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A marketing writer describes four years spent interviewing people who broke conventional marketing rules, including CMOs and other leaders. The piece highlights three unconventional figures—a monk, a real estate mogul and a musician—who are described as marketing gurus despite never setting out to be one, and draws lessons from how each built influence and audience without formal marketing titles.
Waymo released updated self-reported safety data covering 271 million driverless miles through June across Atlanta, Austin, Phoenix, Los Angeles and the San Francisco-Bay Area, 50 million more miles than its previous report. The company says its robotaxis showed an 82% reduction in injury-causing crashes, 95% fewer serious-injury crashes, and sharply lower rates of pedestrian, cyclist and motorcycle injury crashes compared with human drivers.
A fire broke out overnight at a ground station in Wola Krobowska, near Warsaw, that handles internet traffic for Poland and Ukraine, including Starlink connections. Polish deputy prime minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said the blaze at the facility, owned by state operator Exatel, appears to have been set deliberately, and police and internal security agents were sent to investigate. Gawkowski said the incident bears the hallmarks of Russian sabotage, though the investigation is ongoing.
Stanford researchers reported in Nature Neuroscience that the human brain forms from two separate progenitor cells, one giving rise to the forebrain and the other to the hindbrain, rather than developing from a single evolutionary lineage as previously assumed. Senior author Kyle Loh said the team can now grow hindbrain neurons in a lab dish to study their function separately from the forebrain.
Several Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL users report redeeming an additional 12-month trial of Google AI Pro with 5TB storage after their original one-year promo expired. Users found the offer either in the My Pixel app or the Google One app, with reports suggesting it may be limited to certain regions, likely including the US.
A reader poll of nearly 2,000 respondents found that 57.2% drive cars that do not support Android Auto, leaving only 35.8% with compatible vehicles. An additional 7% reported having Android Auto-capable cars but choosing not to use the feature.
Roborock is running early Prime Day discounts on several of its robot vacuums, including the recently launched Qrevo 2 Pro, now priced around $500. The device features 20,000 Pa of suction, app-based controls, and an extendable mop arm designed to reach corners, and has been discounted twice since its release last month.
Bloomberg reports that Meta's upcoming Muse Charm, a handheld device housing its Muse AI agent, will be able to recognize and interact with other Charms nearby. The gadget includes a built-in 5G modem, a two-inch OLED touchscreen, a fingerprint sensor, cameras, speakers, microphones, and a USB-C port, and can be set up via Meta's Muse app on iOS or Android. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the device is planned to launch in time for the December holidays, though pricing has not been confirmed.
Android Authority published a roundup of eight Android features it says are underused, including notification history, app pairs for split-screen, clipboard history, reverse wireless charging and app pinning. The piece explains how to enable notification history via Settings, which logs alerts for 24 hours and can surface deleted messages from apps like WhatsApp, and how app pairs let users save split-screen app combinations for one-tap reuse.
Apple's new Apple Watch features, Live Rewind and Siri Recap, continuously listen to and transcribe surrounding speech to generate summaries, prompting immediate criticism from privacy experts. Apple published technical details claiming Live Rewind keeps only a rolling 15-second buffer and Siri Recap produces only high-level, non-speaker-identified summaries, with an audible chime alerting bystanders. The feature launches amid a broader trend of listening devices, including Flock cameras, AI pendants like Friend, and Meta Ray-Ban glasses, that record people without their explicit consent.
CyberPowerPC is offering pre-built gaming PCs containing Nvidia RTX 5070, 5080 and 5090 Founders Edition GPUs on Walmart, timed to Nvidia's GeForce Week promotion running September 21-27. The builds are discounted between roughly $580 and over $1,300 off their listed prices, though supplies are limited.
Elon Musk's companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and X, have concentrated major new capital projects—such as chip foundries, rocket launch facilities and data centers—across Sunbelt states. State governments are reportedly competing to attract these investments, which represent billions of dollars in planned spending.