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TL;DR: Live stream New York Giants vs. New York Jets for free on DAZN. Watch NFL preseason games for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

It’s time for the shortest road trip in the NFL, as New York rivals the Giants and Jets clash on the shared home turf at the MetLife Stadium. OK, it’s only preseason, so the result doesn’t mean much, but there’s nothing like a deep-rooted sporting rivalry — even when the teams are in different conferences.

Both teams had a disappointing 2023 season, so this preseason fixture is a chance to get the respective rosters in shape before the 2024 season kicks off proper.

The good news is, you can watch the NFL preseason without spending anything. To watch for free from anywhere in the world, here’s all the information you need.

When is Giants vs. Jets?

New York Giants vs. New York Jets takes place at 7.30 p.m. ET on Aug. 24. This fixture will be played at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

How to watch Giants vs. Jets for free

To watch the NFL preseason for free, simply register with DAZN.

The UK-based sports platform is showing the NFL preseason for free — live and on-demand — to viewers outside the U.S., Canada, and China. But anyone can access these free streams with a VPN. VPNs are handy tools that can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you with secure servers based in other countries, which helps you bypass restrictions and access streaming platforms from around the globe.

Access free live streams of the NFL preseason by following these simple steps:

Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

Open up the app and connect to a server in a location with free coverage of the NFL preseason

Register with DAZN

Watch the NFL preseason for free from anywhere in the world

The best VPNs for streaming are not free to use, but the leading VPN providers tend to offer free-trial period or money-back guarantee deals. You can take advantage of these deals to access free streams of the NFL preseason without committing any cash. It’s not a long-term solution, but this will give you enough time to watch NFL preseason fixtures before you recover any upfront investment.

What is the best VPN for the NFL?

ExpressVPN is the best service for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream the NFL, for a number of reasons:

Servers in 105 countries

Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

Strict no-logging policy so your data is always secure

Fast connection speeds

Up to eight simultaneous connections

30-day money-back guarantee

A one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $99.95 for a limited time, which includes a bonus three months at no additional cost. As part of this plan you also get a year of unlimited cloud backup and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Live stream the NFL preseason for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

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Live stream the NFL for free from anywhere in the world.

TL;DR: Live stream Cleveland Browns vs. Seattle Seahawks for free on DAZN. Watch NFL preseason games for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

There’s just a few days of NFL preseason action left, but fans of teams from both conferences and all eight divisions will have their eyes on the action — it’s a great chance to see what could lie ahead in the upcoming season. Among the final batch of games is Cleveland Browns vs. Seattle Seahawks.

The Browns had a poor preseason outing against the Green Bay Packers last week, which saw them lose 23-10. Though the Browns held back most of their starters. Coach Kevin Stefanski has said that starters will see some game time against the Seahawks. The Seahawks themselves took a loss to the Tennessee Titans last week, following a last gasp field goal from the Titans — but there were promising moments from the Seahawks, which we could see again when they host the Browns.

You can watch the NFL preseason without spending anything. To watch the preseason fixtures for free from anywhere in the world, here’s all the information you need.

When is Browns vs. Seahawks?

Cleveland Browns vs. Seattle Seahawks takes place at 10 p.m. ET on Aug. 24. This fixture will be played at Lumen Field in Seattle, Washington.

How to watch Browns vs. Seahawks for free

To watch the NFL preseason for free, simply register with DAZN.

The popular UK-based sports platform is showing the NFL preseason games for free — both live and on-demand — to viewers outside the U.S., Canada, and China. The good news is that anyone can access these free streams with a VPN. VPNs are handy tools that can hide your real IP address (digital location) and connect you with secure servers based in other countries, helping you bypass restrictions and access streaming platforms from around the world.

Access free live streams of the NFL preseason by following these simple steps:

Subscribe to a streaming-friendly VPN (like ExpressVPN)

Download the app to your device of choice (the best VPNs have apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, and more)

Open up the app and connect to a server in a location with free coverage of the NFL preseason

Register with DAZN

Watch the NFL preseason for free from anywhere in the world

The best VPNs for streaming are not free to use, but the top VPN providers tend to offer deals such as free-trial periods or money-back guarantees. You can take advantage of these deals to access free streams of the NFL preseason without spending a dime. It’s not a long-term solution, but the trial period gives you enough time to watch NFL preseason fixtures before you recover your initial investment.

What is the best VPN for the NFL?

ExpressVPN is the best service for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream the NFL, for a number of reasons:

Servers in 105 countries

Easy-to-use app available on all major devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

Strict no-logging policy so your data is always secure

Fast connection speeds

Up to eight simultaneous connections

30-day money-back guarantee

For a limited time, a one-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $99.95. As part of this plan you get an extra three months at no additional cost, a year of unlimited cloud backup, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Live stream the NFL preseason for free from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience.

If you’re reading this, you’re looking for a little help playing Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game.

By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you’re feeling stuck or just don’t have 10 or more minutes to figure out today’s puzzle, we’ve got all the NYT Strands hints for today’s puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

NYT Strands hint for today’s theme:

These words will crack you up.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

The answers are types of crackers

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today’s NYT Strands spangram is horizontal.

NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today’s spangram is Crackers.

NYT Strands word list for August 24

Animal

Saltine

Goldfish

Crackers

Soda

Water

Rice

Oyster

Looking for other daily online games? Mashable’s Games page has more hints, and if you’re looking for more puzzles, Mashable’s got games now!

Check out our games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.

Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Strands.

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Channing Tatum, Zoë Kravitz, Naomi Ackie, Christian Slater, Alia Shawkat and Simon Rex break down the film and whether or not it would be a good date movie.

Channing Tatum, Zoë Kravitz, Naomi Ackie, Christian Slater, Alia Shawkat and Simon Rex break down the film and whether or not it would be a good date movie.

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Stephen Colbert shut down Trump’s post about Tim Walz being an “assistant coach” during his live DNC monologue on Thursday.

Stephen Colbert shut down Trump’s post about Tim Walz being an “assistant coach” during his live DNC monologue on Thursday.

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Jon Stewart has roasted Fox News reporters for their reaction to the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

Jon Stewart has roasted Fox News reporters for their reaction to the Democratic National Convention (DNC).

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Answers to each clue for the August 23, 2024 edition of NYT’s The Mini crossword puzzle.

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times‘ revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player’s flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.

Here are the clues and answers to NYT’s The Mini for Friday, August 23, 2024:

Across

Good ___, bad ___ (classic routine)

The answer is Cop.

Pick up on, as a sound

The answer is Hear.

Pick up on, as a vibe

The answer is Sense.

Actress Ana of “Ugly Betty”

The answer is Ortiz.

Not as much

The answer is Less.

Down

Homophone of 5-Across

The answer is Cents .

Fertile area in a desert

The answer is Oasis.

Biden’s title, informally

The answer is Prez.

Homophone of 4-Across

The answer is Here.

Do, re, mi, fa, ___ …

The answer is Sol.

Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.

Not the day you’re after? Here’s the solution to yesterday’s Mini Crossword.

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Soo Hugh’s adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel “Pachinko,” starring Minha Kim, Jin Ha, Yuh-Jung Youn, and Lee Minho, hits Apple TV+ Aug. 23. Review.

Pachinko Season 2 is worth watching for its updated opening title sequence alone.

Like Season 1’s stirring opener, this sequence features members of the Baek family dancing, carefree, down aisles of pachinko machines. In a new twist, though, these credits are split across two pachinko parlors: A muted, 1940s-era parlor with wood-paneled machines, and a much larger, rainbow-bright parlor from the 1980s. Characters from the show’s earlier timeline dance through both sets, a joyful reflection of the ways in which history, both personal and global, layers itself over the present.

These echoes of the past — some joyful, some tragic — persist throughout the main body of Pachinko‘s second season, which remains a magnificent portrait of a family across generations.

What’s Pachinko Season 2 about?

Once again, Pachinko splits its time between the lives of Sunja (Minha Kim) and her grandson Solomon (Jin Ha), both of whom find themselves in periods of extreme transition.

In Osaka in 1945, Sunja struggles to keep her family afloat during World War II. As the American forces close in on Japan, a reunion with her former lover Koh Hansu (Lee Minho) — and father of her eldest son Noa (Kang Hoon Kim) — offers Sunja an escape to the countryside. There, she, Noa, her youngest son Mozasu (Eunseong Kwon), and her sister-in-law Kyunghee (Eunchae Jung) can wait out the end of the conflict.

While Pachinko continues to focus on Sunja’s hard work to ensure her and her loved ones’ survival, it also opens up to a coming-of-age story for Noa and Mozasu. The two face anti-Korean prejudice from their Japanese compatriots everywhere from schoolrooms in Osaka to the rolling rice fields of the countryside. Yet they also form new dreams and new friendships. Among them? A bond with Hansu, whose secret connection to Noa looms large over the season.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo in 1989, Solomon is fighting a war of his own against businessman Abe (Yoshio Maki) in retaliation for the loss of his career. Centered around discussions of real estate deals and starting his own fund, his is a struggle that’s so far removed from Sunja’s own that her older self (Academy Award winner Yuh-Jung Youn) can barely understand it. But of course, it’s in the moments where younger Sunja and Solomon’s stories intersect — or diverge — that Pachinko finds some of its most potent meaning.

Pachinko Season 2 continues to be an exceptional exploration of the past.

Pachinko‘s earlier timeline stands by itself as a moving tale of perseverance through dark times, full of simple life-affirming moments like family dinners or days spent flying kites. But it also elevates the later timeline by constantly reminding of us of everything that brought Solomon to where he is today. His business ambition has roots in Noa’s own drive to study for a university entrance exam. Any time a character in the past mentions wanting to go to America, we recall that Solomon went to Yale.

There are differences, too: In one episode, Noa learns a valuable lesson in forgiveness, while Solomon forgoes any kind of forgiveness in favor of revenge. The lack of Noa in 1989 reverberates through the past as well, making every scene with him a new step on the inevitable march towards his absence.

Throughout it all, Pachinko remains one of the most stunningly crafted shows on TV. Each set, costume, and prop bursts with lived-in texture. Often, the series slows down to detail the everyday processes that make up the Baeks’ lives, from days spent working on a rice farm to hours spent making family meals. Each scene is so evocative you can almost feel sweat on the back of your neck in tandem with theirs, or smell the food they pass around their table.

Occasionally, Pachinko Season 2 breaks this carefully conjured realism, for better or worse. In the “better” corner, we have a tense sequence counting down to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki — an inevitability from the very first episode. Mundane activities play out in a Nagasaki factory, rendered in black and white, as if we’re watching a newsreel of the moments leading up to the bombing. It’s a breathtaking stylistic change, and marks a shift in the rest of the season. Unfortunately, Season 2 does stumble a tad in its final episodes, with love triangles and the occasional “shocking” reveal tending towards soap opera-esque melodrama.

Overall, though, Pachinko Season 2 is a triumphant achievement for one of TV’s best shows. Like Pachinko‘s characters in the 1989 timeline, who can always sense the brush of history at their backs, you’ll feel like you can reach out and touch the past just by watching.

Pachinko Season 2 premieres Aug. 23 on Apple TV+, with a new episode every Friday.

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AppleTV+’s “Pachinko,” created by Soo Hugh, premieres Aug. 23, with a new episode every week.

Change is in the air in Pachinko Season 2.

Created by Soo Hugh, the decades-spanning adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel of the same name continues to tell the intertwining stories of Sunja Baek (Minha Kim and Yuh-Jung Youn) and her grandson Solomon (Jin Ha). But there are some substantial differences at play. This season heads to new locations, elevates characters like Sunja’s sons Noa (Kang Hoon Kim) and Mozasu (Eunseong Kwon) to higher prominence, and reunites Sunja with her former lover Koh Hansu (Lee Minho) after 14 years apart. There’s even a new title sequence to usher us into Pachinko‘s next chapters.

Mashable spoke with Hugh about some of the biggest changes Pachinko viewers can expect in Season 2, including trips to the countryside, Noa and Mozasu’s new roles, and what comes next for Sunja and Hansu.

The following interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Mashable: One big change coming into Pachinko Season 2 is we get a new title sequence with new actors, more pachinko parlors, and a new song, “Wait a Million Years” by The Grass Roots. What was the thought process behind changing up the sequence?

Soo Hugh, showrunner, writer, and producer of Pachinko: It’s always the most fun part of the show, filming those title sequences. And we love Season 1’s version, but half those actors aren’t in the show anymore. We could have recut it, but I think it would have really hurt the flow of the title sequence. Redoing it also gave us an opportunity to bring more of our actors into the piece.

The song we chose, when you listen to its lyrics, you realize it’s a love song. They say, “I would wait a million years.” And so many of the storylines in Season 2 are about, what does it mean to find someone that really understands and sees you? That just became a bigger part of Season 2.

In Season 1, you expanded on elements of the original novel, including an episode focused on Koh Hansu’s experience in the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. What was something from the novel you were most excited to expand upon or explore in Season 2?

We really bring up the second generation more in Season 2, so it becomes so much more Noa and Mozasu’s story. Pachinko is this generational saga, so it’s been nice to start building out their stories and adding their points of view. It makes it a challenge in some ways: There’s so many more storylines to balance in Season 2 than we had in Season 1. We had to figure out how to deftly weave in all these stories without making it feel like all of a sudden we have too many things to follow.

With the emphasis on Noa and Mozasu, we get a coming-of-age story in this season, with schoolboy angst and struggles to make friends. I’d love to hear more about that.

We want to try and create this portrait of what it is to be these characters in this time period. Even though we’ve never seen Solomon in school when he’s a kid, when you see what happens to Noa, you understand something similar probably happened to Solomon as well. So there’s this doubling — these are shared experiences between the generations.

At the end of episode 1, we see Sunja and Hansu reunite after being separate for most of Season 1. Tell me about crafting that reunion, and what it was like to bring these two characters back together.

We knew there was so much expectation riding on that scene. Season 1 ends with Hansu first seeing Sunja, and now episode 1 of Season 2 ends with them finally confronting each other. They haven’t seen each other in 14 years. If you were in that situation, what would you say to that person? For Sunja, it’s such a shock. So it was important to give it that dramatic weight, that emotional weight, and at the same time, making sure that we’re not betraying who Sunja is. She’s not just going to run into his arms!

Exactly. I know there are a lot of people who want to see these characters together, and a lot of people who don’t. As Sunja and Hansu’s relationship comes to the forefront this season, what is something you hope viewers take away or learn from this aspect of the story?

Something that I think is really important and that we want to emphasize in Season 2 is that these people don’t even know each other that well. In Season 1, they were together only a few times before she got pregnant and had to decide that she couldn’t live the life that he wanted her to live as a mistress. So Season 2 is actually the season where they get to know each other as people.

What I’m interested in, more than a romance, is we actually see a friendship start to develop between these two people. That’s even bigger than a romantic angle: How do these two people understand each other? Because now they’re both parents, and their shared love for Noa really brings them together in a stronger way than just lust or romantic love.

We know from the Season 2 trailer that Hansu, Sunja, and Sunja’s family end up in the countryside, meaning so much of their chance to reconnect happens in the country as opposed to the city. How will that new setting impact their burgeoning connection?

I love that question, because they fell in love in the Korean countryside when Sunja was a teenager, right? So there’s something about the countryside that takes them back to being home, and there’s a comfort in that. Hansu always says, in some ways, he’s always looking for where home is. He lives in this big mansion with his Japanese father-in-law, and yet the place he feels most comfortable is with Sunja.

Pachinko Season 2 premieres Aug. 23 on Apple TV+, with a new episode every Friday.

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Get a lifetime subscription to documentary streaming service Curiosity Stream on sale for £122.05 through Sept. 3.

TL;DR: Wave goodbye to recurring streaming fees with lifetime access to Curiosity Stream on sale for £122.05 (reg. £305.17) through Sept. 3.

When every show you want to watch is available on a different streaming platform, you end up shelling out way more money than you want to. But if you’re someone who’s into documentaries, there’s a place where all of them live — and the best part is, you only have to pay once to watch them all.

Curiosity Stream was built for docu-buffs who need a break from those pesky subscription costs and want to pay just once for a lifetime of science, history, art, and so much more. Act fast and grab this lifetime deal for just £122.05 (reg. £305.17) through Sept. 3. 

Created by the founder of Discovery Communications, John Hendricks, this all-encompassing documentary streaming service provides unlimited access to over 3,000 documentaries and nonfiction titles on a vast array of topics, including science, history, technology, and nature. With content from award-winning filmmakers and leading experts, Curiosity Stream is perfect for lifelong learners and those with a thirst for knowledge.

Enjoy high-definition (1920 x 1080 pixels) streaming with new content added regularly, ensuring you always have fresh material to explore. Curiosity Stream offers exclusive series and in-depth explorations that you won’t find anywhere else.

The lifetime subscription guarantees uninterrupted access to this ever-growing library on multiple devices — smart TVs, iPhone, Apple TV, Android and Android TV, Xbox One, and more — making it a valuable investment for curious minds of all ages. Delve into the wonders of the universe, uncover ancient civilisations, and stay up-to-date with the latest scientific breakthroughs, all from the comfort of your home.

Only pay once for this lifetime subscription to Curiosity Stream, available until Sept. 3 at 11:59 p.m. for £122.05.

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