
Three Days of Sun: Veuve Clicquot’s Club Solaire Comes to Venice Beach - COOL HUNTING®
From 2 to 4 October, Veuve Clicquot moves into 619 Ocean Front Walk in Venice Beach, where Club Solaire opens for three days of food, music and creativity on the boardwalk. Six ticketed experiences…
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What Are We Asking the Flowers To Do? | Strong Towns
The difference between landscaping that covers up our mistakes and landscaping that helps create a place.
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Bencho - UI interactive blocks
A library of interactive UI blocks you can explore, tweak, and take straight into your projects.
bencho.dev

I Use a Robot Vacuum Almost Every Day. Here Are the Ones Worth Buying
After testing them on Cheerios, cherry juice, carpet, hard floors, and cat litter, these are my favorites.
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Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world
Trump publicly called Huang, again.
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I Turned My Backyard Into a Nature Documentary With a Flock of Smart Bird Feeders
See and learn about the birds in your neighborhood with these connected bird feeders.
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When the canvas starts acting, who’s really in control?
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Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career
Milton Glaser mused less than a minute into the above video. The late Milton Glaser’s many contributions to pop culture—the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic portrait of a rainbow-haired Bob Dylan, DC Comics’ classic bullet logo—conferred undeniable authority.
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Scientists Put Caterpillars in an Ultraquiet Chamber to Learn How They Hear Without Ears
The research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better.
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AI is making development faster. But where did the work go?
medium.com

Google dodges another breakup attempt
The DOJ asked the judge to force a sale of at least one of its ad tech tools.
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You have to beat the models at something
In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…
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The Markdown Database Pattern | The Way of Markdown
Treat a folder of markdown files as records in a database — the pattern behind Obsidian Bases, Notion-style workflows without lock-in, and more.
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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John Ternus sends first memo as Apple CEO teasing a ‘huge launch next week’
Ternus says more “incredible products” are on the way.
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Markiplier is now GoPro’s biggest shareholder
He says he plans to use GoPro’s new camera in his future films.
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Read Tim Cook’s final message to Apple staff as CEO
“I love this company and the team behind it.”
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George Santos Just Got Hit With Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban
The former US representative was also fined more than $71,000 for allegedly attempting to manipulate the prediction market.
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Step Stool by Stephen Chan | Minimalissimo
A simple arrangement of wooden blocks, inspired by an everyday observation: the odd ledge on public furniture that naturally becomes a place to rest your foot.
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From Barbie logos to medieval manuscripts: step inside Teddy Blanks’ film title design process
Teddy Blanks, the Chips co-founder behind the title sequences for Barbie, Weapons and Robert Eggers’ upcoming Werwulf, explains how eBay dolls, hidden AA symbolism and a 14th Century manuscript all found their way into his lettering.
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Why are so many brands ditching celebrities for ordinary people?
Wondering where the A-listers are in ads these days? So was I... The other day, I was chatting with some mates, and we got onto the subject of celebrities in ad...
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Dang, This Is the Tastiest Fish I’ve Gotten From a Meal Kit
HelloFresh’s organic meal kit Green Chef offers transparent sourcing, layered cooking, and trustworthy gluten-free dishes.
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The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
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Framework says it’s addressing a BIOS update that bricked some of its older laptops
In-warranty and out-of-warranty Laptop 13 7040-series mainboards confirmed to be affected will be replaced.
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Top NordVPN Coupons: 75% Off, Plus 3 Months Free in August 2026
Save up to 77% on 2-year plans and get 3 free months with our NordVPN discount codes.
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