NYT 'Connections' hints and answers for May 31: Tips to solve 'Connections' #355. - Mashable

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for May 31's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

What is Connections?

The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer. If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

Here's a hint for today's Connections categories

Want a hit about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

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• Yellow: A collection of written text

• Green: Famous mountain tops

• Blue: Parts of a vinyl

• Purple: Shake this

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Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Corpus

• Green: Mount___

• Blue: Components of an LP

• Purple: Things People Shake

Looking for Wordle today? Here's the answer to today's Wordle.

Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

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The solution to Connections #355 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Corpus: BODY, CANON, OEUVRE, WORKS

• Mount___: FUJI, HOOD, OLUMPUS, WHITNEY

• Components of an LP: INSERT, JACKET, RECORD, SLEEVE

• Things People Shake: HANDS, MARACA, POLAROID, SNOWGLOBE

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

Is this not the Connections game you were looking for? Here are the hints and answers to yesterday's Connections.

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Eminem Performs His Next Magic Trick With New Single ‘Houdini’: Stream It Now - Billboard

Eminem is playing the role of magician, and for his next trick, Slim Shady is kicking off his album rollout with “Houdini.”

Em’s first offering of 2024 doubles as the lead single of The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) — his 12th studio album. The song hit streaming services on Friday (May 31).

The 51-year-old Rap God announced “Houdini” earlier this week in a clip with some help from renowned magician David Blaine.

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In the video, Em hits up Blaine on FaceTime. “Yo, listen, I need your help with something,” he said before showing the magician some love. “Well, first of all, I just want you to know you’re the greatest to ever do it. What I was wondering is, how far can we go with this magic? Can we do a stunt or something?”

Eminem then shocked fans with his next line, which could be hinting at his retirement following The Death of Slim Shady. “Well for my last trick, I’m gonna make my career disappear,” he teased.

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The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) is expected to arrive at some point this summer. The project serves as Em’s first album since 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and earned Eminem his 10th consecutive chart-topper.

Eminem announced plans for the album shortly after his appearance at the 2024 NFL Draft, which happened to be in his hometown of Detroit. He used a clip in the mold of an Unsolved Mysteries episode featuring a cameo from 50 Cent. However, it was actually Dr. Dre who spilled the beans on Em’s next album during a late-night appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in March.

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Friday favourite: The “trick” features that endeared Unser to Penske's forgotten car - Autosport

The Penske PC27 is a somewhat improbable choice for Al Unser Jr’s favourite car. A two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar champion, he had his greatest successes at the wheel of the Lola T90/00, Galmer G92 and Penske PC23-94 in US open-wheel racing.

By contrast, he went winless in the radical PC27 throughout 1998 and doesn’t have entirely positive memories with it, having broken a leg in 1999’s Homestead season-opener in its modified B-spec. It was a difficult juncture in Unser’s personal and professional life too, amid well-publicised personal problems that he admits make it difficult to properly assess his own performances.

But a car he described in his 2021 book A Checkered Past as a “work of art” was one he “truly enjoyed driving, testing, going out and being a part of the development”. Unser is adamant that factors other than the chassis prevented John Travis’s design from winning and recalls being struck by the craftmanship of a car he raced to a best result of second at Motegi in 1998.

“The way the car was designed was just beautiful and John Travis did a fantastic job,” he says. “That car was such a pleasure to drive.”

Unser believes “it is a shame that it didn’t see any chequered flags” first. He especially appreciated the PC27’s F1-style high nose and innovative features that were a product of former Lola man Travis recognising that Roger Penske’s loyalty to Goodyear would require something special. Firestone had since its arrival in 1995 established a position of dominance in the tyre war.

Its clean-sheet longitudinal transmission from Xtrac, a significant shift away from the well-established transverse layout Penske had used in previous seasons, had a low centre of gravity that helped with balance. Persistent reliability problems hampered development efforts but, once working properly, Unser noted in his book, “it shifted like a dream”. Its sensitivities meant he “had to learn how to drive it”, Unser says, but mastering the transmission brought great reward.

Unser didn't win in the PC27, but did record podiums despite tyre and engine deficit. Here he is pictured after placing third at Milwaukee in 1998

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“It was so trick and I loved it,” he explains. “I broke a lot of dog rings, a lot of gears trying to learn how to shift that thing. But once I figured it out, I could shift it with three fingers, it was that easy and that was the way you drove it during the race.

“The actual design of the gearbox with the oil-vanes going through the casing of the gearbox, the fact that the gear cluster was direct drive with the crank – that was the only car I ever drove that had the gear cluster direct drive to the crank – there were things about it that I truly loved.”

Travis’s pessimism regarding Goodyear - “there was no way, unless you had those [Firestone] tyres, that you were ever going to win,” he told Autosport in 2020 – was borne out by the stats. Only one win in 1998 came for a driver using Goodyears, courtesy of Michael Andretti’s Newman-Haas Swift at Homestead. Penske also lacked the ideal partner in the engine stakes.

“It was so trick and I loved it. I broke a lot of dog rings, a lot of gears trying to learn how to shift that thing. But once I figured it out, I could shift it with three fingers"
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While in 1994 an Ilmor-built Mercedes pushrod engine was the thing to have at Indianapolis, by 1998 Honda was in the ascendancy. Seeking to combat its increasing dominance, the new Mercedes IC108E engine was impressively compact, but needed plenty of work on driveability and reliability. Greg Moore (Forsythe Reynard) was the only driver to win with the Mercedes V8, as Honda’s HRK won 13 of 19 races.

An untimely engine failure put Unser out of the lead at the US 500 in Michigan – where the new Handford Device spiced up the action – after another let go in Rio. Unser didn’t make Gordon Kirby’s top 10 driver in Autosport’s 1998 season review, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying.

Come 1999, he had seven outings in the B-spec PC27 and achieved his best result of the year (fifth at Cleveland) in a Lola. The late Gil de Ferran (Walker Reynard) took the only Goodyear win at Portland, while Moore’s success at Homestead was the sole Mercedes triumph.

“The PC-27 was a beautiful machine with no tyres and no power compared to our competitors,” Unser noted in A Checkered Past. His team-mates struggled too.

Unser Jr elected not to race the PC27 at Nazareth in 1998 after team-mate Ribeiro's enormous crash

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The late Andre Ribeiro retired following a 1998 season in which he never finished higher than seventh and failed to qualify at Nazareth following a huge practice crash. Unser decided not to use PC27 at that meeting, reverting to Nigel Bennett’s PC26 that had won in Paul Tracy’s hands the previous year. It was later discovered that a rear wing setting had been miscalculated. 

Unser’s best result of 1999 in the B-spec PC27 (seventh at Fontana in his final outing for Penske) was never bettered by Tarso Marques or Alex Barron. But the ability to have input into chassis development was a point Unser cherished. Unlike the off-the-shelf customer March and Lola offerings he’d driven earlier in his career, with Penske he could pursue ‘the unfair advantage’.

“That was the reason to drive for Roger Penske from the very beginning, he built his own chassis,” recalls Unser, who picks Bobby Rahal as his favourite team-mate from their time together at Galles-Kraco in 1990-91. “To go out on test days where nobody is out there, no fans, no racing, it’s all about just driving and developing and the purity of the day, I truly loved doing it.”

The PC27 began a run of two winless seasons for Penske and continued a drought that had spanned most of 1997 following a Tracy hat-trick that concluded at Gateway in May. The wait for Penske’s 100th win would only be ended following its switch to a Reynard-Honda-Firestone package in 2000, as new signing de Ferran triumphed at Nazareth with a car featuring PC27 bodywork that explains its ‘Renske’ nickname. But for Travis, there’s a feeling of what could have been.

“The car was good enough,” he said, “but it wasn’t good enough to make up for the tyres.”

 

The PC27 isn't remembered as a success story, but it could have been under different circumstances

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The Ford Mustang GTD's occupants will see its trick suspension working in real-time - Top Gear

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Former Lionsbridge ball boy nets hat-trick 7 years later in club debut - WAVY.com

YORKTOWN, VA (WAVY) — Kecoughtan senior Tre Barrett was a star for the Warriors boys varsity soccer team, as his 50 goals and 23 assists in 40 games made him one of the standout players in the 757.

Lionsbridge FC took note.

“He’s got a lot of ability,” said Lionsbridge head coach Chris Whalley. “Obviously he’s a good finisher of the ball.”

When Lionsbridge offered him a spot on the team, Barrett had a choice to make. He could play for both Kecoughtan and Lionsbridge, or choose one over the other. For the sake of his health and the opportunity playing full-time for a USL 2 team presented, Barrett chose to forgo his senior soccer season, and join The Bridge.

Just to keep this in mind, Barrett is still a student at Kecoughtan. With only weeks left until graduation, it’s been a busy schedule.

“I’ll be at class a few minutes late, but my grades are still good and I’m still putting in the work in the classroom,” Barrett said. “My parents are cool with it and support it, so this all works out very well.”

And he didn’t waste any time since beginning his pre-professional career with Lionsbridge. During his debut game, he scored a hat-trick.

“It’s been amazing,” Barrett said. “The team is extremely good. Obviously coming back from a national final, it’s a huge jump from high school and club to here.”

In the American soccer system, a lot of elite level high school-aged talent will prematurely leave the high school level to pursue a club or even pro dream. Regardless, Barrett wants people watching him as an example to remember the places that molded them into the success stories they’ll eventually be.

“I’ve been thinking about that a lot,” Barrett said. “I stopped playing at Kecoughtan, and that took a lot out of me. I represented that school through and through. I want to be known as a player who went against all the odds and didn’t play for a huge club. I want to show that you can do it no matter what your circumstances are.”

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2024 NHL playoffs - Panthers-Rangers Game 5 betting tips - ESPN

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Well, we are back where we started -- except now it's a best-of-three series starting Thursday at Madison Square Garden.

The Florida Panthers got the winner in OT in a Game 4 that should not have been as close as it was. Once again, Igor Shesterkin was the primary reason the New York Rangers didn't lose by a touchdown. He was so good that he gave New York a chance even though they were thoroughly outplayed after the first period.

The oddsmakers are giving the edge to the Panthers again for Game 5, while also still suggesting a low-scoring affair. Fair enough. After four games, all but Game 3 have had minimal goals.

The President's Trophy winners aren't going quietly into the night, though. My preferred narrative for Game 5 is a resurgence on home ice for the Blueshirts. They have to focus on what they did in the first period Tuesday and extend that for the full 60 minutes -- taking some major heat off Shesterkin in the process.

Two things make me lean Rangers here: The power play showed some signs of life, albeit briefly, with its first goal of the series; and Adam Fox started to look like Adam Fox again.

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Eastern Conference finals -- Game 5 (series tied 2-2)

Madison Square Garden, New York; Friday, 8 p.m. ET, Watch live on ESPN

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• Game 5 Over/Under: 5.5 (+110/-130)

• Game 5 Money line: Panthers (-125); Rangers (+105)

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Adam Fox over 0.5 total points (-115) parlayed with Adam Fox over 0.5 total power play points (+275). Fox hasn't quite looked like Fox for a while. There is some speculation that he has been hampered by an injury ever since the series with Washington. Whatever the case, he looked like Fox on Tuesday. And if you are in for a penny, why not spice up the take? If you agree Fox is going to get a point, tack on the idea of it coming on the advantage.

Igor Shesterkin under 28.5 total saves (-110) The relentless attack of the Panthers has manifested to ridiculous levels on home ice. Not so much when they are in New York. While the shot attempts advantage was a whopping combined 155-65 in favor of the Panthers in Sunrise, it was only 122-111 in Games 1 and 2. In theory, Shesterkin doesn't have to carry the team in this one.

(Odds Boost) Sam Reinhart or Artemi Panarin to score the first goal (+525). This one is just fun, as the first goal of the game is really just a lottery ticket. It could come from any player on either team. But giving you two options in an either/or makes it a little more hopeful. Furthermore, Reinhart scored the first goal in a game six times during the regular season and Panarin did it 10 times -- so this is the right duo for the job.

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MLB trends: Shohei Ohtani's new trick, where Randy Arozarena hurts most and Jurickson Profar's magic leg kick - CBS Sports

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We are two months into the 2024 MLB season and the sample sizes aren't that small anymore. Those early season hot streaks are becoming legitimate breakouts and the season-opening cold streaks are becoming worrisome signs of decline. With that in mind, here are three MLB trends to watch with June approaching.

Ohtani using the opposite field

Shohei Ohtani is so good it's almost obnoxious. He's one of the best hitters in the world and, when his health allows, he's also one of the best pitchers in the sport. Ohtani is currently rehabbing from his second Tommy John surgery and unable to pitch, but he is hitting an incredible .329/.395/.606 with 13 home runs despite a hitless showing in Tuesday's doubleheader with the Mets.

Because already being MVP caliber isn't enough, Ohtani has added a new tool to his belt this season: hitting to the opposite field. Or, more accurately, hitting with more success to the opposite field. Ohtani is not pulling the ball less often. He's just hitting it with more authority when he does hit it to the opposite field. Here are his numbers hitting to the opposite field:

	Oppo %	Oppo line drive %	AVG	SLG
2024	25.7%	39.5%	.465	.767
2023	24.9%	18.0%	.291	.500
2022	27.8%	19.3%	.365	.607
2021	22.0%	14.9%	.325	.610
MLB average for LHB	24.4%	20.8%	.309	.446

Ohtani already has 20 opposite field hits this season. He had 25 all of last year. And to be clear, Ohtani was not a dead pull hitter who rarely used the opposite field prior to 2024. He was a great opposite field hitter who has elevated his game and become one of the best opposite field hitters in the sport. Ohtani can still pull the ball and hit it into orbit. Now he's peppering left field too.

Simply put, Ohtani is closing the holes in his game. Before, you could pitch him away and have a reasonable chance of limiting the damage. Only four of his league-leading 44 home runs were to the opposite field last season. This season, two of Ohtani's 13 home runs are to the opposite field, plus he's hitting for a higher average in that direction. He's become an even better all-around hitter.

Arozarena's contact issues

Now that we're approaching June, it's safe to say Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena has been one of the most disappointing players in baseball this season. He owns a .159/.255/.313 line with eight home runs, and he was recently dropped to sixth in the lineup. After hitting five homers in 11 games from May 3-14, Arozarena is 6 for 39 (.154) with no homers since.

Most worrisome is that Arozarena's contact rate has cratered, particularly within the strike zone. He's not chasing out of the zone more often nor has he been too passive and let hittable pitches go by. No, Arozarena is simply missing way more often when he swings at pitches in the strike zone. There is entirely too much blue here:

Randy Arozarena is having trouble making contact in the zone this year. TruMedia/CBS Sports

Arozarena has never been a great contact hitter, though now he's among the very worst. His in-zone contact rate was 79.5% from 2022-23 and the MLB average is 85.2%. This year Arozarena is down to 73.6%. That's dead last among qualified hitters (Nolan Gorman is a distant second at 75.0%). Azorarena's 2024 in-zone contact rate is approaching Joey Gallo's career rate (70.3%), for reference.

Handsome Randy had a down second half last season (.220/.331/.369) and he's hitting .193/.297/.343 in close to 500 plate appearances since the 2023 All-Star break. This is no longer a little slump. Arozarena is an aggressive swinger, almost violent, but if it were as simple as easing up a bit and focusing on contact, I reckon he would have made that adjustment already.

The Rays are 26-29 and having their worst season in years. They're allowing the sixth most runs per game and scoring the fifth fewest runs per game in baseball. Offensively, Arozarena's decline from All-Star performer to comfortably below average is front and center. It's hard to see how the Rays can get back in the race with this version of Arozarena.

Profar's new leg kick

Any idea who currently leads National League outfielders in WAR? Mookie Betts and Bryce Harper are infielders now, remember. It wasn't Ronald Acuña Jr. before his recent knee injury. Corbin Carroll is having a dreadful season. Christian Yelich has been great, but he missed time with injury. The defensive stats don't like Jazz Chisholm Jr. enough to boost his WAR.

The answer is Jurickson Profar. His 2.4 WAR leads all NL outfielders, with Teoscar Hernández a distant second at 1.6 WAR. Profar, who is still somehow only 31, owns a .323/.419/.497 slash line with eight home runs. He hit nine home runs all of last season despite taking 45% of his plate appearances in Coors Field. Profar's had a great start to 2024.

Now, we've seen Profar do this before. He was the game's No. 1 prospect a decade ago and since then it's been mostly teases. Flashes of brilliance mixed in with mostly competent if not underwhelming play. It is entirely possible, and maybe even likely, Profar's great start this season is just a hot streak. If it is, it's helped the Padres stay afloat in the wild-card race.

There is a tangible reason to buy into Profar's early success though. He's replaced his toe tap with a full-fledged leg kick, and that has led to an uptick in hard contact. Here is the obligatory before and after GIF:

Jurickson Profar replaced his toe tap with a leg kick in 2024. MLB.com/CBS Sports

Hitters adopt leg kicks when they want to drive the ball more and Profar is indeed driving the ball more. As a right-handed hitter, his average exit velocity and hard-hit rate are up to 90.0 mph and 50.0%, respectively. From 2022-23, those numbers were 86.3 mph and 31.9%. As a lefty, it's 88.8 mph and 36.9% in 2024 after 86.9 mph and 33.4% from 2022-23. Profar's hitting the ball harder.

Again, we've seen flashes from Profar before, and he tinkered with a leg kick earlier in his career too. That doesn't mean it can't work now though. I can't say I would put money on Profar leading all NL outfielders in WAR come the end of the season, but the new leg kick is at least a reason to pay attention to his improved performance in 2024.

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Britain's Got Talent fans 'work out' magician group time travel trick - Express

Britain's Got Talent fans believe they have cracked the code behind the latest magic act's performance on the ITV series.

In a surprising twist, four former illusionists from the talent show made a comeback and joined forces for an extraordinary performance. Ben Hart and Elizabeth, who both had successful runs on the show in 2019, with Elizabeth giving judge Amanda Holden quite a fright with a spooky trick, were part of the group.

Colin Cloud, who auditioned for the show in 2012 before finding greater success on the American series in 2017, was also part of the team. Aidan McCann, a veteran of both BGT and Ireland's Got Talent, completed the quartet, now known as Magicians Assemble.

The group claimed to have returned from the future through time travel, with a mission to save magic. They asserted that they could demonstrate the existence of time travel as they had foreseen certain events, including which cards the judges would select from a deck when prompted.

Bruno Tonioli, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Simon Cowell were all left astounded by the sequence of events during the audition, which included card tricks, predicted numbers and Aidan's sudden appearance on stage out of nowhere. The act even concluded with judge Simon vanishing from the room, leaving his fellow judges worried, reports the Mirror.

The spectacle began with the card trick, with Ben identifying the cards the judges had chosen before they even selected them. Then, as Amanda and Alesha each rolled a dice, they were oblivious to the fact that the numbers displayed on the top of the dice would play a significant role.

The atmosphere was electric as the sand from their timer mystically transformed into fog in Elizabeth's hand, before reappearing in a teacup held by Amanda. The spectacle escalated when an avalanche of sand seemingly fell from the ceiling, and the group astonishingly expanded to include a fourth member, a young lad named Aidan.

Aidan then sauntered down to join Ben with the judges, and that's when the act took a bizarre turn. The numbers previously disclosed by the cards and dice, along with a page number chosen at random, were all imprinted on Ben's head as a tattoo, revealed as Aidan shaved his hair.

Alesha was tasked with verifying the authenticity of the tattoo while the judges looked on in shock. But the surprises didn't end there; Simon was summoned to the stage, blindfolded, and then seemed to vanish, leaving only scraps of paper behind.

Viewers at home were quick to speculate on how the magic was performed. Some eagle-eyed fans claimed they spotted a fake thumb used for some sleight of hand, while others pointed out "invisible" cards.

As for the tattoo revelation, sceptics suggested Ben might have had alternative sets of numbers hidden, ready to be unveiled if different numbers had been selected. And the vanishing and reappearing acts?

Many attributed those to clever backstage illusions.

One viewer commented on X: "Fake thumbs are always a good un," while another concurred: "The plastic thumb trick, i had in my magic set when i was 8. Awful."

Another fan observed: "Spotted the fake thumb," and one viewer remarked about the numbers: "They must just shave his head dependent on which numbers come up."

A viewer noted about the cards: "First trick invisible deck, top half one card, bottom half the other. Book was a svengali book. Almost every trick on this show uses those two methods."

Regarding the dice trick, someone queried: "Nobody's heard of loaded dice before? ".

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Toyota's bet on hybrids was mocked, then vindicated. Now it's trying to repeat the trick with an unlikely bet on the ... - Yahoo Finance

While many automakers predicted a looming all-EV future, Toyota made gains by emphasizing hybrids over fully electric vehicles—a move that earned it derision before being vindicated over the past year as EV sales sputtered. Now it's now doubling down with a new take on the traditional car engine.

The world’s largest carmaker said Tuesday that it would develop smaller internal combustion engines that are more optimized for hybrid vehicles and can accept alternative fuels such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and synthetic e-fuels in an effort to cut down on emissions. The CEOs of Subaru and Mazda also vowed to produce new engines, they said in a press conference with Toyota CEO Koji Sato Tuesday.

The new engines, although still mostly gas-powered, will allow for more compact and efficient vehicles that get better gas mileage as part of a decarbonization effort that treats “carbon as the enemy,” according to a Tuesday press release.

Sato said that, while the auto industry is focused on battery-powered vehicles, there is still room for improved combustion engines.

"In order to provide our customers with diverse options to achieve carbon neutrality, it is necessary to take on the challenge of evolving engines that are in tune with the energy environment of the future,” he said in a Tuesday statement.

Toyota’s move is an extension of the company’s so-called “multi-pathway” approach, which includes offering consumers a variety of options to reduce their vehicle emissions, including hybrids as well as electric vehicles. For years, former Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda was hesitant on EVs and pushed to diversify its offerings.

After EV sales nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021, then-CEO Toyoda cautioned that a fully electric future for the car industry was, “going to take longer than the media would like us to believe.” In January, Toyoda, now the automaker’s chairman, went further, saying that EV adoption would peak at 30% of all car sales.

Toyoda’s unpopular stance prompted criticism from investors, analysts, and environmentalists, who said the company was wrong to bet against the inevitability of an all-EV future. Amid the pressure, Toyoda stepped down as CEO to become chairman.

After all that, the all-electric future has been a long time coming. Some traditional automakers including Ford have had to pull back on their ambitious EV plans. U.S. EV giant Tesla has also quietly lowered its sales targets, following CEO Elon Musk’s warning in January of “notably lower” sales growth this year.

Meanwhile, Toyota’s diversification has been slowly vindicated as global EV sales have stagnated and customers turn to hybrids as an alternative. In February,  the company raised its net profit guidance to a record $30.3 billion, fueled in part by strong hybrid sales.

The automaker's shares on the Nasdaq are up 20% since January.

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

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Book Review: ‘The Devil’s Best Trick,’ by Randall Sullivan - The New York Times

When I was 12 years old, my family went on vacation and, at my request, left me behind. My mother told me that I could sleep in her and my stepdad’s bedroom — normally strictly off limits to kids — and watch their TV. The first night they were away, I made a horrifying mistake: “The Exorcist” was debuting on Canadian television. It came on around sunset. I turned on the TV and climbed into my parents’ bed. You know what happened next.

I wanted to go turn off the TV, but I didn’t dare for fear of what might be waiting in the darkness. I tried hiding under the covers but that only made it worse. I don’t know when I fell asleep, but I do know that every time I closed my eyes I could see the ravaged, green, grinning face of Linda Blair. As Randall Sullivan would say, the face of evil.

The Devil’s greatest trick, as the saying goes (attributed sometimes to Baudelaire and other times to “The Usual Suspects”), was to convince the world he doesn’t exist. Sullivan, an investigative journalist, goes out looking for him in our modern world. And “The Devil’s Best Trick” is a master class in the difficult art of first-person, narrative nonfiction.

At the start of his journey, Sullivan’s not sure if he believes in the Devil; by the end he is certain that Satan is real. Sullivan is never showy, and doesn’t insert himself into the story more than necessary, but we always feel he is there with us — which is often comforting and necessary, given his sinister subject.

The prose has wonderful momentum even when he’s writing about arcane debates in the early Christian church. Each chapter is a turn, a surprise. The writing is never clichéd, nor is the thinking. Sullivan knows a great lede, and he’s just as good with cliffhangers.

He tells us that he cut quite a bit of the murder and torture material, but parents should still skip Chapters 9 and 10. When he says, of the serial murderer Westley Allan Dodd, “I’m not going to describe the things Dodd did next; they’re too horrible,” we are grateful; what he has included is very difficult to read.

One of the things that help make Sullivan a believer in the Devil is, ironically, Dodd’s ultimate relationship with the divine. That such a profoundly tormented — and, well, purely malevolent — personality could come to seem like a forgivable human being makes Sullivan wonder if there had indeed been a battle for Dodd’s soul between God and Satan. Certainly this is what his chaplain believed, saying, of the night of Dodd’s execution: “I can tell you that if Westley Allan Dodd had stood at the microphone that night, he would have said something about grace and mercy and forgiveness that would have brought 70,000 people to their feet. Because he knew whereof he spoke.” This causes Sullivan to wonder if there might be a place where the Devil is not conceptual, “but an actual being from whom one might either flee or seek favors.”

Where Sullivan really hits his stride is in his encounters with the purportedly possessed. We meet a Franciscan priest who, as a trained psychologist, considered exorcism an outmoded superstition — until participating in one. Sullivan describes an exorcism of a young woman he himself witnesses in Medjugorje, a pilgrimage site in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the last third of the book, Sullivan travels to Mexico. We learn about the human sacrifice and cannibalism of the Aztecs; the complexities and revisionist history of the conquest of the Aztecs by Cortes; the 21st-century collaboration between drug lords, kidnapping rings and the cultlike religious following, numbering in the millions, of Santa Muerte (or Saint Death). We watch as two goats are sacrificed to El Diablo.

The final chapter details one of the most famous exorcisms in American history, and unless you simply refuse to believe multiple eyewitnesses — if you are the sort of skeptic who feels that mass delusion is more plausible than the possibility of powers normally unseen — you will leave strongly inclined to agree with the author that evil is literally real.

I have had experiences in my life that most people might describe as “supernatural.” And though, unlike Sullivan, I do not believe in Satan, I think there are indeed all kinds of phenomena unexplained by contemporary science — which is, after all, still in its infancy. What is more, I tend to believe that people like Randall Sullivan are intellectually responsible and acting in good faith; we should at least open our minds to the possibility that they may know something we do not.

This book will doubtless be made into a television show, and this is the rare case where that’s good. I wouldn’t watch it; just reviewing the book has me petrified. Reading it, I was once again 12 and alone in the house.

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Tempted to try a no-buy year? Here are tips from people doing it - The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The rules of a no-buy challenge are self-imposed and simple: Make a list of the non-essential items you won’t spend money on for a set period of time and stick to it. Easier said than done.

Many people start such challenges at the beginning of the year and commit to keep going until the end of it. But any time can be the right one for those looking to tackle their credit card debt, declutter their homes or to spend less time shopping. Some challenge participants begin with a no-spend month.

“I commend anyone who realizes they’re just buying too much because North America is very consumer-focused and there’s too much waste,” said Carrie Rattle, the CEO of financial coaching company Behavioral Cents.

Thinking of what you would be better off living without? These are some recommendations from experts and people already participating in the challenge.

AP correspondent Shelley Adler reports on the ‘No Buy Year’ challenge.

IDENTIFY YOUR WEAKNESSES

Whether it’s makeup, ordering takeout food or buying unnecessary trinkets in the $1 section at Target, knowing your vulnerabilities will help you make a realistic plan for staying on track.

Before starting her no-buy year, Mia Westrap, a Ph.D. student in Southhampton, England, took a close look at what she spent money on during the previous few months. She decided that unnecessary food and beverages were her weakness.

“I figured out that I was spending four figures on just carbonated drinks and Pepsi Max,” she said.

MAKE YOUR OWN RULES

One of the fun parts of a no-buy challenge is that there are no set rules. Individuals choose what to include and exclude.

San Diego resident Amea Wadsworth, 22, used to love spending hours looking at clothes and quirky knickknacks at Target and Goodwill. But when she moved back home after graduating college, she realized how many things she had accumulated through the years.

“When I have those decluttering moments and I look through all my stuff, I was finding things that I bought and spent a lot of money on and then never ended up wearing,” Wadsworth said.

For her challenge, she chose to not buy new clothing items and prioritized spending on experiences with her loved ones. Wadsworth also started her challenge by doing it month by month.

Writing down the rules that fit your needs may help you stay on track. However, it’s also fine to tweak some of the rules as you move along in your experience.

TAKE A PAUSE

Finances are very connected to emotions, and emotions sometimes can make you feel like buying something you don’t need. When Wadsworth feels an impulse to get something she saw on social media or at a story, she writes it down instead of immediately purchasing the item.

At the end of the month, she reviews the list and decides what, if anything, still is worth buying.

“I look back and I see how many things I wrote and I’m like ’I’m glad that I didn’t buy that because I really didn’t need it,’” Wadsworth said.

If you impulse buy, it might be helpful to write down the things you want to purchase and take some time to think further about the utility of the item.

UNSUBSCRIBE AND UNFOLLOW

Between pop-up promotions and influencers swooning over new merchandise, social media can be a trigger for unnecessary shopping, according to Courtney Alev, a consumer financial advocate at Credit Karma.

If you think screen time is compounding your overspending habit, Alev recommends taking a break from following accounts that bring on the urge to pull out a credit card.

BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF

When Westrap began her no-buy year, she felt like the universe was conspiring against her. Her car broke down one month, and the next she received an expensive fine for an overdue parking ticket she was unaware of. Unexpected expenses or weak moments happen to everyone, and it’s OK if you don’t follow your no-buy year rules exactly as you had planned. The effort matters.

“If you fail, you probably need a bit more help. You are not a failure. You have simply failed at one method,” Rattle said. “And that’s really important because I don’t want people to feel dejected.”

Building a new habit and managing your finances can be difficult. Try to be gentle with yourself in the process.

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Nigeria Kuchi raid: 'My children hid with goats to trick kidnappers' - BBC.com

'My children hid with goats to trick kidnappers'

Most people are now said to have fled Kuchi altogether

Chaos descended on a Nigerian town at sundown when kidnappers attacked as people were preparing their evening meals last Friday. Residents rushed helter-skelter to escape.

"When the invaders came to town firing gunshots, I jumped on my motorbike and rode into the night," a man from Kuchi told the BBC on condition of anonymity about the attack in the central state of Niger, west of the capital, Abuja.

It is thought that 10 people died and at least 160 people were kidnapped by the armed men in a raid that lasted several hours.

In the mayhem everyone’s reaction was to escape or find a hiding place.

"I left behind my wife, children and elderly parents," the man said, explaining how he first acted to save his own life but was deeply worried about them.

He made it to the nearby city of Minna, and now knows that some of his family were not so lucky: "The invaders captured my wife and her elder sister.

"But my wife later managed to escape from them, while they were ferrying the hostages across the Shiroro River."

His wife's sister is still being held and the kidnappers have called relatives to demand a ransom for her.

Some quick thinking spared the rest of his family the same fate.

"My children and my parents ran into our goat house and hid among the animals there. Fortunately, they were not discovered," the anonymous Kuchi resident said.

"After the attackers left, my parents and children ran into the bush and found their way to a neighbouring community.”

His wife called him a day after the incident having safely holed herself up in another village.

"I am now in touch with my wife, but we are not in the same location."

Some people hid among livestock to stay safe from armed men (stock image)

Niger state’s security commissioner, Muhammed Bello, said his department, along with “various security agencies”, were investigating the abduction, although he disputed the number of people who had been kidnapped.

Local officials suspect the gunmen may have belonged to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, because they carried jihadist flags during Friday's attack.

Boko Haram fighters are usually based in north-eastern states but in the last few years some have also been active in north-western and central areas of the country where criminal kidnap gangs, known locally as bandits, operate.

The armed men who raided Kuchi spent more than two hours in the area cooking food, drinking tea and looting shops and homes, according to local government Chairman Aminu Abdulhamid Najume.

"There was no security intervention," he told the BBC.

"Kuchi and neighbouring communities remain at the mercy of armed groups."

The paying of ransoms was outlawed in 2021, but people say unless they are paid little is done by the security forces to rescue captives - or protect them in the first place.

In an act of desperation the Kuchi community had recently hired local hunters as vigilantes for protection, Mr Najume told the BBC.

But he bemoaned that he and other local government officials often lacked the necessary funds and power to act as such matters tended to be in the hands of regional governors.

Several communities in the state have been attacked in recent months by armed gangs killing residents or kidnapping them for ransom. In April, six soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region, while responding to a distress call.

Describing Friday's attack, Mr Najume said that the gunmen "moved from house to house, picking their victims after killing 10 villagers, including five local hunters in gunfights."

Three other residents were injured.

Most of the victims are women, children and the elderly.

There is now heightened tension and trauma in neighbouring communities, says Mr Najume, as residents of Kuchi mourn their dead and await information on those kidnapped.

According to another resident, the armed men returned to Kuchi on Saturday night and kidnapped more people, including the head of the village and his two wives.

Most people are now said to have fled Kuchi altogether.

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2024 NHL playoffs: Rangers-Panthers Game 4 betting tips - ESPN

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We finally saw some offense break out in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals. Hidden just below the surface of the final score was a dominant performance by the Florida Panthers offense, with the New York Rangers more or less stealing a game thanks to some timely scoring and an all-world performance from Igor Shesterkin. Should we expect more of this in Game 4?

With the Panthers at home and with some time to chew on the disappointment of Game 3, I want to lean yes, but the odds are still suggesting a tighter affair. Opening lines have the Panthers favored and an under of 5.5 as the better bet.

That said, after what Florida did in the third period Sunday, I like some of the Panthers-heavy odds on offer.

All odds accurate as of publish time. For more, go to ESPN BET.

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• Game 4 Over/Under: 5.5 (Even/-120)

• Game 4 Moneyline: Panthers (-175); Rangers (+150)

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Sergei Bobrovsky to record a shutout (+900). A Panther shutout isn't my expected version of the Game 4 script, but these are nice odds for a shutout, and there is a world where Florida dominates this game. With the way the Panthers have shut down the elite Rangers such as Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad, Chris Kreider and Adam Fox (zero goals and two assists between them), a shutout isn't out of the question here. There is also a Panthers To Win By Shutout at +750 among the Game Specials; obviously, this Bobrovsky bet is the one to take.

Artemi Panarin to record over 1.5 points and Igor Shesterkin to record over 29.5 saves and Rangers to win (+670). If you prefer the Rangers side, don't do this odds boost. Instead, take the suggestions here and build out your own parlay. The individual elements of the bet come with +180 odds for Panarin to go over 1.5 points, -115 for Shesterkin to top 29.5 saves and +150 for the Rangers moneyline. Doing those as a custom parlay would net +714 odds. The fact that Shesterkin has looked otherworldly -- and Panarin is due -- make it an appealing combo of bets if you don't buy into the Panthers revenge narrative. If the first two hit, a Rangers win is all but assured to complete the bet.

Evan Rodrigues total points over 0.5 (+170). With Rodrigues and Sam Bennett elevated to Matthew Tkachuk's line late in the game, and the way they were buzzing, it would not be a shock to see them back together for this one. I'll take Rodrigues sneaking in a point.

Florida Panthers vs. New York Rangers series winner: Florida Panthers (+140). If you picked the Panthers to win this series, the 2-1 series deficit going into a Game 4 at home should not concern you -- especially after watching the offense go like it did Sunday (83 to 36 in shot attempts; the Rangers had to block 37 shots!) in a loss. This doesn't feel like taking any bigger risk on the Panthers than you would have before Game 1, but at the moment there are favorable rewards on that same bet.

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7 tips for developing digital balance, from happiness experts: 'Find that happy medium where technology is working for you' - CNBC

Digital devices provide unlimited access to so many things, and it can be both a gift and a curse.

Smartphones and laptops help us to stay connected to our loved ones through phone calls and video conferencing, Laurie Santos, a psychology professor who teaches Yale's most popular class ever, said in a recent podcast episode of "The Happiness Lab."

At the same time, "research shows that our screens and apps and devices are making us less social, less present and even less happy," Santos added.

During the episode, Santos spoke to Amy Blankson, a happiness expert and co-founder of the Digital Wellness Institute, about ways that people can achieve a better balance when using digital devices.

Here are a few of the tips that Blankson shared.

7 tips for developing 'digital balance' from happiness experts

"Digital balance is really finding that sweet spot. We call it a spot of 'digital flourishing' where it's not that you are addicted to technology and it's not that you're swearing it off either," Blankson said during the episode.

"It's really that you're finding that happy medium where technology is working for you, not the other way around."

These are some of the tips that Blankson suggests for achieving digital balance:

1. Practice the "really" rule: When you feel an urge to use your phone or turn on the TV, think about if it's really necessary for you to do it in the moment or if it's getting in the way of something else that you need to do. Ask yourself, "Do I really need to be using my device right now? Is this the best use of my time really?"
2. Be mindful of the bottomless bowl: Some apps don't have a limit to how long you can scroll on them, which is commonly referred to as the bottomless bowl, Blankson said. "Those are the apps that are the most dangerous for us, the ones that suck us in the most and the ones that require us as individuals to be stronger and more intentional about setting boundaries for ourselves," Blankson added.
3. Use stopping cues: To limit your time spent on devices, especially when using apps with the bottomless bowl structure, come up with a signal that will let you know how long you've been looking at your devices. Then use that signal as a sign that it's time to take a break from using the device, Blankson said. A simple tool you can use as a signal is a timer.
4. Switch your phone into grayscale mode when you want to put it down: In your phone's settings, put your phone on grayscale mode. "Essentially what it does is it takes all of the color off of your screen, all the flashing lights, and sometimes you can turn off all the sound. So you get this very blank canvas," Blankson said. "It's so boring, you won't want to look at it anymore."
5. Place your phone out of your line of sight: Put your phone behind your laptop or store it in a bag, so you're unable to see it while you're working on something. "The reason why this works is because the need to be needed is so strong that our eyes are actually flickering back and forth between our screen and our task or the person we're with because we might be needed," Blankson said. "By having it out of our line of sight, there's nothing to go check. There's nothing to interrupt us."
6. Engage in some screen-free activities: Plan to connect with others through screen-free activities. Some choices that Blankson recommends include playing board games, creating art, sitting in stillness, cooking and trying new foods. Make a list of screen-free activities you like and participate in one when you feel like reaching for your phone.
7. Use technology to enhance your productivity: Consider using an app for journaling that reminds you to write about your day or think about a few things that you're grateful for. Send a thoughtful text message once a day to one of your loved ones. Or try a meditation app to incorporate mindfulness into your day.

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7 tips for developing digital balance, from happiness experts: 'Find that happy medium where technology is working for you' - CNBC

Digital devices provide unlimited access to so many things, and it can be both a gift and a curse.

Smartphones and laptops help us to stay connected to our loved ones through phone calls and video conferencing, Laurie Santos, a psychology professor who teaches Yale's most popular class ever, said in a recent podcast episode of "The Happiness Lab."

At the same time, "research shows that our screens and apps and devices are making us less social, less present and even less happy," Santos added.

During the episode, Santos spoke to Amy Blankson, a happiness expert and co-founder of the Digital Wellness Institute, about ways that people can achieve a better balance when using digital devices.

Here are a few of the tips that Blankson shared.

7 tips for developing 'digital balance' from happiness experts

"Digital balance is really finding that sweet spot. We call it a spot of 'digital flourishing' where it's not that you are addicted to technology and it's not that you're swearing it off either," Blankson said during the episode.

"It's really that you're finding that happy medium where technology is working for you, not the other way around."

These are some of the tips that Blankson suggests for achieving digital balance:

1. Practice the "really" rule: When you feel an urge to use your phone or turn on the TV, think about if it's really necessary for you to do it in the moment or if it's getting in the way of something else that you need to do. Ask yourself, "Do I really need to be using my device right now? Is this the best use of my time really?"
2. Be mindful of the bottomless bowl: Some apps don't have a limit to how long you can scroll on them, which is commonly referred to as the bottomless bowl, Blankson said. "Those are the apps that are the most dangerous for us, the ones that suck us in the most and the ones that require us as individuals to be stronger and more intentional about setting boundaries for ourselves," Blankson added.
3. Use stopping cues: To limit your time spent on devices, especially when using apps with the bottomless bowl structure, come up with a signal that will let you know how long you've been looking at your devices. Then use that signal as a sign that it's time to take a break from using the device, Blankson said. A simple tool you can use as a signal is a timer.
4. Switch your phone into grayscale mode when you want to put it down: In your phone's settings, put your phone on grayscale mode. "Essentially what it does is it takes all of the color off of your screen, all the flashing lights, and sometimes you can turn off all the sound. So you get this very blank canvas," Blankson said. "It's so boring, you won't want to look at it anymore."
5. Place your phone out of your line of sight: Put your phone behind your laptop or store it in a bag, so you're unable to see it while you're working on something. "The reason why this works is because the need to be needed is so strong that our eyes are actually flickering back and forth between our screen and our task or the person we're with because we might be needed," Blankson said. "By having it out of our line of sight, there's nothing to go check. There's nothing to interrupt us."
6. Engage in some screen-free activities: Plan to connect with others through screen-free activities. Some choices that Blankson recommends include playing board games, creating art, sitting in stillness, cooking and trying new foods. Make a list of screen-free activities you like and participate in one when you feel like reaching for your phone.
7. Use technology to enhance your productivity: Consider using an app for journaling that reminds you to write about your day or think about a few things that you're grateful for. Send a thoughtful text message once a day to one of your loved ones. Or try a meditation app to incorporate mindfulness into your day.

Want to be a successful, confident communicator? Take CNBC's new online course Become an Effective Communicator: Master Public Speaking. We'll teach you how to speak clearly and confidently, calm your nerves, what to say and not say, and body language techniques to make a great first impression. Sign up today and use code EARLYBIRD for an introductory discount of 30% off through July 10, 2024.

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