Still 2007: Year Regains Perch Atop Deal-making Chart

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.

Tesla isn't done with laying off workers. According to reports from Business Insider and Electrek, Elon Musk's EV car company laid off more employees over the weekend. With these latest cuts, Tesla has now entered its fourth week of layoffs. It's unclear just how many workers lost their jobs at Tesla in this latest round of layoffs.

Locks of Beethoven's Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness The New York Times

Genes known to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s may actually be an inherited form of the disorder, researchers say CNNAPOE4 homozygozity represents a distinct genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease Nature.comStudy Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer's The New York TimesScientists claim to have found another distinct genetic form of Alzheimer’s The GuardianAlzheimer's risk gene APOE4 may cause a distinct form of the disease, study suggests STAT

New COVID-19 ‘FLiRT’ variants could mean a summer surge NewsNation Now2 new COVID variants called ‘FLiRT’ are spreading: What are the symptoms? AL.comFLiRT, the new COVID variants are circulating fast: All about symptoms, severity The Times of India

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