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Airbnb Testing Option for Guests to Order Instacart Supplies Ahead of Their Stay
If you don’t want to haul your own groceries to your next Airbnb, this could be for you.
Heading to an Airbnb, but you don’t want to haul along six boxes of your kid’s favorite macaroni and cheese? You might soon be able to have your choice of groceries waiting for you when you arrive. Airbnb is testing a new service in three US cities that will allow travelers to place an Instacart order ahead of their trip.
The program will launch Jan. 5 in Phoenix, Orlando and Los Angeles and will continue for a few months to see if it gains traction among guests. Currently, guests can place an Instacart order during their stay if they desire, but this feature would mean the items would already be there when they arrive.
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The new option would mean more work for Airbnb hosts, who’d have to unpack and put away the order before guests arrive. However, Airbnb plans to pay hosts for each completed order.
«By offering this service, they [hosts] not only receive rewards, including a one-time payment of $100 plus $25 for each delivery that opts in for kitchen stocking, but they will be helping to make their guests’ stay even better,» an Airbnb spokesperson told CNET.
Guests can use Instacart through the Airbnb app to order groceries, household essentials and other items up to three weeks in advance. After they place an order, the hosts are notified. The host then selects a date and time that works for them to receive the order.
«While the order can be placed up to three weeks in advance of a stay, hosts can coordinate delivery and kitchen stocking to be a part of the general turnover process between guests, similar to cleaning,» the Airbnb spokesperson said.
On delivery day, hosts receive updates on the order’s status and can notify guests that their groceries have been packed and are ready for pickup. Hosts can accept the delivery up to 24 hours in advance and at least three hours before the guest’s check-in time. Hosts are also expected to follow food safety guidelines when unpacking and stocking items.
This isn’t the first time Airbnb has experimented with unique services for guests. They previously teamed up with Chargepoint, the electric car charging service, and offered guests discounts on EV chargers.
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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Jan. 14, #948
Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for Jan. 14 #948.
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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is kind of tough. The blue category, not the purple one today, expects you to find hidden words in four of the words given in the grid. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
Read more: Hints, Tips and Strategies to Help You Win at NYT Connections Every Time
Hints for today’s Connections groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: That’s not going anywhere.
Green group hint: End user or customer.
Blue group hint: Ask a meteorologist.
Purple group hint: Not noisy.
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Fixed.
Green group: Receiver of goods or services.
Blue group: Starting with weather conditions.
Purple group: Silent ____.
Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words
What are today’s Connections answers?
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is fixed. The four answers are fast, firm, secure and tight.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is receiver of goods or services. The four answers are account, client, consumer and user.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is starting with weather conditions. The four answers are frosty (frost), mistletoe (mist), rainmaker (rain) and snowman (snow).
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is silent ____. The four answers are auction, movie, partner and treatment.
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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Jan. 14, #1670
Here are hints and the answer for today’s Wordle for Jan. 14, No. 1,670.
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Today’s Wordle puzzle is a tough one, with a letter that is rarely used and which I just never guess. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.
Read more: New Study Reveals Wordle’s Top 10 Toughest Words of 2025
Today’s Wordle hints
Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.
Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats
Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.
Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels
Today’s Wordle answer has three vowels.
Wordle hint No. 3: First letter
Today’s Wordle answer begins with A.
Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter
Today’s Wordle answer ends with D.
Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning
Today’s Wordle answer can mean to keep away from something or someone.
TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER
Today’s Wordle answer is AVOID.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Jan. 13, No. 1669 was GUMBO.
Recent Wordle answers
Jan. 9, No. 1665: EIGHT
Jan. 10, No. 1666: MANIC
Jan. 11, No. 1667: QUARK
Jan. 12, No. 1668: TRIAL
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Apple Launches Creator Studio Package as $13 a Month Subscription
Mac users can still buy the apps individually, but subscribers get access to Final Cut Pro and other Studio tools.
Apple is bundling its pro filmmaking and audio tools including Final Cut Pro with its productivity apps Keynote, Pages and Numbers into a subscription software suite called Apple Creator Studio.
The package, which includes apps for Mac, iPad and iPhone, includes Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage and the whiteboard app Freeform. Creator Studio will be available starting Jan. 28 at a cost of $13 per month or $129 per year, or $3 per month or $30 per year for students and educators. Mac users will still have the option to purchase software like Final Cut Pro for a one-time free. The current price for Final Cut Pro in the Mac App Store is $300.
While apps such as Keynote and Pages are already free on Apple platforms, it appears that new versions of those apps will receive access to beta features that will roll out first to Creator Studio subscribers. The announcement by Apple alludes to «new AI features and premium content» in some of the apps it otherwise makes available to use for free.
What the Creator Studio bundle comes with
The star of the show in Creator Studio is Final Cut Pro, the video editing software that will now include Transcript Search on both Mac and iPad. There is also a new Beat Detection feature Apple says uses an AI model to analyze a music track and display a beat grid, making it easier to cut video to music rhythms. The software also will include a new Montage Maker on iPad for quick social video creation.
Motion, the 2D and 3D graphics tool, and Compressor also integrate with Final Cut Pro. Apple touted Motion’s Magnetic Mask feature for isolating objects or people without the need for a green screen.
Logic Pro has new features for musicians, including a Synth Player addition to AI Session Players. Chord ID, a new AI feature, can create chord progressions from audio or MIDI recordings. A new Sound Library will have hundreds of royalty-free clips, samples and loops.
A revamped MainStage app gives subscribers access to instrument, voice-professing and guitar rig tools. Pixelmator Pro arrives with new tools and filters, and there will be an iPad version in addition to the Mac tool.
Freeform in the Creator Studio package will add premium content, including curated photos, graphics and illustrations. It will also get new AI features that include image creation.
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