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Razer Is Back to Selling One of Its Laptops Despite Tariffs

The Razer Blade 16 has reappeared online, but only in one configuration.

Tech company Razer made headlines earlier in April when it temporarily stopped selling all its laptops and the newly announced laptop stand. Although the company did not comment on the change, it seemed likely it was tied to President Donald Trump’s heavy tariffs on Chinese-made goods.

As of Friday, the Razer Blade 16 has reappeared on Razer’s website — kind of. The only model of the Razer Blade 16 for sale at this time is the one that comes with the Nvidia RTX 5080, an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365, 2TB of storage and 64GB of RAM for $3,799. If you attempt to change any of those specs using Razer’s configurator, the website either throws a 404 error or says that the laptop with that particular configuration is still out of stock.

A representative for Razer did not respond to CNET’s request for comment.

Per The Verge, Razer has also altered its configurations. If you attempt to equip the Razer Blade 16 with an Nvidia RTX 5090, it locks the laptop into 64GB of RAM and 4TB of storage. However, review units that many reviewers used were equipped with an RTX 5090, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage.

As of Friday, the 14- and 18-inch Razer laptops and the laptop stand are still listed as out of stock and attempting to use Razer’s configurator still throws errors. Customers will have to wait for the rest of the stock to reappear if they don’t want that one particular configuration of the Razer Blade 16.

What changed?

At the time that online laptop sales were first paused, Trump was increasing China tariffs almost daily, culminating in a 145% tariff increase on Chinese goods as of last Friday.

The president’s stance seems to have softened a little since then. The administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from being affected by tariffs, which may account for Razer slowly bringing its laptop sales back online.

The exemptions had other effects as well. Nintendo had initially delayed its Switch 2 pre-orders due to tariffs, and reversed course late this week with pre-orders now starting on April 24.

Laptop maker Framework, which had increased prices due to the tariffs, also lowered prices on some of its laptops after the exemptions.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 19, #1400

Here are hints — and the answer — for today’s Wordle No. 1,400 for April 19.

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

One of the letters in today’s Wordle puzzle almost never appears in answers — or the English language, for that matter. If that’s not enough of a hint, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. (Look down at the bottom to find this particular letter.) If you need more hints and the answer, read on.

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

There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: Start letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with I.

Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter

Today’s Wordle answer ends in one of the rarest letters in the alphabet. See our list for a full ranking.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a place where emails are received and stored.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is INBOX.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, April 18, No. 1399 was DIRGE.

Recent Wordle answers

April 14, No. 1395: CREST

April 15, No. 1396: ASHEN

April 16, No. 1397: MORAL

April 17, No. 1398: STOOD

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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 19, #208

Hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 208, for April 19.

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.

Isn’t the purple category in Connections: Sports Edition supposed to be the hardest? Today, I thought it was the easiest — but then I love old stadiums and tend to remember their names. If you do too, you’ll ace at least one grouping today. Read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can continue to play it free online.

Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta

Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Rocky’s stock in trade.

Green group hint: Get those three points.

Blue group hint: Boston hoops stars.

Purple group hint: There used to be a ballpark, as Sinatra sang.