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Jellyfish and a Solar Eclipse Test France's Power Grid
Energy

Jellyfish and a Solar Eclipse Test France's Power Grid

Jellyfish halted or curtailed five EDF reactors at Gravelines, while a solar eclipse threatened to shave 1.8 GW from sol...

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Google Unveils Pixel 11 Smartphones With Expanded AI and Pixel Tag Tracker
Technology

Google Unveils Pixel 11 Smartphones With Expanded AI and Pixel Tag Tracker

Google has unveiled the Pixel 11 series with thinner cameras, stronger zoom, longer battery life and deeper AI integrati...

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Meta Heads to California Court as 29 States Allege Addictive Design for Children
Technology

Meta Heads to California Court as 29 States Allege Addictive Design for Children

A seven-week Oakland trial will test whether Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to keep young users hooked, with the c...

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Salt Bank Marketing Chief: AI Answers Are Becoming a Third Discovery Front
Technology

Salt Bank Marketing Chief: AI Answers Are Becoming a Third Discovery Front

Salt Bank's Viorel Ruse says AI assistants now shape purchase shortlists, paid search and CRM offer the clearest ROI, an...

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Record $12.5 Billion Lakers Sale Puts Kushner, Iger and Walter Under Intense Scrutiny
Companies

Record $12.5 Billion Lakers Sale Puts Kushner, Iger and Walter Under Intense Scrutiny

A $12.5 billion agreement to sell control of the Los Angeles Lakers to a Josh Kushner–Bob Iger group has triggered quest...

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UK Growth Data Show AI Boom Is Beginning to Lift the Economy
Economy

UK Growth Data Show AI Boom Is Beginning to Lift the Economy

ONS figures show ICT and computer programming accounted for almost half of second-quarter UK growth, with hardware inves...

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Bipolar Disorder: Why Mood Episodes Go Undetected and What Treatment Actually Involves
Health

Bipolar Disorder: Why Mood Episodes Go Undetected and What Treatment Actually Involves

The symptoms, types, medication classes, and warning signs that patients and families need to understand about bipolar d...

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Time Out and Chase Launch UK Top 2% Restaurant Guide With 2% Cashback Tie-In
Companies

Time Out and Chase Launch UK Top 2% Restaurant Guide With 2% Cashback Tie-In

Time Out is rolling out The Top 2%, a 200-restaurant UK guide created with Chase and WPP Media, spanning print, digital,...

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Why World Cup Hydration Breaks Became a Breakout Ad Inventory Win
Companies

Why World Cup Hydration Breaks Became a Breakout Ad Inventory Win

Fans mocked the 2026 World Cup's mid-half hydration breaks, but advertisers saw a different story: audience loss of roug...

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Wyndham Launches First Brazil Branded Residences in Maragogi With R$80 Million Resort
Real Estate

Wyndham Launches First Brazil Branded Residences in Maragogi With R$80 Million Resort

The 309-unit Wyndham Residences Maragogi Quinta das Mangueiras Resort is set for December 2029 completion, betting on th...

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Germany Approves Intelligence Reform to Expand Cyber Powers and Oversight
Politics

Germany Approves Intelligence Reform to Expand Cyber Powers and Oversight

Berlin's cabinet has agreed to modernise BND and BfV powers, allowing AI-driven data analysis and limited active cyber d...

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Zhu Rongji, Architect of China's Economic Boom, Dies at 97
Politics

Zhu Rongji, Architect of China's Economic Boom, Dies at 97

The former premier drove painful state-enterprise reforms, WTO entry and housing privatization that turned China into th...

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Peru Has No Law for Collapsed Buildings — But Owners May Still Recover Land
Real Estate

Peru Has No Law for Collapsed Buildings — But Owners May Still Recover Land

Peru has no specific regulation for residential building collapses, so owners would retain a land share. Selling, rentin...

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A 20-Year-Old Built a 'Doctolib for Trades' in Five Weeks Using OpenAI Codex
Technology

A 20-Year-Old Built a 'Doctolib for Trades' in Five Weeks Using OpenAI Codex

Suna Marie Tamboga built Passt, a platform that matches German households with the right tradesperson, in about five wee...

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Blu Monkey Turns Idle Land and Old Buildings Into a Hotel Franchise Growth Engine
Travel

Blu Monkey Turns Idle Land and Old Buildings Into a Hotel Franchise Growth Engine

Thailand's Blu Monkey uses an asset-light, 100%-franchise model to convert vacant land and old buildings into boutique h...

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Polish Flood-Aid Probe: Ex-Agency VP Dismissed as CBA Reviews 50 Million Zloty in Grants
Politics

Polish Flood-Aid Probe: Ex-Agency VP Dismissed as CBA Reviews 50 Million Zloty in Grants

CBA has examined 900 applications and nearly 11,000 pages after reports that 4.5 million zloty in flood aid went to firm...

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Academy Sports Adds Instacart Same-Day Delivery Across 300 Stores
Retail

Academy Sports Adds Instacart Same-Day Delivery Across 300 Stores

The retailer is putting more than 300 stores in 21 states on Instacart's marketplace while promising in-store prices, ex...

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Austrian Agency Redline Marketing Pushes Digital Funnels for Insurance Brokers
Insurance

Austrian Agency Redline Marketing Pushes Digital Funnels for Insurance Brokers

Redline Marketing promises data-driven online lead generation, automated WhatsApp pre-qualification and confirmed appoin...

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Ras Al Khaimah Property Transactions Hit AED2.89bn in First Half of 2026
Real Estate

Ras Al Khaimah Property Transactions Hit AED2.89bn in First Half of 2026

Sales, mortgages and waivers lifted RAK's H1 property activity to AED2.89bn, with mortgage volumes peaking at AED418m in...

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Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' Conversational AI Search for Premium Users
Technology

Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' Conversational AI Search for Premium Users

YouTube is testing a new AI-generated search page that combines videos, Shorts, and text summaries. The Verge found it u...

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NSA 'LOVEINT' Cases Show Agents Spied on Partners, Report Says
Politics

NSA 'LOVEINT' Cases Show Agents Spied on Partners, Report Says

The NSA confirmed a handful of deliberate overreaches over ten years; sources say most came from officers using surveill...

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Nigeria Extends Policing Bill Submission Deadline to August 21
Politics

Nigeria Extends Policing Bill Submission Deadline to August 21

The presidential panel overseeing national police reform has given stakeholders eight more days to file memoranda, citin...

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Huawei Launches Bangladesh's First Grid-Forming Inverter and Battery Storage System
Energy

Huawei Launches Bangladesh's First Grid-Forming Inverter and Battery Storage System

The utility-scale Solar+Storage package targets evening peak demand, grid stability and lower solar project costs in Ban...

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Why Managed Workwear Is the Circular Textile Model the Wider Industry Can Learn From
Companies

Why Managed Workwear Is the Circular Textile Model the Wider Industry Can Learn From

A new Textiles Intelligence report argues that European workwear-as-a-service providers such as Elis and Lindström turn ...

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Manchester's WAWWA Triples Turnover After £120,000 Digital Factory Upgrade
Companies

Manchester's WAWWA Triples Turnover After £120,000 Digital Factory Upgrade

The UK clothing maker says a Made Smarter-backed move from manual patterns to CAD/CAM and automated cutting cut grading ...

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Dove's US Open Return Pairs Fashion Photographers With Antiperspirant Marketing
Companies

Dove's US Open Return Pairs Fashion Photographers With Antiperspirant Marketing

The Unilever brand is turning its second year as US Open underarm sponsor into a fashion-led, social-first campaign buil...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans
Technology

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: Silicon Valley Needs Consumer AI to Win Over Regular Americans

Chesky says AI's poor public image is partly a product problem: too many enterprise tools, too few things ordinary peopl...

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Paul Graham: Family Is the Problem Top YC Founders Most Want Help Solving
Lifestyle

Paul Graham: Family Is the Problem Top YC Founders Most Want Help Solving

Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham says family time is one of the most common issues raised by established startup found...

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South Korea's Kospi Enters Bull Market Just Two Weeks After Sharp Selloff
Markets

South Korea's Kospi Enters Bull Market Just Two Weeks After Sharp Selloff

The index is 22% above its July 30 low, with Samsung and SK Hynix leading a rebound tied to AI-driven memory demand.

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NSW Regulator Demands Goodman Prove Renewables for $5.5bn Project Atlas AI Campus
Energy

NSW Regulator Demands Goodman Prove Renewables for $5.5bn Project Atlas AI Campus

NSW energy officials want Goodman to show how the 500MW Western Sydney campus will secure firmed green power, warning th...

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