Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 2024 Primetime Emmys bring in 6.9 million viewers, a 54% jump over the previous broadcast (More) | California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signs law aimed at protecting actors from AI digital clones being used without their consent (More)
> Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles files appeal with Swiss court in effort to overturn decision to take away an individual bronze medal she won at the Paris Olympics (More)
> Shortlist of six novels selected for prestigious Booker Prize for fiction, including a record five female authors; winner set to be announced Nov. 12 (More)
Science & Technology
> New estimates project deaths from drug-resistant infections to rise by 70% by 2050, claiming roughly 2 million lives per year (More) | What are superbugs, and where do they come from? (More)
> Astronomers propose measuring the wobble of Mars along its rotational axis to test whether dark matter—an unknown substance making up about 26% of the universe's matter—could be made of tiny black holes (More) | Black holes 101 (More, w/video)
> Social messaging platform Snap unveils new operating system for its fifth generation smart glasses; debut signals a renewed push by the company into augmented reality (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.0%, Nasdaq +0.2%) ahead of anticipated Federal Reserve decision to lower benchmark interest rates at end of two-day policy meeting today (More) | What is the Fed, anyway? (More, w/video)
> BlackRock and Microsoft to launch $30B investment fund to build data centers and secure energy sources to power resource-heavy AI systems (More) | Why does AI require so much energy? (More)
> AT&T to pay $13M to settle Federal Communications Commission investigation tied to 2023 cloud data hack; issue is separate from hack revealed this year to have compromised 73 million customers' Social Security numbers and passwords (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, LA-4) to hold vote today on stopgap bill ahead of Sept. 30 government shutdown deadline; bill includes provision requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote (More) | Democratic-led bill to establish nationwide right to in-vitro fertilization falls short of 60 votes needed to advance in Senate (More)
> Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to launch investigation into assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, parallel to FBI investigation (More) | See updates (More)
> Canada's ruling Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, loses Montreal parliamentary seat in special election; defeat is the second recent upset for Liberals following loss of long-held Toronto seat in June (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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