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SAVE OVER $100: As of May 22, the Hisense 65-inch U7 TV is on sale for $696.94 at Amazon. That's a 13% discount on the list price.

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Memorial Day sales have come at just the right time if you're looking to upgrade your TV in time for the World Cup. There are plenty of TV deals live right now, but our top pick so far is the Hisense 65-inch U7 TV.

As of May 22, the Hisense 65-inch U7 TV is on sale for $696.94, its best-ever price and a saving of over $100 on list price.

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With this TV, you'll get Mini-LED Pro backlighting with up to 3,000 local dimming zones and up to 3,000 nits peak brightness, so every movie, TV show, or World Cup fixture will be in glorious quality.

It's a great choice for gamers too, thanks to the native 165Hz panel that supports a variable refresh rate from 48Hz to 165Hz. It also benefits from AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, Auto Low Latency Mode, and Low Latency MEMC to help reduce screen tearing. There's even an Enhanced Game Bar that lets you adjust settings and monitor performance directly on the screen while you're playing.

For streaming, you'll get all the benefits of Google TV. This means easy access to apps like Netflix, as well as many live channel options. And it's easy to navigate with a user-friendly home screen.

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SAVE $300: As of May 22, the Eufy C28 robot vacuum is on sale for $499.99 at Amazon. That's a 38% discount on the list price.

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Memorial Day is just around the corner, and we've started picking out our top deals for you to shop at retailers like Amazon.

There are deals on everything from TVs to earbuds, but if you're looking for a good robot vacuum deal, the Eufy C28 has caught our eye. As of May 22, this model is on sale for its lowest-ever price of $499.99. That's a saving of $300 list price.

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This robot vacuum is also a mop, so it's designed for seriously thorough floor cleaning. It has a 15,000Pa turbo suction with a DuoSpiral Brush system that is designed for picking up hair. It helps to reduce hair tangles, handling strands up to 30cm long without wrapping around the roller, so if you have pets at home it's ideal.

The mop function is just as impressive. It uses a 28cm HydroJet roller mop with 24 water ports that spins at 270 RPM for continuous self-cleaning while mopping. A built-in scraper separates dirty water and debris into a separate tank, so the roller stays clean throughout the cycle.

It also comes with an all-in-one docking station where it completes maintenance. This includes emptying dust and dirt into the 3 liter bag, mop washing, and 50°C hot air drying.

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TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Sleeved Booster Pack available for $12.99 with free delivery.

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Just in time for Chaos Rising to join the Pokémon TCG’s Mega Evolution set, single-sleeved booster packs have dipped down to a more budget-friendly price at Amazon. 

As of May 22, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Sleeved Booster Pack available for $12.99 with free delivery between May 29 and June 2.

TCGplayer has some even cheaper options. Despite the Sleeved Booster’s market price sitting at $10.71, there are listings going as low as $10 each with shipping included. Alternatively, you can buy regular Chaos Rising Booster Packs for as low as $9.64 shipped — only going ever so slightly above their $9.45 market price.

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Each sealed Chaos Rising Sleeved Booster Pack includes 10 random cards. The whole expansion features over 120, including plenty of Mega Evolutions featured in the Pokémon Legends: Z-A game. Among the most valuable and popular chase cards are Mega Floette ex, Greninja ex, Mega Pyroar ex, and Mega Dragalge ex. 

If you’d like to stick with Amazon and you want to spend less on each pack, you can also grab the Pokémon TCG Chaos Rising Booster Bundle for just over $60. The Chaos Rising Build and Battle Box is also on sale at $10 off.

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TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Booster Display Box available at $274.50 with free shipping.

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For anyone keen to jump into the Pokémon TCG’s new Chaos Rising expansion on launch day, the Booster Display Box is the best way to secure the lowest cost-per-pack in trading card collections.

As of May 22, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Booster Display Box available to order for $274.50 with free shipping, sold by BetterShopping4You. The listing shows free delivery arriving June 1 at the time of writing. 

Each Chaos Rising Booster Display Box contains 36 booster packs from the trading card game’s new Mega Evolution expansion. At Amazon’s $274.50 price, that works out to roughly $7.63 per booster pack before tax — far lower than Amazon’s $12.99 price for single Chaos Rising Booster Packs.

If you’re willing to trade the convenience of Amazon for the lowest price possible, you can find better deals elsewhere. TCGplayer currently has unopened Chaos Rising Booster Box listings starting at $227 shipped, far lower than its market price of $247.90. Walmart is a nice backup if Amazon’s best offer runs out of stock, priced at $279.77 with free shipping.

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Chaos Rising includes more than 120 cards to collect, more new Mega Evolution Pokémon ex, more than 25 Trainer cards, and over 35 Pokémon and Trainer cards with special illustrations. The expansion puts Mega Floette ex at the center, while Mega Greninja ex, Mega Pyroar ex, and Mega Dragalge ex sit among Pokémon Legends: Z-A-featured Megas appearing among the most valuable and popular chase cards you can buy. 

Among other recent expansions, you can also score the Perfect Order Booster Bundle for just under $50. For more from this new expansion, you can buy the Chaos Rising Booster Bundle for slightly over $60. 

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Apple wants to put its smartphones to the test, with the company set to broadcast a Major League Soccer (MLS) match live and shot only on the iPhone 17 Pro.

Announced Thursday, Apple TV will team up with MLS to air the LA Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo FC match on Saturday, May 23, live from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.

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The broadcast will be the first time iPhones have been the sole cameras used to film a major live pro sports broadcast. Apple used iPhone 17s for select moments of a live broadcast of the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers in September 2025, and has been regularly using iPhones to support Friday Night Baseball and MLS broadcasts since.

Only iPhone 17s with their three 48-megapixel Fusion cameras will be used to film Saturday's match. In Mashable's review of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, Stan Schroeder praised them as "the best I’ve ever tried" on a smartphone, with particular praise for that 8x optical-quality zoom. According to Apple, the iPhones will be set up throughout the venue to "capture live footage throughout the match, including team warmups on the pitch, player introductions, in-net goal angles, and the atmosphere inside the stadium."

Apple's partnership with the MLS is the company's latest move to top streaming competitors, seizing a piece of the live sports space.

The LA Galaxy vs. Houston Dynamo FC match will be streaming on Apple TV at 7:30 p.m. PT on May 23.

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

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.

SEE ALSO: NYT Strands hints, answers for May 22, 2026 Easy difficulty hints, answers for May 22 Pips

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 3-3, placed vertically; 0-5, placed horizontally.

Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally; 5-2, placed vertically.

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

Greater Than (5): Everything in this space must be greater than 5. The answer is 6-2, placed vertically.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally; 6-2, placed vertically.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for May 22 Pips

Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 6-0, placed horizontally; 2-6, placed horizontally; 6-3, placed horizontally.

Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 6-0, placed horizontally; 0-1, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally; 2-5, placed horizontally.

Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 2-6, placed horizontally; 4-5, placed horizontally.

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

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

Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally; 5-3, placed horizontally.

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

Hard difficulty hints, answers for May 22 Pips

Greater Than (10): Everything in this space must be greater than 10. The answer is 6-5, placed vertically.

Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 6-6, placed vertically; 2-2, placed horizontally.

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

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

Number (9): Everything in this space must add up to 9. The answer is 6-6, placed vertically; 3-0, placed horizontally.

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

Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 6-1, placed horizontally.

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

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

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

Greater Than (4): Everything in this space must be greater than 4. The answer is 1-5, placed horizontally.

Less Than (5): Everything in this space must be less than 5. The answer is 4-1, placed horizontally.

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

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

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

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 3-4, placed vertically; 3-6, placed horizontally.

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

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

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 4-5, placed horizontally; 0-5, placed vertically.

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TL;DR: Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box available for $106.95, down from its typical $113.97 price. That saves you $7.02 on the newly released ETB.

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The Pokémon TCG’s Chaos Rising expansion has finally been released, and you can now secure an ETB for a lower price than we've seen over recent weeks.

As of May 22, Amazon has the Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box available for $106.95, down from its typical price of $113.97. This 6% discount saves you $7.02 on a nine-pack box with added extras. 

This not only beats the lowest price we saw across major retailers last week, but this particular box is sold and shipped directly by Amazon. Free delivery is currently scheduled for May 28, with the fastest delivery option listed for May 26 at the time of writing.

That being said, there are lower prices around if you’re chasing the absolute cheapest Chaos Rising ETB. Walmart currently has the same box listed for $106, while TCGplayer’s unopened listings start from $94.99 with shipping included — putting it even lower than the dedicated trading card selling website’s own market price of $101.22.

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Inside the Chaos Rising ETB, you’ll get nine titular booster packs, one full-art foil promo card featuring Fennekin, 65 card sleeves, 40 Pokémon TCG Energy cards, a player’s guide, six damage-counter dice, one competition-legal coin-flip die, one plastic coin, a collector’s box with six dividers, and a Pokémon TCG Live code card. 

Chaos Rising brings the Mega Evolution era back into Lumiose City, where Mega evolutions featured in the Pokémon Legends: Z-A game — with Mega Floette ex, Mega Greninja ex, Mega Pyroar ex, and Mega Dragalge ex featured among the expansion’s most popular and valuable chase cards.

To save even more on Pokémon cards, you can also score eight packs of the base Mega Evolution set for only $74.45. For extra Chaos Rising packs, you can grab the Chaos Rising Booster Bundle for just over $60. 

Although currently not available on Amazon, the Pokémon TCG’s newly-announced Pitch Black expansion is available to pre-order at TCGplayer.

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After 11 years, The Late Show ended on a musical note.

In the footage above, Stephen Colbert comes out of the other side of a giant late night-destroying wormhole to join in on a performance of "Jump Up" with Louis Cato, Jon Batiste and Elvis Costello, before Paul McCartney joins them for a rendition of The Beatles' "Hello, Goodbye".

As the song ends Colbert's family and the entire show staff come up to the stage, before we cut to Colbert in a corridor with McCartney, getting ready to pull a giant "Late Show" lever.

The lights go off in the building, the entire Ed Sullivan Theater is shrunk down to a tiny snow globe, and Colbert's dog Benny makes a final cameo as he gives it a sniff.

"Come on Benny, let's go," says Colbert off camera. Then we fade to black.

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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will require hockey knowledge.

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.

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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: Hurler tracking

• Green: Hockey clubs

• Blue: Same first word, potentially

• Purple: Baseball teammates

Here are today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

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

• Yellow: Attributes for a baseball pitcher

• Green: NHL teams, familiarly

• Blue: Can follow the word "Texas"

• Purple: Members of the Cincinnati Reds

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 #606 is...

What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?

• Attributes for a baseball pitcher: COMMAND, CONTROL, STAMINA, VELOCITY

• NHL teams, familiarly: AVS, CANES, HABS, ISLES

• Can follow the word "Texas": LEAGUER, LONGHORNS, RANGERS, TECH

• Members of the Cincinnatti Reds: BURNS, DE LA CRUZ, SINGER, STEER

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.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.

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Is this the death of late night television?

In one of the final Late Show skits above it certainly seems that way, with Stephen Colbert seeking help from Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon after he's confronted with a gigantic wormhole that threatens to destroy late night TV.

"Why aren't you guys being pulled in too?" asked Colbert.

"You know what, actually one of these holes opened at my show last year, but it went away after about three days," says Kimmel.

"Is that what's going to happen to me too?" asks a hopeful Colbert, but the only response from the others is a group "Shhh" a handful of fingers placed on host's lips.

If you haven't yet seen Colbert's final Late Show monologue, you can watch it here.

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The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.

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Here are the clues and answers to NYT's The Mini for Friday, May 22, 2026:

Across"___ Birds" (Hitchcock film that suggests this puzzle's theme)

• The answer is The.

Loudly brag

• The answer is Crow.

Stretch out one's neck

• The answer is Crane.

Advocate of war

• The answer is Hawk.

Test for fifth-year Hogwarts students

• The answer is Owl.

DownFish using a large net

• The answer is Trawl.

Call from a Canada goose

• The answer is Honk.

Female sheep

• The answer is Ewe.

Stick in one's ___ (bird-related idiom)

• The answer is Craw.

Comedian Margaret

• The answer is Cho.

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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to the latest Mini Crossword.

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It's been 30 years since the masked Ghostface killer's on-screen debut in the iconic slasher film that launched a franchise. Scream has veered in many directions since, but with Scream 7, it goes back to its roots: Final Girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) versus Ghostface.

The seventh installment also brings back Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding as twins Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin, and the legendary Matthew Lillard as Stu Macher from the first film.

If a "hearty dose of nostalgia," as Mashable's entertainment editor puts it, is what you're after, Scream 7 serves it up on a platter. But there's also plenty of new ideas, reveals, and scares to keep it fresh.

If you missed it in theaters or can't wait to watch it again, Scream 7 starts streaming this spring. Here's what you need to know to watch it at home.

What is Scream 7 about?

"Scream 7 brings Campbell back to the center of the story, restoring some of the original concept's simplicity," as Mashable's Kristy Puchko writes. Sidney Prescott (Campbell) has left Woodsboro for good and has been living peacefully in Pine Grove, Indiana, with her husband Mark (Joel McHale) and daughter Tatum (Isabel May). But there's no real rest for Sidney in the Scream franchise, is there? Ghostface has set sights on her teenage daughter, and Sidney's forced to confront her past (again) to save Tatum.

Get a glimpse at the latest installment in the official trailer below:

Is Scream 7 worth watching?

A quick glance at Rotten Tomatoes shows a major divide between critics and audiences, with a 31 percent critic rating and 75 percent audience rating. In addition to delivering the biggest box office debut the decades-old horror series has ever seen, it's also become the highest-grossing film in the franchise. So, whether critics like it or not, audiences are showing up for Scream 7.

Mashable's own lead film critic is "elated" with the latest Scream film. "As someone who has long counted Scream as the best of the batch, I yearned for a sequel that recaptured that feeling of discovery but also shared in my affection for the first film. Scream 7 does that, paying homage without being beholden to audience expectation or constrictive lore. Incredibly, Williams gives us a hearty dose of nostalgia and Easter eggs while providing new ideas, weird reveals, and fresh chills," she writes.

Read Mashable's full review of Scream 7.

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There are a few different ways you can watch Scream 7 at home. You can buy it or rent it at digital-on-demand retailers for as low as $19.99, or you can stream it on Paramount+. See all the details below.

Buy or rent it on digital

Scream 7 made its digital debut on March 31, 2026, which means you can officially buy or rent the movie from on-demand retailers. If you choose to rent, you'll get 30 days to watch the film and just 48 hours to finish it once you start. If you choose to buy it, then it's yours to keep and watch at your own leisure.

Here are some quick links to rent or purchase the film:

• Apple TV — $9.99 to rent, $14.99 to buy

• Fandango at Home — $9.99 to rent, $14.99 to buy

• Google Play — $9.99 to rent, $16.99 to buy

• Prime Video — $9.99 to rent, $14.99 to buy

• YouTube — $9.99 to rent, $16.99 to buy

Stream it on Paramount+

Scream 7, a Paramount Pictures film, makes its streaming debut on Paramount+ on May 28, 2026. The slasher movie joins the six other franchise installments on the platform. You can also find behind-the-scenes extras in The Scream Collection on the streamer.

Paramount+ raised its prices in January 2026, so subscriptions now start at $8.99 per month. However, there are a few different ways you can save, including an annual subscription plan, a student plan, and a third-party partnership. We've rounded up the details below.

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The 2026 American Music Awards (AMAs) — aka the world's largest music awards show voted by fans — returns on Memorial Day. Live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the awards will honor the most popular songs and artists of the past year. That includes Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, Olivia Dean, Kendrick Lamar, Alex Warren, SOMBR, RAYE, and of course, Taylor Swift.

It's sure to be a talent-filled evening, packaged with grand performances and tributes. Plus, of course, some major winners and upsets. Here's everything you need to know to watch the AMAs live at home.

When are the American Music Awards?

The 52nd AMAs will take place on Monday, May 25 (Memorial Day), at 8 p.m. ET (5 p.m. PT). Queen Latifah will host the awards live from Las Vegas.

What channel are the AMAs on?

For the second year in a row, the AMAs will air live on CBS for those with cable. And because we're in the age of streaming, CBS's streaming sibling Paramount+ will also simulcast the awards show via its Paramount+ Premium tier only. The Paramount+ Essential plan will only get you access to the on-demand broadcast the day after the awards air.

How to watch the American Music Awards live without cable

For those who no longer have cable or access to their local CBS network, you'll have a few different options for tuning in live and for free.

The easiest way to watch is through a Paramount+ Premium subscription. The streamer itself no longer offers a free trial, but if you sign up through Prime Video, you'll get seven days of free streaming.

You can also opt for a live TV streaming service that broadcasts your local CBS station, which will allow you to watch for free with a trial if you're a new subscriber. Scroll for a breakdown of the best ways to watch the American Music Awards live and for free.

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As noted above, Paramount+ no longer offers a seven-day trial for new subscribers. But if you have an Amazon Prime account, you can still score a free week of streaming with the Paramount+ Premium add-on. That'll allow you to easily tune in to the AMAs for free.

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While it's a lot more expensive than Paramount+, YouTube TV will also give you live access to local channels, including CBS, so you can tune in to the AMAs as they're happening. And if you've never signed up previously, you'll get a 10-day trial to watch for free. Just set a reminder to cancel before the 10 days are up, or you'll be hit with a $67.99 blow to your bank account. After three months, that price then jumps back up to the full cost of $82.99.

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Gothic horror is going from mad to madcap with Victorian Psycho, a horror comedy that follows a murderous governess to her next — and possibly last — appointment.

Maika Monroe stars as Winifred Notty, a governess who is desperate to make a good impression on her new employers, the Pound family. The broad strokes of the plotline are tropes of Gothic horror. A seemingly fragile young woman must care for the young, defenseless children of a rich and twisted family. At night, strange noises might be heard about their grand house. The family's treasures go missing or are vandalized. Members of the staff vanish without a word. Could it be a ghost or ghoul whose very presence could drive this poor heroine mad? Well, no. Because from the very start, Victorian Psycho shows us its protagonist is already mad, and also the vicious thing that goes bump in the night.

The title alone gives some clue of the topsy-turvy approach that Virginia Feito, who wrote the novel and this adapted screenplay, has to the genre. Director Zachary Wigon (Sanctuary) cements this cheeky attitude with an opening scene in which Winifred addresses the audience in voiceover while looking straight into the camera. There's a sense of Fleabag in this distorted direct address to the audience, as Winifred insists she is the sanest person she's ever met.

This is just the first red flag, warning that Winifred Notty is much more than naughty. Soon after, a dismembered human ear tumbles out of her luggage; she regards it with slight irritation. From here, Victorian Psycho blooms into a deliciously bonkers spin on gothic horror with an eat-the-rich edge.

Victorian Psycho blends gore, goofiness, and class conflict.

On the surface, Winifred seems a darling young woman, eager to be accepted into a household that'll appreciate her. She's demure when meeting the servants of the Pound estate, as well as the family themselves. Among them, there is a mightily mustachioed father (Jason Isaacs), a fearsome mother (Ruth Wilson), teen daughter Drusilla (Evie Templeton), and the spoiled little heir to the family fortune, Andrew (Hamnet's Jacobi Jupe).

But there's a spiky antisocial undercurrent to Winifred, especially when she's left alone with the children. She speaks of the wickedness and pain that lie inside all living things, frightening the young Master Andrew, who watches in shock as she bludgeons a fallen deer to death with a rock. Still, few around her could imagine what horrid secrets she's left behind her, and what deranged fantasies fuel her dark heart. She swiftly befriends the children's nurse, Miss Lamb (Thomasin McKenzie), and offers to this wide-eyed waif tales of a ghoul that's prowling the property. For how else to explain the blood all over Winifred's dress?

When it comes to Winifred's violence, Wigon is unblinking in brandishing spurts of blood but knows when to keep certain especially heinous homicides off-camera. This keeps the tone of Victorian Psycho thrillingly zany, despite the grim content.

As for Feito, she seems to pull inspiration from Jane Austen's brilliantly dummy dialogue for oblivious rich folk. These are caricatures of entitled affluence. The father bloviates about the value of phrenology, a pseudoscience that proposed personality could be predicted by skull shape. The mother punishes a scullery maid by chopping off the girl's long hair after a strand once ended up in her soup.

Like with Saltburn, there's a delicious lunacy to watching these careless rich assholes embrace an outsider who's sure to bring them to ruin. Not all of Winifred's targets feel as worthy of her brutal brand of comeuppance. Still, the breathtaking cruelty is part of the fucked-up thrill ride.

Maika Monroe gives a career-best performance in Victorian Psycho.

The American actress's career has been largely defined by horror since she broke through in 2014 with a supporting role in the gripping thriller The Guest and then starred in the STD-as-slasher allegory It Follows. Though she's done a slew of films since then, horror offerings like Watcher, Longlegs, and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle stand out. Yet here, she's turned from haunted heroines of her filmography and gothic horror in general to become a compelling monster all her own.

Typically, in these types of stories, like Crimson Peak, The Others, or The Turning of the Screw, the heroine is an innocent with good character and bravery in the face of an inhuman threat. Here, Winifred is that threat, and Monroe makes a meal out of playing the baddie as if she's been starving for the opportunity (though, yes, she's been the villain before).

There's an electrifying mix of menace and mischievousness in her delivery, whether she's flirting with the nurse or threatening a child. Her face shifts smoothly from a mask of civility to a reveal of wrath or revulsion. However, when Winifred gives over to her dark side, Monroe's performance ratchets into a gnarled physicality of demonic possession, which will likely remind viewers of Lily-Rose Depp's turn in Nosferatu. On top of all of this, Monroe offers a sharp humor through unhinged physicality that cuts deep as a shattered tea cup shard through a jugular.

Victorian Psycho offers fantastic WTF moments.

In scenes where Winifred is spiraling out of control, high-angle cinematography from Nico Aguilar distorts her proportions, turning this beautiful woman into a warped stranger. Whip pans, rarely used in period pieces, snap from a could-be victim's expression of shock to Winifred's face, and it can feel like a slap to it. But the gnarliest visual choices are when Aguilar gives a point-of-view of objects of violence, like the aforementioned dismembered ear or the rock used to fatally brain the deer. Such choices not only throw an exciting manic energy into Victorian Psycho but also force the audience to feel a part of the action, either to be gobbled up by Winifred's all-consuming darkness or party to it.

Composer Ariel Marx embellishes this tone of creepy complicity with a score studded with familiar and strange sounds. You might hear a plunking piano or stinging strings, common instrumental choices for gothic horror. Sometimes, there are slippery sounds (maybe a theremin? Or a saw being bowed?) and distorted voices, perhaps the cries of babies. These aural collisions of the expected and unexpected reflect how Feito and Wigon build on the bones of gothic horror, but create something more modern with their mesmerizing murderess.

In the end, Victorian Psycho is a hoot, wildly fun, and unapologetically deranged on its surface. Then, just beneath that, Feito, Wigon, and Monroe weave a tapestry of class conflict, sexism, and trauma that urges audiences to probe deeper to understand that while Winifred is a monster, she was not born one. Instead, she was made from a society that regards cruelty as another luxury the ultra-wealthy get to take for granted. Well, that is, until someone reflects it back.

Victorian Psycho was reviewed out of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival; it will open in the U.S. on Sept. 25.

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Down to under $1,000, the 45-inch LG UltraGear OLED can reach up to 1,300 nits of brightness and a blazing hot 240Hz refresh rate. It's LG's brightest OLED gaming monitor, making it the perfect model if you'll be gaming in bright summer daylight. More benefits come from the HDMI 2.1 port, 0.03 millisecond response time, and the 800R curve. Of course, the OLED display means you're in for excellent visual quality. LG also added anti-glare technology to this UltraGear model and flicker-free benefits.

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Mashable's Alex Perry took a close look at this lineup and said: "The new Galaxy S26 line delivers some key upgrades over Samsung's previous-gen phones." We're not talking about earth-shattering updates here, but the "incremental upgrade cycle" is still an upgrade.

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In April, the influencer Brigette Pheloung, known as @acquiredstyle, shared many videos of her bachelorette trip sponsored by a previously unknown company: Swan Beauty, a $795 "AI mirror" (that also needs a $94 per year app). TikTok then did what TikTok does best: Exploded with discourse. Some people praised Pheloung and Swan Beauty for their partnership, while others, predictably, hated it. (Pheloung didn't respond to Mashable's request for comment.)

"I don't think anyone would say no to her bachelorette, whether hosting it or attending it," said Sarah Singleton, founder and lead content creator at Hype Gal Media, which specializes in wedding iPhone content creation. "You just got to do it in a really, really cool way that was sponsored."

SEE ALSO: What are those heartbeats on Hinge?

It's just the latest in a series of high-profile influencer sponsorships in the wedding space. While getting free swag or paid services for weddings isn't new, it seems to be exploding in recent years, especially since COVID lockdowns. In fact, six in ten Americans would have a brand sponsor their wedding, so the naysayers may be in the minority. Mashable spoke to wedding professionals about these sponsorships and how the current state of the world means nothing is "sacred."

History of wedding sponsors

Despite the TikTok ire, brands have been gifting or paying for goods and services in exchange for attention for decades.

"Free or sponsored product or services is nothing new in the high-profile world," said Harmony Walton, founder of The Bridal Bar, a PR and marketing agency for luxury wedding professionals. Walton started The Bridal Bar in Los Angeles in 2004, and she's seen sponsored weddings before social media, even working with A-list clients who did it (though she declined to name who). 

A well-known, pre-social media example of this is TV personality Star Jones, who made headlines in 2004 for taking various freebies, such as bridesmaids' gowns and her (now ex-)husband's tuxedo, USA Today reported at the time. The same article also mentions early-2000s wedding sponsors, like fellow TV personality Tori Spelling, who received chocolates for her wedding party.

The concept has evolved, though, Walton said, as the influencer is the new celebrity. "So there are plenty of brands and companies that are motivated to gift products and services in exchange for attention, and the attention looks different now." Maybe it's a viral TikTok, whereas years ago it would be a mention in People magazine (print, of course). 

Throughout her career, Walton has seen wedding photographers, planners, dress designers, venues, and hotels climb in the industry because they booked a big influencer or high-profile client — whether they paid for it or not. The coverage is invaluable regardless.

Recently, brides who drummed up chatter on social media about sponsored nuptial elements were influencers Becca Bloom, who partnered with Lancôme, and Mikayla Nogueira, who said her 2023 wedding wasn't sponsored but did release a product with e.l.f. cosmetics (e.l.f. x Mikayla Marriage Material Lip Duo) before the big day.

A brand deal fit for a bride

Singleton, who has shot sponsored content for weddings, emphasizes that the best thing influencers can do is stay true to their personal brand. If a beverage brand you've never consumed before is all of a sudden everywhere at your reception, people will question whether you actually like it or if it's been gifted. Which is fine, Singleton said — but don't act like it's the best drink ever when you've been sipping on something else.

The best deals come when it's genuine and authentic to both the couple and the love story, she said.

The proper way to have sponsored wedding elements is to do this professionally, Walton said. The Bridal Bar gets solicited for free products and services from micro influencers who want discounts, but they aren't approaching it from a business perspective, more so as how to leverage their platform to reduce wedding costs.

An influencer who's used to these types of deals knows what contracts are appropriate, and to ask for what deliverables are needed — be it a certain number of posts, collaborative posts, or the like. 

And the more significant the cost for the brand, the more the return has to be. A beauty brand gifting products for bridal party welcome bags is entirely different from a brand offering all-expenses-paid travel. 

Like Singleton, Walton emphasizes that being authentic is the best course of action. "Just because someone's getting married, it doesn't mean that their audience is the right fit for [your brand]," she said. If it's an authentic and organic story being told, "you're more likely to see results and fruits from that labor, versus maybe a completely irrelevant brand or product that is distinctively different than the types of products and services that that audience is looking for."

Is nothing sacred? Not in this economy. 

A common refrain in TikTok videos criticizing influencers for cashing in on wedding sponsorships is: "Is nothing sacred?" One's wedding, in their view, is supposed to be a special day not infringed by Brands™.

But is anything sacred in 2026, when AI companies want to reanimate the dead, we're seeing the worst actions of humanity on our screens every second, and economic inequality is getting worse?

"In this economy, get your bag."

"In this economy, get your bag," Singleton said. "Do what you want to do." She added that in the digital era we're in, it's almost inevitable that we'll see influencers taking on sponsors for weddings.

Given the current climate, it's no wonder. The cost of living has increased in recent years. Weddings aren't any different — and they were already expensive compared to other events, so much so that the term "wedding industrial complex" is commonplace. 

And no matter what — through pandemics and recessions — people are going to get married one way or another, Singleton said. 

"Weddings since COVID have gotten exponentially more expensive than they were before," said Walton. What The Bridal Bar is seeing is that the middle class of weddings is disappearing. They're going to small, micro weddings or elopements, or the destination, multi-day affairs of the one percent.

"Weddings are expensive, so being able to work with brands that I would already be posting for was truly so helpful when it came down to staying within our budget," Jenna Liston, a content creator, told Mashable over email. 

Liston received pajamas for her bridal party, a cowboy hat for her wedding day, products like smiley-face socks for her bachelorette attendees, and dresses for her engagement photos.

Not only do weddings come with an exorbitant price tag, but social media has changed the game when it comes to weddings; people's expectations are higher now. When Walton first got into the business, people got married locally, had an intimate rehearsal dinner beforehand, and that was it.

"Now the bar is set so much higher. That's because of social media and Pinterest and Instagram and TikTok," she said. "The visual aspect of Keeping Up with the Joneses is because of Instagram."

Plus, the internet brought increased availability of information. We plan life events differently than we used to, thanks to the internet, but we also have different experiences. Now, it feels like everyone you know is going to Japan, but even a decade or two ago, that kind of travel required a travel agent and guides.

"This generation is more well-traveled and more life-experienced than a lot of previous generations. So they come to their wedding planning process with a different worldview and perspective," Walton explained. "If they've seen and done all of these incredible things, well, their wedding can't just be a cookie-cutter backyard wedding."

Someone's wedding might be the biggest day of their lives — but they've had some pretty big days, already. So this has to top it.

If you take a step back, an influencer working with a brand is a business transaction, and even on a personal day, influencers have built their careers on sharing their personal days as business transactions, Walton said. Now it's just on a grander scale. That being said, we need to remind couples that this is their wedding, after all. You don't want to look at the photos 10, 20 years from now and hate them because a brand's name is plastered all over them. 

Liston said sponsored wedding content is the smart way to go. "The only thing I'd say is be true to yourself," she said. "I wasn't accepting every offer from every company, but if it aligned with my page and what I was looking for, I was excited to partner with them."

If you have a following or platform and can work with companies on your big day, she said, why not?

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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is chock-full of high-profile talent. Pedro Pascal returns as the titular Mando, Sigourney Weaver makes her Star Wars debut as a Rebel colonel, The Bear's Jeremy Allen White voices a ripped Hutt, and Oscar winner Martin Scorsese even appears as an Ardennian fry cook.

SEE ALSO: 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' review: If this is the future of Star Wars, I don't want it.

However, Star Wars fans will also catch another familiar face, one that's usually behind the camera: Lucasfilm President and Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni. Filoni co-wrote The Mandalorian and Grogu with director Jon Favreau and Noah Kloor. Over the past two decades, he's also been instrumental in shaping the world of Star Wars on TV, working on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and more. Now he appears in the franchise's first theatrical film since 2019's The Rise of Skywalker.

Who does Dave Filoni play in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu?

The Mandalorian and Grogu isn't Dave Filoni's first time popping up in a Star Wars project. He's voiced characters in the past, like The Clone Wars' Embo (who appears in The Mandalorian and Grogu, albeit nonverbally) and Rebels' Chopper. His first live-action appearance in Star Wars came in The Mandalorian Season 1, where he played X-Wing pilot Trapper Wolf. He donned the X-Wing pilot helmet for two more episodes: one in Season 2 and the other in Season 3.

Filoni reprises the role of Trapper Wolf The Mandalorian and Grogu. However, the first of two times he appears in the film, he's not in Trapper Wolf's usual X-Wing cockpit. Instead, he's at a bar on a Rebel base, rocking his trademark cowboy hat. (Between this and the helmet, I guess Trapper Wolf is a big hat guy.)

The next time Filoni shows up is in the final battle on the Hutts' home planet, Nal Hutta. Led by Colonel Ward, Trapper Wolf and several other X-Wing pilots dive-bomb the Hutts after learning they were still allied with the last vestiges of the Empire.

Filoni actually isn't the only cameo in this battle. Keep your eyes peeled for Captain Carson Teva (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) from The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and The Book of Boba Fett, as well as The Mandalorian episode directors Lee Isaac Chung and Rick Famuyiwa. Both have made prior cameos as X-Wing pilots in the flagship show.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is now in theaters.