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Amazon has cut the price of the 65-inch Hisense U7 Mini-LED Google TV to $847.99 from its $1,499.99 list price, a 43% reduction that matches its previous Prime Day low. The 2026 model offers 4K Mini-LED picture quality, HDR10+, Dolby Vision IQ, Dolby Atmos, IMAX Enhanced support, and gaming features like native 165Hz refresh, VRR, ALLM, and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Tsukuba built a solid-state cooling prototype that uses a shape-memory titanium-nickel film to convert heat directly into the mechanical motion needed to drive elastocaloric cooling, replacing the usual electric actuator. In tests, heating the actuator film to 86°C produced a 4.0 K temperature difference across the cooling device, and swapping in an external 130°C heat source still yielded a 2.2 K span, showing waste heat alone can power the cycle.
Following an executive order from President Trump renaming Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' amid US-Canada trade tensions, Google Maps updated its US listings over the weekend to reflect the new name. This happened even though the official US Geographic Names Information System database, which Google says it follows, has not yet updated its base map to show the change.
NFL veteran Ndamukong Suh met Warren Buffett in 2009 while at the University of Nebraska, after Buffett requested an introduction ahead of a rivalry football game. A friend convinced Suh to seek a follow-up meeting, and he arrived at Buffett's office hours early out of respect. That single conversation stretched for hours and led Buffett to become Suh's informal mentor for the past 17 years.
Kalshi issued its first-ever lifetime ban against former Rep. George Santos and fined him $71,356 for insider trading and market manipulation. Santos had placed bets on whether he'd attend Trump's February 2026 State of the Union address, then posted misleading claims about attending to move contract prices before revealing he was actually at an airport. Kalshi froze his account and referred the case to the CFTC, which he settled with earlier this summer for $35,000.
A major flash flood struck Bright Angel Creek in the Grand Canyon on Saturday, killing a 46-year-old man whose body was found near Crystal Rapids, and leaving about 15 people missing or unaccounted for. The surge pushed boulders into the Colorado River, prompted the airlift evacuation of more than 60 people, and destroyed the park's only pipeline supplying potable water to residents and tourists.
Sony Music and Warner filed a lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday, alleging the AI company trained its Claude models on tens of thousands of copyrighted song lyrics and compositions without permission. The publishers are seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work plus $25,000 for each instance of stripped copyright data, potentially totaling billions in damages, and cite songs like 'Livin' on a Prayer' and 'Hallelujah' among the works allegedly used.
Apache Iggy, an open-source message streaming platform written in Rust, has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a full Apache Software Foundation Top-Level Project after a unanimous vote on August 19, 2026. The project began in March 2023 as founder Piotr Gankiewicz's personal effort to learn Rust and study messaging internals, later evolving into a thread-per-core system using io_uring and Viewstamped Replication for consensus, achieving single-digit millisecond P99 latencies.
TIME's newly published 2026 TIME100 AI list left out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su, despite both companies dominating GPU supply for AI infrastructure. Instead, the list includes figures like Ben Affleck, Bernie Sanders and Paris Hilton, while Nvidia's only representative is its sustainability chief Josh Parker, featured for work on data center energy use and cooling.
An installation artist placed a working phone booth at Black Rock City's Temple of the Flying Spaghetti Monster corner, rewired to route calls over the internet instead of accepting coins. Attendees can dial a friend or loved one anywhere for five minutes free, or simply call the booth's public number hoping a passing stranger picks up.
MapQuest announced it would not rename Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' despite a Trump executive order directing federal agencies to update the name. Following the decision, MapQuest's iOS app jumped to No. 4 among all US App Store apps and became the top-ranked navigation app, with hundreds of thousands of new downloads and usage climbing to 50 times normal levels.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said President Trump personally contacted Apple to push for renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America' within Apple Maps. The move follows Trump's push amid rising trade tensions with Canada, and comes after Google already updated its maps for U.S. users to reflect the new name.