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Wordle game to be turned into TV show with Jimmy Fallon’s company

Wordle game to be turned into TV show with Jimmy Fallon’s company

Published by Sam Flores

The New York Times’ hit game Wordle is set to become a television show, the American newspaper announced on Monday (May 11). Wordle gives players six chances to guess a random five-letter word, using green, yellow and gray tiles to help them solve the puzzle. The game show version, which will air on NBC next year, will see teams of players go head-to-head to win cash prizes. It will be hosted by NBC news anchor Savannah Guthrie, who has recently been through a very public family tragedy, following the abduction of her elderly mother at the end of January. Wordle was launched by software engineer Josh Wardle in 2021 and quickly grew in popularity. It was acquired by the Times in January 2022 and is now played daily by millions of people worldwide.   “Wordle is so beloved by so many that we thought it was an interesting, creative opportunity to think about how it might work in in a game show,” said Caitlin Roper, executive editorial director of film and TV at the Times. The …

I gave Claude broken data and it turned it into a usable spreadsheet

I gave Claude broken data and it turned it into a usable spreadsheet

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Claude is a great solution for you if you have any problems related to organization. This AI feels like it was made to put a bunch of thoughts together in a structured way. After testing it on sheets that were clearly screwed up, I can see that Claude is amazing. Regardless of whether you have a subscription or use it for free, this can revive your spreadsheets. Related I started using Claude instead of these 5 apps — and I’m not going back The stack got smaller and the work got better Solving the problem of messy data You don’t have to fix it yourself Jorge Aguilar / Make Use Of Since software has limits, some people have to spend hours, sometimes days, manually fixing spreadsheet errors, removing duplicate records, or realigning columns. Cleaning data is a tedious job. If you’re doing this for work, it can get worse. Databases are often estimated to decay by roughly 20–30% per year, quickly filling up with old job titles, mixed-up formats, and duplicate contacts like Sarah Smith …

Introverts Who Are Truly Happy In Their 50s And 60s Started Doing 11 Things Before They Turned 40

Introverts Who Are Truly Happy In Their 50s And 60s Started Doing 11 Things Before They Turned 40

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many people become more introverted with age, as alone time is more prevalent and self-reflection becomes second nature alongside a growth in self-esteem. However, just because introverted lifestyles become more intuitive doesn’t always mean that people thrive. Spending all your time inside and avoiding the discomfort of growth can all lead to a more isolated lifestyle than healthy introverts are willing to live. That’s why the healthiest, happiest introverts who are truly happy in their 50s and 60s started doing certain things before they turned 40, all to set themselves up for success. Introverts who are truly happy in their 50s and 60s started doing 11 things before they turned 40 1. They created hobbies they actually enjoy GaudiLab | Shutterstock Hobbies can promote better happiness and well-being, yet so many people prefer to be overly productive and focus only on “work” to create a sense of misguided meaning and accomplishment. However, happy introverts in their 50s and 60s focus on creating hobbies that they actually enjoy, without needing to share or monetize them, to …

Bezos and Zuckerberg Skipped 2026 Met Gala Carpet But Other Tech Titans Turned Out

Bezos and Zuckerberg Skipped 2026 Met Gala Carpet But Other Tech Titans Turned Out

Published by Sam Flores

The Met Gala has earned the nickname “Tech Gala” this spring for Silicon Valley’s heavy presence. Jeff and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are the main sponsors of the event, with a reported $10 million donation. Lauren walked the carpet wearing Schiaparelli without her husband, who appears to have skipped the carpet and slipped inside discreetly. First time attendee, Mark Zuckerberg, made the same choice, amid protests over the tech industry’s growing footprint at the event. OpenAI, Meta, Snap, Shopify, and Amazon have all purchased tables. Individual tickets reportedly cost a record-breaking $100,000. Sam Altman had not been spotted inside as of publication time. (Condé Nast has a content sharing relationship with OpenAI.) The proceeds for the Met Gala are for charity and the reported $42 million raised for this year’s event will fund the Met’s Costume Institute, which houses over 35,000 works. Some tech titans did step out on the carpet, however, including Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, Google co-founder Sergey Brin (who was just featured in a New York Times story about …

You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes

You Can Have Your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, When Your Day Comes

Published by José Betancourt

Even in death we are only lim­it­ed by our imag­i­na­tion in how we want to go out. There are now ways to turn our corpse into a tree, or have our ash­es shot into space, or press our ash­es into dia­monds–I believe Super­man is involved in that last one. And now for the music lover, a com­pa­ny called And Viny­ly will press your ash­es into a playable vinyl record. You like that pun­ny com­pa­ny name? There’s more: the busi­ness lets the dear depart­ed “Live on from beyond the groove.” Hear that groan? That’s the deceased lit­er­al­ly spin­ning in their grave…on a turntable. The UK-based com­pa­ny has been around since 2009, when Jason Leach launched it “just for fun” at first. But a lot of peo­ple liked the idea and have kept him in busi­ness. It will cost, how­ev­er. The basic ser­vice gen­er­al­ly costs between £1000 and £3000 GBP, and it part­ly depends on how many vinyl records you pro­duce. From what we can tell, you can­not use copy­right-pro­tect­ed music to fill up the 18–22 min­utes …

NotebookLM’s audio overviews turned my research paper backlog into actually useful summaries

NotebookLM’s audio overviews turned my research paper backlog into actually useful summaries

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When you’re in academia, reading research papers is part of everyday life — at least it is supposed to be. You may be working on a paper or thesis and want to do a thorough literature review. Or you may just want to catch up with your area of interest. These scholarly works are written for specialists, with dense language that makes regular reading a challenge even when the topic is familiar. Yet, there’s a bigger, more common problem. Related I hooked Obsidian to a local LLM and it beats NotebookLM at its own game My notes now talk back and it’s terrifyingly useful. I was saving papers more than I was understanding them My “read later” system was doing all the reading I’m sure most people working in academia have either a messy Google Drive folder with hundreds of papers or a Zotero library that feels vaguely familiar after a few months. Every time you come across something you think you love, you download the paper or add it to Zotero or Mendeley. But …

Android has three great features turned off by default — here’s how to enable them

Android has three great features turned off by default — here’s how to enable them

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Android ships with a ton of features already enabled by default that you didn’t ask for, like an adaptive battery that can throttle your background apps, pre-installed Google apps that sync in the background, and default usage and diagnostics sharing, which you’ll only notice if you go looking in the Privacy Dashboard. But what about the opposite issue, like features that are genuinely useful and ready for use that just aren’t enabled from the start? I went looking for some of those and found three that made me wonder why they weren’t already an active part of my Android system. Theft Detection Lock It’s on any device with Android 10 or newer Theft Detection Lock uses on-device AI systems along with your phone’s motion sensors, Wi-Fi connection status, and Bluetooth to detect when someone has grabbed your phone and run off with it. If the system’s algorithm senses this snatch-and-run pattern, it locks the screen immediately so the thief has no time to start rifling through your banking apps or Google account. The feature rolled …

The Summer the American Water Crisis Turned Real

The Summer the American Water Crisis Turned Real

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Two high-profile water crises, juiced up by climate change and industrial overuse, are building in the US. From a city in Texas staring down a drought emergency, to a decades-long political crisis coming to a head for seven states that rely on the Colorado River, water issues in the West will take center stage this summer—and experts tell WIRED that other places should take notes and start planning ahead for their own future. In February, following a winter of record-breaking heat, snowpack in various mountain ranges across the American West reached record lows. March came in even hotter, smashing records in states across the region. “What happened in March was unprecedented, and stunning, and disturbing, and out of this world, frankly—we had temperatures the likes of which we have never seen and couldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change,” says Brad Udall, a senior water and climate researcher at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center. “We had a crummy snowpack that went from crummy to God-awful in three weeks.” This snowmelt crisis is having dire …

Meryl Streep Turned Down Devil Wears Prada Until Bosses ‘Doubled’ Their Offer

Meryl Streep Turned Down Devil Wears Prada Until Bosses ‘Doubled’ Their Offer

Published by Sam Flores

Meryl Streep has admitted that she came close to turning down one of her most iconic roles in The Devil Wears Prada. Appearing on The Today Show to promote the sequel, Meryl recalled how as soon as she read the script for the original film, she knew immediately that it was “going to be a hit”, so seized an opportunity. “I thought, it’s a great script. And they called me up and made an offer and I said, ‘No, I’m not gonna do it’,” Meryl recalled. She continued: “I knew it was gonna be a hit, and I wanted to see if I doubled my ask, and they went right away and said, ‘Sure’.” Meryl Streep at the London premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 last week Meryl went on to share that it took her a long time to “understand that I could do that” and that “you can ask for what you want”. “I was sure it would be a hit, and they needed me,” she added. “I wanted it, but if …