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Hisense Brings True-to-Life Color, Eye Comfort and Immersive Entertainment to IFA 2026

/PRNewswire/ -- Hisense, a leading global brand in consumer electronics and home appliances, is showcasing its latest display, laser and audio innovations at...

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Sep 4 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
Leipzig’s Strong Start Faces First Away Test Against Werder Bremen

Fresh off a dominant opener, the Red Bulls hunt a second straight victory as Christopher Nkunku eyes a starting role against a desperate, wounded Bremen side.

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Sep 4 • 10:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dodgers Still Searching for Answers to Tucker’s Collapse

A $240 million investment faces a baffling crisis as Kyle Tucker’s struggles at home defy logic, leaving the Los Angeles Dodgers scrambling to fix their star.

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Sep 4 • 10:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Can Giants Sweep Mets to Win Season Series?

Rookie sensation Matt Wilkinson faces a daunting pitching duel against Nolan McLean as the struggling San Francisco Giants face the New York Mets.

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Sep 4 • 10:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
BenQ Unveils New Visual Innovations for Work and Entertainment at IFA 2026

/PRNewswire/ -- BenQ, the world's leading provider of technology products and solutions, joins IFA Berlin with its latest innovations across lighting,...

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Sep 4 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
BenQ Unveils New Visual Innovations for Work and Entertainment at IFA 2026

/PRNewswire/ -- BenQ, the world's leading provider of technology products and solutions, joins IFA Berlin with its latest innovations across lighting,...

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Sep 4 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
Nintendo Confirms 2 Nintendo Direct Broadcasts for Next Week, Including a Dedicated Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Broadcast

Nintendo has announced a pair of Nintendo Direct broadcasts for next week, including a dedicated Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary showcase.

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Sep 4 • 9:54 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
St. Ambrose health clinic seeks patients for no-cost rehabilitation services

St. Ambrose University’s Interprofessional Health Clinic is putting out the call for patients throughout the Quad Cities who need neurological rehabilitation services but face barriers to accessing traditional care. As of Tuesday, Sept. 1, the SAU student-led clinic began providing the free rehabilitation services on Tuesday evenings at the St. Ambrose University Center for Health […]

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Sep 4 • 9:19 AM EDT • Health • quadcitiesbusiness.com
Mason Health Supports the Next Generation Through Award-Winning Birth Center, Health Sciences Academy and Mason Health Foundation Scholarships

Mason Health’s multi-faceted support for the next generation includes scholarships awarded through a collaborative partnership.

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Sep 4 • 8:57 AM EDT • Health • thurstontalk.com
Fernández is ready to face Coventry, says Maresca

Enzo Maresca says that Enzo Fernández is ready to go straight into the squad for our Premier League clash with Coventry. Men's Team City v Coventry: New signings in spotlight with Bouaddi interview T...

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Sep 4 • 8:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jaka Bijol: We have to be at our best

Ahead of Leeds United’s trip to the south coast to face Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday afternoon, centre-half Jaka Bijol is expecting another tough test from our third Premier League fixture of ...

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Sep 4 • 8:49 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
EU and ASEAN discuss health emergency preparedness and response

The Director-General of the European Commission’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), Dr Florika Fink-Hooijer, met with the Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr Kao Kim Hourn, in Jakarta on 4 September 2026 to discuss health emergency preparedness and response to emerging health threats, and to explore deeper cooperation between the EU and ASEAN. Both regions face similar challenges from emerging threats such as infectious diseases, which will further increase with climate change and increased travel, requiring global and regional cooperation. Both sides acknowledged that regional partnerships are essential to prepare for the next health emergency — it's a matter of when, not if. Building close EU-ASEAN cooperation on health emergency preparedness and response is therefore critical to ensuring a collective response, as we look ahead to the Commemorative Summit in 2027 marking the 50th anniversary of EU-ASEAN Dialogue Relations. Among other topics, discussions covered future partnership in the establishment and operations of the ASEAN Centre for Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases (ACPHEED), as well as other key avenues for deeper collaboration.

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Sep 4 • 8:49 AM EDT • Health • eeas.europa.eu
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Padres Face A Prove-It Series Against Yankees This Weekend

The San Diego Padres have dropped out of the third wild-card after a rough road trip, and they have a big homestand.

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Sep 4 • 8:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Every word of Michael Carrick’s Everton pre-match press conference

16 Manchester United head coach Michael Carrick has been speaking to the media ahead of Sunday’s trip to the Hill Dickinson Stadium to face Everton in the Premier League.Here is every word of the pr...

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Sep 4 • 8:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Only 19% Make It: The Hidden Barriers Women Face in Science Today - Futura-Sciences

From Lecture Hall Storms to Today’s Invisible Barriers Let’s rewind to 1867, when women first arrived at university lecture halls. Instead of applause, they were greeted by a storm—literally. Baked apples thrown, misogynistic heckling echoing in the corridors, and courses deliberately sabotaged by peers. Every dirty trick was used to...

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Sep 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
Information for supporters travelling to the Amex Stadium

Leeds United travel to the Amex Stadium to face Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League on Saturday and we would like to thank every fan that will be making the journey to support the team.Ahead ...

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Sep 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Arsenal to face Barca & Lyon in Women's Champions League

Arsenal will face holders Barcelona and record winners Lyon in the Women's Champions League, while Chelsea will travel to Lyon and Man City will take on Bayern Munich.

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Sep 4 • 7:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Fired by Turner Sports, Erin Andrews Doesn’t Hold Back on ‘Terrible’ Stint as MLB Reporter Before ESPN & FOX Roles

Sportscaster and journalist Erin Andrews’ path to becoming one of the most recognizable faces in sports television was not nearly as smooth as it looks in hindsight. Before ESPN, FOX Sports, Super Bowls, and years on the NFL sideline, Andrews had a short stretch at Turner Sports that ended with the network letting her go.

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Sep 4 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Iowa State’s new president talks about university’s role in state

During his first months as president of Iowa State University, David Cook has traveled to nearly 40 Iowa communities, listening as residents, community leaders, business owners and others talked about their hopes for the future and challenges they face. One concern has surfaced again and again: finding and keeping workers. “Workforce and talent are a…

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Sep 4 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
The Trade Desk lays off 15% of staff

The restructure is expected to affect more than 500 roles at the adtech company, which has faced intensifying competition from Amazon.

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Sep 4 • 6:55 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Ruth Bar breaks silence on her 1993 affair with Netanyahu, his early political rise

Thirty-three years after Netanyahu’s live TV confession, Ruth Bar speaks publicly for the first time about their professional relationship and his early political instincts.

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Sep 4 • 6:02 AM EDT • Politics • jpost.com
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Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up

Private equity firms and the companies they own employ over 13 million, from startups to rural hospitals and large retailers, but experts’ concerns of collapse are growing

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Sep 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • theguardian.com
Why Julián Álvarez’s Barcelona Dream Still Faces Atlético’s Veto

Julián Álvarez ended the summer window still on Atlético Madrid’s books, but that outcome has settled almost nothing. Barcelona spent the entire market chasing the Argentine, Atlético publicly r...

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Sep 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How Motherwell's blueprint is defying second-season syndrome

New faces, same identity. Motherwell's approach has fans dreaming of a campaign that surpasses the highs of 2025-26.

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Sep 4 • 4:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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End of the world: Scientists reveal 7 countries most likely to survive a global collapse by maintaining society and food production

With countries fighting wars and natural calamities sweeping away civilisations, it seems a global collapse might be a spark away. But the possibility of entire humanity vanishing off the face of Earth seems a little less plausible with the years of effort we have spent preparing solutions for such situations.

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Sep 4 • 4:27 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jaissle Rubbishes Osula Injury Rumour | Press Conference

Newcastle United head coach Matthias Jaissle has refused to be drawn into reports that William Osula could face a lengthy spell on the sidelines, dismissing speculation from Denmark surrounding the striker’s foot injury.

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Sep 4 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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One year after its founder's death, Armani faces challenge of 'inevitable evolution'

One year after the death of founder Giorgio Armani, the Italian fashion house is entering ​a pivotal period as the clock starts ticking on plans for an initial stake sale, after the group spent the last year focused on governance.

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Sep 4 • 2:02 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
The future of science without animal testing

Federal agencies, such as the NIH, FDA and EPA, and scientists are moving away from animal testing. Learn how non-animal testing methods are changing the future of research.

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Sep 4 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • humaneworld.org
'Al the Jelly Man,' a familiar face on the South Shore and Cape, asks for community's help amid health challenges

“I still want to get out and meet people and talk and everything. But it's just — it's something I cannot do.”

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Sep 3 • 10:11 PM EDT • Health • boston.com
Official White House website launches arcade games where users arrest immigrants and build a border wall

The Trump administration launched a series of arcade-style games on the official White House website Thursday to tout its priorities — the latest turn in its aggressive online effort to troll Democrats that has at times surfaced racist and offensive images.

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Sep 3 • 9:34 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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Ex-Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez plans guilty plea to charges stemming from fight outside hotel

Sanchez faces a felony battery charge, along with three misdemeanor charges, for what prosecutors have said was a fight over parking.

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Sep 3 • 7:23 PM EDT • Sports • nbcnews.com
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BEYONCÉ MARKS HER BIRTHDAY WITH THE RELEASE OF A REMASTERED DELUXE "B'DAY" ALBUM HER COMING-OF-AGE MASTERPIECE IS AMPLIFIED WITH UPGRADED VISUALS, SURPRISE NEW TRACKS, AND SPANISH LANGUAGE SONGS, INCLUDING COLLABORATIONS WITH MALUMA AND THE LATE SELENA

/PRNewswire/ -- Today marks Beyoncé's birthday and the release of a voluminous remastered B'DAY, her coming-of-age second album. When it was released on...

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Sep 3 • 7:05 PM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
Houston’s mental health response faces long-term funding questions as demand grows
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Sep 3 • 6:28 PM EDT • Health • click2houston.com
Five Things presented by Compass Minerals: Sporting travels to face FC Dallas

Sporting Kansas City hits the road this weekend to take on FC Dallas at Toyota Stadium down in Texas on Saturday night. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. CT and will be available to stream on Apple TV, while the game will also be broadcast locally on the radio via

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Sep 3 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sportingkc.com
To The Ceiling Entertainment Faces Unpaid Artist Claims

To The Ceiling Entertainment is out at Salem’s Grand Theatre amid unpaid artist claims and more than $100,000 in alleged back rent.

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Sep 3 • 5:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • salembusinessjournal.org
Thomas Massie introduces bipartisan "Flock-Off Act"

The cameras have faced scrutiny around the country over privacy concerns.

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Sep 3 • 5:20 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
TV Academy announces 2026 Engineering, Science, and Technology Emmys

SpaceX's Starlink and AI-based face replacement tech among this year's winners.

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Sep 3 • 3:45 PM EDT • Science • goldderby.com
Television Academy announces 2026 Engineering, Science, and Technology Emmy recipients

SpaceX's Starlink and AI-based face replacement tech among this year's winners.

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Sep 3 • 3:45 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Women on parole face higher rates of mental health, housing challenges

Women on parole report higher rates of housing instability, poor health and serious mental health and substance use disorders than men on parole and than women who weren’t on parole, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice.

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Sep 3 • 3:25 PM EDT • Health • stateline.org
Osaka squeezes into US Open third round

Two-time champion Naomi Osaka survived a second-set swoon to beat Katerina Siniakova 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 on Thursday and reach the third round of the US Open.I definitely had a couple of opportunities in the second set, and I think I was a little too hard on myself," said Osaka, who next faces Belgium's Elise Mertens, a 6-2, 7-6 (7/3) winner over Maria Timofeeva of Uzbekistan.

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Sep 3 • 1:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
1Password Users Flee Platform After $300,000 Donation. Should You Run, Too?

1Password faces backlash over a $300,000 pledge to a foundation connected to David Heinemeier Hansson. Should you switch to Bitwarden?

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Sep 3 • 1:55 PM EDT • Technology • allaboutcookies.org
Sabotage, leaks and political ties: the story of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder trial

Maltese businessman cleared of involvement in journalist’s death, but trial revealed challenges faced by those leading search for killers

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Sep 3 • 1:13 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
ICYMI: AFP-NH, NFIB Host Business Roundtable

Manchester, NH — In case you missed it, Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire (AFP-NH) and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) hosted a discussion with New Hampshire businesses to discuss the state’s business environment and the challenges they face. Participants included: John Stephen, Stephen Group in Manchester and NH Executive Councilor Gino Baroni, Trident Group in Salem […]

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Sep 3 • 1:04 PM EDT • Business • americansforprosperity.org
Coins, cards and buildings: Where the government has Trump’s name and face

President Donald Trump’s administration has put his name on more than a dozen buildings, documents, government items and programs during his second term.

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Sep 3 • 12:25 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
The hidden reference in Nvidia and Hugging Face's deal price

"Special congrats if you find the Hugging Face and Nvidia references hidden in our $12,930,300,000 acquisition price," cofounder Thomas Wolf wrote.

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Sep 3 • 10:46 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
The weather app on your Pixel Watch is adding new watch face modules

Google’s Pixel Weather app is adding three new complications to join the Sunrise and sunset, UV Index, and Weather options.

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Sep 3 • 9:57 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Nvidia confirms it's buying Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, the companies said on Thursday, confirming Business Insider's previous reporting.

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Sep 3 • 8:21 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
iPhone 18 Pro Chip Leak Indicates Major GPU and Memory Bandwidth Improvements

An alleged solder joint diagram for Apple's A20 Pro chip suggests the processor will deliver a number of significant upgrades, including a seven-core GPU, a wider memory interface, and a larger L2 cache for its efficiency cores. The claims come from a Weibo user who says the layout was reconstructed by mapping the chip's solder ball positions and overlaying them with die level images to sketch out where each block of the processor sits.

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Sep 3 • 8:06 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Tacoma brewery caught in controversy as owners’ political donations surface

A political organizer accused the businesses of being “anti-trans” after owners donated to a PAC. The owners say it was about tax reform.

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Sep 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • thenewstribune.com
Innovative Eyewear, Inc. Announces Q3 Business Update

/PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Eyewear, Inc. ("Innovative Eyewear" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: LUCY; LUCYW), the developer & manufacturer of smart eyewear under the...

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Sep 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Reimagined Ocean Bar Debuts on Oosterdam with Expanded Entertainment

New live music offerings, enhanced performance venue and heritage-inspired design come together as part of Holland America Evolution Key Highlights New Ocean...

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Sep 3 • 6:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
‘Right in your face’: The science behind Maryland field hockey’s press defense

While the intensity of the Terps’ press defense stays consistent, part of what makes it so effective is the different shapes the players take on.

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Sep 3 • 12:33 AM EDT • Science • dbknews.com
Peatland Fires Darken Skies in Indonesia

With Indonesia gripped by drought, fires are smoldering on the surface and underground.

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Sep 3 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
The Human Body May Age in Two Major Bursts, And a New Study Reveals What Drives Them

With most organs following the ovary's cues.

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Sep 2 • 10:06 PM EDT • Science • sciencealert.com
Chris Mason: Reform face headwinds as they gather for conference

The party's continued prominence has brought what prominence always brings: scrutiny, says BBC political editor Chris Mason.

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Sep 2 • 9:55 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
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Sony and Microsoft say they’re not obligated to pass U.S. tariff refunds to consumers, echoing Nintendo

Back in July, Sony executives told investors that the company expected to receive $508 million in refunds from the U.S. government, after tariffs that the PlayStation-maker paid were ruled mostly in 2025 were found to be illegal. “Most” of the refund would by recouped by Sony’s gaming division, its chief financial officer said. This week, Sony’s lawyers are arguing that the company is not legally obligated to pass those proceeds on to consumers who paid for recently price-hiked PlayStation consoles. That’s in the face of a lawsuit from gamers calling on them to do exactly that. “Paying fair market price for voluntarily purchased consumer goods is not a legally cognizable injury in fact,” the lawyers wrote in a legal motion filed on Monday, as they asked a judge in California’s Northern District to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit over the tariff refunds. Microsoft made a similar argument two weeks ahead of Sony’s lawyers, in a similar lawsuit brought by a gamer in federal court in Washington State. As Microsoft’s legal team put it on August 21, in their request for a dismissal of that lawsuit: “There is nothing unjust about Plaintiff purchasing an Xbox at an advertised price and getting exactly what he paid for—regardless of whatever theory he devised months later about Microsoft’s cost structure.” Both legal fights are set to go on for some time. How things got to this point U.S. tariffs impacting a wide range of imported goods, including game consoles, had kicked off in early 2025. In May 2025, Microsoft raised the price of its Xbox consoles, citing “market conditions and the rising cost of development.” They raised them again that September. In August of that year, Sony raised the price of PlayStation 5 consoles, citing “a challenging economic environment.” Sony later told investors that its tariff fees for the fall quarter were nearly $200 million. in February of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the 2025 tariffs illegal, prompting impacted companies to begin to request refunds. In turn, consumers began suing the likes of Sony and Microsoft to get what they said was their share. The gamers in the Microsoft and Sony lawsuits argue that the 2025 price hikes of PlayStation and Xbox consoles, which added $50 or more to their sticker price, were due to illegal tariffs and should now be returned to consumers. The Sony suit started in May, when a group of gamers sued in federal court in California, saying Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) would be unjustly enriching itself if it did not pass tariff refunds to its PS5 buyers. “Sony is poised to be paid twice for the same unlawful tariff burden: once by its customers (through elevated prices) and once by the U.S. government (through tariff refunds),” the gamers’ lawyers wrote at the time. They called for Sony to partially reimburse anyone who bought a PlayStation in the U.S. since August 1, 2025. The Microsoft suit, filed by gamer Trevor Hastings against the Xbox giant in July, made similar claims. The console makers push back In late July, Nintendo’s lawyers, facing a similar suit accusing them of double-dipping on tariffs and refunds, replied with arguments that previewed Microsoft’s and Sony’s: “Nintendo or one of its retailers set a price for each product, and consumers decided whether that price was worth paying,” they wrote. Sony has buttressed that Nintendo-style argument this week by saying that the gamers have failed to prove that tariffs were the reason for its August 2025 PS5 price hike. They call thatclaim “speculative and illogical.” Other factors, including “inflation, currency fluctuations, component costs, logistics, competitive dynamics, or demand,” could have played a role. (No, the Sony lawyers do not break down the costs and factors that officially triggered the price increases). Microsoft has also argued that there’s no proof in these lawsuits that tariffs drove all or some of the price increase, as it seeks to dismiss the tariff refund suit it’s facing: “Plaintiff provides no specific allegations that would establish any pricing differential attributable to tariffs or suggest any possibility that Microsoft applied then or could recreate now any dollar-for-dollar calculation of tariff-related pricing—any more than it could any other market factor that affects pricing.” To further skewer the gamer side’s argument in its case, Sony’s lawyers have pointed to what might be a surprising defense: yet another PlayStation 5 price hike from this past spring, after the tariffs were ruled illegal. “If the original price increase were attributable to tariffs, SIE [Sony Interactive Entertainment, aka PlayStation] would have had no reason to raise prices again after the Supreme Court invalidated the IEEPA tariffs.” … “If tariffs were the cause of the price increases, one would expect SIE to lower prices once the tariffs were eliminated—not raise them again. Instead, the timeline confirms that the pricing of PlayStation consoles includes a diverse and dynamic set of input costs.” Judges have not yet ruled on the arguments made by Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo. Last week, Panic, the company behind the small, yellow Playdate handheld said it would be passing its tariff refunds on to consumers. It is the only gaming hardware maker to have made such a pledge. Game File is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my reporting, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Item 2: A reporter’s second Second Life Wagner James Au, who from 2003-2006 was paid by San Francisco-based tech company Linden Lab to be a full-time journalist embedded in their virtual world Second Life, is returning to the company. This time, he’ll be an editorial advisor and business development specialist, he tells Game File. The new role will involve trying to share the stories of people inhabiting Second Life’s ongoing online world with reporters and by extension the public. Au plans to continue to also chronicle some of that through his long-running blog New World Notes. I’ve known Au since the mid-2000s and featured him in a 2007 article for the Columbia Journalism Review about reporters like him opening up virtual news outlets within Second Life. As I wrote at the time: On April 22, 2003, writing as Hamlet Linden for the New World Notes blog on Second Life’s Web site, Au introduced himself. “For the next few months, Linden Lab has invited me to set aside my journalist cap, and instead, don the digital beanie of their in-house virtual correspondent.” He wasn’t paid to keep it positive. He wrote about builders and eccentrics, but then in August of that year, he reported on a tax revolt against Linden Lab (a complaint about the fees it charges users who build stuff) led by a resident whose avatar was a big cat. Second Life has always been less of a video game and more of a virtual world where people can live, hang out, make art, sell virtual items and flirt. Back in 2007, Au described touring it as “sort of like underwater lucid dreaming.” For the past two decades, Au has maintained New World Notes as an independent publication. But he said he’s been drawn back to Second Life and Linden Lab as a place to directly work. The virtual world has around 650,000 monthly active users, he said, “which is actually about what it was during the hype wave.” Au says he’s still finding rich stories in Second Life, the kind that keep him interested 20 years into the beat: “Over the last few months for instance, I wrote about an SL creator in Venezuela whose apartment was destroyed by the earthquakes, so the global SL community rallied to get him back on his feet,” he told me. “Then there’s the woman from a Middle Eastern country who explored her lesbian sexuality in SL, then earned enough from her virtual jewelry to escape her abusive family situation and country.” Au wants to beckon more reporters to give Second Life another look. He argues that it is often ahead of internet trends, noting, for example, an early backlash in the community against AI-made art. Now the platform is drawing curiosity from more of the user-generated content community who’ve grown up with the likes of Roblox, according to Au. “Second Life was too early during its hype wave in 2005-2010, but it now feels right for a new wave of interest,” he told me.

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Sep 2 • 8:21 PM EDT • Technology • gamefile.news
South African scientists could face year in prison unless ...

Researchers warn that registration offers little benefit and that the associated costs will disadvantage early-career researchers

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Sep 2 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • chemistryworld.com
Lions GM Pushes Back on Major Roster Concern

When the Detroit Lions released Terrion Arnold after his arrest, the team faced scrutiny for not doing enough to protect themself at the position. However, General Manager Brad Holmes made it clear that he feels good about the cornerback room, and they felt they had a good group whether Arnold was here or not. “We […] The post Lions GM Pushes Back on Major Roster Concern appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 2 • 7:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The primary is over now come the primetime mistakes

Not every candidate is Deion Sanders at Primetime — Abdul El-Sayed and Darline Graham face questions about whether they're ready for the Senate.

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Sep 2 • 7:43 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
From hunger to obesity: Developing world faces growing threat to child health

Intan Permatasari's mother simply couldn't refuse her daughter's pleas for food. By the time she was 4, Intan had outgrown all the kindergarten uniforms and had to wear home-sewn clothes to school.

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Sep 2 • 7:14 PM EDT • Health • reuters.com
Harris County spends $1.2M daily on free employee healthcare

As Harris County property owners face the possibility of another tax hit, 13 Investigates is digging into how the county is spending your money.

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Sep 2 • 6:24 PM EDT • Health • abc13.com
Northern Virginia business faces civil rights lawsuit

A Northern Virginia eyebrow tattoo artist is being sued for alleged harassment by a customer who claims her religion and nationality are at the center of the legal action.

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Sep 2 • 6:22 PM EDT • Business • fox5dc.com
Home sports competitions kick off at The Nest

Albany High hosted its first home sports competition of the 2026-27 season at The Nest on Tuesday evening as our boys' soccer team faced off against Schalmont! Our Falcons delivered a thrilling win, defeating the Sabres 4-0. Ahadi Wangya, Adam Rouse, Garnett Ngome Ekiti and Rajanie Morgan each scored a goal, with Ngome Ekiti also delivering an assist. Evan Bermejo recorded five saves for Albany to record the shutout. Come to Albany High tonight, Sept. 2, to pack the stands with Falcon fans! Our girls' tennis team will face off against Guilderland at 4:15 p.m. and our girls' soccer team takes on Berne-Knox-Westerlo at 4:30 p.m. Let's go Falcons!

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Sep 2 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • albanyschools.org
$1.1B Norman Rock Creek project faces key court hearing Tuesday

Oklahomans for Responsible Economic Development's case against Norman's Rock Creek Entertainment District project may be resolved as soon as Tuesday.

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Sep 2 • 5:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • journalrecord.com
World's Largest Indoor, Multi-Level Karting Track & Premier Entertainment Venue Celebrates Groundbreaking in Columbus, Ohio

/PRNewswire/ -- Supercharged Entertainment, the world's largest indoor, multi-level karting track and premier entertainment venue, broke ground today on the...

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Sep 2 • 4:41 PM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
South Carolina governor candidates, Johnson and Wilson, to debate

Alan Wilson and Jermaine Johnson will face off in a televised debate ahead of the South Carolina gubernatorial race.

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Sep 2 • 2:05 PM EDT • Politics • greenvilleonline.com
Missouri’s gerrymandered map faces final test as Supreme Court weighs referendum

The high-stakes decision could effectively decide the future of Kansas City’s representation in Congress.

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Sep 2 • 2:03 PM EDT • Politics • kansascity.com
Google avoids adtech breakup in federal judge ruling

A judge ruled Google doesn't have to sell off parts of its adtech business, but it will face other remedies.

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Heads or tails? $1 coin with Trump's face and gold finish go on sale

The coin's design — Trump's visage as “heads” and the Great Seal of the United States as “tails” — was given the stamp of approval this year by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, whose members Trump appointed.

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Heads or tails? $1 coin with Trump's face and gold finish to go on sale

The coins were struck to "honor 250 years of great American heritage," the U.S. Mint wrote on its website

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Lambeau Field to host Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio State hockey

The Travel Wisconsin Frozen Tundra Faceoff will feature a college hockey doubleheader Feb. 20 with Wisconsin men's and women's hockey, Michigan and OSU.

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Nearly 550 employees face layoffs as healthcare services company ends VCU Health contract

Nearly 550 employees are expected to be laid off when a healthcare services company ends its operations at VCU Health in Richmond in late October.

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Nvidia's controversial, face-changing, gen-AI DLSS 5 tech releases tomorrow for one game, and seems to tank frame-rates

If you own a 50-series GeForce graphics card or laptop, or use GeForce Now, you can try Nvidia's controversial new DLSS 5 tech this week.

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‘Balancing act’ helps keep colorectal cancer in check

Study finds that a balance of two closely related cell surface proteins may be critical to the health of the epithelial lining of the gastrointestinal tract.

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Farage compares standards inquiry to investigations faced by fellow ‘outsider’ Trump

Reform UK leader dismisses criticism of his failure to register £5m gift as a sign of a ‘complainants’ society’

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Tottenham’s Richarlison subject of failed bid from Trabzonspor

Richarlison, 29, faces an uncertain future at Spurs after a proposed move back to Everton broke down.

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8 questions GOP lawmakers face as the House returns

Republicans face a torrent of questions about the words and actions President Donald Trump has unleashed while they’ve been gone.

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Ecobat Completes Sale of Lithium Recycling Business

/PRNewswire/ -- Ecobat, a global leader in battery recycling and resource recovery, today announced the closing of the sale of its lithium recycling business....

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SUN | Luminis Health facilities dealing with a cyberattack

Luminis Health is experiencing a cybersecurity incident affecting certain systems across its organization, according to a Facebook post Tuesday.“Our priority re

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Employer healthcare costs are expected to jump again. Workers could feel it

As healthcare costs keep climbing, workers could face higher bills, fewer choices and changes to their health benefits.

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Commercial AI cuts pulmonary nodule assessment times by up to 25%

The use of artificial intelligence-enabled software could significantly reduce interpretation times for chest CT scans, experts write in RSNA's Radiology.

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HK-Listed Macau Firm Asia Pioneer Entertainment (8400.HK) H1 Profit Surges 90-Fold Targets Overseas Expansion for Future Growth

/PRNewswire/ -- Asia Pioneer Entertainment Holdings Limited ("APE" or the "Company"; Stock Code: 8400.HK), a leading Macau-based Electronic Gaming Equipment...

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August Monthly Review: ChatGPT In Epic

Death, taxes, another frontier lab healthcare launch inspiring truly insane LinkedIn takes. As much as I want to stay away, I repeatedly am the crewman unplugging his ears whenever we pass these sirens. So it’s not the first and probably not the last time we dial up the typewriter rather than tie ourselves to the mast. The full blow-by-blow timeline: Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe The End of the Standalone PHR (Jan 8): ChatGPT Health arrives for consumers, at the time powered by b.well. I was bullish on the approach in that the best way for the PHR to finally solve distribution was to meet consumers were they already are (i.e. When Horizontal Meets Healthcare (Jan 9): OpenAI for Healthcare puts out the shingle for enterprises, with SharePoint ingestion standing in for the EHR integration the product actually needed. Another One: Anthropic’s Healthcare Debut (Jan 16): Claude's version, on HealthEx rails instead of b.well, with Agent Skills for FHIR development as the one true vertical-specific investment. ChatGPT for Clinicians: The Trap Sprung (Apr 24): OpenAI filled in the missing GTM middle with a free product for verified clinicians, effectively peeling the enterprise wrapper off ChatGPT for Healthcare and taking the PLG fight directly to OpenEvidence. OpenAI’s Second Attempt at Health (Jul 31): a relaunch of their patient specific app, now branded Health in ChatGPT, where the privacy partition came out, the connectors thinned, and b.well disappeared in favor of first-party FHIR work against a smaller network Beyond a Shingle So what was announced now? Today, we’re introducing a new electronic health record integration that brings authorized patient context from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with the Healthcare Public Data plugin for direct, structured access to official healthcare datasets like PubMed, DailyMed, and CMS Coverage. Together, these capabilities bring ChatGPT closer to the systems and sources healthcare teams trust, while supporting the controls and compliance healthcare work requires. The core portfolio is unchanged from prior announcements we delineated and discussed (aside from the relaunch of patient-facing). Since trade publications still seem to be confusing them by using the wrong names: Enterprise sales motion: ChatGPT for Healthcare Protecting their core product / PLG: ChatGPT for Clinicians Consumer/patient-facing product: Health in ChatGPT So really, this is a feature release (specifically for ChatGPT for Healthcare when it comes to EHR integration). What’s cool about it, though, is that we are moving beyond just putting out a shingle. Everything in the January enterprise launch was horizontalizable: Horizontal tech companies thus generally start verticalization with their “putting out a shingle phase”. Telling the world you’re open for business as a horizontal tech company reliably attracts early inbound interest from buyers who are already trying to force-fit horizontal tools into domain-specific workflows and are eager for any signal that the vendor intends to support their use case more directly. Nothing was really vertical specific, which is exactly what you'd expect from the ultimate hypergrowth horizontal company dipping their toes into specific industries. But eventually you have to stop changing the sign on the door and start changing the product. Can you guess where the horizontal product was going to run out of road? This is the core dilemma writ large: verticalization requires differentiation, while scale economics of consumer and horizontal push toward unification. I’ve buried the lede so deep here it will be painful to some readers, but what should be shocking to no one is that my perspective is that EHR integration is the only path that meaningfully resolves this tension for ChatGPT for Healthcare. Integration with Microsoft Sharepoint is fine, but it is categorically insufficient for any product that hopes to influence clinical decision-making. SMART Money Well here we are, eight months later! Real vertical investment has begun, which surprised a few people. One friend in the industry messaged me: “Absolutely no way Epic gave ChatGPT API access.” Looking forensically at the announcements, the integration is notably read-only across appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation. So while I’m not a betting man, I'd wager the house this is a SMART on FHIR launch: That sounds a lot like USCDI! The recommended path for the workflow they outline would be SMART on FHIR Their Health AI lead’s post is evocative of both standalone and EHR launch SMART, which another termed “ChartGPT” and “EHR Plugin” The implementation burden for SMART on FHIR is the lowest of the available integrative paths This is the team who literally did patient-facing SMART on FHIR with Epic last month Most importantly, if you’re a horizontal company, you generally still haven’t taken the full plunge and thus (overly) value reusability. SMART on FHIR is the logical compromise: healthcare-specific enough to matter, but standardized enough to reuse. Nobody Asked Judy Another friend asked “I thought they had to go to each health system, or did they go direct to Epic and now health systems opt in?” Given the trust paradigms in healthcare, this functionally cannot be Epic hoovering up all the data for OpenAI and shoving ChatGPT in their customers’ faces (or they would revolt). However, I do believe the aforementioned terrible coverage by TechCrunch and other outlets is probably responsible for that question, given the 325 million reference. When using FHIR as a business associate to an Epic customer, there is no EHR gatekeeping to speak of, as that isn’t how fhir.epic.com works: You register an app You pick your APIs You test against the sandbox APIs You list as “Ready for Production” Hospitals pick your app You test and go live with them Bluntly, nobody had to say yes or no in Verona (nor were they given the chance). Vendor Services (their next developer tier up that I doubt OpenAI is using quite yet in this initial release) certainly has contractual paperwork that some resent, but even there, the twin pressures of mounting antitrust and information blocking make outright gatekeeping increasingly fraught. My friend’s sentiment is, to me, representative of a broader industry neurosis, perhaps a sort of scar tissue of prior eras: people assume the gate is still there and never actually try the door. There are certainly other ways Epic (and any EHR) can put its thumb on the scale, but they are not so dumb as to stand in front of a federally mandated API and play bouncer at this exact moment in time. So I think they can and probably should go deeper, as this release is at best parity and at worst behind vertical-specific competition. OpenEvidence did a basic SMART launch with Sutter Health in February, allowing for more convenient evidence search by providers. They then add patient-context (the equivalent SMART on FHIR flow to what we see here) when Cedars-Sinai went enterprise-wide in May. UpToDate has four distinct applications across deeper workflows like patient engagement listed in Epic Showroom and announced a partnership with Epic to power Art at UGM Abridge and other ambient scribes have invested deeply into the deepest bidirectional clinical copilot workflow with integrations well beyond SMART on FHIR. In that light, the “Who is OpenAI primarily targeting here?” is clear. This release brings them into striking distance of OpenEvidence, but not the others quite yet. They are the only one of the three you can reach without building something truly Epic-specific. When will they go further? Competition is a great motivator to overcome the horizontal demons and start building things that can’t be reused: not across industries, not across EHRs, maybe not past the customer you built them for. That’s the price of actually verticalizing. The question is if and when OpenAI will be willing to pay it. Month in Review Here is the monthly review. As a reminder, this is a regular round-up of the month’s posts and other content to surface things you may have missed across regulation, litigation, interoperability, and beyond. AI assistance is used in these bullet summaries so I can focus on articles. Articles Published: None this month Video Content: The Information Exchange: Standards-based Thruple Edition (Aug 14): Back to school for us too, with Brad reporting in from the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem’s one year anniversary in DC. We get into the January CMS-0057 deadline, the fall rulemaking reading list, and why enrollment still keeps most apps off FHIR. The Information Exchange: Epic Dúnadan Edition (Aug 25): A UGM roundup with Ryan Brickner joining for the first time to check our takes against what the building actually thinks. Rangers, Ergo sitting on top of EHI, and a down-market lineup that needs some cuts. Regulatory: Stacked Deck, Bad Hand (Aug 05): ONC’s website refresh took the entire HIT Policy Committee record with it, so I rebuilt the archive and went looking for the regulatory capture story everyone assumes is buried in there. Stacking the deck and winning the hand turn out to be very different things. The Sixth Generation of Patient Access (Aug 19): A quick catalog of the five generations of patient access we’ve layered on since HIPAA, and the two candidates now competing to be the sixth. One is planned. The other is the market routing around the plan entirely. Court cases: Three Cases Walk Into a Docket (Aug 06): Two surprise settlements cleared the board in a single week, and then Judge Maddox dropped ninety-four pages on Vyne v. Henry Schein. The sleeper is a DMCA holding that makes direct-to-database a considerably riskier business model. Epic v. Health Gorilla: Into the MDL (Aug 10): Nine class actions are headed to Miami, and the Panel signaled it wants to bring the case that spawned them along too. That would leave Epic arguing the requests were obviously fraudulent in one courtroom and unknowable in the other. Amazon v. Perplexity: Agents Are Legalized! (Aug 11): The Ninth Circuit vacated the injunction against Comet, holding that the user is the one accessing the servers rather than the company that built the agent. A real win for agentic access, and a much narrower one than the headline suggests. Veeva v. Epic: Come At Me, Bro (Aug 26): Epic’s response brief wants the dismissal affirmed and, unusually, wants the opinion published as precedent. Buried in it is Epic’s own description of what its non-competes actually prohibit, which current and former employees should read closely. EHRs: The Contract Epic Would Never Sign Today (Aug 04): A 1999 SEC exhibit catches Epic licensing nearly its entire product line, Tapestry included, to the company that became TriZetto. The marketing services menu attached to it is the part that will make you blink. Forecast from Verona (Aug 07): The Epic Almanac makes one argument six different ways: the AI is only as good as the networks behind it. Emmie headlines, Art’s context stack is the most ambitious part, and Penny finally gets an autonomous coding date on the calendar. Works With Epic MyChart (Aug 17): Epic’s first new Showroom category since the death of Workshop certifies hardware instead of software, badge on the box and all. Made for iPhone, but for blood pressure cuffs, and rough news for anyone selling the RPM stack sitting in between. UGM Hot Takes 2026 (Aug 20): Everyone else covered the AI announcements, so I went after Savvy deleting the payment gateway, Rangers as Boost with the timer removed, and a down-market lineup with too many entries. Plus the Health Grid tidbits I cannot help myself on. MyChart Central Grows Up (Aug 24): Device data and Emmie turn Epic’s identity hub into a full consumer platform, which is both a logical answer to ChatGPT and a bit of a mistake. It also happens to be the best scraping target Epic has ever shipped. Industry Analysis: The Wrong Yardstick (Aug 12): Vertical software keeps getting judged against Superhuman and Notion, which is the wrong bar entirely. Your user is comparing your product to a whiteboard and forty phone calls before lunch. Primitives vs. Abstractions (Aug 27): Developers want building blocks, systems of record prefer to hand out business logic, and both sides have a real case. There’s no test from the outside that separates the engineering reason from the competitive one, which is why this keeps ending up in court. Cross-industry Comparisons: The Two Kinds of Platform Power (Aug 18): Attention power and record power are different problems that keep getting handed the same regulatory toolkit. Congress’s latest swing at Big Tech shows both what’s possible and where it falls apart. The Dogs of (Platform) War (Aug 21): A CourtListener alert turned up a property management fight with healthcare’s exact shape and none of the Cures Act. Shell prospects, ghost accounts, a notetaker bot that came back to haunt someone, and a lawyer arguing both sides of the same theory in two states. Fractals All the Way Down (Aug 31): Yardi dominates property management right up until you zoom into one segment, where AppFolio owns it outright and Yardi doesn’t appear at all. Where you draw the line around a B2B software market is about to decide an awful lot of cases. Other News: If Judy Had the Courage (Aug 13): A short eulogy for the era when software was allowed to look insane: WinAMP, bold colors, and everything the grey chatbot era has taken from us. External Media: Portland Monthly Health Tech Meetup: Erin O’Brien channeled my own feelings - maybe it’s just because it’s August and beautiful, but the monthly edition of the PDX Health community meetup was a ripper. Make sure to reach out if interested to join for the next one. STAT’s Coverage of Epic This Month: Brittany Trang of STAT did a fantastic job of breaking the FTC investigation that’s been lurking, as well as UGM related coverage, so I had to give her her wish of a meme. Fall Conferences: I’m pumped to be kicking off my fall conference season in NYC at Nabla Accelerate next month, which Chrissy provided the link to apply for. Here’s the rest of my schedule in case you want to meet up: Commonwell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 21-22 eHealthExchange (Austin, TX): Oct 27 Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 28-29 HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 RSNA (Chicago): Nov 29-Dec 3 Posts I Liked: HTI-6 Should Unbundle API Certification: Josh Mandel makes the case that HTI-6 should split (g)(10) into separate authorization and data certifications, so a PACS or a genomics platform can certify only the role it actually performs. Imaging is the urgent example, but the structure solves a much bigger problem. On implementing ePrior Auth with Epic: Scott Rossignol’s field notes from a live ePrior Auth build on Epic, including the two app registrations nobody warns you about and the CPT mapping problem waiting at the end. CMS-0057 implementations are going to be such a beast. Healthcare point solutions are starting to look a lot like streaming services: Spencer Dorn runs the cable-to-streaming arc against health IT and lands squarely on the bundling half of the cycle. Bundling can be good! It can also be bad! Life is nuanced. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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The Grand Theft Auto run button has changed after 25 years - GTA 6 no longer requires you to tap a face button to peg it

Rockstar has decided to finally fall in line with other games regarding how you control Grand Theft Auto 6. You'll no longer need to tap a face button to run.

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Vikings Just Added a Familiar Face for Brian Flores: Report

The Minnesota Vikings are getting a new linebacker. Kyle Van Noy signed with the Vikings on Wednesday evening. The Ringer’s Tom Pelissero reported thisThe linebacker was linked to the Vikings earlier in the day. KSTP’s Darren Wolfson reported that the linebacker came in for a visit. There were indications that he may sign with the […] The post Vikings Just Added a Familiar Face for Brian Flores: Report appeared first on HEAVY.

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Will Burnham find PMQs as 'nail biting' and 'nerve wracking' as Blair did?

Curiously, the questions at lunchtime may well feel like a minor extension of what he faced on Tuesday, the BBC's political editor writes.

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As Food Companies Ditch Artificial Dyes, What Does Science Say About Their Health Effects?

General Mills has removed artificial colors from all of its U.S. cereals, including Lucky Charms and Trix, replacing synthetic dyes with colors derived from fruits, vegetables and spices such as turmeric and paprika. The move comes as food companies face growing pressure from consumers, retailers and policymakers to eliminate artificial dyes. GW public health experts are available to discuss what this shift means for consumers and what we actually know about the health effects of artificial foo

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Preventative eye health: Diabetes, glaucoma and protecting vision

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people with diabetes face a higher risk of vision loss and eye diseases.

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For Texan Voters, College Football Is as Partisan as Everything Else

In a new poll from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, we learn that members of the electorate butt heads even when it comes to which team’s fans they most despise.

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What Box Office Bomb Crushed Obsession on Streaming?

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Before we get into this week’s issue, let me ask you for some suggestions. At the risk of coining too many names for too many things (hence my dictionary of terms...), I need a name for straight-to-streaming films that are too expensive to justify a straight-to-streaming release, but not big enough to justify a theatrical release. Like some of the films I highlighted in last week’s tally of the biggest film flops of 2026 so far: Hulu’s Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Pizza Movie or Never Change! They don’t feel like “made for TV movies” (think Hallmark and Lifetime movies, cheap Netflix romcoms, or Disney Channel Original movies, for example) but they don’t feel big enough for the big screen. They’re not “cinematic” enough, so to speak. As I wrote... “I still need a name for this middle zone of film that’s too expensive to go straight-to-streaming but too small to justify a theatrical release (with all the PR, distribution, marketing and whatnot costs that go along with it), the Goldilocks zone of streaming film death.” Friend of the newsletter Brandon Katz has suggested the “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”. I love that first one. I’d offer up the much wordier “The Streaming Budget Dead Zone” or “the Goldilocks Zone of streaming film death” but that last one isn’t accurate since, unlike Goldilocks’ porridge, these films are the opposite of “just right”. That’s the problem! Anyway, if you have any suggestions, let me know! On to today’s Streaming Ratings Report. As you can tell by today’s headline, things are going to be spicy! I’m looking at a box office bomb that did really, really well on streaming, somewhat challenging a few different narratives. And another Netflix series declined in its second season. All that, plus Wicked: For Good switching streamers, The Hawk continuing its strong run, _The Bear’_s finale season finally dropping off the charts, the WNBA posting a big viewership number, “shallow libraries”, a sitcom spinoff failing to launch, more big budget IP flopping on Paramount+, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of July 20th to July 26th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - The Latest Theatrical Success Story on Streaming In the latest edition of “Flops, Bombs and Misses of the First Half of 2026”, I made a crucial change: I started including theatrical films with the streaming misses. The streamers have collectively—including Netflix, but not to as big of an extent—stopped making a lot of straight-to-streaming films, and the ones they do make aren’t as expensive as in the heyday of the streaming bubble. After the following two films bombed in theaters, you’d guess that they’ll be included in my next collection of flops, bombs and misses six months from now: Masters of the Universe on Prime Video (only $64 million domestic box office) Mortal Kombat II on HBO Max ($79 million domestic) But you’d be wrong! Masters of the Universe, a reboot of the He-Man franchise, a toy from the 1980s, came to streaming on 22-July and did great! This long-gestating project—it’s been at every studio for years, and came close to getting a greenlight at Netflix—then finally came to theaters in June, and showed up on streaming less than two months later. (I don’t love this short theatrical window.) It surprisingly grabbed nearly 20 million hours on its debut: That means, wait for it, Masters of the Universe is currently the eighth biggest film on streaming through two weeks. My rough bar for “hit” is shows or films in the top 15%. Ergo…Masters of the Universe is a legit, streaming hit! (One quick caveat: if it falls out of the top ten next week, it will move to 13th overall, just on the edge of the top 15.) Of course, that’s the data for just 2026. Here’s how it stacks up to Prime Video’s theatrical films: That drop into its second week is typical for Amazon films, but also a worrying sign. I have a feeling interest in this film is front-loaded and we’ll see it drop off after this. As for Mortal Kombat II, in this case, the viewership numbers roughly match the theatrical outing, with only 4.1 million hours in its first week. Here’s how it stacks up to other HBO Max films: The best defense of this number is that, as a relatively violent rated-R film, Mortal Kombat II never had a good chance at breaking out. So now it’s time for a little big of “Entertainment Nuance Guy”: First, yeah, my headline is obviously facetious, since Masters of the Universe besting Obsession says more about horror as a genre than it does that film. Second, I read and listened to quite a few “nobody wanted this IP” takes about Masters of the Universe, and that’s not really true. At least enough people wanted it to power a 20 million+ hour debut! Third, both this film and Mortal Kombat II were considered “average” by viewers, but not great films, with a 6.4 and 6.3 respectively on IMDb. That’s just shy of the level needed to be a word-of-mouth hit. Fourth, in the olden days, strong word of mouth could transform a box office miss into a cable/DVD hit, like Austin Powers or The Shawshank Redemption. We haven’t seen a lot of examples of that on streaming, though. And there are far fewer ways to monetize the post-theatrical life of a film these days. Fifth, Prime Video has shown an ability to push their own titles well, likely because they control the Amazon Fire TV ecosystem. Add it all up, and here’s my nuanced take on Masters of the Universe: it was a box office bomb, but, shockingly, a streaming hit. Unfortunately, while being a theatrical hit saves your film financially, being a streaming hit does not. Both Masters of the Universe and Mortal Kombat II had big budgets and needed to make more money in theaters to justify them. So…Straight-to-Streaming or Theaters? We’ve hit a really fun point in the streaming calendar, since the films that came out in theaters in April, May, and June are now arriving on streaming. So the “Do theatrical releases help streaming performances?” question is gonna get a fresh round of updates nearly every week. No single week will answer the question, but we may get some insights. For example, so far in 2026, it looks like theatrical films are lasting longer on the weekly Nielsen film charts. Here’s a list of films that have made the charts in their fourth or fifth week of release, separated by “for kids” and “general entertainment”: It certainly seems like theatrical films are lasting just a pinch longer on the charts, with Project Hail Mary being the current five-week champion. One Battle After Another did well for HBO Max too, and even The Sheep Detectives made it four weeks. The only exception to this trend? Obsession, which only lasted two weeks on the charts. You might tempted to overreact to this news. Don’t. Obsession is a huge horror hit, but horror just doesn’t do as well on streaming. By the way, here’s the Google Trends for various theatrical and stremaing films: Plus, when it comes to Netflix in four months, Obsession may have another big boost. Quick Notes on Film Note that when I write, “the streamers have pulled back on straight-to-streaming films” that doesn’t mean “abandoned” because Netflix is gonna Netflix. On 24-July, they released 72 Hours, a Kevin Hart comedy. Along with Eddie Murphy, Mark Wahlberg, John Cena and Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart is a streaming film star now. Did this latest one work? Not really. It only garnered two weeks of 13.2 and 12.2 million hours on its debut, well below the 20-million-hour hit threshold. It also was poorly received critically—a 44 on Metacritic—and by customers—a 5.4 on IMDb on 21K IMDb reviews. We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… The latest Netflix true crime doc to pop on the charts… How The Bear finished its run… Netflix’s latest Western to return to streaming… What Paramount+ animated film flopped… And what sitcom also missed… All the flops, bombs and misses… And a whole lot more… ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! I’m behind by a week, so we’ve got two issues coming your way this week, including one in a couple of days or so, then we’ll be all caught up**.** Next issue, inspired by The Super Mario Galaxy Movie coming to Peacock, I’m going to take a look at the workhouse of streaming TV: kids films. Plus The Devil Wears Prada 2 continues theatrical films’ big run on streaming. All that, plus another surprise hit on Hulu, Lioness on CBS, and a whole lot more. Long term, LeBron James is filming his own “Last Dance”-style docu-series, surprising no one. But as I’ve been writing about a lot this summer, this genre is really overrated, so whoever ends up buying it (reportedly ESPN) really shouldn’t pay too much for it.

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Los Angeles Dodgers Announce Will Smith News Before Cardinals Game

After winning their series against the Detroit Tigers this past weekend, the Los Angeles Dodgers are returning home to face the St. Louis Cardinals. With the calendar turning to September, that means MLB rosters have officially expanded. And the Dodgers are returning a key piece to their offense in the form of Will Smith, who […] The post Los Angeles Dodgers Announce Will Smith News Before Cardinals Game appeared first on HEAVY.

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Two Democrats bail out Speaker Mike Johnson after he faces internal revolt

Speaker Mike Johnson nearly lost control of the House floor — again — because of a group of disgruntled conservatives.

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Sandia is automating Bayesian reasoning for science

Sandia's Agent Bayes project faces a nine-month test that asks whether AI can help scientists perform Bayesian reasoning.

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Allies of disgraced ex-House Dem poised for criminal charges for refusing Congress' probe

Allies of a former House Democrat face DOJ criminal charges after the House unanimously held them in contempt of Congress over defied subpoenas.

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Foldable iPhone Ultra Likely Has MagSafe Charging

Apple's foldable "iPhone Ultra" will likely support MagSafe charging, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said in an interview with Tom's Guide. iPhone Ultra dummy models that surfaced in April didn't include a MagSafe ring, while dummies of the iPhone 18 Pro did. Leaked cases for the device did have a MagSafe ring, making it unclear whether it would support MagSafe charging. "All indications that I've heard is that MagSafe is in for this foldable phone.

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Online entertainment sites in the context of U.S.-Israel business and technology

How American market scale and Israeli expertise in cybersecurity, AI, fintech and software are shaping the technology behind digital entertainment.

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Sep 1 • 2:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • jpost.com
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From Israel to international markets: How geography shapes digital entertainment apps

From local regulations to payment systems and user experience, geography plays a defining role in shaping how digital entertainment apps work across international markets.

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Sep 1 • 2:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • jpost.com
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Yellow Wood Partners Agrees to Acquire Nestle's Holistic Health Platform of Leading Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements Brands

/PRNewswire/ -- Yellow Wood Partners ("Yellow Wood"), a private equity firm focused exclusively on investing in consumer brands and companies, today announced...

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Sep 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
JD Vance calls Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed 'evil' at campaign rally

El-Sayed faces Trump ally Mike Rogers in what has quickly become a senate race characterised by personal attacks and insults between the two.

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Sep 1 • 11:51 AM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Ada Yonath, Chemist and First Israeli Woman to Receive a Nobel, Dies at 87

Her mapping of the ribosome, which led to new designs for antibiotics, faced years of derision, as many scientists saw it as a dead-end effort.

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Sep 1 • 11:02 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com