It’s finally Sunday, and that means closing the week out with a fresh Wordle puzzle. As always, we’re here with some tips and tricks to help you work out the solution.
If you just want to be told the answer, you can scroll to the bottom of this article for July 9’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you want to solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.
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.
Not the day you’re after? Here’s the Wordle answer for July 8.
What’s the best Wordle starting word?
The best Wordle starting word is the one that brings you the most joy. But if you like being 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 used to be available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it. Unfortunately, it has since been taken down, with the website’s creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times.
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.
Why are there two different Wordle answers some days?
Though usually Wordle will only accept one correct solution per day, occasionally it will rebel against the norm and deem two different answers acceptable. This is due to changes the New York Times made to Wordle after it acquired the puzzle game.
The Times has since added its own updated word list, so this should happen even less frequently than before. To avoid any confusion, it’s a good idea to refresh your browser before getting stuck into a new puzzle.
Here’s a subtle hint for today’s Wordle answer:
Come on in.
Does today’s Wordle answer have a double letter?
It sure does!
Today’s Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with…
Today’s Wordle starts with the letter E.
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What’s the answer to Wordle today?
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 Wordle #750 is…
ENTER.
Don’t feel sad 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.
If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you’ve come to the right place for hints. There aren’t just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you’ll get what you need.
What is Quordle?
Quordle is a five-letter word guessing game similar to Wordle, except each guess applies letters to four words at the same time. You get nine guesses instead of six to correctly guess all four words. It looks like playing four Wordle games at the same time, and that is essentially what it is. But it’s not nearly as intimidating as it sounds.
Is Quordle harder than Wordle?
Yes, though not diabolically so.
Where did Quordle come from?
Amid the Wordle boom of late 2021 and early 2022, when everyone was learning to love free, in-browser, once-a-day word guessing games, creator Freddie Meyer says he took inspiration from one of the first big Wordle variations, Dordle — the one where you essentially play two Wordles at once. He took things up a notch, and released Quordle on January 30. Meyer’s creation was covered in The Guardian six days later, and now, according to Meyer, it attracts millions of daily users. Today, Meyer earns modest revenue from Patreon, where dedicated Quordle fans can donate to keep their favorite puzzle game running.
How is Quordle pronounced?
“Kwordle.” It should rhyme with “Wordle,” and definitely should not be pronounced exactly like “curdle.”
Is Quordle strategy different from Wordle?
Yes and no.
Your starting strategy should be the same as with Wordle. In fact, if you have a favorite Wordle opening word, there’s no reason to change that here. We suggest something rich in vowels, featuring common letters like C, R, and N. But you do you.
After your first guess, however, you’ll notice things getting out of control if you play Quordle exactly like Wordle.
What should I do in Quordle that I don’t do in Wordle?
Solving a Wordle puzzle can famously come down to a series of single letter-change variations. If you’ve narrowed it down to “-IGHT,” you could guess “MIGHT” “NIGHT” “LIGHT” and “SIGHT” and one of those will probably be the solution — though this is also a famous way to end up losing in Wordle, particularly if you play on “hard mode.” In Quordle, however, this sort of single-letter winnowing is a deadly trap, and it hints at the important strategic difference between Wordle and Quordle: In Quordle, you can’t afford to waste guesses unless you’re eliminating as many letters as possible at all times.
Guessing a completely random word that you already know isn’t the solution, just to eliminate three or four possible letters you haven’t tried yet, is thought of as a desperate, latch-ditch move in Wordle. In Quordle, however, it’s a normal part of the player’s strategic toolset.
Is there a way to get the answer faster?
In my experience Quordle can be a slow game, sometimes dragging out longer than it would take to play Wordle four times. But a sort of blunt-force guessing approach can speed things up. The following strategy also works with Wordle if you only want the solution, and don’t care about having the fewest possible guesses:
Try starting with a series of words that puts all the vowels (including Y) on the board, along with some other common letters. We’ve had good luck with the three words: “NOTES,” “ACRID,” and “LUMPY.” YouTuber DougMansLand suggests four words: “CANOE,” “SKIRT,” “PLUMB,” and “FUDGY.”
Most of the alphabet is now eliminated, and you’ll only have the ability to make one or two wrong guesses if you use this strategy. But in most cases you’ll have all the information you need to guess the remaining words without any wrong guesses.
If strategy isn’t helping, and you’re still stumped, here are some hints:
Are there any double or triple letters in today’s Quordle words?
Two words have twice-occurring letters. One is a double letter.
Are any rare letters being used in today’s Quordle like Q or Z?
A spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus shines from a distance like bone china, a saucer daintily tilted in space.
This region of glowing stars some 184 million light-years from our solar system may seem the picture of tranquility, but astronomers have turned their attention to the dwarf galaxy to study the aftermath of a catastrophic boom.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of UGC 11860 from its perch in low-Earth orbit to study the remnants of a supernova. The violent cosmic explosion was first detected in 2014 by the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, a robotic telescope based in Hawaii cheekily referred to as “Assassin.”
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Giant stars about eight times the mass of the sun or larger explode into supernovas at the end of their lives and collapse into black holes.
Supernovas, the biggest, brightest, and most violent explosions in the universe, are element factories, astrophysicists say: They make carbon, for instance, the same chemical on which humans and much of life on Earth are based. They spread metals like calcium found in bones and iron in blood across interstellar space. This dispersal seeds new generations of stars and planets.
This is what astronomer Carl Sagan meant when he said we’re made of “star stuff.” The same substances that make our bodies were literally forged within the cores of stars, then flung through the cosmos when they died.
Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said humans are made of ‘star stuff.’ Credit: Tony Korody / Sygma / Sygma via Getty Image
In May, a supernova was discovered in one of the spiral arms of the Pinwheel Galaxy. The explosion is one of the closest spotted in decades, at only 21 million light-years away. That may seem extremely far, but most detected by telescopes have come from between 6 and 13 billion light-years away.
The colossal flash will likely brighten and continue to be visible for many months, if not years. The event has even inspired some astronomers to scan the space around the supernova, in case an advanced alien civilization has decided to use the star’s blast as something akin to a flare gunshot to get our attention.
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Not all stars suffer this fate. In fact, a medium star like the sun is not expected to supernova but will gradually run out of nuclear fuel, sloughing off its material in cloud rings that will eventually wither it to its core, a white dwarf star of carbon and oxygen.
An artist’s depiction of a supernova explosion. Credit: NASA illustration
The research team investigating UGC 11860 wants to better understand the star systems that eventually go out with the swift kick of a supernova, according to the European Space Agency, which collaborates with NASA on Hubble.
“The hugely energetic processes during supernova explosions are predominantly responsible for forging the elements between silicon and nickel on the periodic table,” according to the agency. “This means that understanding the influence of the masses and compositions of the progenitor star systems is vital to explaining how many of the chemical elements here on Earth originated.”
It’s true: You can add mentions in an Instagram Story even after it’s posted. And it’s pretty simple.
You can’t edit a Story after it’s posted — meaning if you want to add text, music, or images after the fact, you’ll need to delete the post and repost it to your liking. But if all you need to do is add a mention after you’ve posted your Instagram Story, and if you don’t mind that their username won’t appear in the story, give it a go.
Total Time
Less than 5 minutes
What You Need
Instagram app
Step 1:
Add to your Instagram Story
You likely already know how to do this, but either click the [+] sign on the bottom middle of your Instagram home screen, click your profile picture in the top left corner, or slide your screen to the left. This will allow you to add to your Instagram Story.
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Step 2:
Post to your Instagram Story
Take a photo or video, add your text and anything else you’d like to add, and add it to your Instagram Story or your Close Friends Story.
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Step 3:
Navigate to Add Mentions after your Instagram Story is posted
Once your Instagram Story is posted, click the three dots on the bottom right corner of the screen that say “more.” This will show you a screen with eight options, including “Delete,” “Highlight,” “Save,” “Share as post,” “Send,” “Add Mentions,” “Boost story,” and “Story settings.” Click “Add Mentions.”
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Step 4:
Choose the people you’d like to mentions in your Instagram Story after it is posted
Either scroll through the people Instagram serves you up, or type their username in the Search bar. Click the name of the account you’d like to mention in your Instagram Story, and the circle on the right next to their username will fill in blue with a check mark. Click “Add,” and the account will be tagged in your Instagram Story.
As a reminder: You won’t be able to see the account added and, when you mention someone in an existing story, they will receive a notification.
Geologists have found a large cache of granite in an unlikely place — the far side of the moon.
With so many kitchens boasting long polished slabs on their countertops, we likely take for granted our granite. But the rock is virtually nonexistent elsewhere in the solar system, or so scientists have thought.
Before this discovery, only small grains have turned up in the more than 800 pounds of lunar samples hauled back from space by the NASA Apollo missions.
“Typically, granites require either plate tectonics or water-bearing magmas to form,” said Timothy Glotch, a geologist at Stony Brook University, in a statement. “While the lunar interior contains small amounts of water, the Moon has never undergone plate tectonics.”
The discovery, published in the science journal Nature, presents quite a mystery, suggesting that the 30-mile-wide granite trove on the moon formed through a geological process not yet understood. NASA plans to explore the region, the Compton-Belkovich volcanic complex and Gruithuisen Domes, with a rover in 2026.
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On Earth, granite rocks are part of the plumbing found beneath extinct volcanoes. They form when underground molten lava rises to the planet’s crust but doesn’t erupt and then cools.
Any large deposit of granite found on Earth once fed a cluster of volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest, said Matthew Siegler, a planetary scientist at Southern Methodist University, who led the research.
The group of scientists think the lunar granite had to have been there for some 3.5 billion years, when the moon had active volcanoes. The large shadowy-looking spots on the moon — the ones that look kind of like a face, for example — are the maria, areas of ancient lava flows. They’re thought to have formed early in the moon’s history.
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft captures the darkened maria on the moon, areas of ancient lava flows, in 1992. Credit: NASA / JPL / USGS
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The research team used data from the Chinese Chang’E lunar orbiters to find extra heat below the surface of a region thought to once host an ancient volcano. The source may have been granite’s high levels of radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium, according to the new paper.
“The only solution that we can think of which produces that much heat is a large body of granite,” Siegler said.
Scientists think domes formed on the moon with magma rich in silica, similar to granite. Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University
NASA plans to investigate the summit of one of the moon’s Gruithuisen Domes, under the Commercial Payload Services Program, which was established in 2018 to recruit the private sector to help deliver cargo and instruments to the moon. The upcoming missions will support NASA’s lunar ambitions, while also attempting to kickstart a future cislunar economy, based on business ventures on and around the moon.
Scientists think the lunar domes formed with magma, rich in silica, similar to granite. On Earth, though, these features need oceans and plate tectonics to form. The space agency hopes moondust samples taken from the top will offer new clues.
Around 1,800 miles beneath your feet lies a giant, blazing-hot ball of metal.
It’s the innermost part of our planet, Earth’s core. It has a profound impact on your life, though none of us can even glimpse this impossibly remote, hostile place. The core is about the size of Pluto, yet scientists found that distant world in our solar system nearly a century ago, before discovering proof of the core.
“That gives an idea of how remote it is, even though it’s right under our feet,” James Van Orman, a geochemist at Case Western Reserve University who researches the interior of planets, told Mashable.
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Even so, geologists have learned a lot about this potent sphere, which is made of a solid metal inner core surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. But some things remain mysterious, in part because we can’t, for many reasons, simply dig an unprecedented tunnel through Earth to get down there. (A geophysicist has proposed an ambitious scheme to send a melon-sized probe into the bowels of Earth, though delivering it to such depths would require manufacturing a strong earthquake with many tons of TNT).
Here’s what we know about our core, what we don’t, and why it plays a prominent role in all our lives.
Earth’s layers: At center is the solid metal core, surrounded by a fluid outer core. Credit: NASA
Why Earth’s core is incredibly hot
Earth’s inner core is around 750 miles thick and made mostly of solid iron. (Research published in July 2023 suggests some liquid iron could still be trapped in the inner core, left there during Earth’s formation.) It’s quite an object. And it’s hot.
It reaches some 9,800 degrees Fahrenheit (5,400 degrees Celsius), which is nearly the temperature of the sun’s surface.
“It’s amazingly hot,” emphasized Oliver Tschauner, a research professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies the mineral chemistry of the deep Earth.
“It’s amazingly hot.”
Since we’ve never visited the core (in fact, we haven’t even gotten through Earth’s thinnest layer, the crust), you might wonder how geologists have a confident estimation of what the core is like. They know it’s largely iron based on analysis of the behavior and speed of seismic waves from earthquakes that pass through the core. And they’ve determined the temperature by running experiments on iron and other elements to simulate how such metals behave deep inside Earth, surrounded by intense heat and pressure.
A primary reason the core is profoundly hot is because remnant heat from Earth’s formation some 4.5 billion years ago is still there. Long ago, Earth formed inside a disk of hot spinning material that orbited our nascent sun. The chunks of scorching material that bonded together to form Earth contained bounties of heat which, after all this time, still hasn’t escaped from the planet’s depths. That’s because it’s extremely well insulated. Above the core is a hot layer of Earth called the mantle; it’s a whopping 1,800 miles thick and has the consistency of caramel, keeping the heat in.
“The mantle is basically a thick jacket. It doesn’t allow the core to cool very fast,” explained Jie Li, a geophysicist at the University of Michigan.
Other factors, too, help keep the core torrid, such as the crystallization of Earth’s solid inner core, a long-ago process that also released heat. It’s crucial that the core is hot, because these temperatures help create the environment that maintains Earth’s vital magnetic field. “Vital” might be an understatement.
How Earth’s core sustains a life-protecting magnetic field
Poor Mars.
The Red Planet’s once hot core cooled long ago, and without a heated core its magnetic field died, leaving the once water-rich world exposed to the relentless flow of particles from the sun, called the solar wind. The solar wind progressively stripped Mars of its thick atmosphere, leaving it the frigid, callous, irradiated desert we see today. Fortunately for us, Earth’s core, as noted above, is hot and vigorous, which sustains our enormously protective magnetic field.
“The magnetic field is crucial for life on Earth,” emphasized Li.
“The magnetic field is crucial for life on Earth.”
The magnetic field loops out from the poles, trapping harmful solar energy a safe distance away so it can’t strip away our atmosphere. This invaluable atmosphere keeps our planet insulated and wet, allowing life to thrive. And the fluid core is responsible for creating this invaluable shield. The outer core, you see, is largely made of molten iron and nickel — an ideal fluid to conduct electricity. As it swirls around and around it acts similar to an electric generator, creating electrical currents that naturally produce a big magnetic field.
Earth’s magnetic field shielding us from harmful solar radiation. Credit: UC Regents
Electric currents created in the fluid metal outer core that produce Earth’s magnetic field. Credit: Andrew Z. Colvin / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Yet the magnetic field holds mysteries we can’t yet solve. Earth’s hot inner core, once it solidified, generated the immense heat necessary to drive magnetic-creating movement in the outer core. This sustains our magnetic field. But, importantly, geologists don’t think this process started until some 3 billion years ago, leaving over a billion years unexplained. “What was driving the magnetic field before that?” Van Orman asked. “We don’t know.” What’s more, there’s bounties of proof preserved in rocks that Earth’s magnetic field can shift around, and for reasons unknown, even flip.
Fortunately, we’re safe. A dynamic magnetic field is normal.
“Earth’s magnetic field and the rotation of the Earth’s inner core are always changing, but scientists have not found strong reasons to believe that changes observed during the last approximately 190 years are a threat to the protective nature of the magnetic field,” Mark Abolins, a geoscientist at Middle Tennessee State University, told Mashable. “In addition, scientists know that the Earth’s magnetic field undergoes big changes (reversals) every few hundred thousand years, and life on Earth has continued through numerous reversals during the billions of years that life has been around.”
Life finds a way, even when the compass changes.
Can Earth’s core stop spinning?
Like Earth, the core rotates. But you may have recently come across some irresponsible media coverage claiming that “Earth’s core stopped spinning or rotating,” or something similar. But that didn’t happen. Not even close.
What did happen, then? Although it’s an area of active scientific research, over the last few decades there’s been research suggesting that Earth’s core has sometimes slightly sped up or slowed down compared to Earth’s spin. Recent research published in the major scientific journal Nature Geoscience suggested the core had stopped spinning faster than the Earth as a whole. But it’s still spinning, and quite fast.
“It’s not like it’s going to stop spinning,” emphasized Van Orman.
If it did, we’d all notice. And probably get flung into space:
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So, folks, our massive metal core is a pretty wild place. It won’t cool down for eons and eons. It’s certainly not going to stop spinning. It does change its behavior, for reasons that aren’t fully understood. But, then again, don’t we all?
This story has been updated with new research about the composition of Earth’s inner core.
The James Webb Space Telescope lets astronomers see a tremendous number of deep space galaxies — and they’re finding some peculiar things.
Of note, scientists recently pointed the Webb telescope — the most powerful observatory in space — at a whopping 100,000 relatively young galaxies, and observed some unique cosmic phenomena in a galaxy dubbed CEERS 1019. It’s extremely young, for a cosmic object, existing just some 570 million years after the big bang created the universe. And it holds the most distant supermassive black hole ever found.
Although this black hole (an object with a gravitational pull so strong not even light can escape) is billions of light-years away, the Webb telescope’s ability to capture extremely faint energy allows researchers to observe what’s happening in CEERS 1019.
“Looking at this distant object with this telescope is a lot like looking at data from black holes that exist in galaxies near our own,” Rebecca Larson, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin who led the discovery, said in a statement.
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CEERS 1019 and its black hole are unique for a number of reasons:
– It might not be just one galaxy: Most galaxies appear as a singular disk. Not CEERS 1019. As the image below shows, it’s made up of three bright clumps. “We’re not used to seeing so much structure in images at these distances,” said Jeyhan Kartaltepe, an astrophysicist at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, who worked on the research. The structures might be galaxies merging together, and stoking the creation of stars. “A galaxy merger could be partly responsible for fueling the activity in this galaxy’s black hole, and that could also lead to increased star formation,” Kartaltepe added.
– Unusual black hole: “CEERS 1019 is not only notable for how long ago it existed, but also how relatively little its black hole weighs,” NASA explains. It weighs 9 million times more than the sun, which is a lot, but not compared to the giants often found at the center of galaxies in the young universe, which are 1 billion times (or more!) heavier. What’s more, astronomers don’t yet know how such a powerful object exists at all. It appeared so early in the universe, when the first galaxies were forming. With the help of the Webb telescope, researchers hope to grasp how such a big galaxy, and other massive objects, came to be.
– Ravenous eater: What is clear, however, is the black hole found in CEERS 1019 is extremely active. “Though small, CEERS 1019 is ravenous, consuming gas, dust, and stars at the highest theoretically possible rate for its size,” the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the observatory’s science mission, explains. “Webb’s spectrum reflects it is fully focused on eating its ‘meal.'” (By peering at distant light, Webb’s specialized instruments can view the chemical makeup of objects billions of light-years away. In other words, we don’t have a picture of this black hole, but we know how black holes behave, and can determine what’s transpiring at such great distances by observing the activity of atoms or molecules in the deep cosmos.)
A graph showing how the James Webb Space Telescope observed gas behavior in the galaxy CEERS 1019, which illustrates the behavior of an exceptionally busy black hole. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Leah Hustak (STScI)
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These findings will be published in the peer-reviewed science journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters. And expect more discoveries from this expansive survey of 100,000 galaxies.
“CEERS 1019 may only hold this record for a few weeks – claims about other, more distant black holes identified by Webb are currently being carefully reviewed by the astronomical community,” NASA said.
The Webb telescope’s powerful abilities
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, the ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal unprecedented insights about the early universe. But it’s also peering at intriguing planets in our galaxy, and even the planets in our solar system.
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Here’s how Webb is achieving unparalleled feats, and likely will for decades:
Giant mirror: Webb’s mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That’s over two and a half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope’s mirror. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant, ancient objects. As described above, the telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
“We’re going to see the very first stars and galaxies that ever formed,” Jean Creighton, an astronomer and the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, told Mashable in 2021.
Infrared view: Unlike Hubble, which largely views light that’s visible to us, Webb is primarily an infrared telescope, meaning it views light in the infrared spectrum. This allows us to see far more of the universe. Infrared has longer wavelengths than visible light, so the light waves more efficiently slip through cosmic clouds; the light doesn’t as often collide with and get scattered by these densely packed particles. Ultimately, Webb’s infrared eyesight can penetrate places Hubble can’t.
“It lifts the veil,” said Creighton.
Peering into distant exoplanets: The Webb telescope carries specialized equipment called spectrometers that will revolutionize our understanding of these far-off worlds. The instruments can decipher what molecules (such as water, carbon dioxide, and methane) exist in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets — be it gas giants or smaller rocky worlds. Webb will look at exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy. Who knows what we’ll find?
“We might learn things we never thought about,” Mercedes López-Morales, an exoplanet researcher and astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics-Harvard & Smithsonian, told Mashable in 2021.
Already, astronomers have successfully found intriguing chemical reactions on a planet 700 light-years away, and the observatory has started looking at one of the most anticipated places in the cosmos: the rocky, Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST solar system.
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Amazon will literally pay you to shop this Prime Day. No, really.
For the second year in a row, the retail giant is giving customers several ways to earn free credits they can redeem during its annual sitewide sale (which is happening on July 11 and 12). Two offers were live at the time of writing, and neither requires committing to a paid Prime membership upfront:
1. Sign up for a free 30-day trial of Prime, get $10
Amazon gatekeeps its Prime Day deals from non-Prime members, but you can skirt the monthly or annual membership fee by signing up for its free 30-day trial. According to a recent post on the company’s blog, select shoppers who enroll ahead of the event will automatically receive a $10 shopping credit toward their Prime Day purchase. (If you don’t want to upgrade to a paid plan, be sure to cancel your trial before it renews.)
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2. Buy $50+ in Amazon gift cards through July 10, get $5
Prime members (paid or trial) who purchase at least $50 worth of Amazon gift cards before Prime Day kicks off will receive a $5 credit in their Amazon account right after they complete their order. You can redeem that credit anytime through Friday, August 25, in case nothing catches your eye on Prime Day.
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TL;DR: As of July 8, get the Speedy Mag Wireless Charger for iPhone for only $29.97 (reg. $119.95) — that’s 75% off.
There are tons of smartphone chargers on the market, but how many of them are stylish? If you’ve been in the market for a sleek wireless charger that also gets the job done quickly and efficiently, look no further than the Speedy Mag Wireless Charger for iPhone.
Available now in three chic shades — a pale blue, crisp white, and sharp black — the Speedy Mag Wireless Charger for iPhone can keep your phone powered up while you’re on the go. And during Deal Days, you can currently snag one for just $29.97 (reg. $119), with no coupon code required, now through July 14.
The Speedy Mag Wireless Charger for iPhone has been optimized for iPhone models 12 and newer, offering a super fast charge with a sleek, portable design. For those iPhone models, magnetic attachment is available, keeping your iPhone secure while preventing sliding as it powers back up.
There are built-in safeguards to prevent overcharging, so you don’t have to worry about plugging or unplugging. And thanks to the wireless component, you have the potential to reduce clutter from your spaces, whether it be a nightstand, desk, or countertop.
Until July 14 at 11:59 p.m. PT, upgrade your charging routine with this convenient wireless charger during Deal Days:
Speedy Mag Wireless Charger for iPhone in blue, on sale for $29.97 (reg. $119)
Speedy Mag Wireless Charger for iPhone in white, on sale for $29.97 (reg. $119)
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It all started with the Barbie selfie generator — that was the calm before the pink storm that’s rightfully taken over our days and turned them into Barbie Land.
The Barbie promotional tour has been a roller coaster, to say the least, from the ample amounts of covetable merch and clever branding to the pearls of wisdom dropped by Ken (Ryan Gosling), not to mention Margot Robbie’s commitment to being our real-life Barbie Girl. From themed movie screenings to international movie posters with jaw-dropping innuendo, life has been so plastic for the past couple of months — and it’s absolutely fantastic.
As Barbie‘s release gets closer, we’ve rounded up all the ways the film’s promotional tour has been giving us life. Nothing is safe from being Barbie-fied, and there’s no other way we’d have it.
Margot Robbie’s many Barbie-inspired looks.
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Margot Robbie is living the dream — unapologetically wearing pink to every occasion while casually referencing our favorite Barbie dolls and other classic girly moments. Throughout Barbie‘s press tour, Robbie’s been serving look after stunning look, all while paying homage to her onscreen alter ego. Her Versace outfit for the Seoul premiere recreated the 1985 “Day-to-Night” Barbie doll, right down to the brick cell phone, and in Australia, she sported a black-and-white Hervé Léger mini-dress based on the original 1959 Barbie’s swimsuit. And when she’s taken a break from being Barbie made flesh, Robbie has been wearing archival looks from ’90s Versace and even channeling Cher Horowitz from Clueless. Robbie has made it her mission to slay in this press run — and she’s winning.
Robbie’s outfits in Barbie‘s promotional tour alone are endlessly swoon-worthy, so one can only imagine the stellar costumes we’re going to get in the movie itself.
The entire Barbie Seoul premiere.
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Barbie co-star America Ferrera, Robbie, and director/co-writer Greta Gerwig were all one finger-heart away from a perfect Inkigayo ending fairy shot at Barbie‘s Seoul premiere. While the K-pop idol-ification of Barbie‘s main stars was already perfect, this event was extra special because Robbie got to celebrate her birthday right in front of a giant Barbie DreamHouse.
Once again, Margot Robbie keeps living our dream.
Barbie and Ken’s Malibu DreamHouse is real — and on Airbnb.
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Screw the dollhouse — you can now actually spend a night in Barbie and Ken’s Malibu DreamHouse. In fact, you can rent it on Airbnb. Yes, a full-scale, perfectly pink home equipped with a roller rink and a disco is now available for anyone lucky enough to nab a spot to rent for a night on either July 21 or 22.
It seems fake, but it’s not. This is something that’s actually happening in our timeline. Bookings open on July 17, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
The many, many posters.
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We all remember where we were when Warner Bros. tweeted the first ever poster for Barbie in 2022. Lives were changed. The world shifted. And suddenly, pink was in. Since then, we’ve been blessed with an array of Barbie promotional posters united under one slogan: “She’s everything. And he’s just Ken.” (No truer words have ever been written.) But one poster took this cheeky motto even further.
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The internet was quick to note that the French poster for Barbie has a pretty wild double entendre. Given the current meaning of “ken” in French slang, the film’s slogan can also be read as “She knows everything. Him, he just knows how to fuck.” Honestly? Still pretty valid and makes even more sense.
What Barbie wants, Barbie gets — even themed movie theaters.
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Early screenings of the Barbie movie are dedicated to bringing Barbie Land to life along with the opening credits. Alamo Drafthouse is hosting dress-up screenings and slumber parties to celebrate the occasion. And even Nicole Kidman’s favorite child, AMC, is hosting early Barbie blowout parties. All of these events come with merchandise, but Cinemark might be winning for the best Barbie-inspired goodies.
Not only can you get Barbie-themed cups, popcorn bags, and blankets, but you can also get a Barbie beach ball cup. Is it practical? Absolutely not. Do we still want it? A thousand times yes.
Xbox goes Barbie.
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Nothing is safe from Barbie-fication, not even Xbox. Microsoft is doing a series of Barbie promotions where fans can enter to win a one-of-a-kind Xbox console built into a DreamHouse and/or Xbox controllers with cute faceplates inspired by Robbie and Gosling’s outfits in the movie. And you can even race in Barbie’s car in Forza Horizon 5. Eat our dust, Ken!
One word: Barbenheimer.
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Barbenheimer is a cultural moment. It’s perhaps our favorite thing to come out of the zeitgeist. And it’s finally Barbenheimer month.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Gerwig’s Barbie have the subject of endless hilarious memes for the past few months, ever since it was announced they’d premiere in theaters the same day. The Barbenheimer memes and merch have been marrying the two films in a chaotic clash, and honestly? The lines are starting to blur.
Are they actually the same movie in disguise? Does Barbie’s existential crisis in the trailer mean she understands J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) on a fundamental level? Should you buy a Barbenheimer shirt? It seems difficult to imagine when we’ll have another great movie war like this again, so let’s relish this moment. Long live Barbenheimer.
When Robbie and Gerwig bought tickets for Oppenheimer.
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Do we think that Gerwig and Robbie actually went to see Oppenheimer after posing with those tickets? No, we don’t. But did this picture give us so much life? Yes, it did. The Barbenheimer lore is officially canon.
Barbie clothes. Barbie skates. Barbie everything.
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There is so much Barbie merch out there at the moment that we’re convinced you can’t leave your house without seeing a glimpse of neon in every corner. From Barbie-themed collections at Forever 21 and H&M, to an entire shoe catalog at Aldo, your local mall has been Barbie-fied, and it’s time for you to concede and buy something pink. Oh, did we also mention the Barbie pop-up at Bloomingdale’s, complete with outfits, accessories, shoes, and denim dog vest? Do you need some Barbie makeup? How about some Barbie glassware or heatless hair curlers? You can even snag a pair of Impala inline skates, just like those Robbie and Gosling were papped in way back when.
Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj’s remix of “Barbie World” with Aqua.
Admittedly, we were all worried that Aqua’s ’90s bop wouldn’t make it into the Barbie movie. But would it even have been a Barbie film without it? Luckily, the queen and princess of rap have delivered a stellar remix of Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” (changed to “Barbie World”), modernizing the tune and gifting us with an anthem that will be playing all summer.
In fact, the entirety of Barbie‘s soundtrack is filled with bops and is arguably itself a multiverse of pop stars, merging everyone from Dua Lipa to Charli XCX to the recently announced Billie Eilish, all into one album. A Barbie concert for all!
Ryan Gosling is Ken-ough — and so are we.
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We sincerely hope that anyone who doubted Gosling’s ability to play Ken is sitting in a corner and thinking about what they’ve done. Throughout Barbie‘s press tour, Gosling has been embodying Ken so profoundly that he’s begun bestowing Ken-coded pearls of wisdom on us all. And now we can stop talking like Gosling-as-Ken.
We are all Ken-ough. The Ken-ergy is within us at all times. Ryan Gosling, you are a blessing on earth, and we thank you for your Ken-ervice.
The leaks that launched a thousand tweets.
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Real fans would know that the Barbie promo actually started over a year ago — the day set leaks took over Twitter. The day we first saw Robbie and Gosling in their neon roller skate outfits.
No words can describe the sheer euphoria of that moment. As soon as we saw Robbie’s pink-and-blue visor and jarringly neon yellow safety pads, we knew we were all going to be in safe hands. These photos looked and felt like a beloved childhood Barbie doll had come to life, and she’s only been thriving since.
To my mermaid Barbie, this one’s for you.
How to watch:Barbie releases in theaters on July 21.
