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• Where Yahoo's media play went wrong

  08-06-2016 22:21
  
  When Yahoo announced last year that it had lost $42 million reviving NBC's TV series "Community" and launching two other original shows, the company framed it as a failed experiment. It didn't work, so Yahoo was cutting its losses.
  
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• The 89 best REI Labor Day deals, from a $16 sock to a $1,499-off e-bike

  02-09-2026 21:07 via popsci.com
  
  REI runs two big sales a year and the Labor Day event is where the co-op clears summer stock before winter inventory needs the shelf space. That means tents, sleeping pads, camp chairs, and trail shoes get cut hardest just in time to enjoy the tail end of warm weather. The Labor Day sale runs through September 7, and REI members who spend $50 or more also earn a $30 single-use promo card during the same window. I went through roughly 2,500 discounted items and pulled the size runs on every pair
  
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• One of the rarest dimes in the U.S. sells for $1.25 million

  02-09-2026 20:17 via popsci.com
  
  A rare dime that inadvertently launched one of most successful coin collecting careers in history has sold for an astounding $1.25 million. The coveted 1894 S-Dime was auctioned during Stack’s Bowers Galleries “Rarities Night” on September 1, and was this particular coin’s fourth auction appearance. Known as a Barber Dime for its designer, United States Bureau of the Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, only 24 of the 10-cent pieces were ever manufactured. Of those, jus
  
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• Home-intruding bobcat no match for police drone

  02-09-2026 19:02 via popsci.com
  
  What began as a routine police response to a reported break-in turned into a brief standoff between nature and technology. Last week, law enforcement in the city of Kirkland, Washington (just northeast of Seattle) responded to a 911 call from a resident reporting loud banging inside their home. Officers arrived expecting a human intruder, but were instead greeted by a more literal cat burglar: a trapped and confused bobcat. Not wanting to risk a claw to the face, the officers backed out and
  
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• California Wildlife Day to honor beloved bald eagle Jackie

  02-09-2026 18:43 via popsci.com
  
  Following an outpouring of support for Jackie, a famous bald eagle mother watched by millions, the California State Senate passed Senate Resolution 140. The bipartisan measure honors Jackie and proclaims that Friday September 4, 2026 is California Wildlife Day to honor her memory and celebrate the Golden State’s biodiversity.The resolution was introduced by State Senator Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach) and is sponsored by KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles. It recognizes the eagle’s role
  
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• Tweet! Here are the winners of the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards

  02-09-2026 18:00 via popsci.com
  
  It’s a bird’s world, and we’re just living in it. Today, the National Audubon Society officially announced the winners of the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards. The contest is now in its 17th year and celebrates stunning photos (and even a few videos) that showcase the beauty of birds and the challenges they face. For the second year, the judges awarded prizes to residents of Chile and Colombia, as well as the United States and Canada, highlighting how avians connect us across ge
  
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• Your smartwatch may be overestimating calories burned by 25 percent

  02-09-2026 17:16 via popsci.com
  
  One of a smartwatch’s main selling points can be its ability to track the calories burned while exercising. But similar to the health tech industry’s “10,000 steps” selling point, new research strongly suggests a wearable’s workout assessment may overestimate your efforts—and in some cases, the readings are off by as much as 25 percent.“You can’t treat the calories burned number it gives you as an accurate number, because it’s not,” Flo
  
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• Overseas Book Review: The New Economics Of Technocracy

  02-09-2026 17:00 via technocracy.news
  
  This book review appeared in a professional journal in France. My books are written for all the people of the world, regardless of political or spiritual orientation. It is useful for my American readers to see outside the bubble that there are thoughtful people all around the world who see Technocracy as a major threat. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.In the last issue, I reviewed Patrick Wood’s then most recent book (p. 68), The Final Betrayal, on how technocracy has gone into overdrive wit
  
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• What shapes your personality? Your genes and environment play a big role.

  02-09-2026 15:03 via popsci.com
  
  I consider myself to have a somewhat challenging personality. The popular Myers-Briggs test labels me an ‘INTJ,’ commonly referred to as an “Architect.” We’re supposedly independent, determined, curious, and original, but we’re also considered combative, overly critical, dismissive of emotions, and more concerned with “rationality and success over politeness.” My family would generally agree with that description of me. Perhaps thankfully, we
  
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• These fish rely on teamwork to find food in murky water

  02-09-2026 01:05 via popsci.com
  
  Just like 20-somethings yelling or waving in a crowded, strobe light-filled club, three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) can change their social behavior for the benefit of the group. These small fish will change how they swim to help find food when they are in cloudy water. The findings are detailed in a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.There are eight known species of sticklebacks (order Gasterosteiformes). These small fish live in fresh, brac
  
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• Japan’s continuing bear problems can’t be solved by culling alone

  01-09-2026 22:00 via popsci.com
  
  Japan’s bears are still causing problems. The hefty predators continue to stray from mountainous forests in search of food, putting them in direct contact with the nation’s rapidly aging and dwindling population. According to the country’s Environment Ministry, bears have killed six people across the country since April 1, while a record 13 victims died during the previous fiscal year. It’s gotten so bad that Japan called in the armed forces to help, and companies are eve
  
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• Two-headed snake pottery suggests ancient Roman mystery cult spanned over 2,000 miles

  01-09-2026 20:01 via popsci.com
  
  A recently excavated, 2,000-year-old ancient Roman artifact suggests that followers of secretive cult were more widespread than historians initially thought. Based on findings recently detailed in the journal Antiquity, a skyfather named Sabazios from present-day Turkey boasted worshippers as far away as northeastern Spain.Ancient Rome’s primary pantheon of deities like Jupiter, Minerva, Juno, Mars, and Vulcan are fairly well-known today. But for every Apollo or Neptune, there were hundred
  
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• Amazon’s Labor Day sale has 98 deals worth your time (including the lowest price ever on Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones)

  01-09-2026 19:15 via popsci.com
  
  Labor Day is when retailers clear out what didn’t sell over the summer, so the shape of Amazon’s version is predictable: coolers, grills, back-to-school monitors, and a wall of air fryers. The Labor Day sale covers most of the store, and the deals inside it rotate every few days, which means a price that was good last week has often gone back up without the sale badge coming off. I ran Amazon’s own 12-month price chart on everything in the cards below and cut several products t
  
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• Sony’s new ULT TOWER speakers want to headline your next rave

  01-09-2026 18:55 via popsci.com
  
  Looming in an event space of Chelsea’s Kimpton Eventi Hotel, the Sony ULT TOWER MAX introduced itself as something between a party speaker and a PA, packing more LEDs and dBs than the cabinets that came before it. In Manhattan in mid-August for a preview of three new speakers in Sony’s ULT POWER SOUND Series, I first met the MAX at a pre-briefing party as a DJ loosened up the new circular woofers, and maybe my travel-tightened spine, with some main-stage EDM at meeting-room distance.
  
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• Lindsay Clancy jurors deadlocked, judge asks them to continue deliberations

  01-09-2026 17:13 via nbcnews.com
  Deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were briefly paused this morning after the jury announced they were unable to come to a unanimous decision. NBC News' Stephanie Gosk reports on the judge's request for jurors to continue deliberations. NBC News legal analyst Misty Marris explains how and when the judge would potentially decide to move forward with a hung jury.
  
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• Trump Blasts “Luddites” For Opposing Data Centers

  01-09-2026 17:03 via technocracy.news
  
  On Monday, the President of the United States told the people of Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Arizona, and every other state now fighting hyperscale data centers exactly what he thinks of them. “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backward and poor,” he wrote on Truth Social. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.” And then the w
  
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• NOAA scientists spot ‘outrageously tiny’ fish

  01-09-2026 16:14 via popsci.com
  
  The deepest parts of our ocean are more like the fare reaches of space than planet Earth. We never really know what we’ll find down there. A team from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Ocean Exploration team experienced that first hand when they spotted a very tiny fish in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New England.
  The team estimated that it measured only five millimeters (0.19 inch
  
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• The Apple Watch became an unlikely fashion icon by simply not being ugly

  01-09-2026 15:31 via popsci.com
  
  Editors’ Note: Welcome to a new series called An Apple a Day, where we’ll share pieces of Apple content from our archives daily from now through late September. In addition to PCMag, this series will include pieces from our sibling sites CNET, Lifehacker, Mashable, and PCMag.About two years before Apple released the Apple Watch, I got a chance to try the Pebble smartwatch. It had enormous hype behind it, especially among gadget nerds. Its 2012 Kickstarter campaign
  
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• In 1967, 2 million Swedes started driving on the other side of the road

  01-09-2026 15:03 via popsci.com
  
  On September 3, 1967, at 4:50 a.m., a lone Swedish taxi driver stopped his car on the street in the light of early dawn. He carefully checked around him on both sides of the road, then pulled over from the left-hand side of the road onto the opposite lane on the right-hand side. He then stopped again. After 10 minutes, he continued driving on the right, along with every other driver in Sweden who had made this switch at the same time. This was Högertrafikomläggningen, also known as &ld
  
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• What Tim Cook’s Departure Means for the Future of Apple

  01-09-2026 14:03 via today.com
  It’s a new era at Apple as Tim Cook’s time as CEO officially comes to an end after 15 years. Now all eyes are on his replacement John Ternus and his ability to see new and innovative ideas at the tech giant. NBC’s Savannah Sellers reports for TODAY.
  
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• Whistleblower says USPS system Trump ordered for mail ballots is flawed and untested

  01-09-2026 12:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  An executive order from Trump, which is stymied in the courts, required the Postal Service to rapidly build a complex system to vet mail ballots.
  
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• Pax Silica: The Fine Print Comes Due

  01-09-2026 06:59 via technocracy.news
  
  I called this Technocratic colonization before the ink on the declaration was dry. On January 16, 2026, I wrote that Pax Silica was the actualization of Pillar III of the White House AI Action Plan — the pillar that extends the domestic Technocratic agenda to the rest of the world by exporting American AI frameworks, hardware standards, and regulatory templates to allied nations. I said the goal was to cement a global regime of expert rule, dressed up as partnership. People who wanted to b
  
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• JBL’s Cove speakers want to make setting up dynamic multiroom audio a two-minute job

  01-09-2026 06:05 via popsci.com
  
  In a NoHo loft in late August, JBL revealed its new Cove whole-home audio system. In this fully staged Manhattan apartment, three Wi-Fi speakers—the M1, P1, and X1—occupied kitchen counters, credenzas, bookshelves, and bedside tables. From Bad Bunny at the sink and Tiësto on the couch to Marvin Gaye by the fireplace and Al Green in some armchairs, Jesse Coyer, Sr. Manager, National Account Sales & Training, HARMAN Consumer Audio, demoed speaker setup and scale. The walkthrou
  
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• Wall Street closes lower as oil prices jump, indexes notch monthly gains - Reuters

  01-09-2026 00:55 via news.google.com
  Wall Street closes lower as oil prices jump, indexes notch monthly gains  ReutersDow tumbles 370 points after U.S. strikes Iran, but index posts fifth straight winning month  CNBCDow Jones Futures: Trump's Iran Warning Sparks Stock Market Losses; Elon Musk-Led SpaceX, Tesla Rally  Investor's Business DailyStock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq slip but cap winning month for stocks  Yahoo FinanceOil prices rise and stocks fall after US hits Iranian si
  
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• Florida bans Flock cameras and other license plate readers from state highways

  01-09-2026 00:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Florida’s state transportation office revoked the ability of local police to put license plate readers on state highways.
  
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• Teen girl aided San Diego mosque shooters from North Carolina, prosecutors say - nbcsandiego.com

  01-09-2026 00:27 via news.google.com
  Teen girl aided San Diego mosque shooters from North Carolina, prosecutors say  nbcsandiego.comNorth Carolina Girl, 17, Charged in Role in California Mosque Attack  U.S. News & World ReportTeen girl who livestreamed San Diego mosque shooting faces murder charges, prosecutors say  Los Angeles TimesWinston-Salem high school student who published Islamic Center shooters’ livestream charged with murder, conspiracy  FOX8 WGHPNorth Carolina teen arrest
  
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• Lionel Richie checks himself into hospital out of abundance of caution, source says - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

  01-09-2026 00:21 via news.google.com
  Lionel Richie checks himself into hospital out of abundance of caution, source says  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and VideosSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
  
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• Trump Live Updates: White House Ballroom Construction Can Continue, Supreme Court Rules - The New York Times

  01-09-2026 00:12 via news.google.com
  
  Trump Live Updates: White House Ballroom Construction Can Continue, Supreme Court Rules  The New York TimesSupreme Court allows Trump’s $400m White House ballroom to proceed  The TelegraphSupreme Court allows Trump to continue building White House ballroom  CNNChief justice dissents on ballroom construction: ‘No victory for separation of powers’  The HillTrump's White House ballroom construction gets another lifeline from SCOTUS amid heat
  
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• Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation after tension with Hegseth - CNN

  01-09-2026 00:05 via news.google.com
  
  Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation after tension with Hegseth  CNNExclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth  WSJArmy Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation to Trump  Fox NewsArmy Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation to White House  NBC NewsArmy secretary submits resignation to Trump after repeated clashes with Hegseth  The Washington Post
  
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• Chatbots got safer but will still role-play self-harm with users - The Washington Post

  01-09-2026 00:02 via news.google.com
  Chatbots got safer but will still role-play self-harm with users  The Washington PostStudy: Chatbots are getting better at identifying suicide risk  axios.comAI chatbots are safer than before, but they still have a troubling blind spot  Digital TrendsStudy finds ChatGPT less likely to encourage suicidal thoughts, but problems remain  Crypto BriefingModern AI models are less likely to encourage suicide, but they still help write suicide notes  dev
  
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