NYT Mini Crossword Hints Jul 09, 2025

Our NYT Mini Crossword Hints for June 14, 2025 puzzle will help you move through the grid if you’ve found yourself stuck on a clue. The New York Times Mini Crossword is a smaller, quicker version of the paper’s famous daily crossword puzzle. It’s designed for solvers who want to exercise their brain without spending a lot of time on a single puzzle. The mini crossword is just as challenging as its bigger counterpart, but with fewer clues and a smaller grid....

June 18, 2025 · 2 min · 402 words · Alan Madden

PixelCircus Sunday Spy Club Takes Inspiration From Totally Spies, Charlie's Angels & D.E.B.S. For A Y2K Adventure

Summary PixelCircusis taking fans back to Y2K with their all-new four-part series,Sunday Spy Club.Sunday Spy Clubfollows a group of friends who are part of the spy club at their college, but things take a turn when they are thrown into the dangerous world of actual espionage. With only their wits and friendship to keep them safe these four young women will do whatever it takes to protect their friends. Based on beloved femaleespionage seriesTotally Spies!...

June 18, 2025 · 25 min · 5170 words · Julie Newton

Play 'Where's Waldo' with Google for its 25th birthday

Google’s search enginejust hit the quarter-century mark, and to celebrate the occasion, the company is throwing a virtual bash with an interactive “Most Searched Playground” doodle, revealing 25hot topics that have rocked the worldover the past 25 years, like astroll down memory lane, Google style. Accessible from Google’snew animated Doodle, the game is like time-travel, spotlighting all those iconic moments that had the world buzzing. The game’sgot this massive virtual playgroundpacked with hints, each one standing in for a major search category....

June 18, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Kyle Gillespie

RAM vs. HDD: What's the Difference?

RAM vs. HDD: What’s the Difference? Most of you are likely aware of the basic differences between Random-access memory (RAM) and a hard disk drive (HDD). While the former keeps track of your programs, data, and processes in use at a given time, the latter permanently stores your data so that you can access it later. But, of course, the rabbit hole goes much deeper than this. So, if you’re unsure of the differences between the two, you might be a bit lost on what you need....

June 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1107 words · Brianna Burton

Razer's slick smart glasses are almost 80% off

Razer Anzu Razer’s Anzu Smart Glasses offer excellent battery life at five hours, complete with touch controls, so you don’t have to take the glasses off. you may even take calls thanks to an integrated mic. And thanks to today’s Cyber Monday sale, you can score a pair dirt cheap. Have you ever wanted your glasses frames todouble as Bluetooth speakers? Boy howdy, do we have a sale for you! Razer, one of the most well-knownPC peripheralmanufacturers, has you covered with its Razer Anzu Smart Glasses....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 444 words · Brittany Williams

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Review: This Is the Benchmark for an AI Phone

Samsung’s Galaxy S line of flagship phones has always been touted as the Android phones-to-beat, setting a benchmark to compare other phones that launch later in the year. With this year’s Galaxy S24 series, Samsung has focused its energy on delivering AI-driven software enhancements. The Galaxy S24 Ultra, which is the company’s new top-of-the-line phone for 2024, retains the core hardware cues from the previous S23 and S22 Ultra phones, but introduces subtle enhancements with a brighter flat display, an improved processor, and an enhanced camera system—making this phone a safe choice for users that need to upgrade....

June 18, 2025 · 14 min · 2779 words · Kristin Cantrell

Samsung’s most powerful customization app comes to the Play Store

If you own one of thebest Samsung phones, you might have come across Good Lock and its various modules, which bring additional customization options to your Galaxy. Given how powerful the app and its various modules are, you’d expect Samsung to promote it heavily. Instead, Good Lock is only available for download through the Galaxy Store in selected countries. Now, in a surprising move, Samsung has listed Good Lock for download on the Play Store....

June 18, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · Jeffrey Larson

Smite: The Best Characters For 2024 (Tier List)

SMITE, a free-to-play MOBA featuring deities from different cultures, has more than 100 gods to choose from, each with their own playstyle, strengths, and weaknesses. Each of these gods fulfills a role in a team, such as Mage, Assassin, Hunter, Warrior, and Guardian, and requires different strategies to optimize their skills. Choosing the right god to play is extremely important for success in matches. Like most MOBAs with many character choices, not all gods are equally strong at any given time....

June 18, 2025 · 2 min · 384 words · Laura Perez

Solo Leveling Officially Returns With Epic Season 2 Trailer

Summary Solo Leveling’s anticipated second season has just received its first trailer, and it looks as amazing as expected. The series has an incredible debut with season 1, and it seems that fans of the series won’t have to wait for much longer for the next installment. During the annual Anime Expo event, Crunchyroll’s panel hosted many series, such asBocchi the Rock!,Trigunand others, andSolo Leveling, which was especially exciting consideringhow successful the anime was during the Winter 2024anime season....

June 18, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · Anna Brown

Spider-Man 2099 & Wolverine Unite as CONQUEST 2099 Redefines Marvel's Future

Summary Marvel’s revitalization of its2099imprint continues, as the futuristic versions ofSpider-ManandWolverinecontinue to fight for the fate of the universein the upcomingConquest 2099miniseries, which will follow the currentAnnihilation 2099title.The publisher has announced thatAnnihilation’screative team will return for the follow-up, and offered an intriguing tease ofConquest’splot. As announced by Marvel Comics, writer Steve Orlando will continue the saga of what he calls “Marvel’s iconic cyberpunk future,” in the limited seriesConquest2099. Orlando will be joined by a slate of superstar artists, including Ibraim Roberson and José Luís, as they build on the scope and the grandeur of the rebooted2099continuity....

June 18, 2025 · 8 min · 1534 words · David Hernandez

The 9 Most Annoying Windows 11 Features (and How to Fix Them in Minutes)

Windows 11 offers a great overall computing experience, but it also has a few quirks that can really test your patience. Thankfully, all it takes is a few minutes to smooth out the rough edges and make Windows 11 work your way. 9Tame the Notification Overload You know the feeling: you’re trying to get something done, and ding—another pop-up in the corner. Maybe it’s the weather app telling you it might rain....

June 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1233 words · Katrina Vasquez

The Last Of Us Season 2 Has Another Big Music Timeline Dilemma Besides Future Days

Summary Warning: This article contains spoilers forThe Last of Us Part II. There’s been a lot of discussion about whether or notThe Last of Usseason 2 can use Pearl Jam’s “Future Days” on its soundtrack, but that’s not the only musical dilemma the show faces. AsThe Last of Usenters its second season on HBO, showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin will begin to tackle the gargantuan nonlinear narrative ofThe Last of Us Part II....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 564 words · Alexander Mathis

The Nothing Phone 2's secret sauce will come from the ghosts of OnePlus past

At Android Police, we talk a lot aboutthe best phones to getandthe software features we wantout of them. We don’t often talk a lot about the people behind the details and decisions behind them, though we have talkedaroundthem thanks tonews of layoffsin the past season. Okay, we do talk a lot about big personalities likeCarl Peiof OnePlus and Nothing fame, but as he found out, the specific people he hires do ultimately matter to the product — we’re learning that included theNothing Phone 1and will include theNothing Phone 2....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 497 words · Sarah Schaefer