Conservators at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields are researching the phosphorescent and fluorescent pigments used by late fashion designer Stephen Sprouse in his 1980s Day-Glo creations, aiming to prevent the colors from dulling with age. They presented their findings this week at an American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago, tracing the chemistry behind glow-in-the-dark materials from historical phosphor research to modern DayGlo pigments.
Pebblebee has released LÔC8, a slim, tube-shaped tracker built to slide inside bike handlebars, golf club shafts, or similar hollow objects rather than sit exposed like typical trackers. It works with both Android's Find Hub and Apple's Find My networks, uses a replaceable (though hard-to-source) ER10250 battery, and is rated for roughly three years of use.
CD Projekt Red revealed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, a free upgrade for current owners launching September 29 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2, with overhauled graphics, combat, traversal, and mod support. The studio also confirmed existing owners will get the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions for free, and teased a new paid expansion called Songs of the Past due in 2027.
Reese Witherspoon's book club is moving beyond online recommendations into small, in-person gatherings, hosting an event for under 100 fans at Manhattan's Hudson Yards. Attendees, mostly women, relaxed on beach chairs, swapped book recommendations, and discussed topics like audiobooks versus hardbacks and favorite book-to-screen adaptations.
The Pixel 11 Pro Fold ships in just two colors and retains Google's asymmetrical hinge design, resulting in a noticeable crease and uneven thickness when unfolded. It features two bright OLED displays capable of 3,600 nits and 120Hz refresh rates, runs on the new Tensor G6 chip with up to 1TB storage, and adds a minor color-LED notification feature called HiLight.
A report compiles 13 approaches organizations are using to align artificial intelligence deployment with corporate values, emphasizing judgment, trust, and guardrails rather than unchecked adoption. The piece frames AI as a powerful but unpredictable force, urging leaders to think carefully about intent before implementation.
Apple has started rolling out advertisements inside the Apple Maps app for users in the US and Canada, following through on a plan announced earlier this year. The ads appear as suggested places before a search and within search results afterward, marked with a small blue 'Ad' badge alongside regular business listings.
Google is quietly rolling out Motion Assist, a feature that overlays moving dots on the screen edges to counter motion sickness while using a phone in a vehicle. The dots shift direction based on data from the accelerometer and gyroscope, mimicking how the outside world would appear to move if you looked up. It's appearing on Pixel devices running Android 17 through a staged Play Services rollout, with no separate app or update required.
Pgbot is a 5.9 MB open-source command-line tool that connects to PostgreSQL databases and reports on performance, indexes, schema and query health using plain-English queries and AI-generated explanations. It offers two deployment modes: connecting directly to public databases or running a local agent alongside private databases in Docker, Kubernetes, or internal server environments so credentials never leave the network. It also supports the Model Context Protocol, letting AI agents like Claude or Cursor call pgbot as a deterministic, read-only diagnostic tool.
A franchise consultant who has advised over 1,000 candidates says validation calls with existing franchise owners are a frequently skipped but essential step in the discovery process. These calls happen after reviewing the Franchise Disclosure Document but before Discovery Day or signing, and are meant to confirm claims made by the franchisor directly with people already running the business.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues most companies claiming to be 'AI companies' have simply bought licenses and run pilots, not restructured how they operate. The piece defines true AI-native organizations as ones built on the assumption that intelligence is cheap and abundant, where workflows, staffing and measurement would collapse without the models—unlike adopters, who could remove AI tools and keep functioning, just slower.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made 49,571 arrests in July, according to newly released figures, marking the largest single-month total since Trump returned to office. The number represents a 15% increase over June's arrest count.
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