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Square launched an integration letting sellers link their business locations to Apple Business directly from the Square Dashboard. The tool automatically syncs details like hours, address and phone number across Apple Maps, Siri, Apple Wallet and other Apple apps, and lets merchants add branding and action links such as Order, Book or Schedule Appointment to their Apple Maps listings.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman used a live appearance at the Fast Company Innovation Festival to reiterate views he previously expressed on social media, backing President Trump's military action against Iran and criticizing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Ackman argued that Mamdani's policies have driven away the city's most economically productive residents.
Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman joined a conversation moderated by Mansueto Ventures' Stephanie Mehta to discuss how design shapes business outcomes and what the future of design might look like. The session, titled 'The Business of Design—and the Design of the Future,' explored the intersection of investment strategy and design thinking.
Jacob Komarow started selling baklava on New York City streets in 2021 while six months into recovery from drug addiction, building a mobile business called Good Baklava that operates from vans, pop-up stands and online orders rather than a fixed storefront. A viral moment handing out free pastries near Madison Square Garden and a subsequent New York Times profile drove explosive growth, with monthly revenue averaging over $20,000 and peaking near $70,000.
A technical write-up walks through why physical phenomena like light and sound intensity fall off with the square of distance, rather than linearly or cubically. The explanation builds from the classical formula for a sphere's surface area, using a paper-cylinder analogy to show how wrapping a sphere in a fitted cylinder reveals the 4πr² relationship at the heart of the law.
Final Fantasy Resonance is an upcoming Square Enix title built on the HD-2D art style, blending sprite-based visuals with modern lighting and particle effects. The game expands on the decade-old mobile title Brave Exvius, reworking its story and cutscenes into a full standalone RPG with towns, side quests, Chocobos, and airships. It also introduces a new turn-based battle system inspired by classic Final Fantasy design.
Sony will host two consecutive State of Play livestreams on September 3, starting at 9AM ET, streamable on YouTube and Twitch with subtitled options available. The first broadcast covers PlayStation Studios and global partner titles, including an extended look at Final Fantasy 7 Revelation from Square Enix, followed immediately by a Japan-focused stream spotlighting Asian developers.
An open-source project uses autonomous Claude 5.1 agent swarms to research, model, and validate browser-based 3D reconstructions of real-world locations, starting with San Francisco's Union Square. The system generates buildings, storefronts, traffic, and pedestrians from open data like OpenStreetMap and public imagery, packaged as runnable Three.js applications rather than relying on a game engine or proprietary 3D tiles.
A technical retrospective examines a decompiled 2004 RuneScape 2 client to explain how Jagex packed a 3D game world with up to a couple thousand concurrent players onto connections as slow as 5 KB/s. The analysis traces a single player movement command byte-by-byte from click to server to another player's screen, revealing the extreme data-efficiency techniques used. These core network principles reportedly persisted from RuneScape Classic through to Old School RuneScape and RuneScape 3 today.