NYT Mini Crossword August 15, 2025 Answers (5/17/25)

Our NYT Mini Crossword June 25, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword 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....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Teresa Dennis

Official TWRP builds are now available for the Samsung Galaxy S20 and Note20 series

Official TWRP builds are now available for the Samsung Galaxy S20 and Note20 series Android modding has definitely seen better days, but that doesn’t mean it’s dead. Not by a long shot — developer communities are alive and well, making sure devices live way past their intended lifespan. And TWRP is an essential tool for every modder. Now, even more devices are getting an official version of TWRP, including some former Samsung flagships — theSamsung Galaxy S20series and theGalaxy Note20series....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 276 words · Gwendolyn Cox

On Becoming A Guinea Fowl Trailer Previews A24's New Movie With Perfect 100% RT Score

TheOn Becoming a Guinea Fowltrailer previews A24’s new movie with a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score. Written and directed by Rungano Nyoni, known forI Am Not a Witch, thenew A24 filmfollows a young woman who discovers the body of her uncle on an empty road in the middle of the night and, as the funeral proceedings begin, she and her cousins bring to light long-buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 499 words · Angela Sullivan

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis Finally Announced for PS4 for the West; Cross-Play with Xbox & PC Confirmed

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis Finally Announced for PS4 for the West; Cross-Play with Xbox & PC Confirmed Sega just announced via press release that Phantasy Online 2: New Genesis will finally come for PS4 in the west. The release will happen on July 24, 2025, finally opening the game to a new audience after the original western release only happened for Xbox and PC. Strangely, the Japanese version has always been available for PS4 and Nintendo Switch (via cloud) in Japan....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 292 words · Nicole Mcdonald

Picking emoji on Gboard is now easier with this latest redesign

Picking emoji on Gboard is now easier with this latest redesign A lot of us don’t typically think of the keyboard as an app, but it’s definitely crucial infrastructure to the whole Android experience. Google has long had a finger in this pie with Gboard, up there amongthe best keyboard apps on Androidfor all the right reasons. The running goal now is to rack up more great features; the company hopes a redesigned emoji picker utility will be one of them....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 366 words · Alexander Morgan

Prey's Xenomorph Connection Brought Back A Decades-Old Mystery About The Alien & Predator Franchises

Prey’sconnection to theAlienfranchise drags up an unanswered question about both sci-fi franchises. TheAlienandPredatormovie franchiseswere both in rough shape before their most recent follow-ups. Thankfully,PreyandAlien: Romulusreminded viewers what they loved about both sagas, while also drawing in a new generation of fans.Romulusmakes too many references to past movies, thoughPreyis a little more strategic in its callbacks, including reintroducing the pistol seen inPredator 2. In this 1990 sequel, Danny Glover’s Harrigan is awarded a flintlock pistol engraved with “Raphael Adolini 1715” for defeating the City Hunter....

July 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1413 words · Shelly Day

Rings Of Power Season 2’s Númenor Storyline & Elendil’s “Hero’s Journey” Teased By Star

The Rings Of Power’s Stranger Identity Mystery Gets Intriguing Response From Season 2 Actor: “We Already Know Who He Is” Summary The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerseason 2 star Lloyd Owen has teased the upcoming Númenor storyline atSan Diego Comic-Con, explaining what to expect next from Elendil in the upcoming episodes. Elendil is the father of Isildur, a Númenórean sailor who befriends Galadriel, becoming an important voice for his nation assisting the Southlands against Adar’s army....

July 17, 2025 · 4 min · 830 words · Matthew Howard

Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp

As part of the wide-reachingDigital Markets Act, many big tech companies have to change the way they work and process data in the EU. One of the targeted businesses is Meta, with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger deemed to be gatekeepers that may prevent smaller competitors from reaching relevant market share. That’s why Meta has to offer interoperability with other messengers in March 2024, but it looks like two promising competitors aren’t interested at all....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 463 words · Jason Price

Spartacus Spinoff Series Casts 8 Leading Roles, Character Details Revealed

Spartacus Officially Revived At Starz With “What If” Scenario Involving An Original Character Summary The main cast forSpartacus: House of Ashurhas been announced, with eight new faces set to join original series star Nick Tarabay. Following a “What If” premise that offers a glimpse of what might have happened had Tarabay’s Ashur not been killed on Mount Vesuvius duringSpartacus: Vengeance, this new spinoff will instead see him as the master of his own gladiatorial Ludus....

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 534 words · Courtney Miranda

That '90s Show Part 3 Tease Has Me Terrified For The Fate Of These That '70s Show Characters

Summary That ’90s Showstar Callie Haverda has provided an alarming tease for the ending of Part 3, and it has me very concerned for some of the characters fromThat ’70s Show. Part 2, which is the first batch of episodes for season 2, left off with something of a cliffhanger as well, but Haverda hints that the Part 3 ending—the season 2 finale—will be far heavier. While I’m intrigued to discover what she’s referring to, I can’t help but worry that something dubious is on the way and thatThat ’90s Showseason 3 would be heading in a whole new direction....

July 17, 2025 · 6 min · 1129 words · Jonathan Carpenter

Weekend poll: How long have you been an Android user?

Time flies when you’re having fun, and you can’t say the last fifteen years haven’t been fun. This weekend — literally today, actually, if you’re reading this when it’s scheduled to go live — the T-Mobile G1 turns 15 years old, marking another big milestone in the history of Android. We’ve got abig, fun retrospective live on the site right now(also written by yours truly), but timed with this anniversary, I thought it’d be fun to ask just how long our readers have been using Google’s mobile OS....

July 17, 2025 · 2 min · 387 words · Ryan Baldwin

What Are Data Removal Services, and What Data Can They Remove?

In an era where cyber threats lurk around every corner, targeting your finances and social media accounts, privacy and security concerns are always in the spotlight. Everyone has an online data profile, and for most of us, it’s an enormous footprint—but what if you want to remove your data from the internet? Enter data removal services, the digital guardians promising to erase our virtual footprints. What Are Data Removal Services?...

July 17, 2025 · 3 min · 634 words · Tony Williamson

What Is Manuskript and How Does It Help You Write Novels?

What Is Manuskript and How Does It Help You Write Novels? Writing a novel is hard, and it’s difficult to keep track of character arcs, branching plot lines, and random ideas which drift into your head and then vanish before you have a chance to flesh them out. Manuskript is an open-source utility for Windows, macOS, and Linux, which can help you to organize your thoughts, lay out your chapters, and explore motivations....

July 17, 2025 · 7 min · 1325 words · Joshua Blackwell