks, but you should be able to sort out the rest without too much trouble. Keep reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, makin

Tech Billionaires Wanted to Build a New California City. They’re Settling for an Industrial Park, Instead

In 2023, the California Forever group, a company backed by a gaggle of Bay Area billionaires, announced that it wanted to use some 60,000 acres of Solano County farmland north of San Francisco to develop a brand new city. The effort was pretty much an unmitigated disaster from start to finish, and the group eventually rescinded its plans. Now, however, the same group says that it has a new project that may be significantly easier to accomplish. In a blog post made to its website last week, the