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Wordle today: Answer, hints for August 31, 2026

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Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're a nature lover. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for August 31, 2026 Where did Wordle come from? Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble , music identification game Heardle , and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess...

Texas blocks funding for Flock as backlash grows against AI surveillance cameras

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Flock's AI surveillance cameras are increasingly being targeted by its critics across the country. No, we're not just talking about vigilantes who are taking the cameras down in their towns. We're talking about politicians now, too. And it's a bipartisan effort; an anti-Flock position is being taken up by both Republican and Democratic politicians. Case in point: Texas Governor Greg Abbot, a Republican, has just recently blocked funding for Flock across the state. Abbott ordered that all state agencies stop funding the AI surveillance camera company in an order issued on Thursday night. Abbot's order came just as The Texas Tribune was going to publish a report on how the state of Texas spent at least $30 million in grants provided to local agencies to acquire the Flock cameras. According to the report , the money came from a higher fee levied by Texas lawmakers on Texans' car insurance policies. Play our Big Guessing Game: Make your predictions now for a cha...

Your ChatGPT conversations could end up in court, and they're not protected

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ChatGPT and similar tools are often used for personal questions, legal worries, health concerns, and emotional support. Those conversations can feel private, but they may be accessible through a phone search, a subpoena, discovery in a lawsuit, or a report by the AI company itself. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/arGNOVy via

A new piano teacher app gives you live feedback, and a lifetime subscription just went on sale for $150

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TL;DR:   Skoove is a new AI-powered piano teacher that listens and helps while you play, and it’s only $150 for a lifetime subscription (reg. $299.99). Opens in a new window Credit: Skoove Skoove Premium Piano Lessons: Lifetime Subscription ...

Roman telescopes data deluge will change who gets to do big astronomy

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NASA 's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will downlink about 1.4 terabytes of data — on par with an entire gaming system hard drive — every single day.  When Kristen McQuinn thinks about that deluge and how to get it in the hands of researchers, she likens it to another technological evolution.  "Back in the day, we would rent movies from Blockbuster to take home," said McQuinn, who will lead science operations at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. "Later, we had DVDs mailed to us by Netflix, and today we have streaming services that bring the content right into our home." Play our Big Guessing Game: Make your predictions now for a chance to win a new Apple Watch. Time's running out!  Because of Roman's firehose of huge, detailed space images, scientists won't be able to just pull them down to their laptops as they have in the past. Instead, Roman will be the first telescope to push astronomy fully into the cloud. A shared onlin...

Leaked footage of EA Motives Iron Man has surfaced online

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Gaming leaks have been having a moment lately, most notably the weeks-long saga between Rockstar Games and hacker Cyberleek surrounding Grand Theft Auto VI . But another notable leak flying under the radar is footage from EA Motive's long-dormant  Iron Man  game that has surfaced online. SEE ALSO: GTA 6 Netflix extended look: Everything that was revealed What makes this particular leak notable is how long the project has been MIA for. Motive's Iron Man game was first announced four years ago, and since then, it's largely been lumped in with a handful of other Marvel game projects from that era that appeared to stall out. For example, the Captain America and Black Panther-led Marvel 1943, and a separate, solo Black Panther game that was canceled outright . The leaked footage runs about two minutes and shows off several gameplay areas, including flight-based combat and free-roam exploration. Interspersed throughout...

Nvidia DLSS 5 is getting modded into just about every game, often with hilarious results

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A new version of the RenoDX modding tool, available through the developer's Discord server, allows users to apply a leaked build of Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 to any game that supports high-quality upscaling. The mod's rapid spread effectively amounts to an early release of arguably Nvidia's most ambitious and polarizing... Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/bDpUjrm via

TikTok has a new question: Can your boyfriend read?

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First, TikTok wanted to know whether your boyfriend would peel an orange for you. Then, whether he cared that you saw a bird. Now, users on the app have arrived at a more fundamental question: Can your boyfriend read? In the latest relationship trend spreading across TikTok, women hand their boyfriends or husbands lists of words and ask them to read each one aloud. The lists vary, but each version includes words that are tricky to pronounce based on their spelling, yet common enough that most adults would recognize them: "epitome," "hyperbole," "colonel," "quinoa," and "niche," among others. Then the boyfriends have a go — and, in many of the videos, get nearly all of them wrong. And viewers have found it increasingly difficult to blame every answer on the English language being notoriously quirky. "This trend has unearthed a fear of mine that I didn’t know existed before this past week," creator Isabella Von Ghou...

Samsung's new portable SSDs are blazing fast over USB4, but will torch your wallet

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Samsung unveiled the company's new offering for portable storage enthusiasts at Gamescom 2026 in Germany. The "P" Series of external SSDs uses USB4 connectivity to raise the performance bar considerably while offering some truly spacious units for both professional and consumer use. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/svhFDCR via

Roblox is cracking down on games that reward kids for doomscrolling

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After going viral and attracting around half a million concurrent players, the Roblox experience "Steal an Egg" is now facing brand-new restrictions. The widely popular user-generated gaming platform is prohibiting younger players from accessing SAE and similar experiences because they are supposedly designed to encourage kids to watch endless streams... Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/FluPIKV via

How to watch out-of-market NFL games: Is NFL Sunday Ticket worth it?

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Figuring out how to watch the entire NFL season in 2026 is complicated. But it gets really frustrating when you live in a different region than your favorite team. Watching out-of-market games for any sport is no walk in the park, but for the NFL, it's an excruciating battle — particularly for your wallet. Before you pull the trigger on any pay TV provider or streaming service, you may want to check to see what games are considered in-market and out-of-market for your region. You don't want to drop $90 on an annual Paramount+ plan or splurge on the $199 Fox One annual subscription only to find out the games you want to watch are blacked out. What are in-market vs. out-of-market NFL games? In-market games are basically your home team broadcasts, or the games geographically closest to you. These are the games you'll regularly find on CBS and Fox on Sunday afternoons. Out-of-market games are those only available outside of the designated broadcast region you are in. These ...

How to support Dolly Partons Imagination Library

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When Dolly Parton died Tuesday , her family asked for something other than flowers in her memory. Instead, they requested donations to Parton's Imagination Library . Though Parton was known around the world as an icon of music and movies, her beloved literacy program cemented her legacy as a humanitarian. SEE ALSO: The internet mourns Dolly Parton, country music’s brightest light How Imagination Library started Parton founded Imagination Library in 1995 to encourage a love for reading and learning among the children of Sevier County, Tennessee, where she was raised. She famously dedicated Imagination Library to her father, who grew up in rural poverty and never attended school. "Daddy was a really smart man ... but he was ashamed that he couldn't read and write," Parton told Oprah in 2020 , "That always bothered me that he felt like he couldn't learn after he was grown. I remember thinking, 'I ne...

Cyberleek posts first major GTA 6 spoilers in Lucia prologue leak

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For the past week, a mystery leaker calling themselves Cyberleek has been busy posting gameplay clips from the unreleased video game Grand Theft Auto VI , one of the most highly anticipated video games of all time. So far, the leaker has shared only brief, spoiler-free glimpses of cutscenes or gameplay footage showing the game's world and mechanics, but on Wednesday, that changed. Shortly after Rockstar Games issued a statement about the leaks, Cyberleek made good on a threat to release clips of the game's prologue featuring the playable character Lucia Caminos. Cyberleek posted four and a half minutes of the Lucia prologue in a Telegram channel and promised to release more footage featuring Lucia soon. The video shows a flashback featuring Caminos in prison, which isn't itself a spoiler. The  original  GTA 6  trailer,  released two years ago, showed Caminos in an orange jumpsuit, as did an official image released by Rockstar Games. However, Cyberleek's latest vide...

Everything we expect at Apples September iPhone launch event

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Apple has finally sent out invitations for its next hardware event , titled "Surprise and shine," set for Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. This year's keynote carries extra weight beyond the usual hardware reveal as it will be John Ternus' first Apple product event as CEO, following Tim Cook's planned exit from the top job. Ternus is set to take over on Sept. 1, and given his background in running hardware engineering, some reports suggest Apple's industrial design group is being pulled closer to the center of decision-making under his leadership. SEE ALSO: Meet incoming Apple CEO John Ternus: Everything to know For the hardware itself, all signs point to a narrower lineup than usual, with the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max all expected to headline, alongside ...

Raspberry Pi now has an official guide for building your own cyberdeck

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Raspberry Pi recently shared a series of DIY instructions for building a custom cyberdeck. The organization said the maker community has fallen in love with these homemade machines, which is why it has now published an "official" tutorial explaining how to build one using Raspberry Pi hardware and accessories. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/btc7A0a via

Xiaomi takes another shot at Qualcomm and MediaTek with its 3nm flagship Xring O3 chip

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Built on a 3-nanometer process, the chip is designed for flagship devices, with a focus on AI workloads, graphics performance, and camera processing. The manufacturing technology puts Xiaomi closer to Apple's latest A19 Pro chips and ahead of Huawei's current in-house smartphone processors. Read Entire Article from TechSpot https://ift.tt/DndCbB4 via

Please stop putting AI-generated food on the menu

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Food photos are supposed to make you hungry, but the ones currently haunting social media look more likely to crawl off the menu than end up on a plate. Over the weekend, tech reporter Sam Biddle shared a deli sign featuring what appears to be a dozen glossy, shrimp-shaped bagels sitting on a pile of noodles. Other dishes on the menu included perfectly round piles of pasta, strangely smooth sandwiches, and ingredients that seemed to melt into one another. "The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors," Biddle wrote on X . This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. The post struck a nerve. Soon, users were flooding the replies and quote posts with their own equally cursed sightings of apparent AI-generated food ads in delis, restaurants, food trucks, fairs, and even their mailboxes. Some shared menus filled with suspiciously per...