How to Play (and Win) Connections

The NYT's Connections is a brain-stretching game, the kind that will make you go "well, of course these words belong together," and then: "oh, wait." All you have to do is divide the 16 words or phrases into four groups of four, but the groupings can be tricky. I'm going to explain how the game work

21 of the Weirdest Things You Can Bring on an Airplane

It’s estimated that more than 5 billion people will travel by plane this year, and all of those people know that air travel is both a luxury and often uncomfortable and stressful. A lot of that stress involves getting through airport security, at least in the U.S. And one source of stress is figurin

Microsoft Is Trying to Trick You Into Using Copilot

There are a ton of AI products out there to choose from today, but it's pretty clear who the big players are. There's Google's Gemini, with its 400 million monthly users, which sounds like a lot, until you learn ChatGPT nets 700 million users every week. That's really no match for even Microsoft, wh

Douglas Elliman CEO: We don’t ‘push, incentivize, or default to private listings’

Elliman's revenue was down year over year from the second quarter, but the firm's performance improved between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2025. CEO Michael Liebowitz also reasserted the firm's position on private listings.