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Bezos Numbers of the Week: Counterpoint Research on ‘Smart Glasses’

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Counterpoint Research, in a report titled “Global Smart Glasses Shipments Soared 110 Percent YoY in H1 2025, With Meta Capturing Over 70 Percent Share”: The global smart glasses market grew by 110% YoY in H1 2025, fueled by robust demand for Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses an...

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[Sponsor] Phoenix.new

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Spent most of the day resting, listening to the audiobook for The Grace of Kings, and trying to avoid working. My body was exhausted and Covid was the non-negotiable reminder to slow down. Feeling better. 😷

Podcast Standards Project
Video • Transistor

Bringing video to the open podcast ecosystem

Today, the Podcast Standards Project hosted a session on "Video podcasting with HLS" to a packed room at Podcast Movement, before the conference had even started.

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

Trump's push to end the war in Ukraine

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President Donald Trump stunned the international community when he invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Alaska for a high-stakes summit on the war in Ukraine. Just hours after Trump greeted Putin on his first visit to the U.S. in a decade, he watched him leave with no...

WIRED
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An Account Using the Same Name as Trump's BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories

A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.

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★ Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103

A perfect logo, from a designer with a long and storied career.

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Predicament

I dropped my phone while trying to search, and I tried to unlock it from up here, so can you also search for screen repair places?

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I got my War of Being LP sleeve signed by them. We agreed the names of the songs on the Altered State album (my favor...

I got my War of Being LP sleeve signed by them. We agreed the names of the songs on the Altered State album (my favorite album) are difficult to remember when they asked me which of their songs was my favorite. They ended up performing the song I had in mind later anyway! #ArcTanGent

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Milwaukee Brewers Weird (Nerd Version)

Milwaukee Brewers Weird (Nerd Version)
When Ray Ratto told you that you could get "hard mathematical reasons" for the Milwaukee Brewers' inexplicable win streak "wherever Nerd Stuff is sold," he was referring to me. At the same time I must necessarily acknowledge that for whatever hard mathematical explanations a...

Fresh Air
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Bowen Yang's 'Wicked' White Lie

The Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live cast member talks with Terry Gross about his favorite pop culture in the aughts, his SNL audition, and his recent trip to China. 

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Liquid Glass has (deservedly) received plenty of criticism. But there are some areas that are clearly better, like these buttons in iOS alerts.

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TesseracT is simply unbeatable as the highlight of #ArcTanGent 2025 for me. They always put up such a great performance. The music, the choreography, the lights, the props, they were rightfully the culmination of the entire festival this year.

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Solve the AI Tech Talent Crisis With These Recruiting Strategies

Building a team that’s ready for whatever’s next in software starts with how you recruit today. Technologies like AI, edge

The post Solve the AI Tech Talent Crisis With These Recruiting Strategies appeared first on The New Stack.

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MSNBC → MS NOW. In fairness to the designers, any new logo is going to be worse than the peacock.

During the first Trump term, I thought MSNBC’s coverage was great. But this year they’ve seemed unmoored. I’ve mostly stopped watching. This rebrand was a chance for something new and they blew it.

The Brian Lehrer Show
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How to Get Invited Back to the Beach House

Listeners call in to share their tips for how to be a good house guest; and listeners who frequently host guests at their houses share what they appreciate from their guests.


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Diogo Jota Will Never Walk Alone

Diogo Jota Will Never Walk Alone

The first weekend of a new Premier League season is a time for optimism and for excitement. Even after an over-stuffed summer of soccer, which this year brought us the Club World Cup, the women's Euros, and the women's Copa América, there's nothing quite like the return of the club season. Overreactions are part of the fun this early—Viktor Gyokeres is a bust! West Ham is getting relegated!—but so is just watching competitive club soccer once more. The 2025-26 season started on Friday with a bittersweet debut, though, as the defending champions of Liverpool beat Bournemouth 4-2 at Anfield in the club's first competitive match at home since the death of Diogo Jota.

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WIRED
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The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended

According to state health officials, a measles outbreak that started in an undervaccinated community and killed two children is now over.

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Twelve Minutes Of Ice Cube Stumbling Around An Empty Office In An Escalating Panic Almost Redeems The Rest Of ‘War Of The Worlds’

The climax of the new movie War of the Worlds features cheap-looking CGI'd clips of large robots standing next to large buildings, cut together with b-roll clips of B-2 stealth bombers in flight and Zoom-style laptop camera shots of several exhausted actors making wildly unconvincing Oh no faces. The music is very intense. This would've been exactly as wack as it sounds, except that the sequence is tied together by another set of clips, of 56-year-old Ice Cube running around, lost, in a large empty office space, while shouting for assistance. I am sorry to report that this part kicks ass.

Ice Cube rushes to the server room, to protect humanity.
Ice Cube rushes to protect, or quite possibly to destroy, the data.

WIRED
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WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dig into WIRED's latest—from crude deportation memes to GPT-5's negative reception.