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Happy Friday! Got any shows you're looking to binge this weekend? Sometime soon you might be tuning into Chick-fil-A TV. It might sound funny, but brands launching their own shows could be the future.

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  • Gen Z women are leaning into the "office siren" aesthetic, a sexified business-professional look.
  • They're taking it beyond the office: Work-inspired clothing has made it into street fashion.
  • In the work-from-anywhere age, the boundaries between work and play are blurring.

At first, Julia Quang posted her workwear outfits because she had nothing else to



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Brooke Schofield (left) has been notably absent from her podcast with Tana Mongeau (right) since some of her old tweets resurfaced.
  • Fans are exhausted by the influencer model of rise-fall cycles and resurfacing controversy.
  • Cancel culture's impact has waned, with audiences now demanding more accountability.
  • Experts say that with this increased scrutiny, some will thrive, but others



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Google got a lot of things right with the Pixel 9 lineup. The hardware is lovely, the chip is fast, even the huge camera bump kind of has a way about it, you know? It’s a worthy Android flagship in every way. It also — and not to be dramatic here — feels a bit like a harbinger of doom.

The Pixel 9’s AI photography features, particularly the



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In some good news for the environment, China has reached a clean energy goal six years sooner than expected. In 2020, President Xi Jinping set a goal to have at least 1,200 gigawatts of clean energy sources by 2030. In a new statement, China's National Energy Administration claims the country has reached 1,206 gigawatts, thanks to 25 gigawatts of turbines and panels added last month, Bloomberg rep



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Jennifer Lopez at the 2024 Met Gala. Lopez recently filed to divorce her husband Ben Affleck.
  • Jennifer Lopez's chaotic year went from bad to worse when she filed to divorce Ben Affleck.
  • The divorce follows months of online criticism and the cancellation of her tour.
  • But PR experts say it is still possible for Lopez to shift the attention back to her career.

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A flight expert shared his favorite — and least favorite — airports for early morning flights.
  • Travel expert Gilbert Ott advises booking early flights to avoid delays.
  • The best airports for early flights are well-located and have hotels and good food.
  • The worst have limited hotel and food options

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Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify’s CEO Daniek Ek have taken aim at European lawmakers for enforcing “stifling” and “inconsistent” regulation that hampers the growth of tech companies. “Instead of clear rules that inform and guide how companies do business across the continent, our industry faces overlapping regulations and inconsistent guidance on how to comply with them,” wrote the pair in



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On August 24, NASA will finally announce how Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronauts that flew to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner, will be coming home. Earlier this month, the agency said it was already in talks with SpaceX about the possibility of giving the astronauts two seats aboard an upcoming Crew Dragon mission. While NASA was making sure that the option was available, it



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Here’s one trick Sony and Microsoft don’t want you to know: You don’t have to spend $70 to play a good game. These days, courtesy of in-app payments and the ease of offering both a sample of a title alongside its full-fat version, there are actually plenty of great games to play that won’t cost you a dime. And quality has never been higher across mobile, PC and consoles, so regardless of which