Month: April 2024
NYT Strands today — hints, answers and Spangram for Thursday, April 11 (game #39)
It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for another brain-breaking instalment of the NYT’s Strands puzzle. Except… that makes no sense, because there’s a new Strands game each day, not just Thursdays. Anyway, the important thing is that there’s a new Strands game to play, courtesy of the New York…
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Showtime’s streaming service will finally shutter later this month
Variety reports that Showtime streaming subscribers have begun receiving notices that they will no longer be able to access the platform after April 30th. Going forward, subscribers will have to sign up for the $11.99 per month Paramount Plus with Showtime plan. Paramount Global announced its intentions to shutter the…
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NYT Strands — what is it, spangrams, strategy, rules and how to play
Strands is the New York Times’ latest attempt to create a new Wordle. Yes, it’s a simple online word game that you can only play once a day. Yes, you play the same game as everyone else. And yes, you can share your spoiler-free scores with each other afterwards. It’s…
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Apple renews Monarch for season 2 and has plans for more Godzilla spinoffs
Apple announced some Godzilla-sized updates for its streaming service. First up, the spinoff series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which premiered on Apple TV Plus last year, has been renewed for a second season. There aren’t any details on what the new season will entail or when it’ll start streaming, but…
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Civil War is an arresting journalism film lacking a real thesis
In A24’s new dystopian thriller Civil War, you can almost hear writer / director Alex Garland working through a mountain of complex ideas about how the United States could collapse and what it means for combat reporters to document humanity’s ugliest moments. But rather than articulating nuanced thoughts about America’s…
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An NPR editor accuses the network of institutional bias
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Hi, everyone — I’m starting off today with some big news to share: next week will be my last at Hot Pod and The Verge. Before coming here, all I wanted was to cover the podcasting industry, and I still…
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