I could watch people peel raw eggs on TikTok all day

The latest egg trend on TikTok isn’t exactly food related: Those with steady hands and the proper tools have been hopping on live to peel raw eggs.

In order to peel a raw egg, you must separate the shell from the egg membrane, leaving a weird little egg sack. TikTokkers use a variety of metal instruments to delicately break the shell and slowly remove the shell in pieces, which is just as eggs-hausting as it sounds. They have to be careful not to puncture the egg membrane! People are using tweezers, blackhead removers, and other surgical utensils. Meanwhile, I am still trying to master the art of peeling a hard-boiled egg.

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Eggs are also notorious on TikTok and have given birth to numerous trends, such as the “give your pet an egg and see if they take care of it” trend and many cooking hacks.

While these egg-peeling challenge videos thrive on TikTok livestreams, clips and sped up versions of livestreams are also posted.

At first glance these videos seem odd. “Why?” immediately comes to mind. But as soon as you buy into the concept, they are strangely mesmerizing and relaxing — not unlike other unexpectedly satisfying trends that thrive on TikTok, like chalk breaking, oyster shucking, and sand chopping.

Peeling a raw egg is quite a feat, which contributes to the fascination with these videos. A TikTok posted by @itxhurts2know shows a time lapse of their eighth attempt. “Don’t waste your time. It friggin popped at the end cause it’s IMPOSSIBLE,” the user cautioned. It’s surprising that so many users have been successful in the challenge.

An example of the trend.

Don’t have to tell me twice.
Credit: TikTok / itxhurts2know

An example of the trend.

Credit: TikTok / itxhurts2know

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen raw egg-peeling videos gain traction online. Over the past five years there’s been a steady stream of surgeons uploading these videos onto YouTube to show off their skills and steady hands, but the TikTok trend seems to have brought the challenge to us common folks.

Save 31% on an enormous version of ‘Uno’

SAVE 31%: The UNO Giant Family Card Game is on sale for $13.85 at Walmart as of Jan. 24. It’s just like regular Uno, except it’s very big.


For whatever reason, the giant versions of childhood games — like Jenga and Connect Four — are much more fun than the originals.

Another game that’s super-sized itself? Your favorite matching card game: Uno. As of Jan. 24, you can grab it on sale for $13.85 at Walmart — 31% off its usual price. (You can also find the same deal at Amazon for a limited time.)

Giant Uno is the same game you might know and love from childhood, but three times its normal size. You still race to get rid of your cards by matching a card in your hand with the top card on the discard pile. And you still yell “Uno!” when you have a single card left. But with larger cards, there’s more to love.

You’ll get 108 oversized cards in a pack, including a handful of customizable wild cards. That means you can make up your own silly rules. Up to 10 people can play at a time.

Giant Uno Card Game

Credit: Mattel

Giant Uno

$13.85 at Walmart (save 31%)

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‘A Discovery of Witches’ is terrible and I love it

I have so many gripes with the fantasy series A Discovery of Witches and yet the squeal of delight I emitted when I saw that its third season had premiered in January could have shattered glass.

The series is the TV adaptation of the All Souls Trilogy by historian-turned-fantasy-novelist Deborah Harkness. Season 3, which premiered January 8, finds protagonists Diana Bishop (a witch played by Teresa Palmer) and Matthew Clairmont (a vampire played by Matthew Goode) back from ye olden times ready to find and repair a missing manuscript, defeat their bigoted enemies who aren’t down with inter-species love, find a cure for a catastrophic vampire illness, and safeguard the future for their babies.

Thanks to Harkness’ academic pedigree, the books and show adaptation have an incredibly nerdy appeal: The event that starts the supernatural drama is the protagonist checking a book out of the Bodleian library in Oxford. Said protagonist, Diana Bishop, is a historian of science/Witch-in-denial doing a visiting professorship at Oxford. Her forbidden love interest is of course rich and handsome vampire Matthew Clairmont who has most recently been using his eternal life to publish a bunch of scientific papers.

Anybody got a fan handy?!

While the books are no great works of Literature, the trilogy is a page-turner I giddily devoured because being in a world of witches, vampires, demons, and secrets was just plain fun. The mystery and (duh) romance, and the academic setting with many, many references to actual historical figures and events that play into the plot, made the series catnip for bookish millennials like me. In book two, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to Elizabethan London and you can just tell that Harkness is playing out a personal fantasy of being plopped into this time of creativity and discovery.

That’s all to say that the series has rich if wonky source material to work with. Which is part of what makes it great and terrible at the same time. Delightfully dorky details from the books sometimes get sacrificed for plot momentum, detracting from the playful magic that propels the books. Instead, the series sets a very dramatic tone that often just fails to captivate.

Sadly, a big part of that falling flat comes down to our heroes, Diana Bishop (played by Teresa Palmer) and Matthew Clairmont (played by Matthew Goode). Right off the bat, I had a hard time believing that Palmer was the prodigious scholar who was already a tenured professor at Yale and visiting lecturer at Oxford when she first played the role at the age of 31 in 2018.

I mean, the math of stacking up this resume after a 5-8 year PhD program makes sense if this gal really took zero time between college and grad school, and then got immediately snapped up by Yale because she was just so brilliant. But… I mean…. I always envisioned Diana from the books as a bit older and less, um, Hollywood beautiful than Palmer. Bookish brunettes should be able to have vampire lovers, too! But, television casting of female leads, what can ya do.

Then there’s Goode as 1,000-plus year old vampire Matthew. Despite lacking a jawline, Goode is undeniably charming in most everything he does. This was true in Season 1, when Matthew and Diana were flirting and courting. Their chemistry at this point was pretty fun! And a certain boathouse scene was steamy in multiple senses of the word (there was sexual tension, and it was really cold out).

But as the relationship progressed, there became so much less playfulness. Matthew’s intriguing, devilish aloofness has given way to mumbly, bulgy-eyed intensity that is just pretty GAH. Calm down, Matt! Drink some blood and give Diana an orgasm, everything will be OK.

Basically, the chemistry between the leads has completely broken down, and it’s just made their relationship a somewhat laughable and therefore shaky foundation for the whole damn show. Everything is so SERIOUS all the time!

I mean, we can’t blame them. With a deranged and violent vampire on the loose, the governing body of witches, vampires, and demons breathing down their necks for their forbidden love, the fate of all creatures resting on their shoulders, and TWINS on the way, Diana and Matt are under a lot of pressure! But for some reason that means every conversation between these two takes place at either a yell or a world-weary whisper. Despite having a hot vampy husband and truly badass powers, Diana has basically become the Titanic “It’s been 84 years…” meme.

AND YET! I love it. Yes, this is partly because I’m a fan of the books, so it’s just a treat to see them play out on screen. I absolutely want to spend an hour per week descending into a world in which vampires are sophisticated academics, witches are slightly quirky matriarchs, and demons are the creative geniuses that enrich us all. This world rocks.

At the heart of it all is the mystery surrounding a centuries-old manuscript about alchemy that’s been hibernating in a library?! That connects supernatural beings across the centuries and the disciplines of literature and science?? Be still my little nerd heart, you had me at “The Bodleian.” 

The show also adds to the books with the charm of its side characters. Give me more of vampire and former American Revolutionary War medic Marcus (Edward Bluemel) with his charismatic human girlfriend, auction house art expert Phoebe Taylor (Adelle Leonce), for goodness sake! The show lets us actually get to know badass Finnish witch Satu (Malin Buska), instead of just having her be an evil enemy like she is in the books.

Some of the modern details and side plots keep the show fresh, too. A Reddit-like forum for troubled demons to connect with each other is a smart answer to the plotline of increasing mental illness for the creative creatures. A whole high-tech lab dedicated to sequencing vampire, witch, and demon DNA to find out what makes creatures have powers is intriguing. And when ancient vampire Matthew drives off in his elegant Tesla? I die.

This mashup of the supernatural with the modern and academic worlds is enough to keep me watching for the show’s third and final season, even if the acting is mostly terrible and the plot is all A Bit Much. I’m rooting for you, Matt and Diana!

You can find A Discovery of Witches on AMC+ or on Amazon by subscribing to SundanceNow or Shudder.

NASA captures the explosive moment a brilliant solar flare fired out of the sun

On Jan. 20, NASA spied an explosion more than 90 million miles from home.

The massive shimmering ball of plasma at the heart of our solar system (aka the sun) let loose a solar flare on Thursday, and NASA’s sun-observing Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the moment. And now, a pair of freshly released GIFs — technically, one is just a zoomed-in version of the main one — highlight the eye-popping burst of energy.

Here’s the full image. Even zoomed out, the solar flare is very hard to miss. Just watch the right side of the image; you’ll know it when you see it.


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And here’s the zoomed-in view of the same moment.


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NASA calls this a “mid-level” flare, with an M5.5 classification which speaks to the strength of the space weather event in the context of its impact on Earth. See, solar flares like this are essentially a massive release of electromagnetic radiation. When an outburst occurs, that radiation spreads out across our solar system at the speed of light. And when it’s powerful enough, the burst of energy can directly influence radio waves, electronics, and other Earth-based technologies (specific impacts depend on the amount and type of energy that gets released).

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) “space weather scale” has this solar flare event at the second-lowest measure. A “moderate” radio blackout event, which is what this was with its M5 classification, has the potential to black out high-frequency radio communications “for tens of minutes” on Earth’s sunlit side after solar flare occurs. It can also mess with low-frequency navigation signals — that’s not your typical smartphone GPS (or most modern navigational technology), to be clear — for a similar amount of time.

Even if you know nothing about any of the underlying science, it’s still plenty cool to look at these images of our distant sun and see a visible eruption of energy. But if you do want to learn more, spaceweather.gov is a great place to start.

Maybe ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ is about Tusken reparations

In the Star Wars film trilogies, Tusken Raiders are cartoon native villains.

They’re identified as one of the native sentient species of Tatooine who first appear in A New Hope, where they attack Luke Skywalker for no reason until Obi-Wan scares them away with dragon noises. In Attack of the Clones they raid the Lars farm, kill Shmi Skywalker, and experience a little Dark Side genocide at the hands of Anakin Skywalker, and that’s pretty much it.

They’re faceless indigenous stereotypes, introduced as senselessly violent. While not deserving of Anakin’s slaughter, they’re considered disposable enough for a Galactic senator — Luke and Leia’s mom! — to have zero problems marrying a guy who admits to killing “every single one of them…the women and children too.”

Season 2 of The Mandalorian reintroduced the Tusken Raiders with a little more humanity. For the first time, they communicate cross-species with sign language and are shown to coordinate with Tatooine settlers to take down a Krayt dragon. They also have a more specific and understandable role in Tatooine’s cultural history as an indigenous people fighting off colonizers who steal the planet’s resources.

Paramount among those resources is water, which puts the Tusken raid on the Lars moisture farm into an awkward new context. The Book of Boba Fett continues the narrative of Tusken oppression by having Boba lead them a pyrrhic victory against the supply trains that run through their land before they get slaughtered again.

Boba’s time with the Tuskens ties into their original role as Western “savage” stand-ins. The Hollywood trope wherein a lone outsider is captured by a maligned indigenous group before proving himself worthy of tribal acceptance has been done hundreds of times in modern storytelling — Dances With Wolves, Fern Gully, Avatar, Lawrence of Arabia, you name it — and it’s historically associated with white savior nonsense that should have stayed in the 20th century.


The Hollywood trope wherein a lone outsider is captured by a maligned indigenous group before proving himself worthy of tribal acceptance has been done hundreds of times in modern storytelling.

Even though the original Star Wars (and many of its predecessor projects) are heavily influenced by traditional Westerns, repeating that particular pattern with Boba Fett and the Tusken Raiders is either a huge red flag or a signal that The Book of Boba Fett is laying some groundwork for a further subversion of the trope. 

The looming question behind all of The Book of Boba Fett is simple: Why did Boba Fett want to take over Jabba/Bib Fortuna’s crime syndicate? Episode 4, which takes place long after the Boba’s Tusken allies were murdered, offers the thin answer that he’s “tired of working for idiots who are going to get me killed.”

That seems reasonable, except for the fact that there are a million jobs between “bounty hunter” and “Space Godfather” that don’t involve working for idiots. Taking over a criminal operation’s turf is a huge undertaking, and so is going to war with the Pyke syndicate over a territory that didn’t have to be Boba’s problem in the first place. 

In his Episode 4 flashback, Boba’s first order of business after getting his ship back is raining hell from the sky upon the bike gangs that terrorized his Tusken allies. Revenge is clearly something Boba Fett is comfortable with, but taking out one gang isn’t exactly tit-for-tat with the centuries of Tatooine colonization that made the Tuskens vulnerable to multiple genocides in the first place. What if Boba Fett’s desire to take power on Tatooine and take down the Pyke Syndicate isn’t necessarily for the good of the planet, but a further step in a plan to reshape Tatooine for the people who’ve been fighting planetary outsiders for generations? 

A still from "The Book of Boba Fett" featuring Boba Fett, sans armor and facing away from the camera, as he talks to a group of robed and masked Tusken Raiders.


Credit: Lucasfilm, Ltd.

Through the Book of Boba Fett, Boba has been shown to reject most of the trappings of gatra leadership (“gatra” is Star Wars’ way of saying “a gang’s turf”) in favor of an unadorned path towards war. It’s almost like he doesn’t want to be seen as having any specific claim to the territory and is working on a longer game — perhaps a game where he cleans up colonizing forces on Tatooine and hands the power to someone else when he’s done. Someone or a group of someones, who had a claim on the land from back when Tatooine was an ocean. 

This isn’t to say that The Book of Boba Fett is going to rewrite Star Wars history and make Tusken Raiders a force for good in the galaxy. Cultural relativism aside, murder and raiding is unanimously bad and it’s clear that some Tusken offshoot clans shouldn’t be left in charge of an Arby’s, let alone a planet. It’s also clear that Star Wars is a universe where people blow up planets every other movie or so, grow human children in a lab to use as cannon fodder, and put a collection of sex-starved wizards in charge of galactic peacekeeping.

Just saying, the Tuskens didn’t do anything Kylo Ren didn’t, and even he got a redemption arc. 

It is possible that The Book of Boba Fett is willing to make a statement about the gray areas between colonization and retaliatory violence, as well as the moral imperative to repatriate ancestral ownership and avoid perpetuating indigenous narrative stereotyping. That, or Boba Fett has secretly been jonesing after Jabba’s throne for years and just kind of wants it. Either way, the next few episodes of The Book of Boba Fett will be crucial to finding out just how far Star Wars is willing to break away from the original trilogy’s Western roots. 

The Book of Boba Fett is streaming on Disney+.

Biometric dog collars claim to track your dog’s vitals. But are they fur real?

What do smart home devices, activity trackers, and now biometric wearables have in common? They’re gadgets for your dog.

Following the rise of human wearables that track cardiovascular and respiratory health, several companies are suddenly promising the same in canine form. 

Three products all slated for release this year are all making similar claims, based on similar apparent breakthroughs. Using various forms of contactless sensors, these devices monitor heart rate (two also monitor respiratory rate), meaning they can theoretically infer a dog’s emotional state, or help detect heart conditions. Current smart devices for pets already come with built-in GPS and activity tracking, but the health monitoring aspect is new. Measuring a dog’s vitals with accuracy and ease has been a tricky problem. That’s why some experts are wary of the new claims. 

Adapting this technology for dogs comes with unique challenges. Sensors in devices like Fitbit or Apple Watch (ECG and PPG) require skin contact to get an accurate reading. Since most people probably aren’t about to shave their furry friends just to strap on a doggy Fitbit, these technologies have historically been a nonstarter.

That leaves contactless sensors like radar and acoustic technology, but those come with their own challenges. Translating radar signals into a coherent health metric is complicated. Acoustic signals require filtering out extraneous sound.

“We don’t have an electronics problem, we have a materials problem,” said Dr. Firat Guder who is principal investigator and chief engineer of his own research group in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. Simply put, it’s not the tech, it’s the application.

But several companies using contactless sensors say they’ve cracked it. French company Invoxia has developed a smart collar embedded with mini radar motion sensors that emit radio waves to detect subtle changes. An old technology that was just recently miniaturized, it’s the same technology used for movement recognition in Google’s Pixel 4. But instead of recognizing hand gestures, it’s tiny movements under the fur. 

Image of sitting dog wearing a yellow Invoxia collar looking up at the camera.

The Invoxia uses miniaturized radar sensors to measure heart rate and respiratory rate.
Credit: Invoxia

“No matter the type of fur we will still be able to detect the movement of the skin and the speed of the movement,” said Amelie Caudron, CEO of Invoxia. “And from that, with some post processing, we’re able to extract the heart rate and the breathing rate.” Caudron says they filter out extraneous movements using their patented AI technology. Currently, Invoxia is conducting a clinical validation study with a third party that Caudron declined to disclose. 

In Taiwan at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Dr. Hong-Dun Lin is using doppler radar technology for their iPetWeaR collar. In a product test involving a small sample of 17 dogs and cats at the ​​​​Hsinchu City Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office, heart rate was measured by iPetWeaR and compared to ECG measurements. At 98 percent accuracy, the small, informal experiment showed promise. Lin, who has a PhD in electrical engineering said they are also testing iPetWeaR in collaboration with veterinarians at University of Taiwan and Chen Animal Hospital.

Instead of radar technology, Japanese company Langless uses acoustic sensors for a harness that claims to also detect your dog’s mood. The harness, called Inupathy, has a tiny microphone that records your dog’s heart rate and uses HRV analysis to supposedly measure your dog’s emotional state. HRV, which is also used in smartwatches like Apple Watch, is an indicator of how your body adapts to various environments. 

Like iPetWeaR, Joji Yamaguchi, founder and CTO of Inupathy said they compared its microphone system with an ECG monitor and achieved 90 percent accuracy. Yamaguchi, who has a background in system engineering, said they’ve developed Inupathy with veterinarians and dog trainers, and have tested it on hundreds of dogs. Yamaguchi also said that their data is being used for research at universities and laboratories in Japan. 

But until Guder sees the data, he says he remains unconvinced because he hasn’t seen any breakthroughs in the last two years that would indicate the existing challenges have been resolved. “The question is, what critical issues did these companies solve that could not be solved for a really long time?” He wrote in an email. “In other words, why now and not two years ago or five? Did whatever that led to their invention emerge recently?”

Image of dog running towards the camera wearing iPetWeaR smart collar

iPetWeaR measures heart rate and respiratory rate using Doppler radar.
Credit: iPetWeaR

Guder, who is also an associate professor of bioengineering at Imperial College London, has been conducting research and development for sensor technology for humans and dogs for six years. It’s a niche area of study and he knows the landscape well. “As far as we know, these are really difficult problems. And if somebody solves it, it will be hard to convince people without showing the data.” 

In response to the skepticism, Caudron sounds confident about Invoxia’s product, and its proof of efficacy. “That’s quite interesting,” she said. “Because we do have results, and we do have this data on several types of furs and several types of dogs, etc. But let’s wait for the clinical validation, and then we can talk to them.”

Contactless motion detection is new, but Caudron says it is already being used in devices like Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) to measure breathing. On the same note, Lin’s original idea was to use this technology for humans (fall detection, sleep evaluation, etc.) but pivoted when he realized its potential application for pets. 

Like Guder, veterinarian Dr. Ernie Ward looks forward to seeing the validation studies, but remains “scientifically skeptical” until then. “I’m still really skeptical until you actually see it, because it’s one thing to say ‘I can fly’ and another thing to actually see me fly.”

Ward, who includes evolving pet technology as one of his areas of focus, wants to see robust validation for such claims; that the product is “repeatable, accurate and demonstrable.” In a follow-up email, he wrote, “The tech is sound, but it’s the application and results that matter.” 

Image of small dog, big dog, and another small dog sitting, wearing Inupathy harnesses

The Inupathy harness has LED lights that show different colors depending on your dog’s mood.
Credit: Inupathy

The stakes are high for any technology that promises health monitoring. What if a wearable wrongly detects a heart arrhythmia? What if it fails to detect one? Either scenario has disturbing consequences. Plus, FDA approval for animal devices is not required, and regulation for animals is generally lower. “If you’re going to invoke those types of claims, then we need some verification because the consumers just deserve it,” said Ward. 

Caudron says the health metrics gathered over time provide an objective baseline. So when it’s shared with your vet, they can make a more accurate diagnosis. So it’s not like pet parents will get a panic-inducing alert that their dog is about to have a heart attack. Caudron asserts that Invoxia is not meant to replace your dog’s vet, but it is still meant to be important. “The goal is to become like a cornerstone of the healthcare path for a dog, and to actually help the pet parents be more informed and go to the right service at the right time.” 

Other pet tech companies are taking a cautious approach to new advances in this realm. “We are expecting technologies measuring these vitals and others to emerge over the next few years,” wrote Jonathan Bensamoun, founder and CEO of Fi in an email. “And we will integrate them into the Fi Collar as soon as we consider them reliable,” he continued.

In an email statement, Wagz Founder and CEO Terry Anderton noted the obstacles in getting an accurate measurement through fur. While he declined to comment on future plans, he wrote that Wagz “has been working on other types of sensors that can reliably penetrate the fur to obtain accurate measurements, including the use of low frequency LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and infrared sensor technology.”

Reliability aside, the question of why remains. How much of this data is actually useful to the average pet owner? “We tend to be chasing heart rate, which is super valuable, but I would much rather know weight changes, because we can really do something about that,” said Ward.

If we are not trained veterinary professionals, what are we supposed to do with this information? The answer seems to be, hand the information over to those who are trained veterinary professionals. They can decide whether or not it’s worth acting on, or worth anything at all.

How Spot the mouse is helping to cure baldness

Spot the mouse, for that is her name, lived a hairless life — until nine months ago, when she suddenly gained a tuft of human hair on one side. 

Spot is a test subject for Silicon Valley startup dNovo, a YCombinator company that set out on a mission in 2018 to find a cure for baldness. According to dNovo, the underlying cause of baldness is that your body stops generating new hair cells, which — like all cells — get their marching orders from stem cells. It claims its proprietary “reprogramming technology” can convert existing cells taken from your blood or another personal sample into new hair stem cells.

In theory, a procedure similar to Spot’s would graft those cells onto the area you might have been covering with a hat or comb-over. The graft then causes dormant hair cells to kick back into gear, and voila, your luscious locks are back again.

Three weeks after dNovo researchers grafted hair stem cells that had grown onto Spot and her fellow “hair deficient” mice, the pioneering rodents started sprouting patches of human hair. (The company first shared photos of Spot with the MIT Technology Review‘s look at high-tech baldness treatments; we’re the first to bring you her name).

The result is… well, perhaps not the most visually pleasing location the researchers could have chosen. If they’re not going to go for the traditional top-of-head location, why not the chest? That way, Spot could make the most of the rest of her brief two-year life by rocking a gold chain.

Thankfully, dNovo founder Ernesto Lujan assures us that Spot “seems to be enjoying her hair with no notable adverse reactions.” 

A mouse with a tuft of human hair on its side nibbles a snack in front of a barber's pole.

Time for a visit to the barber shop!
Credit: dNovo

Lujan’s technology is all patent pending, and the description of the procedure on the company’s website says “we can potentially generate your own personalized hair stem cells that are compatible with your immune system.” That “potentially” means the proof may be on the mouse, but it’s not an ironclad indication of the future.

“This is only the early step towards our potential cure for hair loss,” Lujan says when asked how long of a journey it is from mouse tuft to human mane. “Finding a treatment for baldness itself is a pretty daunting task.”

When considering the relative importance of that treatment, you’d be forgiven for noting how pharmaceutical and biotech companies hop right on solving very male problems, such as erectile dysfunction, while many health issues that affect women remain understudied and even taboo. But Lujan stands by his mission of applying stem cell technology to a seemingly superficial problem — one that can in fact cause a lot of internal strife, and not just for men.

“Much of the stem-cell research has focused on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine,” Lujan says. “All these pioneers lay the groundwork for what we are doing now. Hair loss is a very prevalent problem that affects almost one in two men, and one in seven women, above the age of 35. We believe our work will improve the lives of many people, and this is what we are focused on.”

Hats off to Spot, then, for her part in bringing baldness another hair’s breadth closer to its cure.

Google gets in on ‘Wordle’ fun with a delightful Easter egg

The folks at Google are apparently as happily obsessed with Wordle as everyone else.

The tech giant has embedded a new Easter egg in search results for Wordle, the word guessing game that went viral at the start of 2022.

Now, when you search for the game on Google, six squares in the Wordle style appear at the top of the results above the search bar. The squares get filled with letters, forming a few different words, with different letters lighting up in green and yellow. So close! Finally, the invisible Wordle player hits on the right six letter word, which is, of course, Google. 

Nothin’ but greens, baby!

A delightful romantic origin story chronicled in the New York Times, and the fact that players only get one word to play every day — which prevents burnout and boredom, and keeps you coming back for more — has helped the simple and independent word game become one of 2022’s first internet phenomena.

Wordle has inspired a host of imitators, some more upsetting than others (Get outta here, Absurdle!). Luckily, searching for Wordle on Google delivers the correct UK-based website for the game as the top result. Wordle on, people!

How to create tab groups in Safari

Tabs. Freaking tabs. Every dang day, my internet browser is an avalanche of tabs, each page a different part of the fifteen different things my brain is working on.

But there is some good news. Your tabs don’t have to be an impossible mess. You can group together certain tabs in Safari so theres a bit of organization to the chaos. We’ve got the instructions you need to quickly and easily make tab groups below.

1. Click the down arrow next to your sidebar icon

When you click, it should give you a few different options for grouping tabs. It should look like this.

arrow pointing to down arrow in safari

Just click the down arrow.
Credit: Mashable

2. Select “New empty tab group”

In this example, we want to group a few tabs we have open into a group called “faves.” So we select the option for “new empty tab group.” It should look like this.

arrow pointing to new empty tab group button

There’s your button.
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3. Create a new for your group and name it

A small label for your new tab group should appear on the sidebar. From there, it’ll give you the option to name the tab group. In this instance, we want to create a group of all our favorite sites, so we title it “faves.” (Not for nothing, of course you should include Mashable in your favorite sites.) It should look like this.

new tab group called "faves" circled in red

Easy enough.
Credit: Mashable

4. Select and drag tabs into the new group

You can either control click the tab or simply drag the tap into the new group. From there, you can build groups however you please. Who knows, maybe your online life will finally have a bit more order to it.

Sarah Sherman’s ‘SNL’ Weekend Update sketch slow-roasts host Colin Jost

Despite being one of Saturday Night Live‘s newest players, Sarah Sherman has already staked her claim as the queen of one of the show’s time honored traditions: roasting Weekend Update co-host (and new boat owner) Colin Jost.

She established her dominance in putting Jost, a rich white guy who is both married to Scarlett Johansson and the author of a memoir titled A Very Punchable Face, in his place back in November with another scorching takedown. Sherman continued in the new year with another sketch titled “Sarah Sherman on staying cozy in the winter.”

Hint: She stays warm by torching Colin Jost and enjoying the funny, funny flames.