Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> 2024 NFL regular season kicks off tonight (8:20 pm ET, NBC) with a rematch of last year's AFC Championship game between reigning Super Bowl champs the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens (More)
> "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed pleads guilty to bringing gun into a New Mexico bar; Gutierrez-Reed is already serving 18-month prison sentence for role in death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (More)
> 2024 US Open tennis semifinal matchups set; see updated women's bracket (More) | ... and men's bracket (More)
Science & Technology
> Social media app X debuts beta version of a television app available on Google TV and Amazon Fire TV; company says it wants to become a "video-first" platform (More)
> Adoption of farming practices forced humans to evolve more efficient digestion of starch beginning roughly 12,000 years ago, study reveals (More)
> Chemists reveal how collagen—a key building block of muscles, bones, and connective tissue—persists in dinosaur fossils nearly 200 million years old; the proteins have a unique bonding structure that protects them from moisture (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq -0.3%) as US job openings fell to 7.67 million in July, the lowest level since January 2021 (More) | Nvidia denies report of allegedly receiving a Justice Department subpoena over antitrust concerns (More)
> Biotechnology startup eGenesis raises $191M for human-compatible transplants derived from gene-edited pig organs; eGenesis provided the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplanted into a human in March (More)
> OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever's new venture, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B to help develop safe artificial intelligence systems; latest funding round values the startup at $5B (More) | See previous write-up (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> US Justice Department accuses Russian state media network RT of $10M election interference campaign, including effort to recruit US social media influencers; DOJ indicts two employees and seizes 32 internet domains (More) | Ukraine's top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba becomes sixth cabinet member to resign in government shake-up (More)
> UK government releases report on 2017 Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in the London social housing unit; report blames multiple administrations and companies, including US-based Arconic, which supplied building's exterior material (More)
> Suspected Boko Haram motorcycle and gun attack kills at least 100 people at a market in northeastern Nigeria; at least 1,500 people have been killed in the region so far this year (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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