April 21, 2025

Emily Rampling

Tech & AI

Wordle today: The answer and hints for April 18, 2025

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to

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‘Pop the Balloon’ Was a Viral Hit for Black Daters. Then Netflix Gentrified It

While the original has been called out for portraying a surface-level representation of Black dating culture, those unique elements are also what many

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OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B

When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the

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How AI is Revolutionizing Data Center Power and Cooling

Vlad Galabov, Omdia’s research director for digital infrastructure, spoke during Data Center World 2025’s analyst day. Image: Courtesy of Data Center World AI

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Today’s Hurdle hints and answers for April 18, 2025

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five

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How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests

There have been a number of protests in the past few months pushing back against President Trump’s most recent policy changes, and we’re

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Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces, and $4.3M from a tweet

On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just met built a cheap drone at a

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‘No AI Agents are Allowed.’ EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings

Image: Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash The EU is banning the use of AI-powered virtual assistants during online meetings. Such assistants are often used to transcribe,

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Does ‘Mario Kart World’ justify the $80 price?

On Thursday morning, Nintendo kicked off the post-hump day portion of the week with a juicy little Nintendo Direct livestream focused on Mario

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The CFPB Has Been Gutted

More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday amid a broader Trump administration shakeup at

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