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Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for August 6's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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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



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TV presenter Sophie Morgan started her campaign to make flying more accessible after her wheelchair was broken on a flight to London.
  • TV host and travel writer Sophie Morgan was paralyzed from the chest down in a car crash at 18.
  • She told BI that flying for disabled people is often extremely difficult and uncomfortable.
  • Morgan founded the Rights on Flights campaign to change



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Tony Woodall in Munich.
  • After a career in financial services, Tony Woodall was laid off from First Republic Bank in 2023.
  • He decided to rent his Bay Area home, start a corporate training business, and become a digital nomad.
  • Now, he balances full-time travel with multiple income streams and is deciding where to retire.

I began my career in the financial services industry in 1985 in the



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One Tesla worker says it was obvious Elon Musk took his focus from the carmaker when he bought Twitter, but it's since returned — sometimes erratically.
  • Several workers have resigned from their roles at Tesla over the past year.
  • One former Tesla employee, who worked there for nearly 8 years, explained why they chose to resign.
  • The worker said a lack of faith in Elon Musk's



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Amazon's office in downtown Seattle.
  • Amazon is reinstating "bar raisers" for entry-level software engineer interviews.
  • The move is aimed at increasing the quality of employees that Amazon hires.
  • It's also part of a broader change in the company's strategy, to be more cautious and cost-conscious.

Amazon is raising its hiring bar.

The company is bringing back "bar raisers" to the



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When you live in tech bubble central, signs of a tech bubble become easier to spot every time. Drive to Silicon Valley on any of the Bay Area's main arteries right now, and you'll notice nearly every billboard pumping a product "driven by AI."

On the same drive five years ago, you'd see the same scene with the word "blockchain." Ten years ago: "big data." Twenty-five years ago: literally any word



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TL;DR: For a limited time, you can get these soft, cooling bamboo sheets on sale, with twin sets starting at $29.99.


After a long day, flopping into bed is something many of us look forward to. But in the summer, sometimes that moment of bliss is followed by uncomfortable sweating under the sheets. There's a simple solution to the summer sweats: upgrading your sheets to cooling bamboo sheets



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TL;DR: Grab this near-mint MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar for 61% off and get the most bang for your buck by going refurbished.


Ever wondered if the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro could be more than just a gimmick? Here's your chance to find out. This refurbished MacBook Pro has a 3.1GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, all for a 61% discount at $379.99 (reg. $979).

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TL;DR: See how much easier it is to get your security deposit back when you have your own portable carpet cleaner, like the AILLTOPD C4, which is on sale now for $89.99.


Moving apartments is the worst, but the allure of getting your security deposit back is the light at the end of a long tunnel. Except, you might not get it back if the place isn't spotless, and that includes the carpet you've been



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New scientific understanding and engineering techniques have always impressed and frightened. No doubt they will continue to do so. OpenAI recently announced that it anticipates “superintelligence” — AI surpassing human abilities — this decade. It is accordingly building a new team, and devoting 20% of its computing resources to ensuring that the behaviour of such AI systems will be aligned with