As extreme weather events become ever more common, climate risks are playing a role in many people’s long-term decision-making. And few things are more long-term than buying real estate. In response, Zillow has a new partnership to bring climate risk information to its for-sale listings.
Property listing pages in the US will include data about flood, wildfire, wind, heat and air quality risks at that location. This section will also list any climate-related insurance requirements for that property. The information is being provided by , a specialist in climate risk financial modeling. The climate data is rolling out this year to the Zillow website and iOS app, while Android is expected to get the update early next year. Some locations have already been updated to show climate data on the web.
Those five risk categories are also being applied to Zillow’s interactive map search view. Each of the different climate concerns has a color-coded visualization to show the risk levels across the country or in a smaller region. It’s valuable information for anybody in a position to make that big homebuying leap. For everybody else, it may add simply a touch of gloomy reality to the gleeful experience of scrolling through absurd and/or overpriced houses.
Zillow also introduced to its AI search feature earlier this month.
For the third year in a row, Amazon is ringing in the fall with a second Prime Day event. This year’s two-day shopping event — dubbed Prime Big Deal Days — will kick off on Tuesday, October 8th, and run through Wednesday, October 9th, giving Amazon Prime subscribers a chance to chip away at their holiday wishlist before Black Friday and Cyber Monday land later this year.
If the early deals Amazon already has on offer are any indication, we can expect to see steep discounts across Amazon’s own devices, including Fire tablets, Echo speakers, Eero routers, Kindles, and more. We also anticipate Amazon slashing prices on a variety of other electronics, from noise-canceling headphones and laptops to video doorbells and some of our favorite robot vacuums.
As usual, we’ll be scouring Amazon’s landing pages both during and in the run-up to the event, making it easy for you to keep tabs on the best deals coming out of Prime Day 2.0. We’ll also provide a slew of helpful tips ahead of the event, including ways to save at competing retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, and Target.
So bookmark this page, sign up for the new Verge Deals newsletter, and set aside a little spending cash. You’re going to need it.
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Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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Your Strands expert
Marc McLaren
NYT Strands today (game #208) – hint #1 – today’s theme
What is the theme of today’s NYT Strands?
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Medieval marvel
NYT Strands today (game #208) – hint #2 – clue words
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
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BUTTER
TORE
WEAR
ATOM
LAUD
DARE
NYT Strands today (game #208) – hint #3 – spangram
What is a hint for today’s spangram?
• Not necessarily made of sand
NYT Strands today (game #208) – hint #4 – spangram position
What are two sides of the board that today’s spangram touches?
First: left, 4th row
Last: right, 3rd row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Strands today (game #208) – the answers
(Image credit: New York Times)
The answers to today’s Strands, game #208, are…
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MOAT
WALL
DRAWBRIDGE
COURTYARD
TOWER
KEEP
TURRET
SPANGRAM: CASTLE
My rating: Easy
My score: Perfect
This was a spectacularly easy Strands puzzle. If the words ‘Medieval marvel‘ didn’t immediately conjure up a CASTLE to you, well, then, you didn’t spend as much time during your childhood playing with Lego, reading The Lord of The Rings or watching Robin Hood as I did.
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I got the spangram right away, and that made the task of finding the other answers all the easier. None were remotely hard to think of or difficult to uncover, and I completed the whole thing in about three minutes.
Yesterday’s NYT Strands answers (Thursday 26 September, game #207)
SWING
CRIB
HIGHCHAIR
STROLLER
BLANKET
PLAYPEN
SPANGRAM: BABYGEAR
What is NYT Strands?
Strands is the NYT’s new word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now out of beta so is a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable and can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
Companies are being warned about the increasing use of AI to carry out so-called CEO Fraud.
More victims are coming forward with their stories of being targeted using generative AI techniques and one case in Hong Kong reportedly saw an AI clone used during a video meeting to trick staff into losing $25m.
But while some fear the rise of AI clones, companies including Zoom say we should be excited about a future where your clone can go to a meeting on your behalf.
Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy has had an AI clone of himself built by engineers at Fraia AI. Watch to see if he can fool his colleagues with it.
The Sycamore Gap tree is thought to be one of the most photographed trees in the world
Ruth lost her only child Fergus to cancer when he was just 12.
“Your worst fear after your child dies is that he’ll be forgotten,” she explains.
They had long been searching for a tree with special meaning to plant in Fergus’ memory and to draw attention to all the children affected by childhood cancer.
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The Sycamore Gap tree was cut down a year ago, sparking national outrage. Now, Fergus’ community in Backwell, near Bristol, will be one of the first to be gifted a sapling grown from it.
Stories of these first saplings to be promised are being shared to inspire others to apply for a ‘Tree of Hope’ from the National Trust. They have now grown to about 5ft tall, the BBC discovered on a visit to the top-secret greenhouse where they are kept.
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Fergus “loved the outdoors” and was planning to walk Hadrian’s wall with his dad
On a bank, overlooking an open green space, Fergus’ parents share the spot where his tree will go – a prominent place in the landscape.
Their son came to this recreational ground nearly every day – a boy, on the cusp of becoming a teenager, who had a love of the outdoors.
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It was his walk to school. He played cricket and other games here with his dad Ian, who described it as place filled with “fun”.
Father and son were planning to walk Hadrian’s Wall, along which the Sycamore Gap tree was nestled.
They postponed because of the pandemic with the hope of visiting once life went back to ‘normal’.
But Fergus was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in January 2021 and was just 12 years old when he died in May 2022.
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Fergus’ parents Ruth and Ian have chosen a prominent spot in Fergus’ local park for the special sapling to be planted
“There’s something about the story of the new life being created from the Sycamore Gap. It made me think of all the children affected by childhood cancer. And how they deserve so much better. They deserve a second chance of life.”
A Sycamore Gap sapling seemed a fitting tribute as it was the trip planned, but never taken.
Since Fergus died, nature has been a constant source of strength to the family, Ruth tells me: “Its power to regenerate. And to console.”
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She stresses that cancer in children is “horrendous, brutal and life-changing” and that bone cancer in children is something “no one really talks about”.
“We need to do more. We need to know more.” So her hope for the tree is to draw attention to the challenges these children face.
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Saplings grown from seeds are now about 5ft tall
The original tree was 49ft (15m) when it was chopped down, and so 49 of its saplings will be released to communities across the UK who successfully apply.
The Sycamore Gap stood in a dip in Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, attracting visitors, proposals and was even featured in the Hollywood blockbuster Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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But on the morning of 28 September 2023, news spread internationally that the tree had been chopped down overnight.
Currently its ‘baby trees’ are being nurtured and protected in a secret greenhouse, a site of biosecurity because of the rare specimens grown there – including a copy of Newton’s Apple Tree.
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The first of the seedlings to pop up has been gifted to King Charles.
It was the wrong time of year to grow the material that was salvaged from the iconic tree and things have been “touch and go”, Darryl Beck, who has been tending to the seedlings explains.
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The tree stood in a dip in Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland
But now the small team here are caring for about 100 saplings, some taller than 1.5m, and more seedlings are coming on.
There are also “nine or so grafts and budded plants” Chris Trimmer who runs the site explains. They are genetic copies of the original tree.
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The trees wont be ready for planting until next year.
“We’re only a very small part of the story, but these trees will be around for the next 200 to 500 years. So, they’ll be around a long time and give a lot of hope to people,” says Chris.
The National Trust wants these saplings to be symbols of hope and healing, with each tree going to a very special place.
Another is promised to Tina’s Haven at Easington on the County Durham Coast.
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Some 34 hectares (84 acres) of coastal fields are set to become a landscape of rolling meadows, hedgerows, ponds and woodlands overlooking the North Sea.
“My daughter Tina was absolutely a unique human being,” Sue Robson explains. “Through her life, although she had issues with childhood trauma and addiction and mental health, she was bold, she was strong, she was beautiful.”
Sue Robson
Sue Robson (left) with her daughter Tina (right).
Tina died in 2020, age 35, following these struggles. After her death, Sue wanted to create a wild sanctuary – a place of recovery for others dealing with the problems Tina faced.
The National Trust says it’s spent the last 40 years cleaning up the beaches that neighbour the former coalfield sites near where Tina’s Haven will be established.
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The hope is not only to restore nature here, but to help women recover from addiction and trauma through rewilding projects.
Sue describes the pilgrimages she made to the Sycamore Gap, just 58 miles away, and how seeing it chopped down felt like an act of “violence against mother nature itself”.
“When Tina died, my hope died with her,” Sue says. “And equally, when that beautiful tree was cut down. It was a violent, devastating act.”
But she sees a “parallel” when it comes to themes of “hope, of nature, of recovery and connection.”
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“So, having the tree, such a significant symbol of hope here, is absolutely massive.”
For Sue, the story of nature bouncing back, symbolises that even after being subject to the worst adversity, there can be recovery, healing and new beginnings.
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