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The Handmaid's Tale season 6: key information

- Coming to Hulu in April 2025
- No official trailer, but short teaser unveiled
- Main cast all set to return
- New cast member announced
- Final season, but sequel, The Testaments, in the works

The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 will arrive in spring 2025, and while we eagerly await the final season of one of the best Hulu series, there’s plenty to talk about.

Adapted from Margaret Atwood’s best-selling novel of the same name, five gripping seasons so far have told the dystopian tale of a totalitarian society, Gilead, that forces fertile women to become surrogates for the rich and privileged. Led by Offred (Elisabeth Moss), a handmaid assigned to a couple, has fought for her freedom over five seasons, and yet there's still more to come.

As one of the best streaming services, Hulu has astounded with The Handmaid’s Tale, winning a multitude of awards during its eight intense years – and the finale aims to tie up the show with a bow - in any color, we hope, but red. Here’s everything we know from release date, possible plot, confirmed cast, news, rumors, and more.

The Handmaid's Tale season 6: is there a release date?

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In September 2024, an official Instagram post of Moss holding a production clapper board revealed that filming had commenced. It also revealed that The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 will be coming in the spring of 2025, which has since been confirmed by Hulu to be on April 8. Exciting news, considering it’s been nearly three years since season 5.

While the previous seasons came out in consecutive years, there was a delay for The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes. Fortunately, with resolution came the chance to finally start filming the long-awaited final season and bring the dystopian tale to a close.

Three of the past five seasons have been released in April – and filming for those took place between September and February – so the release date is inline with previous seasons. Filming for season 6 started in September and is yet to wrap.

The Handmaid's Tale season 6: has a trailer been released?

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While there’s been no full-length trailer yet for The Handmaid’s Tale season 6, there was a teaser embedded in the Disney Plus and Hulu 2025 trailer. Unfortunately, while we can't share the trailer, we can tell you what is shown. It starts with Serena Joy saying: “Something big is about to happen,” followed by June adding: “Let’s bring them home.” For now, that's all we have to go on, but we'll update here when a trailer drops.

The Handmaid's Tale season 6: confirmed cast

The main cast will return for The Handmaid's Tale season 7 - plus, two new faces (Image credit: Hulu)

Potential spoilers follow for The Handmaid's Tale season 6.

First look images of The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 officially confirmed the return of most of the main cast – though we imagine any not featured will still be back for the sixth and final season:

• Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne
• O-T Fagbenle as Luke
• Max Minghella as Nick
• Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy Waterford
• Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia
• Samara Wiley as Moira
• Bradley Whitford as Commander Lawrence
• Amanda Brugel as Rita
• Madeline Brewer as Janine
• Sam Jaeger as Mark Tuello
• Ever Carradine as Naomi Putnam
• Josh Charles as TBC
• Timothy Simons as TBC

While the main cast are reprising their roles, there's also two new roles that have been cast - though details on their roles are being kept firmly under wraps.

Firstly, in July 2024, Deadline revealed that The Veil and The Good Wife star, Josh Charles, would be joining season 6: "in a series regular capacity." Then, in September 2024, as per Variety, a new role for Veep and Nobody Wants This star, Timothy Simons, was unveiled. Simons has reportedly been cast in a guest role, but as mentioned, we have no further intel than that right now.

The Handmaid's Tale season 6: story synopsis and rumors

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Full spoilers follow for The Handmaid’s Tale seasons 1-5 below.

The Handmaid's Tale season 6 is the final season of the show - and so, there's a lot to tie up, especially considering how season 5 ended. June found herself on a train with her former captor, Serena, and their babies in tow. They're not exactly on good terms, so the situation as they escape to Canada will certainly be interesting to watch unfold.

Though June wasn't meant to be alone as the escape plan was always meant to involve Luke. Unfortunately, after June was almost murdered by a man instructed by Gilead, Luke killed him and ultimately handed himself over to the police, letting June leave without him.

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For June's role in season 6, Elisabeth Moss spoke to Elle: "I think that it's going to be a season where June is going to figure out who she is and who she's going to be for the rest of her life." She added: "The fight is not just about one individual; it's much larger than that. And I think she is, in season five, getting to that place where she's realizing that. And then season six is going to be very much about that, and then about all the characters figuring out whose side they're on and what their next move is."

There's also Nick's successful escape to Canada after his wife, Rose, left him. Janine being pulled away by The Eyes and Aunt Lydia showing some real emotion around the situation. Plus, Commander Lawrence's hopes and dreams for New Bethlehem seem entirely more likely after the death of Commander Putnam.

Creator Charlie Brooker has more sci-fi tales to tell (Image credit: Hulu)

But, there's a big change when it comes to who's running the show as Bruce Miller stepped down to focus on his next project - the screen adaptation of Margaret Atwood's sequel, "The Testaments," as reported by Deadline. Great news for the spin-off, but he's left The Handmaid's Tale season 6 in the hands of Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang. Who, both worked on the show before this move.

Before he left though, Ben Miller spoke to Entertainment Weekly regarding the final season: “We are ending our show on our own creative terms. Hulu and MGM have been uniquely remarkable and generous in that way. So I think the good thing is, I’m able to do it the way that I want to do it. So if you hate it, it actually was on purpose. It wasn’t a mistake. I didn’t stumble.”

And the cast and crew are clearly dedicated to delivering a season six that impresses. Producer Warren Littlefield revealed to Deadline that when it comes to the final season: "A lot of people won't make it to the end of Handmaid's Tale. It's pretty chilling, but also exciting." Adding: "And I think we will satisfy those who have been with us through six seasons, I think they're feel powerfully rewarded."

Will there be more seasons of The Handmaid's Tale?

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We've mentioned this a few times already, but The Handmaid's Tale season 6 will be the show's last. But, in Littlefield's interview with Deadline, he spoke about Miller's focus on The Testaments and the future of the franchise as a whole. While Deadline reported that there had been "chatter that the project is heating up for a series greenlight," Littlefield said that it was "a priority project" and that it's a show that "we're spending a lot of time on" and that "we're full speed ahead; it's a really important franchise."

So it seems while The Handmaid's Tale may be coming to an end, the story of the Republic of Gilead could live on through an adaptation of Atwood's follow-up novel. The Testaments is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale – narrated by Aunt Lydia, Agnes, a woman living in Gilead, and Daisy, a woman living in Canada. Without giving anymore away for those who haven't read the book, there's plenty of story left to tell.

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The idea of AI podcasts built from whatever documents you have lying around still feels like a trick of some kind, but Google's NotebookLM has shown me repeatedly that it can make informative, if not always lively, audio episodes on whatever subject I like.

The concept is simple: texts and transcripts become conversations among AI characters. They might casually discuss your research, breaking it down in an engaging, digestible way. You can even jump in, ask questions, and guide the discussion if you want.

But setting up NotebookLM to provide the best episode isn't necessarily intuitive. So, if you're a big audio learner or simply have many long car rides coming up, here are some tips to make the best fake podcasts possible.

Gather all your sources first

Before diving into any project, one of the best things you can do is gather all your materials in one place. We all like to think we’ll remember which tab we left open for later, but we won’t. The beauty of NotebookLM is that it functions best with as much context as possible, so uploading everything relevant in a single notebook helps it find connections, identify patterns, and deliver meaningful insights.

For my gardening plans, it was like having two expert gardeners discuss my exact research – except I didn’t have to chase them down at a plant nursery. Instead of clicking through multiple articles, I got a clear, organized breakdown of what I needed to know, making it easier to retain and act on.

Ask follow-ups

NotebookLM's podcasts aren't just passive, either. You can turn them into an interactive call show. Whenever the AI podcast brings up something interesting or unclear, you can take advantage of the ability to ask follow-up questions. This will help you refine the information and tailor it to your needs.

For my garden plans, the fertilizer discussion confused me a bit, but I jumped in and asked what to use for the kinds of veggies I wanted to grow. Then, the AI hosts immediately started answering my question before returning to the broader topic.

Tailored episodes

NotebookLM’s podcast feature isn’t one-size-fits-all. You can tailor it based on what’s most important to you. Since I wanted a low-maintenance garden, I adjusted my NotebookLM session to focus on drought-resistant plants and natural pest control.

The AI picked up on this and emphasized strategies like mulching and using marigolds to deter insects. If you have a different goal, like maybe maximizing vegetable yields or growing flowers for aesthetic appeal, you can make whole new episodes that cover those elements alone.

'Hire' the right voices

I quickly realized that the AI-generated podcast sounds even better when you tweak the voice settings to match your preferences. NotebookLM offers different pacing and tones, and adjusting them can make a huge difference in how engaging and digestible the content feels.

For example, I found that setting the voices to a slightly slower pace helped me absorb the information better, especially when dealing with detailed gardening instructions. You can also break long episodes into smaller chapters. You can hear a good overview example from my gardening podcast experiments below.

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ChatGPT is used by 400 million people a week, as confirmed by OpenAI in a Reuters report. That's a shocking number, considering the AI chatbot is only a little over two years old. It makes ChatGPT one of the most widely used digital tools on the planet, putting it in the same league as search engines and social media platforms.

ChatGPT was a huge hit from its debut, hitting 1 million users in five days after launching in November of 2022. But, the pace of adoption has only accelerated, as, in December, it had reached 300 million weekly users, but its numbers have rocketed up by 100 million just two months later.

But just because a lot of people use ChatGPT doesn't mean they're all experts. You might still be only scratching the surface of what ChatGPT can actually do. If you want to really put ChatGPT through its paces, here are some tips.

Be specific

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How you ask ChatGPT for something dramatically affects what you get in return. If you type in something like, “Tell me about the French Revolution,” sure, it’ll give you a solid history lesson. But if you want more than a thumbnail explanation, get specific. Ask for an explanation of how the French Revolution impacted modern democracy, written in the style of a political thriller. Or tell it to summarize the causes of the revolution from the perspective of Marie Antoinette’s hairdresser.

ChatGPT is better when you add more detail. If you want help finding a job, don’t just ask, “Can you help me with my resume?” Instead, say, “I’m applying for a marketing manager role at a sustainability-focused company. Can you help me write a resume summary that highlights my experience in digital campaigns and environmental advocacy?” That gets the AI to really drill into ways to help you personally, not just on a general level.

Tell ChatGPT who to be

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One of the best ChatGPT tricks is getting the AI to play a role. Instead of making it guess what kind of response you want, you can tell it to become a character. If you need legal advice, though not the type that will hold up in court, you could say, “You’re an expert in intellectual property law. Explain how trademarks work in the fashion industry.” If you’re stuck on a creative project, tell ChatGPT, “You’re a veteran screenwriter. Help me outline a sci-fi movie about time travel paradoxes.”

When you assign ChatGPT a role, you'll notice its responses become sharper, more relevant, and more insightful as it sifts through its databases for how to behave and respond like the kind of person you tell it to be. It’s the difference between asking a random stranger for advice and sitting down with an actual expert, except, in this case, the expert just happens to be a chatbot with a deep knowledge base.

Don't take the first answer as final

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One of the most common mistakes people make is treating ChatGPT like Google or another search engine. Sure, you can ask a question and get an answer or a link, but that should be only the beginning. It's like treating a world-class chef as a vending machine.

Instead, think of ChatGPT as your brainstorming buddy, helping shape your ideas and getting shaped in turn by your prompts. If it gives you an answer that’s too formal, tell it to loosen up. If it writes something too long-winded, say, “Make this more concise.” If you need a more cheerful approach, you can ask, “Can you rewrite this from a more optimistic perspective?”

Refining ChatGPT’s output is the real power of the AI chatbot. Try having a back-and-forth, tweaking the response until it fits your needs. If you’re working on an important email, don’t just accept the first draft. Instead, ask ChatGPT to make it friendlier, then ask to make it more persuasive, and then shorten it. Before you know it, you’ll have an email that makes you sound like an absolute pro.

Get weird

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Most people tend to use ChatGPT in predictable ways. They ask the AI to summarize things, answer questions, draft emails, and do other dull tasks. But if you want to see what ChatGPT can do, you need to push the boundaries.

Instead of just asking it to explain a complex concept, tell it to do it in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet or a rap battle between Newton and Einstein. Instead of asking for a meal plan, tell it, “Create a week’s worth of meals for someone who eats like a medieval knight but needs to lower their cholesterol.”

Weird prompts lead to creative, unexpected, and often brilliant results. If you’re brainstorming for a project, don’t just ask for ideas. Combine the specificity and role suggestions above and tell the AI to think like a rebellious 1980s ad executive, a minimalist Zen master, or a time traveler from 2090. You’ll get answers you might never have come up with on your own.

Learn from the AI

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Most people use ChatGPT to do things for them, but the AI chatbot can have a longer-lasting impact on your life by teaching you how to learn better. The trick is treating ChatGPT like a coach, not just a tool.

If you’re learning to code, don’t just ask it to fix your errors; have it walk you through what went wrong and how to avoid it next time. ChatGPT can converse casually in several widely spoken tongues and correct you in real time if you want to learn to speak a new language. And if you need to be better at job interviews, you can practice to your heart's content with ChatGPT and get it to vary in interview style and difficulty. Thinking of ChatGPT as a personal tutor you can meet with at any time, and that doesn't judge you open up a lot of possibilities for self-improvement.

With 400 million people using ChatGPT every week, the AI chatbot is quickly becoming part of everyday life. That doesn't mean all those millions are taking advantage of ChatGPT's full abilities. The difference between a dabble and an expert in ChatGPT is how much someone pushes the AI chatbot beyond its most basic functions. So, get weird and specific. Combine ideas and act out scenarios with the AI chatbot. Remember, it will never outdo you at being human, but it could be the teacher and assistant supporting your goals in ways you've never imagined.

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• Why settle for one screen when you can have two with the Lenovo ThinkBook Flip AI PC?
• Need to share your screen? Just fold the display backward for an instant shared view
• There's also a built-in keyboard, as Lenovo looks to appeal to productivity pros

Lenovo, the world’s largest laptop maker, is set to unveil a unique business laptop with a foldable OLED screen.

The ThinkBook Flip AI PC's screen folds vertically via two hinges, allowing the top half to fold behind the main display — effectively doubling the available screen space.

Despite the flexible design, it also includes a built-in keyboard, making it practical for business and travel.

A fresh take on foldable screens

When closed, its display faces outward like a tablet. When unfolded, the top section extends upward. The design concept is similar to the Asus Zenbook Duo and GPD Duo, both of which offer extra screen space through unique dual-screen setups.

Lenovo itself is no stranger to experimenting with screens. The company currently developing a rollable OLED laptop expected to debut this summer, showcased a transparent laptop at MWC 2024, and has already released the Yoga Book 9i, which features two full-sized displays.

Questions remain about the ThinkBook Flip's specifications and price, with answers expected at MWC in March 2025. However, OLED screens are already expensive to produce, so you can bank on a foldable costing a good chunk more than any old laptop, and I'm wary about the cost implications of the AI PC label here.

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• iOS 18.4 Dev Beta is here
• The big Siri update is not
• There are some notable and possibly useful additions

Apple released its first developer beta for iOS 18.4, and it's missing the single biggest and likely most requested Apple Intelligence update: the new and much smarter and more useful Siri.

A big caveat here: No one is encouraging you to install a developer beta on your best iPhone. These updates are intended for developers and ultra-nerds like me who are desperate to try the very newest stuff. So downloaders, beware.

Even so, the exclusion of what should be Apple Intelligence's crowning feature is worrisome. Apple started its AI journey almost a year ago and has been rolling out Apple Intelligence features since the summer and through September with the release of the iPhone 16 lineup. Since then, there have been numerous updates, but Siri has remained frustratingly behind. Sure, there have been smaller enhancements like more app awareness, but full system cognition and the ability to engage in a conversational manner that connects the prompts to everything the iPhone knows about you is still missing.

As far as I can tell, Siri on iOS 18.4 Dev Beta 1 is unchanged. Siri can still easily open the camera app on command, but if I ask it to open the camera and take a picture, it only completes the first task. When I ask it to analyze my calendar and emails to see if I have too much going on, it has no idea what I'm going on about.

(Image credit: Future) What you do get

iOS 18.4 (and iPadOS 18.4) is not devoid of enhancements. The update brings a new News+ Food section, which Apple notes in a release on the update will include "tens of thousands of recipes — as well as stories about restaurants, healthy eating, kitchen essentials, and more — from the world’s top food publishers, including Allrecipes, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Good Food, and Serious Eats." This feature was not evident, though, in this first developer beta, and Apple says it will arrive in April for Apple News+ subscribers.

Image Playground gets a tiny update in the form of a new illustration style: Sketch, which delivers a visual output that looks more like, say, a colored pencil sketch.

The update also promises the new Vision Pro app, a sort of utility, control, and information update that gives you a clearer iPhone connection to the powerful and expensive mixed reality wearable, which is also getting Apple Intelligence.

Even though this beta isn't bringing a ton of Apple Intelligence updates, its release does mark an expansion of sorts. Apple Global Head of Marketing Greg Joswiak tweeted on X that Apple's brand of AI is expanding to eight more languages on iPhone, Mac, and iPad. The Vision Pro Apple Intelligence update is set to arrive in April.

Apple Intelligence continues rolling out to more languages and more platforms!It will expand to eight more languages across iPhone, iPad, and Mac and is set to arrive on Apple Vision Pro in April. Developers can start exploring these new capabilities today.February 21, 2025

I'm sure there are quite a few other bug fixes and updates, big and small, in iOS 18.4, but it's hard to get truly excited without the full Apple Intelligence-infused version of Siri. It's like getting a cream-filled donut, biting into it, and finding the cream missing; there's just an empty cavity.

Apple surely has one or two more major iOS 18 updates to go before they call us all to Cupertino for WWDC 2025 to talk iOS 19 and the next big Apple Intelligence update. If Apple wants to finally deliver whatever Siri is going to finally be before then, it better get moving.

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• Amazon’s most recent quarterly revenue was $8bn higher than Walmart’s
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It might be the world’s fourth-most valuable company, with a market cap of $2.36 trillion dollars, but Amazon has never been able to reach Walmart's levels of quarterly revenue - until now.

In the three months ending December 31, 2024, Amazon reported a 10% year-over-year increase in revenue to $187.8 billion, putting it ahead of Walmart ($180.6 billion) for the first time ever.

This is despite the ecommerce platform being around three times larger than Walmart, which has a valuation of $780.92 billion.

Amazon vs Walmart

Despite the historical moment, projections for 2025 suggest that the two companies could be battling it out for months to come. Walmart’s full fiscal year projection stands at $708.7 billion, just a small jump ahead of the $700.8 prediction for Amazon.

Speaking on its earnings release, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy thanked the most successful holiday season yet for strong growth. Cloud developments within AWS also propped up company revenue, acconting for $28.8 billion, or around 15% of the entire revenue.

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said that “low prices, a growing assortment, and an eCommerce business driven by faster delivery times” were all responsible for strong results.

However, while Walmart may have expanded into third-party marketplaces, fulfillment services and advertising, its core business remains centered around in-person shopping, and maintaining physical stores is costly due to increasing wages and other expenses.

To put the two companies’ revenues into perspective and to highlight what’s at stake, Apple, the world’s most valuable company and one of three with a $3 trillion+ market cap, posted quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion. Nvidia, the second-most valuable company, posted $35.1 billion and Microsoft, in position three, posted $69.6 billion.

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• Its 12.3-inch ultrawide touchscreen tilts 90 degrees, and can function as a second display
• Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, it’s powered by a 12th-gen Intel i5 with up to 32GB RAM

The Bapaco (try saying it three times fast - it’s oddly satisfying) is a portable computer that’s unlike anything else on the market. At first glance, it looks like a compact mechanical keyboard, but it actually packs an entire Windows PC into its slim frame.

The device stands out from traditional laptops or compact PCs because instead of being a clamshell, it’s a flat, board-like device with a 12.3-inch ultrawide touchscreen that tilts up to 90 degrees. Its unusual 16:6 (1920x720) aspect ratio reminds me of Toshiba’s widely mocked Satellite U845W ultrabook from 2012, which featured a 21:9 display meant for widescreen movie viewing. It’s also similar in design to the Maxfree K3, a compact 82-key mechanical keyboard which has an integrated 13-inch touch screen.

Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Bapaco is designed to function as both a standalone Windows 11 computer and also as an external keyboard and display for Windows, Mac, and Android devices.

(Image credit: Bapaco) Gorgeous mechanical keyboard

Under the hood, Bapaco runs on a 12th-generation Intel Core i5 processor with 10 cores and 12 threads, paired with up to 32GB DDR4 RAM. Storage options include an M.2 NVMe PCIe X4 SSD and an M.2 SATA 3.0 SSD. The attractive 68-key RGB backlit mechanical keyboard is fully customizable, featuring hot-swappable switches and multiple lighting modes. There’s no touchpad though.

The device also includes dual 3W speakers, Bluetooth 5.2, and a range of ports, including USB 3.0, USB 2.0, Type-C DP 1.4, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Its 5000mAh battery provides up to six hours of video playback, long enough for a The Brutalist and Paddington in Peru double-bill.

If you want a Bapaco, there’s still over two weeks to go on its Kickstarter campaign. At the time of writing, it has received $27,248 of pledges, well above its tiny $642 funding goal. For a super early bird pledge of $624 (27% off the $856 MSRP) you can get a model with no RAM and no SSD. Should you wish to have a full working Bapaco you can pledge an additional $79 for 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, or $249 for 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD.

The creators behind the device say they intend to begin production in March 2025, with the aim to start shipping in May. As always, it’s worth pointing out that crowdfunding comes with risks. While projects like Bapaco can be exciting, backing a campaign is not the same as buying a finished product. Delays, design changes, or even cancellations can happen, so be warned.

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