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SAVE $72: As of March 14, the Garmin vívoactive 5 smartwatch is on sale at Best Buy for $227.99. That's 24% off its list price of $299.99.

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If you've been looking for a way to keep track of your health and fitness goals, a smartwatch is a great investment. While a lot of them can be quite pricy, occasionally you can score one on sale at a price that's worth taking advantage of. That's the case at the moment with the Garmin vívoactive 5 in slate aluminum and black, which has had a very nice $72 discount at Best Buy.

This has dropped the price of the Garmin vívoactive 5 from $299.99 to $227.99. If you've been hoping to pick up a smartwatch but didn't want to spend too much cash on a model, this is a deal worth jumping on. The Garmin vívoactive 5 has plenty to offer.

SEE ALSO: The best fitness trackers you can buy in 2025: From smartwatches to rings

Boasting a vibrant AMOLED display, the Garmin vívoactive 5 will provide you with insights into your sleep patterns, stress levels, workouts, and more. It has a feature called Body Battery that gives you a better understanding of your energy levels, and it even has health features like a heart rate monitor, fitness age, and more. It even has up to 11 days of battery life, so you won't have to worry too much about keeping it charged up frequently.

Save some cash and stay on top of your goals with this deal on the Garmin vívoactive 5 at Best Buy.

This isn't the only smartwatch deal that's available right now, though. If you want a tracker that's more focused around running, the Garmin Forerunner 55 is also on sale right now at Best Buy and if you want to go all-out on a fancy new smartwatch, the Apple Watch Series 10 is discounted at Amazon at the moment.

What does an eclipse look like from the moon? Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander just sent back a stunning image from the lunar surface.

The commercial space company's lander, which touched down on the moon without a hitch on March 2 as part of a mission for NASA, took a high-definition image of the eclipse from its top deck in the early hours of Friday — and it's mighty beautiful.

"Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth," Firefly Aerospace wrote online. (A "diamond ring" effect happens during a total solar eclipse when the sun just begins to appear from behind Earth; it also happens just before Earth totally blocks the sun.)

SEE ALSO: Solar eclipses were once extremely terrifying events, experts say

From our perch on Earth, it was a total lunar eclipse, and from the moon it was a total solar eclipse. These unique events happen when the sun, Earth, and moon align, allowing Earth to cast a shadow on the moon and block most sunlight from reaching the lunar surface. But our planet's atmosphere still allows red wavelengths of light to squeeze through and travel through space, illuminating the moon in reddish, rusty, orangish, or crimson colors.

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According to the company, it's "the first time in history a commercial company will be actively operating on the Moon and able to observe a total solar eclipse where the Earth blocks the sun and casts a shadow on the lunar surface."

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Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched on Jan. 15 and landed on the moon on March 2 after a 45-day trip — and the photos Blue Ghost has been sending back are breathtaking. In the above photo, you can also see the Blue Ghost lander's NASA equipment, including a Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager, Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder mast, and X-band antenna.

On Friday, Firefly also posted an image taken on March 3, the day after Blue Ghost landed on the moon. It's a view of Earth taken with the lander's wide-lens camera.

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Firefly is now the first commercial spacecraft to land fully successfully on the moon, and Mashable has been covering every last element of the mission.

SAVE $50: As of March 14, the Sonos Era 100 smart speaker is on sale at Amazon for $199. That's 20% off its list price of $249.

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Whether you're using it for listening to music or are looking to create a surround sound setup, a high-quality speaker can be a great addition to your home. The Sonos Era 100, in particular, offers excellent sound quality for both situations. As someone who owns two of these speakers, I absolutely love using them for movie nights to create a more immersive experience. It's a speaker that's worth every cent, in my opinion. If you've been hoping to pick it up, now's a great time to do it at a discounted rate.

The Sonos Era 100 has dropped from its list price of $249 to $199, saving you 20% overall. According to price tracker camelcamelcamel, this marks a return to its lowest-ever price. It's currently listed as a limited-time deal, so you'll want to act fast to scoop it up at this price. Both the black and white models are discounted, so you can choose the speaker that will best blend in with your home's style.

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The Sonos Era 100 is a real treat when it comes to sound quality. Music sounds great coming out of it, but I especially love having both of my speakers paired with the Sonos soundbar underneath my TV. They make any movie, TV show, or video game feel more immersive with sound coming from all around the room. As a bonus, they have a compact size that fits really nicely on a bookshelf or tabletop.

If you've been looking for a speaker upgrade, this deal on the Sonos Era 100 is well worth jumping on while it's still available.

There are a couple more speaker deals that are worth checking out right now. The Sony XG300 portable Bluetooth speaker has gotten a great discount at Best Buy and the Bose SoundLink Revolve+ (Series II) speaker is on sale at Amazon.

SAVE $100: As of March 14, Sony's WH-1000XM4 headphones are on sale at Amazon for $248. That's 29% off their list price of $348.

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Sony headphones are always worth picking up if you've been looking for an upgrade. Some come with a hefty price tag, but every once in a while a deal comes along that's worth taking advantage of. And as of March 14, Amazon is offering a great deal on the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones.

The Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones have dropped from their list price of $348 to $248. This saves you $100 on list price. This deal is marked as a limited-time offer, so if they've caught your eye, you'll want to act fast to score them at this price. You can save on the midnight blue, black, and silver models.

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These headphones offer excellent sound quality and active noise cancelation with Dual Noise Sensor technology so you can be fully immersed in your favorite sounds while wearing them. Not to mention, they offer up to 30 hours of battery life. We even consider them the best overall pick in our roundup of the best wireless headphones, with Mashable's Miller Kern saying, "The Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones have superior sound quality and noise cancellation. They're comparable to the Sennheiser PXC 550-II headphones, but have a more stylish look in our opinion — the ear cups are less bulky."

This limited-time deal won't last for long. Grab the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones for $248 while they're still discounted at Amazon.

If you're looking for more headphone and earbud deals, you can also save on the Beats Studio Pro right now at Best Buy and the AirPods 4 (without ANC) have dropped below $100 at Amazon.

SAVE $30: As of March 14, Apple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation are on sale for $149.99 at Best Buy. That’s $30 off their usual price of $179.99. The deal ends March 16.

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There are two types of people in this world. Those who lose their AirPods constantly and those who don’t own AirPods yet. If you’re in the second camp or just tired of using the single earbud you still haven’t lost, now’s a good time to fix that. Best Buy has Apple’s AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $149.99, knocking $30 off the usual price of $179.99. This deal disappears after March 16 so don't think about it for too long.

For under $150 you’re getting active noise cancellation, which is kind of a big deal. Standard AirPods let in just about every sound around you. Dog barking, baby crying, someone on the train having a full-volume FaceTime call with no headphones. AirPods 4 ANC blocks noise out so you can enjoy your music, podcasts, or just the sound of sweet, sweet silence.

SEE ALSO: The Apple Watch SE 2 is down by $80 at Best Buy — score it for under $200

But there’s always that moment when you need to hear what’s going on. Like when your name gets called at the coffee shop or when someone at work starts a sentence with “Not to add to your workload, but…” That’s where Environmental Noise Control comes in, letting outside sound in when you need it.

Battery life is decent but not groundbreaking. You’ll get four hours per charge, which is fine for commuting but might have you reaching for the case during a long-haul flight. Speaking of the case, it bumps the total battery life up to 20 hours, so as long as you remember to drop them in between uses, you’ll be fine. Charging is USB-C because Apple finally decided we don’t need 17 different cables for their products (and they got forced to).

• Price: $149.99 $179.99

• Retailer: Best Buy

• Noise Cancelling: Yes (Active)

• Wireless: Yes (Bluetooth 5.3, True Wireless)

• Water Resistant: Yes

• Battery Life: 4 hours (20 hours with case)

• Charging: USB-C Case

• Voice Assistant: Works with Siri

• Deal Ends: March 16, 2025

These AirPods also come with Bluetooth 5.3, meaning they’ll pair instantly with your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. No fiddling with settings required. And if you’re someone who actually uses Siri (I respect you, but I don’t understand you), they work seamlessly with voice commands.

Are there cheaper wireless earbuds out there? Sure. But are they AirPods, with Apple’s seamless pairing, noise cancellation, and ecosystem perks? No. That’s why these are worth considering, especially at $149.99 up until March 16.

Being relentlessly haunted by a monstrous woman wouldn't be all that much fun, but at least in the trailer for 825 Forest Road the victims have each other.

Hell House LLC writer/director Stephen Cognetti's movie sees a man moving into a new town, only to discover that the locals have something of a ghost problem — and there's even a support group where they sit in a circle and discuss what to do about it. It sounds almost like it could be a comedy, but the video above is all horror.

825 Forest Road is streaming on Shudder from April 4.

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.

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

SEE ALSO: Hurdle: Everything you need to know to find the answers Hurdle Word 1 hint

Islam's holiest city.

SEE ALSO: Apple’s new M3 MacBook Air is $300 off at Amazon. And yes, I’m tempted. Hurdle Word 1 answer

MECCA

Hurdle Word 2 hint

Useful.

SEE ALSO: Wordle today: Answer, hints for March 14, 2025 Hurdle Word 2 Answer

HANDY

Hurdle Word 3 hint

Infected with rabies.

SEE ALSO: NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for March 14 SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for March 14, 2025 Hurdle Word 3 answer

RABID

Hurdle Word 4 hint

Something nonsensical.

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SILLY

Final Hurdle hint

A powerful person.

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MOGUL

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The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan's latest adaptation of a Stephen King story, made waves during its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last year — and now we have our first proper glimpse of the film via a teaser trailer.

The film, which Mashable's Kristy Puchko describes as "surprising and upsetting, funny and profound" in her review, and which King himself called "one of the good ones", follows a man who's haunted by billboards that all contain an image of a strange man named Chuck.

The Life of Chuck is in theatres in June.

If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game.

Strands 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.

SEE ALSO: Wordle today: Answer, hints for March 14 SEE ALSO: NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for March 14 NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: Fillin' good!

These words are related to desserts.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

The words are delicious in crust.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is ClassicPies.

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• Blueberry

• Pecan

• Pumpkin

• Apple

• Cherry

• Peach

• ClassicPies

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

Connections: Sports Edition is a new 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. 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.

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: Reasons a flag is thrown

• Green: Used in field events

• Blue: Skiing events

• Purple: Scoring without help

Featured Video For You Connections: How to play and how to win Here are today's Connections Sports Edition categories

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

• Yellow: Football penalties

• Green: Track and field equipment

• Blue: Freestyle skiing forms

• Purple: Scores worth one point

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 #172 is...

What is the answer to Connections Sports Edition today

• Football penalties - FACE MASK, FALSE START, HOLDING, OFFSIDE

• Track and field equipment - BATON, DISCUS, HURDLE, STARTING BLOCK

• Freestyle skiing forms - AERIALS, CROSS, HALF-PIPE, MOGULS

• Scores worth one point - EXTRA POINT, FREE THROW, ROUGE, SOLO HOME RUN

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new 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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Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Connections.

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.

SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable What is Connections?

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's The Mini crossword answers for March 14 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: To require a fee

• Green: Small items near a cash register

• Blue: Movies with different spans

• Purple: Same second word

Featured Video For You Connections: How to play and how to win Here are today's Connections categories

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

• Yellow: Impose, as a penalty

• Green: Checkout line impulse buys

• Blue: Movies of various lengths

• Purple: ___ Road

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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 #642 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Impose, as a penalty: ASSESS, CHARGE, FINE, LEVY

• Checkout line impulse buys: CANDY, CHAPSTICK, CHARGING CABLE, MAGAZINE

• Movies of various lengths: EPIC, FEATURE, FILM SERIES, SHORT

• ___ Road: DIRT, HIGH, ROCKY, SILK

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

SEE ALSO: NYT Connections Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for March 14

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

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

Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

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 today: Hints and answers for March 14 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 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.

SEE ALSO: NYT's The Mini crossword answers for March 14, 2025 Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:

A section.

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

The letter e appears twice.

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

Today's Wordle starts with the letter P.

SEE ALSO: Wordle-obsessed? These are the best word games to play IRL. 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...

PIECE.

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.

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

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

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, March 14, 2025:

AcrossHydroelectric project

• The answer is Dam.

Piece of the pie

• The answer is Slice.

Concern for a basement apartment

• The answer is Light.

Noted octet in higher education

• The answer is Ivies.

Fur-riend

• The answer is Pet.

DownPiece of the pi?

• The answer is Dight.

Feel the pain

• The answer is Ache.

Team that signed Juan Soto to a record-breaking 15-year, $765 million contract

• The answer is Mets.

Mess (up)

• The answer is Slip.

Like podcasts with a studio audience, say

• The answer is Live.

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

We are a scant few months away from the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 launching, and the rumor mill is already ablaze with plenty of information for enthusiasts to pour over. We’d like to lend a helping hand by rounding up all of the rumors that we’ve heard so far about Samsung’s upcoming foldable flagship. 

For starters, it’ll almost certainly be announced in July. This is a pattern for Samsung. It announced last year’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 in July 2024 and the Z Fold 5 in July 2023. Additionally, while releasing info on bone conduction headphones that may also be debuted at the event, noted leaker Ice Universe said that the event would be held in July once again. 

That’s only the beginning. There are plenty of other rumors about the actual details of the Galaxy Fold 7, so let’s go into them. 

Design

The phone’s design hasn’t been confirmed, but there are some computer-generated renders floating around. Leaker OnLeaks collaborated with Android Headlines to generate the renders and it tells us a few things about how the device might feel compared to last year’s model. 

For starters, the dimensions are 158.4 x 143.1 x 4.5mm. Based on the measurements of the Z Fold 6, that would make the Z Fold 7 1.1mm thinner when unfolded, and the outer screen would be 11mm wider than the Z Fold 6. Additionally, three cameras adorn the back, housed in an island similar to the Z Fold 6. 

In short, it’ll look quite similar to the Z Fold 6, except it’ll be slightly wider and thinner than its predecessor, with a camera array on the back that looks similar to the one found on the Galaxy S25 Ultra. 

Leaker Setsuna Digital also claims that the Fold 7 will include a better screen, an improved hinge, more optimized internal structure, and will feature improvements to water and dust resistance. 

SEE ALSO: Pixel 9 Pro Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6: Which foldable is best for you? Camera

Speaking of the camera, it too is set to get some sizable upgrades from last year’s Fold. Per Gadget360, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is expected to get the 200 MP main shooter that came on the Galaxy S25 Ultra and the Galaxy Z Fold Special Edition, which was exclusive to Korea and China last year. This would be a significant increase in resolution from the 50 MP camera on the Galaxy Z Fold 6. 

Reports also suggest that the Z Fold 7 will get a new under-display camera, which will be located under the internal screen. The specifics of the under-display camera are unknown, but it is expected to be better than the 4 MP camera on the Galaxy Z Fold 6. 

Android Headlines suggests that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will ultimately house the same camera array that was in the Z Fold 6 Special Edition, which includes a 12 MP ultrawide camera and a 10 MP telephoto camera in addition to the others. 

Specs and battery

The specs are still mostly a mystery, but we can infer a little bit from context here. In 2024, the Fold 6 used the same chipset as the Galaxy S24 Ultra, so it would make sense if the Fold 7 had the same power under the hood as the Galaxy S25 Ultra. 

There aren’t any rumors to suggest this, but unless Samsung goes with a Dimensity chip like its latest tablets or returns to Exynos, the Fold 7 will almost certainly have the same Snapdragon 8 For Galaxy chip as the S25 Ultra. 

Moving around to the back of the device, multiple outlets have reported that Samsung won’t be changing the battery size for 2025. The Fold 7 should come with the same 4,400 mAh battery as the Fold 6 with no demonstrable change in charge speed reported among the leakers. 

S-Pen and others

The S-Pen is rumored to be different for the Fold 7 compared to prior years. Currently, Samsung uses a digitizer to interface with the S-Pen. Rumors from ET News suggest that Samsung will do away with this method and instead use something different. This correlates with the rumor of a thinner Fold since removing the digitizer would allow Samsung to do just that. 

As 9to5Google reports, the removal of the digitizer would allow Samsung to reduce the thickness by up to 0.6mm. S-Pen fans can relax, though, because the pen will still work with the Fold 7. Samsung may just end up using something similar to the Apple Pencil, where the S-Pen itself would be relaying signals to the device instead of using a built-in digitizer to do it. 

There is no word as to whether the Fold 7’s S-Pen will lose Bluetooth functionality like the one on the Galaxy S25 Ultra, but if Samsung does indeed go with something like the Apple Pencil, Bluetooth connectivity should still be intact.

FREE BOOKS: The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place on March 11-16. Fairy Land, hosted by Indie Author Central, offers free fairy-themed books featuring magical worlds.

There isn't much to complain about an event that gives away books for absolutely nothing, but we really love to complain.

Stuff Your Kindle Day is always a great occasion. We're not saying it isn't. But these events usually last 24 hours, which is simply not long enough. What if you're away from a screen enjoying the real world and miss the news? That would be absolutely heartbreaking for all the greedy bookworms out there, patiently waiting for another opportunity to stock up for free.

Fortunately, the latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place over a number of days, so you've got plenty of time to peruse your options. And the books that you download are yours to keep forever. The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day is focused on fairy-themed books featuring magical worlds. Fairy Land, hosted by Indie Author Central, is one you won't want to miss.

Want to make the most of Stuff Your Kindle Day? We've lined up everything you need to know about this event.

When is Stuff Your Kindle Day?

The Stuff Your Kindle Day schedule has been absolutely relentless in 2025. In February, Stuff Your Kindle Day took place on Feb. 10, Feb. 14, and Feb. 21, and Feb. 28. And March is following with the same energy. Events have already taken place on March 4 and March 7-10, and now it's the turn of the fairies.

SEE ALSO: The best Kindles in 2025

Until March 16, Fairy Land, hosted by Indie Author Central, is offering free fairy-themed books featuring magical worlds.

Who can take part in Stuff Your Kindle Day?

Anyone can participate in Stuff Your Kindle Day, even if you don't actually own a Kindle.

Kindle, Kobo, and Nook readers can download these books for free. You can even download these books on your preferred app and read them straight from your phone, as you can also find these free titles on the Google Play and Apple Books apps.

Which e-books are free?

Sourcing these free books is made easy thanks to Indie Author Central.

There's a helpful Fairy Land hub page that's live on Indie Author Central. All of the listed books have been discounted to free, $0.99, or made available on Kindle Unlimited or through the author's website. Indie Author Central have sorted the books by content and spice level, with descriptions of what this actually means at the bottom of the page.

Is Stuff Your Kindle Day the same as Amazon Kindle Unlimited?

Everything you download on Stuff Your Kindle Day is yours to keep, and there's no limit on the number of books you can download. Stuff Your Kindle Day downloads don't count towards the 20 books per month that Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscribers can borrow, so don't hold back.

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These super popular e-readers help you take your entire library on the go. With weeks of battery life and an anti-glare display, you can read anywhere and anytime with the Kindle. They start at $109.99, a great price for those on a budget, but if you want to save even more, you can get three months of Kindle Unlimited absolutely free during Stuff Your Kindle Day.

Kindle Unlimited costs $11.99 per month and allows you to borrow up to 20 months per month. For a limited time, you can get three months of Kindle Unlimited for free, saving you $35.97.

It was a perfect moon landing.

Although no easy feat, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander descended in a controlled fashion, and without mishap, to the lunar surface on March 2, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to have a fully successful landing on the moon. And NASA cameras affixed to the bottom of the robotic craft filmed footage of the descent and dusty touchdown.

The NASA instrument, called Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies, or (SCALPSS), captured 3,000 frames during the operation. This "first-of-its-kind" imagery will inform future landing missions — both crewed and robotic — about how plumes of moon dust behave as thrusters file into the lunar regolith, and how such plumes impact nearby craft or infrastructure.

SEE ALSO: Why landing a spaceship on the moon is still so challenging

The view shown in the NASA video below begins when the squat Blue Ghost craft — 6.6 feet tall and 11.5 feet wide — is 91 feet, or 28 meters, from the lunar ground.

"As the descent continues, the interaction becomes increasingly complex, with the plumes vigorously kicking up the lunar dust, soil, and rocks — collectively known as regolith," NASA explained. "After touchdown, the thrusters shut off and the dust settles. The lander levels a bit and the lunar terrain beneath and immediately around it becomes visible."

The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft on the lunar surface, with Earth in the distance. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

While this landing went smoothly, landing on the moon still remains daunting, largely because it's a world with virtually no atmosphere to slow spacecraft down. A craft must plummet to the surface almost perfectly, as thrusters fire to slow its descent onto a surface teeming with pits and craters. Although Chinese and Indian craft have had recent landing successes, the U.S. commercial spacecraft Odysseus sustained damage while landing awkwardly in 2024, and another of the company's landers fell to its side in 2025. In 2024, a Japanese craft landed upside down, on its head.

Blue Ghost's mission was funded by NASA as part of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which it hopes will set the stage for a U.S. lunar presence. In the coming years, NASA intends to land astronauts on the moon, too. The space agency currently expects to bring astronauts to the moon in mid-2027, wherein they'll spend a week exploring eerie craters of the moon's resource-rich south pole.

For nearly 76 percent of Americans in 2019, this was a typical workweek: Wake up, get dressed, pile into a car alone, work, drive home, sleep ... and repeat five times.

But starting in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced many employees who weren't essential workers to switch to internet-enabled remote work, that routine shattered. For many, it would never be the same again. 

While remote work grew gradually in the four decades leading up to the pandemic, it "surged" in 2020, according to a working paper from the U.S. Labor Department. In 2022, after vaccines reduced previously staggering death rates, the U.S. Census reported that the share of American workers driving alone to work was 68.7 percent. On the surface, that is just a 7 percent reduction in solo commuters — but it also represents millions of people no longer driving alone by car twice a day.

While the number of people who take public transit to their workplace or walk or bike there has also shrunk significantly since COVID, the shift to remote work and its related reduction in vehicular miles driven is a rare silver lining of the pandemic.

The average passenger vehicle emits about 400 grams of CO2 per mile, according to the EPA.

Fully remote workers can have a 54 percent lower carbon footprint than onsite workers, according to a 2023 study from Microsoft and Cornell University.

Researchers found that even hybrid workers, those splitting their time between home and office work, contribute to a significant drop in carbon emissions. That makes sense considering the average passenger vehicle emits about 400 grams of CO2 per mile, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Increased home use of computers, phones, and internet services has a negligible effect on carbon emissions, according to the study. Still, the benefits of remote work are not perfectly linear.

The Cornell researchers found that Americans’ personal car usage — such as driving to errands or social events — actually increases the more days they work remotely. Those who work a hybrid schedule often live farther from the office than those fully onsite — so the days they drive, they expend more carbon than those going into the office full-time.

Still, even with those caveats, the reduction in driving from remote work yields environmental benefits for all, regardless of whether they drive to an office every day or not.

Are bosses getting sick of Zoom?

When CEOs like JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon and Tesla's Elon Musk advocate for a return to the office, environmental trade-offs are likely low on their list of considerations.

Dimon, who mandated his employees report to the office five days a week starting this month, hasn’t weighed in on remote work’s carbon effects but did express that in-office workers are good for business.

"I completely respect people that don't want to go to the office all five days a week," Dimon told CNBC last month. "But they should respect that the company is going to decide what's good for the clients, the company, etc., not an individual."

Musk told CNBC that remote work is "messed up" and questioned its morality, saying it was unfair that blue collar workers didn't have the same telework options as their white collar peers. As part of his position at DOGE, and apparently with President Trump’s backing, Musk demanded in February that nearly all federal workers return to their offices full-time.

"Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave," Musk wrote on X (a website he runs, along with Tesla and SpaceX, mostly remotely).

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How many people does Musk's mandate effect? A 2024 report from the White House Office of Management and Budget reports that 1.1 million federal workers were eligible for hybrid work, with 228,000 working fully remote (the report appears to be scrubbed from the White House's website, but was previously reported on by Reuters).

The environmental aspect of many of these people getting back into gas-powered cars every day does not appear to be a concern for the Trump administration (the move was probably motivated by a desire for some of these workers to quit). Since federal workers are not limited to the Washington, D.C. area, the environmental ramifications would be felt nationwide.

"Returning federal employees to full-time office work would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions," Fengqi You, an engineering professor at Cornell University, recently told Euronews. 

Going back to the office? You can reduce your footprint

Even if the federal government and the nation's largest companies aren't interested in reducing emissions, anyone can take individual action. For anyone returning to the office, either by choice or compulsion, there are ways to limit the effect on the environment.

1. Take public transit or walk or bike to work. E-bikes are also a good option for those not ready to commit to pedaling to work every day.

2. There's also carpooling. Nearly 9 percent of American workers were sharing rides to work in 2019; by 2022, that number had rebounded to 8.6 percent after taking a hit during the pandemic.

3. If you do drive solo to work, commit to leaving your car in the work garage or lot during the day. Walk to lunch or errands if possible, which will provide exercise and, in some cases, a Vitamin D boost.

4. Bring snacks, lunch, and reusable utensils and mugs to work. One study found that many office workers believe they use more plastic (forks, spoons, tops of coffee cups) and packaging for their meals than those working and eating from home.

5. When leaving home, shut off all lights and energy sources, including heating and air conditioning units. There's an economic argument for this, not just an environmental one: As the U.S. Department of Energy points out, shutting off lights yields longterm savings and even offers a calculation to figure out how much you could save.

Despite splitting the difference between stage and screen in dazzling ways, Duke Johnson’s The Actor is all shine and no substance. Starring André Holland as an amnesiac stage performer piecing together his past, the part-thriller, part-love story fails to alchemize its many flourishes, leaving only a dull, hollow core.

Adapted from Donald Westlake’s novel Memory — which was written in 1963, but only published in 2010 — Johnson’s second directorial effort features flashes of brilliance that never quite cohere. Like its lead character, the film meanders aimlessly when it should have at least hints of purpose; his issues of identity feature mild hints of metaphor for losing oneself in everyday malaise, but they’re never fully articulated. Its methods also call to mind better works about memory, and a few similar films about midlife crises turned to surrealism (some of which Johnson even worked on, like Anomalisa). 

SEE ALSO: 'The Actor' trailer: Charlie Kaufman produces this memory-centric mystery

These unavoidable comparisons only kneecap The Actor further by highlighting its failings. Add to this the fact that its race-blind casting leaves a gaping hole in its telling, and what you’re left with is a cinematic misfire on far too many fronts for something this ambitious and picturesque. 

What is The Actor about? Credit: EF NEON

In a prologue styled like The Twilight Zone — appropriate, given the story’s 1950s setting — touring actor Paul Cole (Holland) receives a blow to the head from the jealous husband of the woman he’s seeing. He wakes up with no long-term memory, and only knows his name (and his Manhattan address) from the ID card in his wallet. On the advice of local police, who want to persecute him for sleeping with another man’s wife, he leaves, only to end up in an anonymous small town with no money to his name.

As Paul tries to rebuild some semblance of a life, supporting actors are cast in multiple roles in his vicinity — a distinctly stage-like flourish employing heavy-hitters like Toby Jones, Simon McBurney, Olwen Fouéré, and Tracey Ullman — though this is largely for the audience’s benefit. The reappearance of these actors never results in any confusion or suspicion, if Paul even notices. Perhaps this trick of casting is intended to reflect his confusion, or his memory’s fluidity, but nothing in either Holland’s performance, or the film’s editing, ever indicates this. In reality, these encounters might be spread out over days or weeks, but since Paul seems to skip through time with little recollection of the interim — we’re only made privy to the details he retains— they seem to occur right after one another. According to the film’s own language, they ought to stick, but they don’t, turning the repetitions into a flourish with no purpose.   

While working at a tanning factory to earn enough for a bus ticket back to New York, Paul meets and gradually falls for a local woman named Edna (Gemma Chan), to whom he doesn’t reveal his lack of memory (and his lacking sense of self), even though he’s begun to recollect a handful of flashes about who he used to be. The more Paul discovers who he once was, usually through information he’s given by others, the less he likes the answers. Old friends and acquaintances paint him as a pretty nasty person, but learning this is not something he really reckons with in any meaningful way (he usually just moves on to the next turn of the plot). Paul never actually confronting his past, despite seeming curious to discover it, robs him of any sense of motive or objective — things that are, in theory, fundamental to this new, cookies-cleared version of him. 

The central drama, at first, appears to be about Paul being torn between his new life with Edna and putting together the puzzle of his past, but these things are only nominally (and temporarily) at odds. In going from one to the other (and back) as the plot progresses, Paul loses practically nothing — certainly not time, a resource that becomes infinite through his perception. The way he moves through the world is temporally oblique in ways that we, the audience, notice, but Paul is almost always a mere passenger to the movie, its techniques, and its structure, never bristling against them in an effort to regain autonomy.

It’s a recipe for boredom in any movie, but especially one in which the protagonist is a blank canvas. There is, however, no denying that Johnson and cinematographer Joe Passarelli paint his physical form quite beautifully.

The Actor is a visual treat, but brings to mind better films. Credit: EF NEON

As pithy as the movie is beneath the surface, it would’ve been so much worse had it not provided such an alluring and intuitive understanding of Paul’s predicament by way of its direction. Light moves across the frame in oblique and ethereal ways, as stage spotlights interact with both the actors and the lens, causing flares that dance in tandem with every bit of blocking and camera movement.

There’s a rhythm to The Actor that few works of Hollywood surrealism manage to match. As Paul moves between scenes, lights fade in and out to mark the passage of time, or to disguise the changing of sets, creating a sense of continuity about the character alongside a simultaneous discontinuity about his surroundings. Other times, these jagged disconnects come courtesy of sudden bursts of sensory input — light, sound, dialogue, always something memorable — as if to simultaneously re-orient and disorient the viewer in time, à la Christopher Nolan’s memory thriller Memento. (The comparison becomes unavoidable when Paul begins leaving himself scribbled notes.)

However, those who might notice this similarity are also likely to recall that Memento’s protagonist had both a lucid motivation and an active relationship to his surroundings at all times. Holland, unfortunately, has no such luxuries as an actor, and has to conjure the illusion of drama and desire from thin air. In that sense, his work is remarkable, but he isn’t given the opportunity to play in the movie’s sandbox. Another film that may come to mind is the Anthony Hopkins dementia drama The Father, a stage adaptation whose ingenious use of redressed sets and its re-use of actors induced a sense of paranoia. In The Actor, these things are merely worth a shrug. They leave the frame, and cease to matter, no sooner than they appear.

SEE ALSO: 'Anomalisa' review: More than just cinema's best puppet sex scene

Worse yet, it’s especially hard not to compare The Actor to Johnson’s own first film (co-directed by Charlie Kaufman), the stop-motion midlife crisis drama Anomalisa, in which self-centered protagonist Michael saw Tom Noonan in every person he came across. The two films have a similar ethereal glow, but their use of perspective differs wildly. In Anomalisa, what we see, what the character sees, and more importantly, how he sees, tells us more about him than anything he says. In The Actor, the similarities of everyone around him may as well be coincidence.

The biggest point of comparison is likely to be the most unfortunate for Johnson going forward: Kaufman’s directorial followup, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, a similarly surreal work of nostalgia and memory (a mostly live-action work, on which Johnson contributed to some of the animation). If one were to split Anomalisa through a prism, one refraction would resemble The Actor — a film that captures the glistening surfaces of the two men’s collaboration — while the other would resemble Kaufman’s solo efforts, like Synecdoche, New York, and the aforementioned I’m Thinking of Ending Things, whose respective tones are much more effective at externalizing complex elements of psychology, the way they’re personified in Anomalisa. It's hard to deconstruct any creative partnership mathematically, but The Actor can’t help but feel like a Kaufman facsimile.

It is also, unfortunately, a historical facsimile, given the lack of adjustments seemingly made in the wake of its casting.

The Actor suffers from race blindness. Credit: EF NEON

Ryan Gosling was once attached to star in The Actor. Plans and deals change all the time, so this is no shocking revelation, but what is surprising is how little attention appears to have been paid to the subtext of casting Holland in a part written for a white actor, a role that originated in the 1960s, and continues to be set in the 1950s.

On one hand, casting Chan as Edna, seemingly the only Asian face in her entire town, adds to the character’s sense of isolation (and perhaps, to what draws Paul to her in the first place). However, Paul being played by a Black man leads to more incongruity, beginning with his police persecution for sleeping with a white woman, a historical precedent with an incredibly charged racial subtext, but, in the film, an incident that’s only discussed in the context of infidelity.

That Paul is constantly surrounded by white characters in a rural town, some of whom look upon him with suspicion, does little to impact the character’s sense of self, though, as he's a Black person living through a fraught period of American history, one would think it certainly would. On one hand, crossing these racial lines has long been common when casting for the stage, so it’s at least in tune with the film’s M.O. On the other hand, this has traditionally been an outcome of the geographical and financial limitations of theatre, a problem cinema doesn’t usually have, and Paul’s is not the kind of role that remains in stasis when he’s played by a Black performer, given the specifics around him.

A key problem with The Actor is that it very much is the story of a Black man traversing through rural backroads and encountering police at a time when this would’ve been especially dangerous for him. Paul may not have a past, but he has an outward present, one that every character around him sees. Ironically, his lack of identity bleeds into the film at large. Like Paul, the movie lacks a distinct sense of self in the process, and comes off as nearly inhuman in its unveiling of this particular story, with this specific cast. All the lighting cues in the world can’t make up for a story about a person granted no personhood by the camera.

The Actor is now in theaters.

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It's surprising how often we need to keep track of a receipt, make a copy, or digitize an important document. Though they are hard to track down these days, scanners can really come in handy.

Since most of us don't even have a printer that is easily accessible, SwiftScan is there to fill the massive multitasking-printer-sized void in our lives. And right now you can enjoy a lifetime license for just $41.99 with code TAKE30 through March 30. 

Arm your smartphone with a scanner

SwiftScan turns your smartphone or tablet into a scanner, letting you create high-quality scans in seconds via a user-friendly app. It detects the edges of the page for precise scanning and makes scanning multiple pages and turning them into a single document a breeze. 

The app actually improves upon our old-school scanners. It enhances the scan quality with color filters, auto-optimization, and blur reduction, making it a great option for professionals who need to scan items for work. 

Once you're done scanning, turn a page into a PDF or JPG. Then, choose between sending it as a fax or email attachment or uploading it to iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, or another trusted cloud service with seamless integration. Scanned items are also saved and organized by SwiftScan for easy retrieval.

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TL;DR: Make presentations impactful with Microsoft Visio 2021 Professional, now just $14.97 (reg. $249) for a Windows license.

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