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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 29's Wordle solution revealed.

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.

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is so bullish on AI that the Swedish buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform plans to cut it's workforce by 50 percent in the next few years. Speaking to the Financial Times, Siemiatkowski said that Klarna is hoping to scale its workforce down from 3,800 to 2,000 employees. The current employee count was already reduced from 5,000 after Klarna conducted mass layoffs last year.

The declining rate of inflation should feel good. Yet every grocery aisle presents a new math problem. Is this bag of chips worth $5? Do we really pay $6 for a pack of bacon now? And when did frozen orange juice reach almost $4 a can? “While we hear in the news inflation is stabilizing, the reality for the consumer is it’s not,” said Keith Albright, marketing insights and analytics manager at Cargill.

Tesla has promised its wide-ranging Supercharger network will open to other U. S. electric vehicles for more than a year. Yet, here we are in August 2024 and most non-Tesla EVs cannot charge with a Supercharger. Why? The New York Times has a detailed report on the subject. The primary culprits are delays in software and hardware.

Garmin's got a new flagship in its rugged smartwatch category, the Garmin Fenix 8. The company's Fenix line of smartwatches has long been the golden standard for durable smartwatches for athletes, but Apple put up a pretty good fight with its Apple Watch Ultra (now on its second iteration) rugged smartwatch.