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• In 2016, Amazon launched a private-label brand, Wickedly Prime, to compete with Trader Joe's.
• The company hired a former senior manager at Trader Joe's snack division, per WSJ.
• The employee was hounded for data on Trader Joe's

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end

• Fast-food franchisees in California fear diners will flock to Chili's and Applebee's to avoid price hikes.
• Limited-service restaurants are raising prices to offset the state's $20 wage for fast-food workers.
• As a result, the price gap between fast-food and

Google could be adding a feature very similar to Apple’s Emergency SOS feature to the Pixel 9 and the next Pixel Fold. That’s according to leaker Kamila Wojciechowska, who writes for Android Authority that the company would partner with T-Mobile to offer the feature but may add other providers later.

Just like Apple’s system, Google’s SOS feature

• Ezra Gershanok was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. 
• He says he was forced out as the firm grappled with declining client demand and too many hires.
• After McKinsey, Gershanok cofounded Ohana, a sublet startup backed by Zillow and Airbnb execs.

This is an as-told-to conversation with Ezra Gershanok, a former business

• Many boomers are holding on to their large homes, stressing the housing market for younger buyers.
• For millennials with growing families, purchasing a home has become even more difficult.
• For Biden and Trump, the issue of housing affordability could make or break their candidacies.

For baby boomers with growing families in the 1980s and 1990s

• Lego is cashing in on adult fans buying high-priced Lego sets.
• The $850 Millennium Falcon set is part of how Lego doubled its revenue in a decade.
• Other toy companies are also rebranding kids products for adult audiences and seeing hefty returns.

Big kid fans mean big kid prices.

Lego knows that and is cashing in on its base

• Iran launched an unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel this weekend.
• The IDF said 99% of the 300 or so Iranian munitions were shot down.
• US forces destroyed more than 70 of them, according to American officials.

US forces engaged and shot down more than 75 of the missiles and

Back in its heyday, Game of Thrones looooooved killing off characters. Whether they were sad, hilarious, or kind of dumb, those ends have been memorable in their own ways, the mark of a good show filled with great actors. And who can forget the death of Jack Gleason’s Joffrey Baratheon, one of the show’s most disliked…

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Game emulators are now available on the iOS App Store, just a week after Apple changed its guidelines.

According to AppleInsider, emulators like Emu 64 XL for Commodore 64 and iGBA for Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color popped up on the App Store. However, iGBA was later removed for spam and copyright violations.