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‘Forza Horizon 6’ may be a positive, happy arcade racing experience, but it has a horrible trick up its sleeve to shock players.Playground GamesAs a latecoming fan of truly scary games, the last 12 months have given me some genuinely enjoyable brown-trouser escapades like Resident Evil Requiem, Silent Hill f, Hollowbody, and Crisol: Theater of Idols. I never thought that Forza Horizon 6, of all things, would give me the single biggest fright. My day job is working for a university in England, and it’s the busiest time of year: exams, major research projects, loads of events, and everything else…

Find the links between the words to win today’s game of Connections.gettyEach day’s game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. Before today’s NYT Connections hints, here’s what you missed on Sunday: ForbesNYT ‘Connections’ Hints And Answers For Sunday, June 14By Erik KainHey there, Connectors! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I’m happy to be back with you for another weekday run of this column.As always, I love to get things started on Mondays with a fun, upbeat song to hopefully lift your spirits. If it gets you singing and dancing a bit, even better. The main…

There’s a quiet assumption embedded in how most companies operate: English is almost always seen as the starting point. I see it play out almost daily in conversations with leadership teams. It shows up in how product specs are written, how campaigns are planned, and how expansion is sequenced. On the surface, this feels efficient. In practice, it constrains growth in ways that are easy to miss until it’s too late. Running Smartling, I spend a lot of time with companies that are either trying to expand globally or wondering why their existing efforts aren’t working as expected. The pattern…

Samsung logo displayed on a glass door at the company’s Seocho building in Seoul AFP via Getty ImagesSome of the newest reports on hardware in tech media today have to do with efforts to diversify away from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, abbreviated TSMC, which has held fab foundry customers in its palm for decades.The context: World chip makers are trying to rival the Taiwanese firm, but they’re moving slowly: recent American investments in companies like Intel have not fully diversified this part of the market, especially for AI-specific chips, and as for Europe, Africa, or other Asian countries, none of these…

Most people think of exchanging words in the hallway as a quick “Hi, bye” event that doesn’t involve any messaging of importance. That’s true even if you add, “How’s it going?” or “Have a nice weekend.” Rarely do people think of these passing exchanges as having any substance. Think again! These conversations can be the most important ones you have that day. All you need to do is prepare to be spontaneous. Hallway conversations provide an opportunity to get quick, candid answers to an issue that concerns you. They are often more useful than arranged meetings. You’re more likely to get…

2026 Toyota bZ Woodland in the high desert outside of Los Angeles. Credit: Brooke CrothersThe 2026 Toyota bZ comes with surprises. Mostly good. I tested the Toyota bZ Woodland, an off-road-capable EV that impressed me with its speed above everything else. TL;DR: The AWD Toyota bZ Woodland EV can take you off-road but its neck-snapping acceleration is what really impresses. Rated range is about 280 miles. Starting MSRP is $45,300.2026 Toyota bZ Woodland at a Simi Valley, Calif. Tesla Supercharger location.Credit: Brooke CrothersOff-RoadI wasn’t expecting an off-road capable bZ from Toyota so I wasn’t able to schedule a trip to…

When Olympic athletes win, they are often covered in their home country’s flag. Symbols such as flags help unite the masses, reminding individuals of a bigger purpose. The flag of the United States of America is no exception to this rule. Today (Sunday, June 14, 2026), America celebrates the stars and stripes on Flag Day. Here’s everything you need to know about this observance, including how President Trump is celebrating. Is this a federal holiday? No. While Flag Day is a national holiday, it is not a federal one. Flag Day always falls on June 14, so depending on the…

Rick Jackson on election night, May 19.Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.On February 3, Rick Jackson held a press conference at his company’s Italian-inspired Roman Colosseum headquarters in Alpharetta to announce his decision to run for governor of Georgia. The healthcare staffing entrepreneur, who is running as an outsider who will cut taxes, crack down on criminal illegal immigrants and fix the health care system, has no experience in politics. What he does have are survival instincts, a rags-to-riches story and a fortune to spend. Forbes estimates that the 72-year-old — who lives in a more than 35,000…

Published June 14, 2026 03:33AMEveryone is hyper-focused these days on how many carbs they can cram in during a race. But those efforts are wasted if you start the race with a partly empty fuel tank. Carbohydrate-loading protocols have been around for more than 50 years now, but there’s still debate about the best way to ensure that your pre-race fuel stores are fully maxed out. A new study offers some useful data.The study comes from a group at Liverpool John Moores University led by Robyn Jones and Julien Louis, and is published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine &…

Below, Melissa Reeve shares five key insights from her new book, Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI-Native. Melissa was the first VP of marketing at Scaled Agile and thought leader in the SAFe in Marketing space. She went on to co-found the Agile Marketing Alliance. What’s the big idea? Most organizations are trying to bolt AI onto a system that was built for predictability. And it isn’t working. Pilots stall. Adoption plateaus. The organization gets faster at the edges, while the middle stays exactly as slow as before. What separates companies that succeed from ones that don’t isn’t the…