(Washington, D.C., August 21, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today issued a memorandum announcing a new policy directive prioritizing land use efficiency when evaluating proposals for power generation projects on National Forest System lands.

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Sweat isn’t an indicator of a good workout, but during this muggy summer you’re probably sweating no matter what kind of workout you’re doing. Let me explain why some people sweat more than others, and what you can do if you’re always soaking through your workout gear.

Why some people sweat more than others

As I’ve discussed before, sweat is just your body trying to cool itself down. When we exercise, our body heat increases, which is why we sweat. You’ll sweat more than others if these factors apply:

• You’ll sweat more if you’re a bigger person, because you have more body mass relative to skin area. This includes people who have a lot of fat, who have a lot of muscle, and who happen to be normally proportioned but also tall. Size is size.

• You’ll sweat more if you’re fit enough to work harder—the more work you do, the more heat you’ll produce. So people who run fast or lift heavy tend to sweat more than their less-fit counterparts.

• You’ll sweat more when it’s hotter, obviously. Expect more sweat exercising outdoors on a 90-degree day than a 70-degree day, and so on.

• You’ll sweat more if you exercise in a humid environment. It’s not just the heat that gets you, it really is the humidity, too. When it’s humid, sweat doesn’t evaporate from our skin as easily, so we don’t cool down as well, so our body is still hot and keeps pumping out the sweat.

• You’ll sweat more if you’re used to the heat. That may sound backwards, but spending time in the heat trains our body to be better at cooling itself—which means sweating more, not less. Heat-adapted athletes sweat more than people who aren’t heat adapted, and they start sweating earlier in the workout, too. I noticed this myself when I deliberately did heat training to be able to handle summer temperatures better.

You can change some of these factors, but you wouldn’t want to change most of them. Do you want to get less fit just so you sweat less? Refrain from adapting to the heat, so that you sweat less but your hot workouts are also more miserable? Absolutely not. The one place your goals might align is if you’re trying to lose weight: the smaller your body, the less heat you make and the more surface area you have relative to your body size. That will improve your skin’s ability to cool you. But you still have all those other factors working to make you sweat more, so you may not even notice a difference.

So if you can’t always make your body sweat less, what can you do to make the sweat that you are producing a little more manageable? Try these tips.

Use evaporative cooling

The purpose of sweat is to evaporate. When a cool breeze hits your sweaty skin, the sweat evaporates into the air, taking some heat energy with it. 

The best thing you can do, then, is to help your sweat do its job. Allowing the sweat to evaporate will cool you down (sweat’s job) while also making you feel dry again. Or at least, less wet. 

For outdoor workouts where you can’t control the climate: 

• Choose workouts where you’re moving quickly, with air rushing against your body—like cycling or roller skating.

• Choose places to exercise where there’s a breeze. A hilltop or lakeside will usually have more airflow than a swamp or valley area. Pay attention to your local micro-climates and plan your routes accordingly.

• Wear wicking fabrics, so that sweat can still cool you through your clothes. Long-sleeved sun shirts can help a lot here.

For indoor workouts: 

• Use your air conditioning, or go to an air-conditioned gym. Not only does A/C make the air cooler, it also dries it out, which gives it better evaporative power. 

• Set up a fan. You can point a box fan at your treadmill or spin bike. If you’re lifting weights, I like to point the fan at the bench I sit on when I rest between sets. 

• Use a handheld fan. This is a good option if you’re in a public gym or if you can’t set up a stationary fan in your workout space. I have this one and it’s fantastically refreshing to switch it on and hit my face and the back of my neck, even if only for a minute between workout intervals.

For those of us with exercise-induced asthma, dry air might trigger some wheezing. That’s why I avoid airbikes and I try not to point fans at my face unless I have my inhaler handy (just in case). 

Soak it up

Even with the tips above, you’ll probably still be pouring sweat on hot days. That’s why it’s good to have ways to towel it off, soak it up, or divert it before it annoys you too much.

Let’s start with towels. I like a basic gym towel like these, because personally I prefer regular terry cloth to fancier fabrics like microfiber. Microfiber has its fans, though, and one plus is that it dries more quickly than cotton. Here’s a microfiber set if you prefer that texture. (Microfiber is great at absorbing moisture if you pat gently, but to me it feels weird and gross if I’m wiping it across my skin.) Don’t be afraid to bring two towels to the gym if you think you’ll need them. Bringing a towel on an outdoor run is a serious quality-of-life improvement—try it if you haven’t.

Next up: something to wear to soak up the sweat. Long-sleeved clothes and long leggings or pants can not only wick sweat away, they also prevent it from dripping. (I hate that feeling of dripping.) I also need to throw in a good word for sweatbands. This Junk Brand one is lightweight and wicking, but again, I prefer good old terry cloth. A terry headband will completely stop sweat from running down your forehead, and the matching wristbands give you a way to wipe sweat away from anywhere else it happens to be bothering you. They’re also cheap as heck. The real cost: embracing the retro aesthetic. You can pull it off. I believe in you.

Deal with the aftermath

After a sweaty workout, a shower isn’t really optional. Dermatologists recommend a post-workout shower for skin health; sweat can irritate your skin, and you don’t want to create warm, moist places for bacteria to grow. If you’re stuck in a place where you can’t take a shower right away, at least wipe off what you can and change into dry clothes.

There’s another post-workout danger, too: all of that cooling sweat keeps doing its cooling job as long as it’s on your skin—even if you’ve stopped doing the workout that was driving up your body temperature. This is why events like marathons pass out those silver blankets at the finish line, to prevent runners from cooling down too much and getting hypothermia. So if you can’t dry off right away, and you’re heading back into the air conditioning, at least cover yourself up. A cozy sweatshirt goes a long way for post-workout temperature regulation.

Finally, there’s the issue of laundry. Cotton (like that sweatshirt) may not wick or cool you very well, but it has the advantage that when you wash it, all the sweat and any stinky bacteria will wash right out. 

Synthetic fabrics, on the other hand, tend to harbor bacteria in biofilms that never completely wash out. To prevent the perma-stink, rinse your workout clothes as soon as you take them off. This is easiest if you just rinse them in the shower and hang them to dry. (Pro tip: hang a second shower curtain rod in the back of your shower, and festoon it with these hooks to hold your individual items while they drip dry.) If you can’t rinse your clothes, at the very least try to air them out. Whatever you do, don’t leave them in a wad in the bottom of your gym bag or laundry basket.

If you have workout clothes where the bacteria have already taken hold—you’ll know if they’re clean but start to stink as soon as you sweat in them again—use a laundry sanitizer like Lysol’s or an enzyme detergent like Hex. And get in the habit of rinsing your sweaty clothes so this doesn’t happen again.

(Washington, D.C., August 21, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the latest slate of presidential appointments for key Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Rural Development (RD) State Director roles.

Like other big tech events, Made by Google is supposed to be Google’s chance to show off its latest hardware to the public. Made by Google 2025, however, didn’t really feel like that. Instead, the event focused more on its celebrity roster (host Jimmy Fallon, Alex Cooper, Steph Curry, the Jonas Brothers, etc.) and less on the actual devices and features.

Still, the company did formally announce a slate of new devices and showed off some new features here and there. But most of the official announcements came via press releases on Google’s blog The Keyword. Between the event and the blogs, here are the biggest announcements you missed:

Pixel 10

Google’s flagship smartphone lineup is official. You have your choice between Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL You’ll notice that each has an updated camera bar, particularly the Pixel 10.

The base-model Pixel 10 comes in four colors: Obsidian, Frost, Indigo, and Lemongrass. It has a 6.3-inch Actua display, which can reach 3,000 nits of brightness, as well as “improved” audio. There are also camera upgrades here, as this is the first base-model Pixel to come with three cameras. That includes a 5x telephoto lens, which Google says has 10x optical quality or 20x zoom via Super Res Zoom.

The Pro, on the other hand, comes with a Super Actua display, which you can get in two sizes: 6.3-inch (Pixel 10 Pro) or 6.8-inches (Pixel 10 Pro XL). These come in four colors each: Obsidian, Porcelain, Moonstone, and Jade. These phones come with Pro Res Zoom, which reaches up to 100x zoom using generative AI. Google says the Pros feature the “biggest batteries, upgraded speakers, 16 GB of RAM and faster wired charging.” Pixel 10 Pro XL also supports 25W Qi2.2 wireless charging.

Pixel 10 devices run the Tensor G5 chip, Google’s latest SoC (system on chip). Google says this chip’s TPU (the processor responsible for handling AI content) is up to 60% faster than Pixel 9, which enables on-device AI for quite a few features, including Magic Cue, Voice Translate, Call Notes with actions, and Personal Journal. The chip also powers AI camera features, like Add Me, Auto Best Take, and Pro Res Zoom, and helps all Pixel 10 devices reach 30 hours of battery life.

All Pixel 10 devices will be the first Pixel phones to support Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language, and come with Pixelsnap, the company’s MagSafe competitor. Google says the Pixel 10 line will have 7 years of Pixel Drops and OS and security updates.

Pixel Pro 10 Fold

Pixel Pro 10 Fold is Google’s latest foldable, and it comes with one key Pixel 10 perk: the Tensor G5 chip.

But the foldable improves over the Pixel 9 Pro Fold in a few ways: It has an IP68 rating, which makes it quite dust and water resistant. That should help keep debris out of its hinges and expand the lifespan of the device. The displays are also more durable, with Google going so far as to say the device can handle 10 years of folding. The inner display is the largest ever on a foldable according to Google, at 8 inches even. The outer display is larger than the Pixel 9 Pro Fold at 6.4 inches. Both can reach 3,000 nits.

The battery can last more than 30 hours, and the Fold can charge to 50% in 30 minutes. It also supports Qi2 wireless charging, including support for Pixelsnap. The Fold also comes with a 48MP camera as part of the triple camera setup.

Pixel Watch 4

Pixel Watch 4 is actually quite the upgrade. The watch now features a domed display, which offers a 10% larger active screen than Pixel Watch 3. The display is also 50% brighter than Pixel Watch 3, reaching up to 3,000 nits. Pixel Watch 4 has a Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 chip, and a “next-gen ML-powered co-processor” that is 25% faster than Pixel Watch 3’s, according to Google.

Like Pixel 10, Pixel Watch 4 runs Material 3 Expressive, and comes with both a stronger haptic engine and a louder speaker. Watch 4 has 30 hours of battery life on the 41mm model, and 40 hours on the 45mm model. Battery Saver mode extends that two or three days, respectively. There’s also a new Quick Charge Dock that charges 25% more quickly than the previous dock.

What I think is really cool, however, is that Pixel Watch 4 is inherently repairable. Both the display and the battery are easily serviceable, which should help extend the lifespan of many Watch 4s.

If you pick up the LTE Watch 4 model, you’ll have access to emergency satellite communications. Google says this is a first on any smartwatch, and makes sense, considering the expansion of satellite communications on smartphones.

There are also a bunch of health and fitness features rolling out on this watch, including better sleep tracking, upgraded skin temperature sensing, more accurate route tracking, real-time biking stats, exercise modes like pickleball and basketball, and automatic workout tracking, which tracks workouts when you forget to start one. Gemini can also give you health and fitness advice, which Google calls a “health coach.” I’d exercise caution with any health advice offered by a robot.

Pixel Buds 2a

Pixel Buds 2a are the successors to the Pixel Buds A-Series, Google’s “affordable” earbud line. They sport a “twist to adjust” feature, that lets you twist the buds to fit them to your ear. The Tensor A1 supports Active Noise Cancellation, a first for the A-Series, as well as an improved audio performance. Google says Pixel Buds 2a support 7 hours of listening and over 20 hours with the charging case.

Gemini Live

Gemini Live is Google’s AI assistant that has access to both your camera and screen to “see” your surroundings. The idea is to let the AI understand what’s going on, so it can better answer your questions.

There are a number of new Gemini Live features coming down the pike. Gemini Live will be able to highlight items in your camera feed, and provide answers and results based on what it sees. Gemini Live will also connect to other Google apps, so you can ask it to help you with things like Google Calendar and Google Tasks.

Edit photos by asking

Google Photos has a new AI-powered feature that lets you simply ask the app to edit the image. Google showed this off during the event with podcaster Alex Cooper, with a picture Cooper took of herself and Jimmy Fallon. She asked Google Photos to edit the framing and the lighting of the image, and, after some processing, the app did adjust both elements.

This is one that will definitely need hands-on testing to determine how well it really works, but the idea of using natural language commands to make quick edits to photos is certainly interesting.

Camera Coach and Auto Best Take

When your Pixel gets Camera Coach, you’ll see tips appear in your camera feed for different ways you could frame a shot. When you choose a trip, the app provide instructions on how to make the shot happen. It’s a cool idea in theory, but only if it really does offer advice for improving technique.

Auto Best Take, on the other hand, will automatically take a group shot when it thinks everyone is looking at the camera. If someone wasn’t, or was blinking, Google wants you using the existing Best Take feature to blend the best parts of multiple takes together.

Magic Cue

Magic Cue might be the closest Google has come to agentic AI yet. The feature attempts to provide information and run tasks on your behalf based on the context of your situation. For example, if your friend asks you when your flight is landing, Magic Cue may find your travel itinerary and pull up the details for you. Then, you tap Magic Cue, and it will load those details in the conversation.

AI-powered calling features

By far, my favorite moment of the event was Google’s AI voice cloning and translation tool. The company already offers live translation, which can translate a caller speaking in another language on the fly. But now, the feature clones that person’s voice, too, so you hear that person speaking in your target language.

In addition, Google is also introducing Take a Message, which produces real-time transcripts for people leaving messages when you miss or decline a call.

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The new Google Pixel 10 phones are official, and if you’ve been won over by the on-board Magic Cue assistant, the updated Tensor G5 chipset, the enhanced photo editing, or any of the other new features, you don’t have to wait too long. Preorders are now open for all four phones, with shipping scheduled for next Thursday, August 28 for the Pixel 10, the Pixel 10 Pro, and the Pixel 10 Pro XL. You’ll have to hang on a little longer for the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, which won’t ship until Thursday, Oct. 9.

I’ve had a careful look across the web, and these are the best places to get your preorders in, if you’re ready to join the Pixel 10 club.

Google

This is the obvious place to go if you want a Pixel phone, and Google’s very proud of its new phone series. It’s also offering trade-in deals for your existing phone: $400 for a Pixel 9, for example, or $550 for an iPhone 16. Check the site to get a value for your handset.

• Google Pixel 10 – $799 (128GB) / $899 (256GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro – $999 (128GB) / $1,099 (256GB) / $1,219 (512GB) / $1,449 (1TB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – $1,199 (256GB) / $1,319 (512GB) / $1,549 (1TB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold – $1,799 (256GB) / $1,919 (512GB) / $2,149 (1TB)

You also get some Google Store credit with these phones: $100 for the Pixel 10, $200 for the Pixel 10 Pro or Pixel 10 Pro XL, and $350 for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. This deal is available until Sept. 4.

Amazon

The Pixel 10 phone series is available over on Amazon as well—although the Pixel 10 Pro Fold took a little longer to show up. There are no trade-in offers here, but watch out for special discounts over time.

• Google Pixel 10 – $799 (128GB) / $899 (256GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro – $999 (128GB) / $1,099 (256GB) / $1,219 (512GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – $1,199 (256GB) / $1,319 (512GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold – $1,799 (256GB) / $1,919 (512GB)

For a limited time, Amazon is bundling gift cards with these phones: $100 with the Pixel 10, $200 with the Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL, and $300 with the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The offer runs until Sept. 4.

Best Buy

All of these Pixel 10 handsets can be picked up at Best Buy too, and you can take advantage of trade-ins: Depending on what phone you’re buying and what you’re trading in, you can get up to $760 back on your purchase.

• Google Pixel 10 – $799 (128GB) / $899 (256GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro – $999 (128GB) / $1,099 (256GB) / $1,219 (512GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – $1,199 (256GB) / $1,319 (512GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold – $1,799 (256GB) / $1,919 (512GB)

There are bundled gift cards here as well, matching Google’s credit: $100 for the Pixel 10, $200 for the Pixel 10 Pro or Pixel 10 Pro XL, and $350 for the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The site listings don’t mention any expiry date for the deals either.

AT&T

You can also preorder these Google handsets through your carrier of choice too, though not all of the same storage options are available. AT&T customers can get the Pixel 10 Pro or 10 Pro XL for free, with an eligible Pixel to trade-in—provided you’re on a plan exceeding $76 per month.

• Google Pixel 10 – $849 (128GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro – $1,049 (128GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – $1,249 (256GB) / $1,379 (512GB)

It’s worth noting that AT&T will charge you a little more than the rest if you pay up front.

Verizon

If you’re on Verizon’s Unlimited Ultimate line, you can claim a whopping $1,000 back on the Pixel 10 Pro XL or the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, or get the Pixel 10 Pro for free, by trading in a qualifying handset made by Google, Samsung, Motorola, or Apple.

• Google Pixel 10 – $799 (128GB) / $899 (256GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro – $999 (128GB) / $1,099 (256GB) / $1,219 (512GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – $1,199 (256GB) / $1,319 (512GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold – $1,799 (256GB)

At the time of writing, Verizon is the only carrier selling the Pixel 10 Pro Fold.

T-Mobile

For T-Mobile, there are trade-in offers for those on its Experience Beyond plan: Specifically, you can get a free Pixel 10 Pro or $1,000 off a Pixel Pro XL, though you’ll need to go through the process to check you’ve got an eligible handset that T-Mobile wants.

• Google Pixel 10 – $799 (128GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro – $999 (128GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – $1,199 (256GB)

Xfinity Mobile

Finally, there’s Xfinity Mobile. The trade-in offers available here include up to $1,000 for those on Premium Unlimited or Unlimited Premium Flex plans, depending on your current device—which may even cover the whole cost of the Pixel 10 and the Pixel 10 Pro.

• Google Pixel 10 – $799 (128GB) / $899 (256GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro – $999 (128GB) / $1,099 (256GB)

• Google Pixel 10 Pro XL – $1,199 (256GB) / $1,319 (512GB)

The NYT’s domino-based game, Pips, disappeared from beta a short while ago and made a grand entrance on the Games page and app this week. We’ve already told you what Pips is, but now I’d like to discuss gameplay and strategy.

Where to play Pips

Pips is available for free on the NYT Games page, as well as in the Games app for subscribers. 

Tips for playing

Every day there are three Pips games: easy, medium, and hard. The first time you play, you’re greeted with a little tutorial. Tap a domino to rotate it, then either drag or tap to move it to a place on the game board. The board gives you some rules that you’ll need to follow; the game doesn’t end until you’ve placed all the dominoes and satisfied all the rules. 

After solving, the main metric you’re greeted with is the time it took you to solve it. You can choose to display a timer while you’re playing, if you like.

When you start, avoid these things that might trip you up: 

• The rules of traditional dominoes do not apply. Adjacent tiles don’t need to be the same number, and you can’t place the end of one tile in a way where it’s touching the middle of another.

• The numbers for each region are a sum, not the value of each square. So if there are two squares with a label that says “2,” that means you can fill each square with a one-dot domino end. Not two two-dot ends.

• All areas where you can place a domino are colored in, even if they don’t have a label. You can’t place a domino where it doesn’t have a spot to sit in, and all such spots will be filled by the time you solve the puzzle.

• Tap “Reference” for a key to the labels if you forget what the symbols mean. This is just a cheat sheet; it doesn’t send you through the whole tutorial. 

• Remember the difference between greater than (>) and lesser than (. As my elementary school math teacher told me, the symbol is an alligator mouth that is in the middle of two numbers, and it wants to eat the bigger one. So if the label says “> 3” that means my number, call it X, could go in the sentence “X > 3” and it must be greater than 3 because the alligator wants to eat my number.

How to win (quickly)

I’m still a newcomer to Pips myself, but I made sure to play several games before I wrote this guide. The fan-created pips.io allows unlimited play, so it’s a great way to practice. The NYT has a habit of shutting down fan versions of their games, so fingers crossed this one stays up a little longer. (I learned about it from the r/nytgames subreddit.)

For the tips below, I’m going to refer to each end of a domino (or the space it sits in) as a “square.” Here are the strategies that seem to help me so far: 

• Look at the one-square regions first. Sometimes they’ll only have one possible solution, or they’ll narrow down your options. 

• Look for shapes that can only work in one position. For example, four squares in a block could mean two dominoes placed vertically or two placed horizontally. But if there is a vertical line with many squares, and just one square outside that line, you know the square outside the line indicates a horizontal domino. This gets you started on getting the right arrangement of dominoes, even if you don’t know exactly what goes where.

• Count the number of identical numbers. For example, if there’s a region labeled with an equals sign, and there are four squares in that region, there needs to be a number that is repeated at least four times in your set of dominoes. So if you have four six-pip squares, that’s a possibility. But if you only have three five-pip squares, you know the number that gets repeated in the equals region isn’t going to be five. 

• If there’s a region that sums to a relatively large number, save that for later. There are lots of ways to make 13, but fewer ways to make 2. Work on the smaller parts first.

So far, I’m not finding that I need much clever strategy to solve each day’s puzzles in a minute or two; even the hard ones don’t seem that hard. Yet. If I’ve learned anything from the rollout of new NYT games, it’s that they draw you in with simple puzzles, and then spring the tough ones on you when you let your guard down. If you found any strategies I’ve missed, let me know below.