• ☝️ SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites on Sunday, marking the space company’s 49th mission of 2024 – on pace to break its previous annual record of 96.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed (S&P: -0.02%; Dow: -0.2%; Nasdaq: +0.3%).
• 🌐 Squarespace agreed to go private in a $6.6 billion takeover by buyout firm Permira, marking a 15% premium to Friday’s closing price.
• ⛏️🙅 Anglo American rejected a new ~$43 billion takeover offer from rival BHP, in what would be the biggest mining deal on record.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🎶 Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while Drake’s competing diss track “Family Matters” came in at No. 7.
• 📺 Seth Meyers renewed his deal with NBCUniversal to host “Late Night” through 2028.
• 🏈 The 2024 NFL season will open with the Chiefs hosting the Ravens on September 5, the league announced. | ✍️ The Detroit Lions reportedly agreed to sign QB Jared Goff to a four-year, $212 million contract extension.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 📱👈 Northwestern engineers built touchscreens that allow users to feel sensations like sticky, rough, or fuzzy.
• 🧠 Some patients with brain injuries who died after life support was pulled could have survived and even recovered some level of independence six months after injury, per a new study.
• 📚 Reading fiction books has a small but "statistically significant" positive effect on the readers’ cognitive abilities, per a pair of new meta-analyses.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🎗️ Melinda French Gates is stepping down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the nonprofit she and her ex-husband built into one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations; she’ll receive $12.5 billion as part of her 2021 divorce agreement, which French Gates said will go towards work focused on women and families.
• 🔥🌁 Four US states – Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota – were under air quality alerts and warnings yesterday due to smoke from 146 active Canadian wildfires.
• ⚖️ Michael Cohen, the ex-lawyer of former President Trump, testified yesterday in Trump’s criminal New York hush-money trial. (Read more)

CLICKBAIT

• ✍️ The benefits of writing over typing when you’re thinking or learning.