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You can now stream PS Plus games to Steam Deck without owning a PS5 - and without buying a PS Portal

A new cloud-streaming app that lets players stream PlayStation games to their Steam Deck and Steam Machine without a PS5 has just opened a playtest.

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Aug 9 • 12:16 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
‘Decades in Sports’: How the 1980s Miami Hurricanes became one of the most hated teams in sports history

Many dominant teams have defined the 150-plus year history of college football, but few left a bigger mark than the 1980s Miami Hurricanes.

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Aug 9 • 9:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Decades in Sports’: How the 1980s Miami Hurricanes became one of the most hated teams in sports history

Many dominant teams have defined the 150-plus year history of college football, but few left a bigger mark than the 1980s Miami Hurricanes.

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Aug 9 • 9:42 AM EDT • Sports • cnn.com
‘Decades in Sports’: How the 1980s Miami Hurricanes became one of the most hated teams in sports history

There have been plenty of dominant teams in the 150-plus-year history of college football, but few have left a bigger mark on the sport than the Miami Hurricanes did during

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Aug 9 • 9:42 AM EDT • Sports • wpsdlocal6.com
Pols & Politics: Former Gov. Charlie Baker to headline Dem DA candidate’s fundraiser, snubs GOP hopeful

Charlie Baker is hosting a fundraiser for a Democratic DA candidate while snubbing the GOP challenger. Plus: Spilka responds to criticism of a veteran campaign sign and another Healey endorsement.

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Aug 9 • 4:28 AM EDT • Politics • bostonherald.com
Saturday Sports: General Brown football camp wraps up, plus a check on SU football

Here’s a recap of your North Country sports this Saturday.

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Aug 8 • 6:18 PM EDT • Sports • wwnytv.com
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2026 Sports Card Release Calendar: Upcoming Topps, Panini & Upper Deck Dates

See which sports cards are coming next in 2026, including upcoming Topps, Panini and Upper Deck releases plus important date-change notes. The post 2026 Sports Card Release Calendar: Upcoming Topps, Panini & Upper Deck Dates appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 8 • 3:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
5 Streaming Devices Cheaper Than The Roku Ultra (After The Price Hike)

Streaming devices that serve as worthwhile alternatives to the Roku Ultra but don't cost as much include TiVo Stream 4K Onn 4K Plus, and Roku Stream Stick 4K.

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Aug 8 • 11:47 AM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
D23 - Disney Entertainment Showcase Disney+ Predictions

On the evening of Friday, 14th August 2026, Disney takes over the Honda Centre for a two-hour-long Disney Entertainment Showcase

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Aug 8 • 10:49 AM EDT • Entertainment • whatsondisneyplus.com
Fault lines for both parties emerge after Michigan’s primaries: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Bill Cassidy provides crucial support for Todd Blanche.

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Aug 7 • 5:18 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Metro Health hosts back-to-school vaccine clinic for Immunization Awareness Month

San Antonio Metro Health hosts a back-to-school immunization event Aug. 9, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Wheatley Heights Sports Complex. No appointment needed. Vaccines via state programs, plus family resources. Supplies limited.

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Aug 7 • 4:24 PM EDT • Health • news4sanantonio.com
MetroPlusHealth Achieves 4-Star Medicare Advantage Rating

MetroPlusHealth, New York City’s high quality, affordable health plan, announced today that its Medicare Advantage plans have been awarded a 4-Star rating

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Aug 7 • 10:49 AM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
Is Misbehavior by Politicians Finally Having a Reckoning? | WSJ Politics Newsletter for Aug. 7

Plus, a Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress and U.S. intelligence assesses Putin could launch incursion into a NATO member state

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Aug 7 • 7:16 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
What the left’s Michigan breakthrough does – and doesn’t – mean: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller faces growing calls to step aside.

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Aug 6 • 5:07 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Today’s Best Deals: AirPods Pro 3, MTG x Marvel Booster Box, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for PC

Plus, save on LEGO, a JBL portable speaker, and more.

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Aug 6 • 1:09 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems designed to accelerate scientific discovery and AI development.

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Aug 6 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Wyndham Championship leaderboard, Round 1 tee times, PGA Tour updates

It's Round 1 of the 2026 Wyndham Championship on the PGA Tour. Follow for updates and highlights, plus tee times and how to watch.

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Aug 6 • 6:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Progressives had another big primary night – with a notable exception: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Trump’s new loyalty test.

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Aug 5 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Minecraft reveals Nintendo Switch 2 release date, new details

Minecraft has shared its Nintendo Switch 2 release date plus new details including an upgrade for the Super Mario Mash-up Pack.

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Aug 5 • 2:25 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
Paramount's chairman says lawsuit opposing Warner Bros. merger is political

An antitrust lawsuit has put Paramount's bid for larger rival Warner Brothers Discovery in jeopardy. Paramount's chairman says the problem is really about politics — and whether he's fit to own CNN.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

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Aug 5 • 12:07 PM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Huawei confirms MateBook Pro pricing, Kirin X90 Plus and Harmony OS laptop starts at $1,480

Huawei’s 970-gram MateBook Pro returns with the Kirin X90 Plus and higher prices. The base model costs around $1,480, while the top option exceeds $2,000.

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Aug 5 • 11:32 AM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com
Chartbook 464 The"China squeeze" - the politics of development counterfactuals.

There are three types of China shock discourse. Each has a distinct temporal register. China shock 1.0 was a phrase coined by US academics in the 2010s to retrospectively summarize the impact on particular US labour markets, which they identified through painstaking empirical investigation. China shock 2.0 on everyone’s lips in Europe in the mid 2020s is an alarm raised by trans-Atlantic policy thinkers warning of a coming disaster which they project onto Europe’s ailing car industry. The third type of China shock discourse - commonly known as the “China squeeze” launched most recently by Indian economists Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian in the pages of Foreign Affairs - mobilizes a different, more speculative temporal register: the counterfactual realm of alternate history. The China squeeze argument asks not what has happened, or what is going to happen, but what might have been. Specifically, what options for economic development might have been open to Global South economies like India or the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, had it not been for China’s spectacular industrialization since the late 1990s and the persistent competitiveness of China’s manufacture in low-skilled segments. Chatterjee and Subramanian’s argument is that whilst China has built a powerful position in electrical machinery and other high-skill manufacturing, which is now delivering China Shock 2.0, it also continues to run a trade surplus in low-skill, labour-intensive manufacturing. This surplus is large and has remained largely unchanged in fifteen years. Indeed, in the 2010s, in trade with low-income countries, China’s surplus rapidly increased. On their reading, this squeezes low-income producers in low-skill sectors in which they “should” be able to compete. Source: “China’s Mercantilist Squeeze on Developing Countries” Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian. Peterson Institute for International Economics 26-7 May 2026 Chatterjee and Subramanian’s wording is telling: (emphasis mine) The canonical trajectory of economic development in the post-World War II period is for countries to transition from agriculture to manufacturing, first in low-skilled manufacturing and then later on to high-skill manufacturing (Herrendorf, Rogerson, and Valentinyi 2013). At the global level, this implies that high-income countries (HICs) that once specialized in low-skilled activities cede manufacturing export space to poorer countries that come along to occupy that space. In 1965, advanced economies accounted for about 60 percent of global value-added exports in four key low-skilled manufacturing sectors, i.e., apparel, leather, textiles, and footwear. Over time this share declined and began to be occupied first by the East Asian tigers and, beginning in the late 1990s, by China. Today China accounts for about 50 percent of the global market. The question is whether China, with its rising prosperity, is continuing to behave like its richer counterparts and ceding export space to poorer followers or to behave unlike them and continuing to occupy space. In terms of the conceptual maneuvers it performs, of the three China shock discourses, the “China squeeze” argument is by far the most ambitious. After all, it bases its critique of China on a counterfactual imagining of the world. Like any counterfactual argument, to construct this alternative reality it must rely on a heuristic model. To make their argument Chatterjee and Subramanian mobilize two key claims. The first reference point is the actual history of rich-country industrialization, what they refer to as the “canonical path”. The idea is that countries transition from agriculture to light industry and low-skilled manufacturing and from there up the value chain. To make this useful as a standard of comparison and a means to construct a normative standard, they adjust sectoral export shares for two factors: 1. the underlying level of economic development of the exporting country, as measured by national income and 2. the degree to which the sector in question is internationalized. The idea being that for a high income country to have a high export share in low-skill sectors is anomalous and even more so if that particular product is highly internationalized and thus suitable for being “conceded” to lower-income competitors. Where should this process end? Here Chatterjee and Subramanian introduce their second benchmark. Their normative idea of a global development path is one in which, in due course, low-skill manufacturing exports are distributed in proportion to a country’s share in the global labour force. They imagine, in other words, a world of proportional, polycentric global development without much national specialization in low-skill manufacturing. A useful benchmark is that, in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors, a country’s share of world exports should be broadly commensurate with its share of the world’s low-skilled labor endowment. … In the Heckscher-Ohlin model, this would be true if value added per worker and export propensities, i.e., fraction of output that is exported, are the same across countries. It is this pleasant liberal vista of orderly global development, progressing towards a general distribution of low-skilled manufacturing against which they judge reality and conclude that the low-income countries are suffering a “China squeeze”. China is not exiting low-skill sectors fast enough Allowing for its gdp level and the degree of globalization, China’s share of low-skill manufacturing exports is far higher than it “should” be. Relative to population, its low-skill share of exports is far too high. That in turn yields the conclusion that huge numbers of jobs - the authors suggest tens of millions - are being hoarded by China. For the four sectors captured in figure 4, this excess in value-added exports is $110 billion in 2022. For all low-skilled sectors overall captured in appendix figure D.1, excess value-added exports amount to $365 billion. The crowding out of LMIC exports by China is therefore substantial. Both these claims have in common that they are strong structuralisms. The first is that development paths ought to resemble each other. The second is that broadly speaking as far as low-skilled manufacturing is concerned, all countries are alike. If the world currently diverges from the distribution of trade implied by these assumptions, if China is not following the advanced economy path and has huge exports, this must be the result of “policy”, which the authors then put in question as illegitimate or unfair. Thus the naturalistic construction of a canonical path leading to a “level” distribution of low-skilled manufacturing reveals itself to be a polemical tool. From the point of view of China shock polemics, this discourse is no doubt welcome. But as an account of economic history, it must surely be regarded as nothing short of bamboozling. Development paths do not follow a regular, natural sequence. As David Fishman put it aptly, “development is not a queue”. They are always and everywhere, through and through political. Development is not so much a process, as a project. Each such project is more or less well adjusted to its context. As Gerschenkron taught uneven and combined development implies differentiation rather than simple imitation on a single parth. It may be true that Europe and the US exited relatively early from low-skill work. But clearly technology has changed. As C&S themselves point out, China no longer enjoys a low wage environment. Do they really believe that such huge differences can be accounted for either by industrial policy, which as they admit does not operate powerfully in low-skill sectors, or by exchange rate manipulation? What is overwhelmingly dominant in explaining the persistence of “low-skill” manufacturing in China are surely the network effects of complex supply chains. Indeed the label of “low-skill” may miss the point. The degree of globalization which Chatterjee and Subramanian decide to conjure away in their model of the development path - to allow for the fact that Europe and American textiles exporters did not enjoy just-in-time logistics in the 1950s - obscures the point that the networks through which Chinese factories supply the world are themselves key parts of the low-skill industrialization project. China isn’t knocking out 1970s style “cheap”. It has redefined the entire product cycle. C&S’s casual reference to “T-shirts” is telling. In today’s “fast fashion”, there is weight on both terms. Fashion and fast. China’s success in delivering on both at unprecedentedly high speed and at unprecedentedly low cost, isn’t a low-skill operation at all. If we see development trajectories not as the serial repetition of the same, but as distinctive, crafted projects that cumulate in complex agglomerations of skill, technology and labor, then this explains why the assumption that low-skilled manufacturing should follow the distribution of population flies in the face of all experience. As countless cases attest, low-wage, low-income developed economies are not by themselves the makings of a competitive production base. As Leon Liao puts it quite fairly: “International trade has never been allocated according to population. A country’s population gives it no natural claim to an equivalent share of global exports." And the remarkable fact is that Subramanian alone and with co-authors has long been making this point, not to pillory China, as is the case of the tendentious _Foreign Affair_s and Peterson pieces, but to highlight the great counterpart to China’s industrial success, namely India’s relative failure. The much-quoted Foreign Affairs piece showed low-skill export shares only for China, not for India. If you put both countries in the picture as Chaterjee and Subramanian have done on other occasions, the picture looks like this. China is far above the line, but India, almost as large in terms of population, is no less anomalous, just in the opposite direction. As far as global populations are concerned, and the imagining of tens of millions of “squeezed” jobs, it is this Sino-Indian pair that account for a huge share of the action. What this graph reveals is not China’s cheating, but India’s “greatest development failure”, at least this is the argument made Arvind Subramanian, this time in co-authorship with Devesh Kapur, in their major book, A Sixth of Humanity. Independent India’s Development Odyssey which appeared with Oxford University Press earlier this year. In this highly critical work on India’s development, China is repeatedly evoked, not to criticize but as a benchmark against which to illuminate what India’s political economy has not delivered i.e. large-scale formal employment for hundreds of millions of citizens. Kapur and Subramanian leave no doubt, if you want to understand why China, not India was the main driver of manufacturing globalization from the 1980s, don’t look to slots opening up in the division of labour thanks to the liberal mindedness of advanced economies, look to the contrasting political economy of the Maoist PRC and India’s post-independence political economy. As Kapur and Subramian note: The great divergence between China and India did not begin in 1978 with the Deng reforms—it was well underway by then. In one of the great ironies of modern history, the conditions created by Maoism turned out to be a great launching pad for industrial globalization. As the comparison of India and China in 1980 makes clear, to imagine manufacturing would be equally distributed when populations are so differently endowed in terms of educational and nutritional is fanciful. Here is the data from Kapur and Subramanian, data which I explored back at the very beginning of Chartbook. As Kapur and Subramanian insist, the striking fact is that even as India’s growth accelerated from the 1980s, structural change has not. Formal employment in India lags woefully behind. Why? As Kapur and Subramanian note, the path-dependent impact of India’s poor early start was devastating. The list of factors they mention is long and weighty: We argue for a new five-fold explanation applicable at different stages of Indian history: in the initial stages, the legacy of two key pre-1980s policies, the neglect of agriculture and the strangling of the domestic private sector, were critical. The failure of broad-based agricultural growth militated against rural industrialization, which would have been devoted to satisfying local needs that would have necessarily been labour intensive. Then, when the boom came after 1980, the thicket of regulation and broader labour protections that were legislated prematurely in a nascent democracy, underpinned by a deep ideological aversion to private capital in general and big capital specifically, became a barrier to attaining the size that would be necessary to compete globally. Similarly, the reforms after 1991, while wide-ranging, did not quite encompass non-tradeable inputs critical to manufacturing, namely, land, logistics infrastructure and power. A combination of low investment (logistics infrastructure), regulation (land) and the continued monopoly supply by state governments (power), combined with residual socialism, kept costs at 75–100 per cent above efficient supply. These factors were compounded on the supply side by the government, which dominated the formal labour market and established exorbitantly high wages at the lower end of the skill spectrum. This made their employment in the labour-intensive sector by the private sector less attractive. Finally, when the services sector and its exports boomed, wages soared even further via a Dutch Disease effect: one successful tradeable sector killed and cannibalized another less-skilled tradable sector, namely, manufacturing. Thus, scarcity-inducing policies of the planning era, precocious democracy and a Gandhian aversion to size; inefficient, monopolistic supply of critical non-tradable inputs; the behemoth of government; and super-successful skill-intensive services successively undermined India’s unskilled labour employment opportunities. The employment failure seems to have been over-determined. … Less quantifiable but no less important are some of the sociological factors that have undermined manufacturing and factory jobs. Take the impact of the success of the IT sector—located in urban areas with better working conditions, such as air-conditioned offices, good schools for children and attractive entertainment options. It became a more attractive place for engineering and management graduates to flock to. … Consider manufacturing and female employment. Indian society makes it difficult for women to work, reflected in India’s unusually low female labour force participation (elaborated in Chapter XIII). Indian society, in particular the routine harassment of women in public spaces, makes it even more difficult for them to travel long distances to take up work.37 Combined with onerous regulations on creating hostels and dormitories for women—which, in turn, prevents multiple shifts of operation—factories need to be located in areas with a large female labour pool. While firms can take apparel plants to female labour or bring them to the plants by building large-scale dormitories, this raises costs. If there was a case for subsidies to encourage labour-intensive manufacturing, housing subsidies to build dormitories for women workers would be a good place to start. All of this meant, that when opportunities did open up, in part thanks to adjustments in China, India was in no position to take advantage. Here is the account of the 2020s from Kapur and Subramanian. It stands in dizzying contrast to the one-sided, “China squeeze” argument delivered in the Peterson and Foreign Affairs pieces: In 2022, for example, India’s share of global exports in clothing (the canonical labour-intensive sector) was 3.1 per cent compared to 32 per cent for China. This is extremely disappointing because China started vacating export space in this sector after the Global Financial Crisis as its wages started rising; it then vacated further space in the aftermath of geopolitical developments that led investors to seek alternative investment locations. Between its peak and today, China lost about 7.5 percentage points of global export share (worth about $43 billion in 2022); over this period, India’s export share remained stagnant at 3 per cent, while that of Vietnam and Bangladesh rose by 3.5 to 4 percentage points. China’s loss did not translate into any gain for India in terms of low-skill exports and employment. Put differently, when the conditions for dynamism and prosperity were established after 1991, and even more tantalizingly when the global export opportunities opened up, it was as if India was a high-wage economy and only skilled labour could benefit from the dynamism. It had converted its physically abundant unskilled workforce into an economically expensive resource, penalizing its use. It is not my mission here to argue for or against Kapur and Subramanian’s interpretation of India’s development trajectory. The point in this context is simply that the “China squeeze” such as it is can only be understood, in relation to the heavy burden of domestic constraints that Kapur and Subramanian so unsparingly enumerate. I am concentrating here on India because it is the great counterpart to China and the unspoken reference point of the “China squeeze” discourse. But the point is more general. Can anyone with a straight face suggest that the main problems afflicting the development of South Africa or Nigeria, the great centers of mass underemployment in sub-saharan Africa, are cheap competition from China driven by Beijing’s industrial policy and an undervalued RMB? Likewise, is the main problem of the American working-class the threat of Chinese competition or the manifest crisis of social reproduction in the United States itself? The point here, as in the discourse around China shock 2.0 in Europe, is to insist that we should not normalize the world and pathologize China, without actually investigating what is going on in America’s industrial wastelands, the German car industry, or India’s lopsided labour market. One-sided pathologization should be understood for what it is, a polemical gesture. Concepts like China shock and China squeeze are, what Reinhart Koselleck, following Carl Schmitt, would have described as “asymmetrische Kampfbegriffe”, or “asymmetrical counter-concepts” or “asymmetrical combat concepts”. If the function of arguments like the “China squeeze” is to alert elites in the rest of the world of the need to rejuvenate and energize their development projects, so be it. But let us see the resulting discourses as the mobilizing interventions that they are. Interestingly, a significant slice of China’s public sphere - the so-called industrial party - have been obsessed for the last twenty years with precisely these questions of counterfactual economic history. Since the mid 2000s, a massive online discourse developed around an alternative history in which Chinese techno-patriots were asked to imagine how they would proceed if they had the possibility of traveling back in time to transport modern technology into the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) thus averting the “great divergence” of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a fantasy of course, but also a goad. The point was not directed at Westerners. The alternate history is dramatically nationalist, but few n the West had even heard of it until recently. The adherents of the industrial party are not liberal moralists. They don’t project natural ladders of international development and ask why others don’t cede space. They take the Realpolitik of global economic development for granted. Their pointe was directed against fellow Chinese. The rallying cry of the alternative narrative was this: Now that we are beginning to gain steam and push forward on our national development path, now that we are breaking out of the inferior position assigned to us even in the early years following WTO accession, do not lose yourself in humanistic imaginings about better futures. In the spirit of Deng, they called on China to embrace the hard truth of development. Perhaps one might of the Industrial Party as a cultural trend born out of desire for symbolic revenge against those who had inflicted the century of humiliation. In terms of the various temporalities of the “China shock” - retrospective, prospective and counterfactual - one might think of the Industrial Policy discourse as truly speculative, conjuring up the China shock that never was. Or perhaps one might better think of it as imagining a world in which a powerful China was no shock at all, but simply a defining fact of modern history. I love putting out Chartbook. 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Aug 5 • 7:18 AM EDT • Politics • adamtooze.substack.com
Huawei launches MateBook Fold (2026) with 18-inch foldable OLED display and Kirin X90 Plus chip

Huawei has officially unveiled the second-generation MateBook Fold Ultimate Design. The premium foldable laptop features an 18-inch dual-layer OLED display, the new Kirin X90 Plus processor, HarmonyOS 6.1, and support for a new AI-powered M-Pencil stylus.

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Aug 5 • 5:34 AM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net
Everything Apple Is Expected to Announce in September

Apple is going to announce at least five new devices next month at its annual iPhone-centric event, though it's possible we'll also get devices that were waiting on Siri AI. Here's what's coming. iPhone 18 Pro Rumors suggest the iPhone 18 Pro is going to look a lot like the iPhone 17 Pro, but with a smaller Dynamic Island. It's getting a new Wide camera with a variable aperture for more control over lighting and background blur, plus a faster A20 Pro chip.

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Aug 4 • 6:10 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Two more House Democrats face primary danger: From the Politics Desk

Plus, the House Ethics Committee is investigating Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller.

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Aug 4 • 5:29 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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‘Reacher,’ ‘The Last Sunrise’ and ‘Sterling Point’ Are 3 of Prime Video’s Must-Watch Releases This August

Plus, you can catch the new documentary Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter out this month, too.

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Aug 4 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • cnet.com
OnePlus is sold out in the US and Canada - there are no more phones on the official site

You might still find a few leftover units at third-party retailers, but the brand is officially out of the North American market.

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New DC Studios Show 'Lanterns' Is Out This August on HBO Max, Plus New 'Hard Knocks,' Conan and More

These shows and tons of great new movies arrive to HBO Max this month.

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(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) You probably remember egg prices spiking a few years ago. This led to a lot of debate between the pro-market/pro-competition/antitrust/Neo-Brandesian crowd and the center/center-right/center-left/abundance/libertarian crowd over the cause, whether it was the avian flu outbreak or whether industry consolidation led to price fixing, using avian flu as a convenient cover. Basel Musharbash wrote a whole investigation at BIG looking at it. Well, two years later, we have our answer: it was price fixing. The Justice Department found proof, via emails, of price fixing. Indeed, just the threat of an investigation brought prices down two years ago: I bring this up because at least half a dozen of my favorite political writers and pundits, who were skeptical about price fixing at the time, haven’t written any mea culpas on this issue. It’s really dispiriting and makes it much, much harder to trust their work on other issues. If you take a hard stand on an issue, then you get it wrong, you need to explain how and why you got it wrong. Or update your priors. This is how epistemological bubbles are formed! All of which is to say, it’s time for another installment of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. Last issue, I mostly focused on the “wrong” side of the equation, so today’s is a bit more balanced, but with one big mea culpa (though I still stand by my original concerns). Let’s dive right in! Subscribe CORRECTION: UFC Didn’t Release Subscriber Data (But Seems to Have Bragged About It Internally) In my analysis of the viewership of UFC Freedom 250, I wrote... “Paramount has also released datecdotes bragging about their subscriber numbers. Earlier this year, they claimed that the first UFC fight on Paramount+ brought in 1 million subscribers.” Well, that datecdote did not come from a PR rep, but from great reporting from James Faris at Business Insider. The actual quote was this: “Paramount’s flagship streaming service generated about a million new subscribers on the day of its first-ever UFC event, Paramount product chief Dane Glasgow told employees in a town hall on Tuesday morning, three staffers who attended the meeting told Business Insider.“ This wasn’t the biggest goof in the world; even Faris emphasized to me that this is more a “clarification” than a correction. Still, it sounds like, internally, the folks at Paramount were very happy about this result—and I’m guessing they were happy with this news getting out—even though the gains didn’t last through the quarter, dropping to 700K adds. RIGHT: MrBeast’s Struggles Continue... I’m very skeptical about MrBeast’s burgeoning media “empire” and, in particular, its $5 billion valuation, as I wrote earlier this year and last year. Sure enough, according to Business Insider, regarding its “booming” consumer products division_:_ “US sales volume grew 13% year-over-year in 2025, following a 33% leap the previous year, according to a presentation deck dated May 2026....A February 2025 investor deck viewed by Business Insider showed Feastables’ net revenue more than doubled in 2024 from 2023, to $215 million, and was forecast to grow 74% in 2025, to $375 million.” [Emphasis mine.] If you told investors that you projected 74% growth but delivered 13%,1 that’s not ideal. But it’s not just MrBeast. Logan Paul and KSI’s Prime had sales drop in half for their energy drinks. It’s one thing to build a successful entertainment company and an entirely different thing to succeed in the heavily-consolidated-but-also-very-competitive consumer packaged goods space! CPGs are dominated by a few firms with very wide moats compared to YouTube, which has few barriers to entry. These businesses require different skill sets and have completely different business environments. WRONG: Does the NBA Have an $8 Billion Bidder? Almost as soon as I published my article about the NBA’s finances, casting skepticism on NBA expansion, I saw this Front Office Sports headline: One group “claims to have already raised $8 billion” for the Vegas expansion team. I mean, wow. That’s just $2 billion less than what the Los Angeles Lakers were valued at when they were sold just last year. And they’re arguably the most popular team in the NBA. (Side note: the new owner is now under an investigation for fraud in how he went about financing the Lakers and the Dodgers purchases.) So much for the “dried up” language I used in that article. (This is why I usually stick to my “Entertainment Nuance Guy” tone in articles...) I went off old information—from April, when I read/heard about the NBA downplaying expansion efforts—instead of doing a quick double-check for new news. That said...if you read the article, the market for Seattle is “slow”, with just one reported bidder. So I wasn’t entirely off. This goof has annoyed me since I first published it, mainly because it undercut that article’s real point, which I stand by: NBA franchises are really overvalued right now. Now, I get why NBA teams are overvalued. When it comes to owning sports teams, it’s basically never wrong to assume that some rich person somewhere will care more about owning a team (or just being part of a group since they’re so expensive) than the actual financials. There are only so many teams to own, and opportunities to buy in preferred markets don’t come along very often. This explains why the teams sell for such high multiples (usually above a 10 to 12.5 revenue multiple, which is very high). You only need one person to overpay! Beyond the ultra-wealthy luxury good explanation, I worry NBA teams are becoming speculative assets. More and more private equity investors are buying into NBA teams. But the value, in owning a team, comes from selling it later, not any meaningful relationship to revenue or profit growth. In other words, the newer NBA owners are increasingly expecting someone later to buy their inflated asset. That’s not sound economics; that’s the “greater fool” theory at work.2 At some point, actually making money has to matter. Especially since revenue growth is now below the growth of the stock market. (And this matters because the NBA doesn’t have easy levers to pull to drastically lower their costs—half of their revenue has to go to players and then you actually have to run a team, including coaching, training, travel, media expenses, and more—or raise revenues aside from one-off expansions in America and overseas.) I just don’t see how investors make their money back buying NBA teams, except for selling at a higher price later on down the line. But if revenue/profit growth continues to slow, at some point, someone will be left holding the bag. RIGHT: Baseball and Basketball are about equally popular. Related to the above, I wanted to cite two quick pieces of evidence for one of my other theories: that the NBA and MLB are about as popular as each other, but the NBA gets much, much better media coverage. One YouGov survey has that fans prefer basketball to baseball by 52% to 48%, which I’m guessing is within the margin of error for that poll. That’s virtually even, meaning they’re about the same popularity. Over on NBC, a recent Red Sox-Yankees game averaged 4 million viewers, higher than Sunday Night Basketball’s average of 3.4 million on the same network. A Yankees-Dodgers game averaged 3.9 million two weeks ago. Not every game averages this much, but it shows you that baseball isn’t far off from basketball, depending on the matchup. Altogether, the NBA is just slightly more popular than baseball, but NBC is paying MLB a fraction of what they pay the NBA, a point I’ve made before. RIGHT: Angel, MUBI and Neon Updates... I’ve long been skeptical about many of Hollywood’s buzziest startups/smaller indie studios. It’s not that they don’t make great movies—films like Anora and Everything Everywhere All at Once are amazing—or that they’re not (rightfully) pushing the majors to make better films, but...they get a ton of hype, and that hype often doesn’t live up to the reality or difficulty in scaling up. Starting with MUBI, well, The Wall Street Journal wrote a feature on MUBI’s struggles last April, best summarized by the subheader “After Sequoia valued Mubi at $1 billion, a left-wing revolt sent the indie film company into a tailspin”. MUBI lost $7.3 million on $200 million in revenue in Q4 2025, but reportedly hit a record 1.7 million subscribers at the end of Q1. As for Neon, Department M purchased a “significant stake” in the company earlier this year. How much is that “stake” worth? According to Deadline, “No financial figures for the Neon-Department M deal were disclosed.” So...that’s not great! If it was a big valuation, we’d hear about. Also, I found this curious: “Both Neon and Department M already have separate partnerships with Qatar. The Qatar Film Committee has a slate deal in place with the former, and a biopic production pact with the latter.” Color me skeptical about much Middle Eastern investment dollars. See: LIV Golf. Finally, as for Angel (formerly Angel Studios), their stock very, very slightly popped last month after Young Washington ($20 million budget) which made $45 million in the US, but their stock is still way down from its opening. Smaller Updates RIGHT: The WGA should focus on antitrust concerns! I’ve been on this for years. Post-WGA/AMTPT deal in 2023, I wrote an article for the Ankler calling on the WGA to focus and organize against industry consolidation. Sure enough, the WGA filed a lawsuit against the Paramount-WBD merger, and people are organizing around this issue now. I wish this energy had coalesced earlier (specifically to lobby Washington much earlier), but better late than never! WRONG: Actually, the chip shortage might be due to market manipulation. In my last “Long Reads for the Long Summer” article, I shared an article about how LLMs are causing memory chip prices to spike, which will make all electronics more expensive. Well, turns out, three RAM manufacturers control 90% of the market, and now a private lawsuit accuses them of price-fixing. So yeah. WRONG/UPDATE: The Odyssey will hold! Two weeks ago, I wrote, “As of this moment, we haven’t had a super-blockbuster, though The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday could all cross the $500 million mark. (At this point, The Odyssey would need a very strong hold to get there.)” Well, it’s safe to say it’s going to have that hold! It only dropped 30% in weekend two and IMAX screenings are sold out all month. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is also off to a great start. RIGHT: People are rushing to get shows out yearly. I’ve long been bullish on yearly, weekly-released shows, and Leslie Goldberg at The Ankler wrote about how many people in town are now listening. WRONG: Mark Carney reverses Canada’s stance on homegrown production. After writing about Canada installing domestic production quotas, Canada has backed off. WRONG: I don’t trust Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s online “views”. When I originally wrote about the latest Spider-Man film’s record-breaking trailer, I thought this was just YouTube views, but after watching this Corridor Crew video and doing more research, well, it’s all social views of the trailer globally. Really? That stat includes TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts views. Basically, I don’t trust it anymore. (This film will probably set record, but I trust the pre-sales data more.) RIGHT: Celebrity Production companies are still struggling. I’ve written about this for years, but the company that I didn’t track was Kevin Hart’s HartBeat, which was valued at $650 million but is struggling now and might just end soon, especially after Kevin Hart pulled his endorsement deals. And Bad Robot is moving to NYC. CORRECTION: SpongeBob is a “second run” title. In my 2025 recap article, I had _SpongeBob SquarePants_labelled as a “library” title, when it is still a “second run” show, with new episodes still coming out on Nickelodeon. CORRECTION: In my last “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong” update, I offered a correction from Doug Creutz and misspelled TD Cowen. Thanks, Grammarly! 1 Though he could have increased prices to make up for the gap, he couldn’t have increased them that much. 2 There’s a theory, which I think that Daryl Morey created and Bill Simmons popularized, that, to be successful building your team, you only need a handful of bad GMs in the league to take advantage of. To be clear, Daryl Morey’s theory was also for signing bad contracts, that you could always get out of bad contracts. Basically, there’s always someone who will make a bad trade. It’s not the same exact thing, but similar enough to the Greater Fool Theory that I really like it.

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Samsung’s HDR10 Plus Advanced is launching this month on Prime Video

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Navy Suddenly Ends 43-Year Blue Angels Uniform Deal with Florida Business

The Navy ended the Sewing Box’s four-plus decade deal and awarded a $1.69 million contract to a Virginia defense contractor.

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VST is 30 years old, and Steinberg is giving away some of its earliest plugins

It's the format that changed software music making forever: the VST plug-in format turns 30 this year. Steinberg is giving away updated versions of Neon, CS-40, Karlette, VB1, and LM7 -- some of its earliest plug-ins -- to celebrate. And that means you can run these vintage instruments (plus one tape delay) on your modern Mac or PC.

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Politics & Power: Scandals, splits, uncertain road to November mean midterms are still in flux

Scandals, ideological schisms, and foreign‑policy crises have blurred the midterm map. Candidate quality, outside spending, and voter perceptions of the economy — plus President Donald Trump’s outsized role — will determine control of Congress.

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What to Watch for in Michigan’s High-Drama Primary | WSJ Politics Newsletter for Aug. 4

Plus, Democrats woo religious voters, and why the Trump administration moved to support the cratering Japanese yen

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Report: Microsoft to bring Xbox 360 games to "Xbox PCs", handhelds and Project Helix

Plus: Microsoft's disc-to-digital programme dated.

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TCL Tab A1 Plus Nxtpaper is now available in the US

And its price is already reduced by 25%. TCL unveiled the Tab A1 Plus and its Nxtpaper variant in early March at MWC, and now the Nxtpaper version is...

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Michigan’s primary reflects a Democratic base transforming in Trump 2.0: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Todd Blanche’s AG nomination is back on track ahead of a key committee vote.

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Tommy Sullivan and John Ziegler to Perform at LI Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame on Aug 16th

As part of the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Soundtrack to Summer Series, Musician Tommy Sullivan (a member of the Brooklyn Bridge) will perform LIVE music and Comedian John Ziegler will open with comedy set at the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in Stony Brook Village (97 Main Street, Stony Brook, NY) on Aug. 16th from 3-4pm. The event is free for members or with general admission ticket purchase or $10 at the door concert ticket purchase. For details on this and upcoming events please visit https://www.limusichalloffame.... About Tommy Sullivan A life-long Long Islander and proud U.S. Army veteran, Tommy Sullivan enlisted in 1965 and was accepted to the United States Military Academy Band, where he created the first official rock group at West Point. Reentering civilian life in 1968, he helped create the Rhythm Method, a 7-piece Long Island band which was discovered by Johnny Maestro, then singing lead with the Del-Satins. The combined groups became the Brooklyn Bridge. As band leader and musical director, Tommy penned the group’s horn arrangements on every Bridge hit, including their gold record, Worst that could happen. Upon leaving the Bridge, Tommy co-founded Atlantic Records’ supergroup Ramatam, which was Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell’s first group following Hendrix’ death. For the second Ramatam LP Tommy wrote and orchestrated original material which featured select members of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra. Together with Johnny Maestro, Tommy co-produced Johnny’s final CD, Peace on earth. The critically acclaimed album features Tommy’s arrangements & orchestrations, plus several of his original songs. A Charter Inductee to the LI Music Hall of Fame, Tommy Sullivan continues to write, record, arrange and produce records, serve as musical director/ arranger/conductor for projects across many musical genres plus donates dozens of performances annually for numerous charity events. Tommy Sullivan’s dynamic and unique one-man show, A thousand memories, featuring his vocals and performances on four instruments, has been packing concert auditoriums, nightclubs, private parties–even vineyards-for the past several years. John Zeigler Born and raised in New York, John has performed stand-up comedy for close to 20 years and was the winner of the 2016 "Funniest Comic on the East Coast" Contest at Mohegan Sun. John's opened for such comics as Sebastian Maniscalco, Gilbert Gottfried, Jim Breuer and Robert Klein. He currently headlines clubs across the country and regularly tours with legendary comedian Bobby Collins. John recently released his Dry Bar Comedy Special and Getting My Affairs in Order.

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OnePlus 15 and more have fully sold out in the US following shutdown

Following a shutdown of the brand in the US and Europe, OnePlus 15 is now sold out, as are nearly all other products.

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Round Up: This PS Plus Game Is One of the Highest Rated Games of the Year

Big Walk getting big talk

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Did Trump Finally Find an Offramp for the Iran War? | WSJ Politics Newsletter for Aug. 3

Plus, Blanche rescinds ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, which could aid his confirmation, and comparing new Air Force One to older models

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The MLB trade deadline is here, plus Rodgers talks reconciliation

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! It’s great to be back with you. Coming up: ⚾ MLB trade deadline latest ⚽ Soccer mess deepens 🗣️ Rodgers speaks out Just 12 hours separate the time this email landed in your inbox and MLB’s trade deadline at 6 p.m. ET today. It’s easy to wonder if there will be any intrigue at all, with the market’s biggest name already settling into his new Dodger home. Let’s catch up on yesterday’s deals before we get to today:...

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5 Of The Best Phones OnePlus Ever Made

The best OnePlus phones combined competitive prices with ambitious hardware and features that stood out at the time of release.

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These 12+ PS5 and PS Plus Games Are Coming Out Next Week (3rd-9th August)

Marvel Tokon! Beast of Reincarnation! More!

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Lamont Roach vs William Zepeda: Live streaming results and highlights!

We’ve got a world title doubleheader tonight on DAZN and TNT, with Lamont Roach Jr and William Zepeda fighting for the vacant WBC lightweight title in the main event. That will follow the IBF lightweight title bout between Raymond Muratalla and Robson Conceicao, plus two more bouts on the main card this evening! We’ll have […]

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Vinicius Junior transfer news: Real Madrid open to possibility of Arsenal target leaving

Latest transfer news and headlines as Arsenal agree a £77m plus add-ons deal for Newcastle captain Bruno Guimaraes; Chelsea avoid a 15-point deduction over that would have relegated them; Inter Milan are willing to pay £30m for Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones

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Blumenthal's bill, mental health grants, Electric Boat: CT politics news

Plus: A survey suggests support for schools sharing services, a summit addresses threats, and Connecticut Innovators reports a record year.

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Blumenthal's bill, mental health grants, Electric Boat: CT politics news

Plus: A survey suggests support for schools sharing services, a summit addresses threats, and Connecticut Innovators reports a record year.

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Abortion is on the ballot again in these two states: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Trump throws another wrench in Todd Blanche’s confirmation process to be attorney general.

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'Camp Rock 3,' 'Wizards Beyond Waverly Place' and More Arrive to Disney Plus in August 2026

Plus, catch a new Star Wars anime series and more.

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Today’s Best Deals From IGN: LEGO Yoda Bust, Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones, and a Bunch of Physical PS5 Games

Plus, don’t miss Pokémon TCG restocks and savings on a soundbar, an RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC, and more.

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Weekly deals roundup: Galaxy Z Fold 8/Z Fold 8 Ultra/Z Flip 8 launch offers plus a whole lot more

Yes, Samsung's latest and greatest foldables should continue to top your summer shopping lists, but that's not all that's deeply discounted this week on the mobile tech scene.

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Bestow Launches AI-Native Lab for Innovation and Experimentation

Plus: AT&T closes on $23 billion wireless spectrum licenses acquisition, HF Sinclair plans separation of lubricants and specialties business, and more.

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Investment firm acquires majority stake in Indianapolis-based ShipSigma

Pennsylvania-based Inverness Graham has acquired a majority stake in Indianapolis logistics-tech firm ShipSigma in a deal valued at an estimated $100 million-plus.

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PS5's Monthly Active Users Increased Again, PS Plus Making More Money Than Ever

Things are looking pretty good

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Trump’s Immigration Push Keeps Expanding With New $100,000 Fee Idea | WSJ Politics Newsletter for July 31

Plus, inside Trump’s unprecedented fundraising operation and the rise and fall of Anthony Fauci

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Siemens Healthineers’ head of Americas steps down, GE CFO switch, new ASTRO prez, plus more leadership moves

In other news, Vanderbilt has appointed a radiologist to a key leadership position, the University of Rochester has picked a director of diagnostic imaging, and Pueblo Radiology Associates hired 7 new docs.

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Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users

Apple could charge users to increase their AI usage limits.

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Democrats’ novel red-state strategy: From the Politics Desk

Plus, another shake-up in the Wisconsin governor’s race.

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SGMC Health Earns National Recognition for Excellence in Stroke Care

SGMC Health has earned the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines®–Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award, along with the Target: Stroke Honor Roll and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll distinctions.

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Lone Star Politics: July 26, 2026

More local leaders are beginning to speak up about the need for a “strong mayor” system in Dallas. Plus, Talarico and Paxton swing through North Texas in opposing campaign styles.

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Todd Blanche’s rocky road: From the Politics Desk

Plus, the Iran war’s hazy future.

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ENTERTAINMENT: Library parties close summer reading program

The North Little Rock Public Library System marks the close of its Summer Library Adventure with two all-ages parties, plus two bonus events just for adults, on Thursday and Friday.

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Marvel Tokon PlayStation Plus pack revealed with 'free' bonuses for subscribers

After more than a year since its initial reveal, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is almost here, and the PlayStation 5 version of the game will apparently receive some extra content.PlayStation has announced a special PlayStation Plus Pack for Marvel ...

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The best Galaxy Z Fold 8 deal is at Amazon — boosted trade-in plus $350 gift card

Samsung's usually the best place to pre-order the company's latest hardware, but thanks to a massive gift card deal, Amazon's your best bet.

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Silent Hill: Townfall promises to "massively subvert" your expectations, and it's left me painfully excited

Our hands-on impressions of Silent Hill: Townfall, plus producer Motoi Okamoto and director Jon McKellan's thoughts on evolving the series.

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How Ken Martin is holding on as DNC chair — for now: From the Politics Desk

Plus, Washington honors Lindsey Graham.

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His employees called him the ‘World’s Greatest’ chairman. Then he was charged with fraud.

Crain's has received dozens of internal investor emails over the last year-plus that shed light on communications between the now-charged Kenneth Bardwell and his investors.

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Bracing for another Fauci hearing

Plus: Democrats take on Trump over IVF, and Trump's White House releases a new science funding blueprint.

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PlayStation Plus Extra drops 4 free games available to play now

Four new games ready for you!

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Sony Confirms PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for August 2026, Headlined by Dying Light 2: Stay Human

Sony has confirmed the PlayStation Plus monthly games lineup for August 2026 — and it includes Dying Light 2: Stay Human: Reloaded Edition.

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PS Plus Essential Games for August 2026 Announced

Early reveal from Sony

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Flurry of Pitching Developments for Nationals Through Monday

The Washington Nationals made a pair of roster moves, update on the newest pitcher to the rotation, plus a reunion in Nationals Park

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Final 4 PS Plus Extra Games for July 2026 Available to Download Now

Dying Light! Power Rangers!

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Should the NWSL hold an All-Star Game? Plus: Hope Solo auctions World Cup gear

Welcome to Full Time, The Athletic's women's soccer newsletter.

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In the Grip of Politics

All of us, from academics to fishermen, have now internalized a practice of reading the social world as a field of political or latently political signs. TV watching habits, food choices, clothing, interpretive approaches to 19th-century British literature: Everything becomes an opportunity to take a political stand, and to position yourself in relation to others taking political stands—and in a profession where discourse is everything, such opportunities abound.

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What happens when AI chatbots handle a mental health crisis?

Artificial intelligence is transforming how we gather information and communicate with one another.It’s also changing how some people seek out mental health care. But what happens when this sophisticated technology is used to deal with serious mental health issues?For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Jason Fuller, with audio engineering by Ted Mebane and Valentina Rodriguez Sanchez. Our director is Jonas Adams.It was edited by Diane Webber and Tinbete Ermyas.Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.

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Can Susan Collins defy political gravity again?: From the Politics Desk

Plus, oil prices drop as the U.S. and Iran pause strikes.

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Data centers: The business structure that's reshaping AI infrastructure finance

Learn how data center REITs fund AI/HPC growth via joint ventures and institutional capital, plus stocks to watch and rising regulation risks—read now.

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Play More Ubisoft Games on PC: New Content Now Available for XBOX on PC, Plus Free PC Redemption

Ubisoft and XBOX are expanding their partnership with new Ubisoft content for XBOX on PC, and a free benefit for select games, where XBOX console players can snag the PC version at no additional cost.

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PlayStation Plus August 2026 Free Game Revealed Early

In case you missed it, Sony has already confirmed a PS Plus Essential August 2026 game for the PS5. Here's all you need to know.

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Washington’s Sensitive Secret: How Many U.S. Missiles Are Left Five Months into Iran War? | WSJ Politics Newsletter for July 27

Plus, Darline Graham gets on-the-job training in the Senate, and more House Democrats sour on aid to Israel

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I’m a doctor. Here’s why I wear sunblock indoors.

Plus, four tips for buying an effective sunscreen.

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Giardi: Byard about business; plus, Campbell's offseason plan and a thought on PFF

Byard is fully invested, be it in individual drills, team periods, or even times when he’s on the sidelines, away from the action.

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This Week in Pokémon GO: July 27

Pokémon GO’s July 27-August 2 week has us well into the season of Forever Forward! We finish off the 10th Anniversary celebrations, and Gigiantamax Rillaboom makes their return, with a newly released shiny form. Plus the weekly rotating Raid Hours, Spotlight Hour, Dynamax Battles and Mega Raids. ⭐Highlights Raid Boss Change (July 29): Kyurem and […]

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Arsenal plot shock Vinicius Jr move

Arsenal explore move for Vinicius Jr, Inter Milan interested in Cristian Romero and Real Madrid bid for Yan Diomande rejected, plus more.

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The unexpected cost of tariffs for some small business owners

When President Trump invokes tariffs - he promises they’ll benefit Americans. But the experience of some small business owners tells a different story. For this week's Reporter's Notebook, Host Debbie Elliott speaks with NPR Business Correspondent Alina Selyukh about what she learned about the unexpected costs small businesses are shouldering.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Gabriel Sanchez. Our director is Erika Ryan.It was edited by Emily Kopp and Adam Raney.Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.

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Sony Reon Pocket Pro Plus Air Conditioner Arrives In U.S. To Beat Summer Heatwaves

As another heat dome is predicted in the U.S., Sony’s wearable air conditioner has just arrived. Here’s all you need to know.

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And so do the Galaxy Watch Ultra2 and Watch9. Plus, we look at some alternatives. This week, Samsung unveiled its next generation foldables, which included...

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Jul 25 • 4:31 PM EDT • Technology • gsmarena.com
Basic Business? Platinum Pro? Premium Plus? Airlines have a naming problem—here’s how to fix it

Naming experts explain why Delta’s new ‘Basic Business’ class doesn’t work, and what airlines can do to make flying at least sound fun again.

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Jul 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • fastcompany.com
Alexa Is About To Get Smarter

Amazon’s latest Alexa Plus update introduces an AI developer toolkit, MCP support, and smart home automations that understand natural language.

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Jul 25 • 6:31 AM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Bronin campaign, Iran war votes, TPS holders: CT politics news

Plus: Work stacks up for Congress post-recess, a report condemns "extorded compliance," and CT puts $10M towards rural infrastructure.

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Jul 24 • 5:30 PM EDT • Politics • ctmirror.org
Democrats reshape their primary calendar: From the Politics Desk

Plus, 100 days out from the midterms, Republicans feel the pressure on the Iran war.

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Jul 24 • 5:00 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Sony Reon Pocket Pro Plus Air Conditioner Arrives In U.S. To Beat Summer Heatwaves

As another heat dome is predicted in the U.S., Sony’s wearable air conditioner has just arrived. Here’s all you need to know.

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Jul 24 • 1:40 PM EDT • Technology • forbes.com
Mexico's Science Secretary Strengthens Cooperation with China in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Rosaura Ruiz met with Ambassador Chen Daojiang to advance joint AI, semiconductor, and electromobility projects, plus possible collaboration with Huawei.

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Jul 24 • 10:45 AM EDT • Science • mexicosolidarity.com
After OnePlus, Nothing could be the next brand to leave multiple global markets

After OnePlus's exit, report claims Nothing could be next to leave 12 global markets and layoff 40% of its staff amid rising costs.

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Jul 24 • 10:04 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
Diego Pavia's next move after Ravens release; 100 And 1 college basketball storylines

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30-plus business closures this year have reshaped Fargo-Moorhead

More than 30 businesses have closed across Fargo-Moorhead through July 2026. Here's a recap of the closures and what has moved into some of those spaces.

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Jul 24 • 7:09 AM EDT • Business • inforum.com
Slowly, Then Suddenly, the World Is Back at War | WSJ Politics Newsletter for July 24

Plus, Trump’s frustration grows over the Iran war impasse, and the president’s trade wars are back.

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Jul 24 • 7:08 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Entertainment lineup announced for Delco’s Illumination 250 Festival

Plus, Delco libraries invite residents to check out new litter kits to help clean up communities; and eligible Delco residents can submit an application for free clinical medical assistant program to prepare for new career.

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