​Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle might be easy for fans of a certain musical genre. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle. Today’s Strands theme is: Mountain band.. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Traditional tunes.. Clue words to unlock in-game hints. Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:. BLUE, GAME, CHAR, CHARM, SARGE, SEEN, BRAT, BRIT, RILE, NOSE, DARN. Answers for today’s Strands puzzle. These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:. BANJO, FIDDLE, GUITAR, MANDOLIN, HARMONICA. Today’s Strands spangram. The completed NYT Strands puzzle for March 13, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Today’s Strands spangram is BLUEGRASSMUSIC. To find it, start with the B that’s three letters to the right on the bottom row, and wind up and around.. Quick tips for Strands. #1: To get more clue words, see if you can tweak the words you’ve already found, by adding an “S” or other variants. And if you find a word like WILL, see if other letters are close enough to help you make SILL, or BILL.. #2: Once you get one theme word, look at the puzzle to see if you can spot other related words.. #3: If you’ve been given the letters for a theme word, but can’t figure it out, guess three more clue words, and the puzzle will light up each letter in order, revealing the word.  

​Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.. Today’s Wordle puzzle is a tough one, though the letters are fairly common. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.. Read more: New Study Reveals Wordle’s Top 10 Toughest Words of 2025. Today’s Wordle hints. Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats. Today’s Wordle answer has one repeated letter.. Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels. Today’s Wordle answer has two vowels, but one is the repeated letter, so you’ll see that one twice.. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter. Today’s Wordle answer begins with E.. Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter. Today’s Wordle answer ends with N.. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning. Today’s Wordle answer is the past participle of a word meaning to consume food.. TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER. Today’s Wordle answer is EATEN.. Yesterday’s Wordle answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer, March 12, No. 1727, was SMELL.. Recent Wordle answers. March 8, No. 1723: LOBBY. March 9, No. 1724: HASTY. March 10, No. 1725: SHOAL. March 11, No. 1726: TEDDY. Quick tips for Wordle. #1: Check our list ranking the popularity of all the letters in the alphabet and choose your starter words accordingly. (TRAIN, STERN and AUDIO are good.). #2: Don’t forget that letters can be used more than once.. #3: Many words are similar. You don’t want to use up multiple guesses that don’t advance your cause. So if the puzzle is STA_E, don’t guess STARE, STATE and STALE. Guess something that uses that R, T and L, like TWIRL.  

​Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a real stumper. Also, note that I couldn’t really represent the clues for 8-Across and 3-Down, so imagine the S in each puzzle is either raised above or dropped below the other letters, as noted. Read on for all the (confusing) answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.. If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword. Let’s get to those Mini Crossword clues and answers.. The completed NYT MIni Crossword puzzle for March 13, 2026. NYT/Screenshot by CNET. Mini across clues and answers. 1A clue: “___, queen!”. Answer: YAS. 4A clue: Waiter’s handout. Answer: MENU. 5A clue: Tiny invertebrate that, when grouped in the thousands, makes up a coral. Answer: POLYP. 6A clue: Scoop of sour cream. Answer: DOLLOP. 7A clue: Spicy wing, as seen on a popular YouTube talk show. Answer: HOTONE. 8A clue: Comparative suggested by this visual puzzle: PQRsTUV (Note: The s should be dropped down below the other letters in this clue.). Answer: SLOWER (Because the S in the clue is lower than the other letters.). Mini down clues and answers. 1D clue: Like SpongeBob and Spirit airplanes. Answer: YELLOW. 2D clue: “Bueller …? Bueller …?”. Answer: ANYONE. 3D clue: Meal suggested by this visual puzzle: pqrStuv (note: The “S” should be raised up above the other letters in this puzzle). Answer: SUPPER (Because the S in the clue is the highest, or upper letter.). 4D clue: “___ bene” (Italian for “very good”). Answer: MOLTO. 5D clue: Amenity in a Florida backyard, perhaps. Answer: POOL. 6D clue: Agcy. at the center of a 2026 government shutdown. Answer: DHS  

​A MacBook Neo teardown has revealed an internal Apple surprise: The new budget laptop is actually easy to get into.. For several generations, the company’s laptops have been designed as sealed vaults that house a processor, memory, storage and other electronics. And when I say “sealed,” I mean it: Opening one up often involves using a heat gun to soften stretches of glue and adhesive strips.. That’s all great for creating a solid aluminum laptop that won’t split when you look at it sideways, but it is an ongoing source of frustration for non-Apple repair shops and individuals willing to violate their warranties to make minor changes instead of paying Apple to do the work. With encouragement from the Right to Repair movement and those independent shops, Apple has gradually made it easier to access its computers since 2021.. But “easier” isn’t the same as “easy,” which is why it was a surprise to discover no adhesive in sight in the MacBook Neo teardown video by Australian repair channel Tech Re-Nu. Instead, the laptop’s design is a sensible mix of components with routed cables all held in place by screws. Lots and lots of screws.. The good thing about those screws: They’re now-standard T3, T5 and T8 Torx screws versus the obscure heads like the pentalobe screw Apple has used over the years to dissuade people from getting into their machines.. This assembly approach makes sense given that MacBook Neos were designed with the education market in mind. If you’ve had to deal with the plastic-cased Chromebooks that many schools assign, you’ll know that keyboards and screens are especially vulnerable to, well, students.. Opening up a MacBook Neo, no glue in sight. Tech Re-Nu/Screenshot by Jeff Carlson/CNET. Being built of aluminum with better Apple fit and finish will surely help the MacBook Neo’s longevity, but it will also be beneficial if a school’s IT department can replace those components in-house. In fact, as MacRumors noticed when looking at the MacBook Neo repair manual, the keyboard can be replaced individually without having to order an entire top case of the laptop.. Before you get your hopes up, though, the MacBook Neo logic board still has everything soldered on, so you can’t swap in more RAM or storage as was possible in old PowerBook and early MacBook models. In fact, the logic board is incredibly small, no doubt due to its A18 Pro processor’s heritage powering the iPhone 16 Pro.. The MacBook Neo logic board (being held) makes up a small portion of the computer itself. Tech Re-Nu/Screenshot by Jeff Carlson/CNET. The MacBook Neo continues to surprise, from its fresh colors to the performance of that processor, even with a bare 8GB of RAM. If you ever need to access the components inside, it’s better to be (un)screwed than stuck.. Watch this: MacBook Neo Review: Apple Just Upended the Budget Laptop Market  

​Dating app Bumble is bringing artificial intelligence into the matchmaking process via a new AI assistant called Bee. The dating app unveiled the upcoming features during its 2025 fourth-quarter earnings call this week. CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said the company’s revamped platform, called Bumble 2.0, is expected to roll out sometime this spring, with tools designed to make profiles more personal and matches more meaningful.. One of the biggest changes is what Bumble calls a “chapter-based profile.” Instead of presenting users as a handful of static details, the new format lets people share different “chapters” of their lives — essentially short story-like sections that highlight experiences, interests or defining moments.. Today, a typical Bumble profile looks much like those on other dating apps: a name, age, photos and a few quick facts such as job title or hometown. From there, the process is familiar. Swipe left if you’re not interested. Swipe right if you are.. The new format, Bumble hopes, will give users a chance to show more of who they are before someone makes that split-second decision.. Another feature, called Dates, will rely on the new AI assistant Bee to help users find connections.. No more swipes?. Wolfe Herd said Bumble might test eliminating the swipe in certain markets and then see how members react to the feature being gone.. During the earnings call, Wolfe Herd said people are tired of “being reduced to images and potentially dismissed with a swipe” and that the chapter-based profile will help people tell their stories.. With the chapter-based format, members will be able to share more about themselves beyond the basics, in the hopes that it will be more intriguing for potential partners. One member may be intrigued by another’s trip to Italy. They connect to learn more, and maybe a match will form. It’s also a way for Bumble to get more data to feed its AI and gain more well-rounded profiles of its members.. More from CNET: The Best Dating Apps for 2025. Wolfe Herd said Bumble wants its members to showcase more of themselves and not just their basic profile.. “Ultimately, dating only works when you really understand the story of someone,” Wolfe Herd said during the earnings call. “This is where chemistry and connection really happen. It is the intersection of someone going from just a stranger that you dismiss to someone you are genuinely interested in. As we reimagined the profile, we thought, why not bring people to life as a story? Everyone has a story to tell, and this is where people become interesting.”. Wolfe Herd said many members complain that their potential matches wind up in “dead-end chat zones” that never go anywhere. She said Bumble will introduce “dynamic ways” to get members to connect.. Bee as matchmaker. Wolfe Herd also said the AI-powered Bee would act as a personal dating assistant and matchmaker by “learning members’ values, relationship goals, communication style, lifestyle and dating intentions.”. Bumb