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Investor Brad Feld shares a personal reflection on Labor Day weekend, noting that at 60 he's increasingly focused on what truly matters. He shares a list his partner Amy texted him identifying life's real luxuries, including time, health, rest, and meaningful relationships, rather than material wealth.
The House of Representatives has trimmed its September calendar down to only four voting days, sharply reducing the window for lawmakers to act on pending legislation. Among the bills losing time is the CLARITY Act, considered the crypto industry's top remaining legislative priority in Congress.
Earth Garden is a web tool that lets users spin a 3D globe and hear real-world ambient sounds tied to specific locations, from ocean waves near Atlantic islands to crickets in Tanzania and rainfall in Manhattan. The audio clips are sourced from Freesound, and the site can auto-rotate the globe, blending in new recordings as it moves, with an option to layer ambient drone sounds over the top.
IMAX auditoriums use distinct 1.90:1 or 1.43:1 aspect ratios for digital and film projection, resulting in screens that are notably taller and squarer than standard cinemas, some reaching nearly 60 feet tall for 70mm showings. Filmmakers like Christopher Nolan note that shooting for IMAX means capturing more visual information and carefully planning framing so movies translate across different screen shapes, rather than simply blowing up existing footage.
Microsoft has launched Project Zenith, a stripped-down version of Windows 11 aimed at AI developers, requiring at least 64GB of unified memory and 250GB/s memory bandwidth. It will debut on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo hardware, a rival to Nvidia's DGX Spark, before expanding to other OEM devices, and ships preloaded with tools like VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Python, WSL, and .NET 10 already configured for coding.
Clucky is a new iPhone alarm app founded by former Fanatics engineer Adrian Angelo Abelarde that forces users to complete tasks like math problems, push-ups, or an AI camera challenge before the alarm can be silenced. It offers sound options ranging from a crowing rooster to gentle chimes, plus a group feature called 'Nest' or 'Flock' letting friends hold each other accountable for waking up together. The app is free to download with a $39.99 annual pro subscription.
Apple has revealed more details about iPhone Handoff, a feature coming with iOS 27 that lets a user pair two iPhones so both can use the same phone number, with one device set as primary and the other as a companion. A demo showing setup through Xcode 27's Device Hub surfaced after the feature was first teased at WWDC in June without specifics.
A new study published in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas analyzed 33 years of US mortality data from the Global Burden of Disease Study and found that the share of cancer deaths attributable to alcohol rose more than 58% among adults 20 and older since 1990. Researchers found that even about one standard drink daily was enough to raise cancer risk, despite overall cancer mortality declining over the same period.
Napoleon Jones, a Navy veteran, was filming a traffic stop from a private parking lot in Sussex, Wisconsin, when a Waukesha County deputy turned around and detained him instead, later pulling him from his car and arresting him for 'resisting and obstructing.' Jones was released after five hours with no charges, and an internal memo confirmed the stop was illegal, but records show his vehicle was subsequently searched via Flock license-plate-reading cameras more than 100 times.
A closely watched investment portfolio cut positions in AI-linked names Palo Alto Networks and Corning last week after big run-ups, locking in gains of roughly 148% and 52% respectively. Proceeds were redirected into more defensive holdings such as BNY and Kimberly-Clark, as rising oil prices and Treasury yields pressured risk appetite even after Nvidia's strong earnings failed to lift the broader AI trade.
A book teaching programming using OCaml, originally written in French, has been translated into English by Urmila Nair. The translation was funded by The OCaml Software Foundation and is released under a CC BY SA 4.0 open license, making it freely shareable and adaptable.
TCL is launching its P80 Series this month, led by the P80 Ultra, which combines a 50MP main camera and a 50MP 3x periscope telephoto lens with a 6.83-inch 1.5K AMOLED display peaking at 3,200 nits. TCL positions the device against rivals like the Samsung A57 and Redmi Note 15 Pro Plus, neither of which offers a dedicated telephoto camera, while also including exclusive NXTPAPER screen technology across the Ultra and Pro models.