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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has another one of those purple categories that makes you hunt out hidden words buried in the grid words. 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: Very fast.

Green group hint: Think Chinese cuisine.

Blue group hint: Turn pages fast.

Purple group hint: Hidden word for a failure.

Answers for today’s Connections groups

Yellow group: Zoom.

Green group: Sauces in Chinese cuisine.

Blue group: Riffle (through).

Purple group: Starting with synonyms for «dud.»

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What are today’s Connections answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is zoom. The four answers are dart, flash, speed and zip.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is sauces in Chinese cuisine. The four answers are hoisin, oyster, plum and soy.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is riffle (through). The four answers are slip, leaf, skim amd thumb.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is starting with synonyms for «dud.» The four answers are Bombay (bomb), bustle (bust), floppy (flop) and missus (miss).

Amazon’s Presidents Day sale just dropped the Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses to an all-time low price of just $339, slashing a full $60 off the usual retail price. But you’ll need to act fast because this deal only has a few hours left to run. 

That price gets you the warm gray frame with Oakley’s prizm ruby lenses, but there are other combinations on offer. The black frame with clear lenses is also an option, especially if you want to be able to wear your AI glasses in all weathers. They’re also yours for just $339, but, again, time’s running out. There are other options as well, but be aware that the prices vary from one model to another.

CNET’s own Scott Stein spent time with the Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses in July last year, including the version with the clear lenses. He noted that Oakley’s iteration on the Meta AI glasses boasts longer battery life than the Ray-Ban alternatives, a big deal if you plan on wearing these things for a long time between charges.

That battery life shakes out to around eight hours per charge, but you can extend that by an additional 48 hours when you use the included charging case to top the battery up.

All of the AI glasses staples are present and correct, including a 12-megapixel camera with hands-free capturing of videos and photos. A simple «Hey Meta» is enough to begin capturing 3K videos ready to be shared on social media and elsewhere.

Meta’s AI can be used to get hands-free answers to questions and power live translation, while athletes can hook into their Garmin devices to add performance metrics. The glasses can also be linked to Strava if that’s your activity monitoring platform of choice, too.

Why this deal matters

It’s worth paying attention to any time new technology hits an all-time low price, and that’s the case here. AI glasses take something many of us wear every day and add a layer of smarts for live translation and more. Just remember that different versions of these AI glasses have different prices, and time is running out to take advantage of these discounts.

During a recent staff meeting at artificial intelligence company xAI, CEO Elon Musk reportedly told employees that he wants to build an AI satellite factory on the moon, according to The New York Times. Musk also said he wants a giant catapult at the factory that would launch those satellites into space.

A representative for xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment but this wouldn’t be the first time the tech mogul has toyed with the idea of moving operating facilities to space. 

«Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling,» Musk said in a statement after his companies SpaceX and xAI merged. «Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment. In the long term, space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale.»

And this «space-based AI» could happen sooner rather than later if it’s up to the billionaire. 

«By far the cheapest place to put AI will be space in 36 months or less,» Musk reportedly said during a recent appearance on the podcast Cheeky Pint.

If the moon mission is successful, Musk seems to have his eye on establishing a colony on Mars next. For years, he has described involvement with Mars as a necessary step in safeguarding humanity’s future, framing space colonization as a necessary backup plan and the next frontier of exploration.