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

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

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If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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Grasping.

Hurdle Word 1 answer

AHOLD

Hurdle Word 2 hint

A potato is an example.

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TUBER

Hurdle Word 3 hint

A small rodent.

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MOUSE

Hurdle Word 4 hint

A decorative fold in clothing.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

PLEAT

Final Hurdle hint

To project from within.

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EXUDE

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It's the Full Moon tomorrow (or tonight, depending on your timezone), which means the Moon looks big and bright in the tonight. Hoping to do some Moon gazing? Here's what you should be able to see.

What is today's Moon phase?

As of Sunday, Oct. 25, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in the Waxing Gibbous phase, with 99% of its surface visible.

Tonight, without the use of visual aids you should be able to spot the Copernicus Crater, Tycho Crater, and the Mare Crisium. If you have binoculars you'll also see the Endymion Crater, the Alphonsus Crater, and the Mare Nectaris. Finally, if you have a telescope, you'll also see the Apollo 16 and 17 landing spots, and the Schiller Crater.

When is the next Full Moon?

The next Full Moon will take place on October 25 or 26, depending on your timezone.

What are Moon phases?

The Moon takes around 29.5 days to travel around Earth, and its appearance changes throughout the month. As it moves around our planet, we see different amounts of its sunlit side, from a slim crescent to the quarter phases and eventually a Full Moon. It then begins the cycle again. As NASA explains, these phases are caused by the Moon's changing position relative to Earth and the Sun.

The eight phases are:

New Moon - The Moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it's invisible to the eye).

Waxing Crescent - A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).

First Quarter - Half of the Moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-Moon.

Waxing Gibbous - More than half is lit up, but it's not quite full yet.

Full Moon - The whole face of the Moon is illuminated and fully visible.

Waning Gibbous - The Moon starts losing light on the right side. (Northern Hemisphere)

Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) - Another half-Moon, but now the left side is lit.

Waning Crescent - A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.

Looking for spoiler-free NYT Connections hints or just wondering why Connections is trending today? We've got what you need to understand the clues for today's puzzle without spoiling any of the answers.

Of course, Mashable has also provided daily hints and answers for Connections, Wordle, and Strands for years, so we can help you if that's also what you need.

While we are focused more on meanings than hints in this story, sometimes learning that many of the words have completely unrelated meanings is a clue in and of itself. Connections frequently includes clues that involve words within words and other visual clues.

SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for October 25, 2026 Glow stick meaning

A light source.

Wagon wheel meaning

A vital component for traveling by wagon.

Pocket meaning

A space meant for holding or concealing.

Football meaning

A popular sport.

Thumb meaning

An extremity located on the hand.

Elbow meaning

A joint.

Swift meaning

Quickly.

Fingers meaning

Extremities located on the hand.

Shell meaning

A protective exterior.

Palm meaning

A part of the hand.

Rubber band meaning

A tool used to hold or connect things together.

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Bow tie meaning

A clothing accessory.

Sawyer meaning

A common name.

Swipe meaning

To swing at.

Ripley meaning

A common name.

Boost meaning

To lift.

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Connections.

The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're a math whiz.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

SEE ALSO: NYT Pips hints, answers for October 25, 2026 Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Abscond

• Green: Delicious geometry

• Blue: Same first name

• Purple: Action word with different meanings linked to these.

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Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Steal

• Green: Pasta shapes

• Blue: Fictional Toms

• Purple: Things that can be snapped

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections #1232 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Steal: BOOST, PALM, POCKET, SWIPE

• Pasta shapes: BOW TIE, ELBOW, SHELL, WAGON WHEEL

• Fictional Toms: RIPLEY, SAWYER, SWIFT, THUMB

• Things that can be snapped: FINGERS, FOOTBALL, GLOW STICK, RUBBER BAND

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Connections.

Today's NYT Strands hints will be easy if you're familiar with the concept of creation.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

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By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

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The words are structural.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe the components needed to build something.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

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NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Foundations.

NYT Strands word list for October 25

• Skeleton

• Scaffolding

• Framework

• Foundations

• Structure

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Strands.

Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you like clothes.

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.

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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 multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:

A clothing item.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

The letter S is used twice.

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Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter D.

The Wordle answer today is...

Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today's Wordle is...

DRESS

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier for people who watch hockey.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight, and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. 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 What is Connections: Sports Edition?

The NYT's latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication's sports coverage. The sports Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words, and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake — players get up to four mistakes before the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

SEE ALSO: Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL. Here's a hint for today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Monoymous teams

• Green: ZZ

• Blue: Team Canada

• Purple: LA teams, unfinished

Here are today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: NHL Teams with Singular Nicknames

• Green: Contains a Double Z

• Blue: Famous Canadian Athletes

• Purple: Starts of Los Angeles Team Names

Looking for Wordle today? Here's the answer to today's Wordle.

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections: Sports Edition #762 is...

What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?

• NHL Teams with Singular Nicknames: AVALANCHE, KRAKEN, MAMMOTH, WILD

• Contains a Double Z: GRIZZLIES, JAZZ, MIZZOU, RIZZUTO

• Famous Canadian Athletes: MCINTOSH, NASH, ORR, VOTTO

• Starts of Los Angeles Team Names: CHAR, CLIP, GALA, LAKE

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new sports Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalog.

Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.

How to play Pips

If you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match.

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The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible — and common — for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.

Here are common examples you'll run into across the difficulty levels:

• Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.

• Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.

• Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.

• Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.

• Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.

If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.

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Greater Than (4): Everything in this space must be greater than 4. The answer is 5-3, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally.

Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally; 0-1, placed vertically; 0-2, placed vertically.

Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. The answer is 0-1, placed vertically; 1-4, placed horizontally.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 0-2, placed vertically; 1-4, placed horizontally.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for October 25 Pips

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 0-0, placed horizontally.

Less Than (2): Everything in this space must be less than 2. The answer is 3-1, placed vertically.

Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 2-3, placed vertically.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 6-0, placed vertically.

Greater Than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. The answer is 2-4, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (4): Everything in this space must be greater than 4. The answer is 5-6, placed horizontally.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 5-6, placed horizontally.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for October 25 Pips

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 2-0, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 5-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 5-3, placed horizontally.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 2-0, placed vertically.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-2, placed vertically.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-1, placed vertically.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 0-3, placed vertically.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-6, placed horizontally.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 3-6, placed horizontally.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 3-2, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 5-0, placed vertically.

Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 3-1, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-0, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-1, placed vertically.

Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 1-2, placed vertically.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 1-2, placed vertically.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 5-0, placed horizontally.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 4-0, placed horizontally.

Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 4-1, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 5-1, placed vertically.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally.

Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-5, placed horizontally.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 4-5, placed horizontally.

Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 5-1, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-2, placed horizontally.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 4-2, placed horizontally.

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Most of us have outdated electronics and gadgets sitting around—an old TV, some nice old speakers, or a slightly bulky monitor. They often work just fine, but they just haven't aged well because either connectivity or software left them outdated long before they break.

Every Android phone can play the role of a mobile hotspot, with most people using it to provide internet to their laptop or another phone, or to a computer that doesn’t have Wi-Fi via USB or Ethernet tethering.

A high-quality, durable toolbox for any professional in the shop will be expensive, but that doesn't mean you need to spend $8,000 or more on one, either. Most mechanics and professionals know that Snap-on is one of the best, but you can get a toolbox with similar quality for a lot less.

HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C are the most popular ports today, but they're not the only ports in use. In fact, if you take a look at the most popular ports today across all electronics, you'll find that a surprising number of them have been around for a very long time.

I remember a time when you'd have to be mad to use a wireless mouse, even if you were only working with spreadsheets or playing Solitaire. Weak signals, low-res optical sensors, and a Wild West of driver and software support made my first wireless mouse experience very frustrating indeed.

How good is your monitor, really? Even without professional equipment, you can get a fairly decent idea of your monitor's quality by performing some quick tests with free, browser-based tools and games.

I almost switched to another navigation app because Google Maps was starting to feel a little too basic for my daily drives. I use it to get around Ahmedabad, find new places, and dodge traffic when I’m running late.

Choosing a distro for a virtual machine is easy to get wrong. Most people pick whatever they’ve heard of most, then fight it for months. These three options, though, cover nearly every use case, and each shines in a different situation.

Elon Musk doesn’t have a great track record of following through on his promises. According to MuskOmeter, a site that tracks the pledges Musk has made and whether he’s kept them, he’s at about a 24 percent hit rate.

So it’s almost impressive that one of his sillier promises from this year actually came true.

Late Friday afternoon, Musk shared the first of several planned episodes of an AI-generated version of Homer’s The Odyssey, made with Grok Imagine, the AI video generator from his company xAI. According to a post from the Grok Imagine account, the project is a collaboration between Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. Both specialize in generative AI filmmaking.

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Musk first made the promise in July. As Mashable reported at the time, he posted on X that, before the year ended, Grok Imagine would make a full-length Odyssey movie that would be "historically accurate and true to the art of Homer."

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That was the culmination of months of Musk complaining about Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey. Much of the right-wing backlash to Nolan’s film was framed in terms of historical accuracy. The initial trailer sparked a little doubt about a faithful adaptation, as some took issue with the film’s armor, calling it bland and closer to Roman than Greek.

The bigger outrage came from the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and Elliot Page as Sinon. In February, Musk declared on X that Nolan had "lost his integrity" over it, as Mashable reported. Musk and others argued that a Black woman couldn’t play a character described as the most beautiful woman in the ancient world.

Leave aside what that says about who gets to count as beautiful. Helen of Troy isn’t a real person. Troy was a real city, but historians still debate whether anything resembling the Trojan War ever happened. In Greek mythology, Helen herself is the daughter of Zeus and was hatched from an egg. "Historical accuracy" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Musk also took issue with Page's casting. In May, Musk reshared posts criticizing the casting, including some that misgendered the trans actor. Because Nolan’s cast list didn’t say who was playing whom, online conspiracy theories claimed Page would play Achilles. Instead, Page played Sinon, a character who originally appears in Virgil’s Aeneid, which is essentially Roman fan fiction of the Trojan War.

With the casting details, Musk and right-leaning influencers predicted Nolan's adaptation would flop — "go woke, go broke." Instead, The Odyssey opened to $124.5 million in July, a huge number for an R-rated, nearly three-hour film. IMAX 70mm screenings sold out weeks in advance, as Mashable previously reported. As of this writing, Nolan's film has grossed over $1.7 billion worldwide.

Nolan, for his part, has been openly skeptical of generative AI. He told AFP earlier this year that the idea of it replacing human creativity is "a nonsense," according to The Guardian.

Is Elon Musk's The Odyssey good?

Musk's Grok-imagined version of Homer's tale is about what you'd expect. The first episode runs a little over seven minutes and covers the Greeks’ arrival at Troy. Every character is white.

Visually, it has all the usual problems of generative AI video: unnaturally perfect teeth; the weightless, almost water-like hair texture; and the skin has an odd, smudgy quality that comes from the model not really understanding lighting or perspective. The backgrounds also suffer from something akin to texture pop-in, where video games load low-resolution textures before the detailed ones, so the screen isn't just black.

As just a film to watch, the writing isn't all that great, and it's hard to keep up with all the characters as they look similar or look way too similar to real people.

Is that not Kristofer Hivju? Credit: Grok Imagine / Wonder Studios / Mashable screenshot

On top of that, in the entire seven-minute runtime, Odysseus is the only named character. Unless you've read The Odyssey fairly recently, you'd be confused about who some of the characters are — how is one supposed to know that one of those two men in the photo above is Palamedes? I sure didn't.

As part of the promotion, Wonder Studios posted on X that "Homer didn’t have Grok… we do." True enough. Homer also told the story well enough that people are still adapting it nearly 3,000 years later, without any help from AI.

Although Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is winding down its theater run, the critically acclaimed film is set to release digitally on Nov. 17. To tide you over, Wolfgang Petersen's Troy, starring Brad Pitt and Eric Bana, got a cultural re-evaluation thanks to the success of Nolan's film. It's human-made and currently holds a 3.5 average rating on Letterboxd.

A Raspberry Pi and a mini PC have a lot in common, but most mini PCs can outperform Raspberry Pis for traditional computing tasks. They're intended for different purposes, however, and there are plenty of things that a Raspberry Pi can do that a mini PC can't match.

Anyone who suffers from motion sickness like me knows that using a smartphone in a moving vehicle is a bad idea. Focusing on a single point as you move at a high speed alleviates motion-induced nausea, and if that something is a bright screen that flickers, you’re guaranteed to have a really bad time of it.

Four RAM slots look like an invitation to fill every one. On modern DDR5 platforms, though, more sticks often means slower memory, longer boot times, and shakier stability. Here is how memory channels work, why four modules cause trouble, and what to buy instead.