In this article NYT This photo illustration shows a person playing online word game “Wordle” on a mobile phone in Washington, DC on January 11, 2022. Stefani Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The New York Times is acquiring Wordle, an online game that shot up to popularity seemingly overnight. The move highlights the importance
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For weeks we’ve been told to “wait for Sue Gray” but as soon as her report landed it was clear that judgment day was delayed. The 12-page “update” noted failings in leadership and concluded “some events should not have happened”. But it has nowhere near settled this whole sorry saga. As Ms Gray put it
Wordle, an online word game which has seen a surge in popularity recently, has been bought by The New York Times. The deal, which saw the media company take over running the game from creator Josh Wardle, was for “an undisclosed price in the low seven figures”. Wordle sees players try and guess a five
A US judge has asked for Prince Andrew’s former assistant, Robert Olney, to give evidence as part of the civil sex assault case brought by the duke’s accuser Virginia Giuffre. Court documents reveal Judge Lewis A Kaplan has written to both the Senior Master of the Queen’s Bench Division and the Australian attorney general to
If you don’t yet own a solid string trimmer, then it’s time to finally add one to your yard care routine. String trimmers can put the finishing touches on a yard and choosing today’s deal will net you the ability to enjoy both a gas- and oil-free experience thanks to its 80V battery. Plus, it’s
A woman shovels her car out of the snow during a major snowstorm on Jan. 29, 2022 in Stony Brook, New York. Andrew Theodorakis | Getty Images After a few months of winter and two major snowstorms pounding much of the eastern U.S. in January, many Americans may be realizing they’re in for elevated heating
9:50 PM ET ESPN staff Well now. Super Bowl LVI is going to give us a matchup that almost none of us expected when the 2021 season began. The Cincinnati Bengals were 125-1 preseason long shots to reach the Super Bowl, having won an NFL-worst two games in 2019 and then only four games last
In this article SPOT Joe Rogan Vivian Zink | SYFY | NBCUniversal Podcaster Joe Rogan has apologized to Spotify, while also addressing the controversy around his podcast. Musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell recently boycotted the service for continuing to host “The Joe Rogan Experience, which has been accused by medical professionals of spreading Covid
7:00 AM ET The good news for college football is that the 2021 season looked, more or less, like most seasons that came before, filled with big games, high drama and a satisfying conclusion, as Georgia won its first national championship in 41 years. Off the field, however, 2021 was a year of constant upheaval,
Tesco has revealed that its Jack’s discount store experiment is to end, with seven of the 13 stores to be closed down completely, and that it is to shut down deli counters at hundreds of other sites. The UK’s biggest supermarket chain launched the Jack’s brand – named after its founder Jack Cohen – in
Rihanna is pregnant with her first child, new photographs of the star show. The singer-songwriter was pictured displaying her bare baby bump while out in New York with her rapper boyfriend A$AP Rocky. Despite freezing temperatures in the city, Rihanna can be seen wearing her bright pink coat open at the bottom, with nothing on
On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup. Many democratically elected politicians including the country’s de-facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and President U Win Myint were detained. Others fled or were forced into hiding. The military regime said concerns of widespread electoral fraud in the 2020 vote was the reason it
A British woman found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus has won her appeal to overturn the conviction at the country’s Supreme Court, her lawyers said. The then 19-year-old, from Derby, was given a suspended four-month jail term in 2020 after a judge found her guilty of public mischief following a trial. The
I recently had an exclusive opportunity to visit Lucid Motors’ powertrain manufacturing and AMP-1 facilities and test drive a Lucid Air Dream Edition (Performance). Inside and out of my detailed tours full of manic note scribbling, I had tons of time to mingle with members of the Lucid team, from manufacturing employees at AMP-1, to
It would be “insane” for Russia to invade Ukraine — but that scenario is “not impossible,” says former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt. “A big invasion might not be the most likely, but it’s not impossible” given that Russian President Vladimir Putin has used military power against Ukraine in the past, said Bildt, who
NASA’s Hubble telescope is known to capture spectacular glimpses of spatial objects as it is placed strategically and has an unrestricted view of the universe. It recently released an image of a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. Placed in the constellation Phoenix, these galaxies are about 425 million light-years from the Earth.
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