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• SNAP funding is at risk due to the ongoing government shutdown.
• 42 million low-income Americans use SNAP to afford groceries.
• The acting SNAP director said benefit checks may be smaller in November.

As the government shutdown drags into late October, SNAP funding is in jeopardy.

As the nation's largest food safety net, the Supplemental

• Some of the drones that the US Army tested in Hawaii struggled in the heat.
• Developers were on the ground with the soldiers and able to fix the drones quickly.
• The environment in the Pacific has been a major challenge for the US military's work on drones.

When US Army soldiers in Hawaii were given new drones to test out, some of the technology didn't

Apple’s iPhone lineup has never been this diverse. You have four new phones on offer — iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max — with very different designs, dimensions, colors, battery sizes, and camera systems.

And yet, it feels like the iPhone 17 has been upgraded to the point of being a very good option for a lot of buyers; it finally has a 120Hz display, its battery life

Travel-minded folks who find it rude when the people in front of them on an airplane recline their seats have a new ally.

That ally would be WestJet, a prominent Canadian airline that shuttles people all over the world. WestJet recently announced that all Economy class seats on its passenger jets will now have a "fixed recline" design. In other words, those who pay for the cheapest seats won't be

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that "face-to-face communication" was still needed in sales.
• "AI doesn't have a soul. It's not that human connectivity," Benioff said this week.
• Benioff said he is hiring thousands more salespeople and aims to reach 20,000 account executives.

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• Needle-free devices like TAP and Tasso offer painless blood collection, a benefit for the squeamish.
• These tests face challenges with sample size and accuracy compared to traditional methods.
• This article is part of "Transforming Treatments," a series on medical innovations that save time, money, or discomfort.

Dr. Zev Williams, the chief of reproductive endocrinology

• Trump has been weighing sending Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.
• The long-range missiles would offer Ukraine a critical capability boost.
• However, it's unclear how Ukraine would launch them.

The US continues to signal that it might send Ukraine American-made Tomahaw