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• "Modern Family" star Julie Bowen struggles to connect with her teenage sons sometimes.
• Her trick to starting conversations with them is to lurk around the house.
• "If you just kind of park it, make fake cookies in the kitchen no one's ever going to eat, they start

• Thousands protested against overtourism in Spain earlier this year, telling tourists to "go home."
• Spain's tourism is still booming, with record numbers of international visitors.
• A travel industry expert said mass protests are unlikely on their own to deter travelers.

Protesters in Spain

• Nichole Wischoff screened over 500 applications before making her first hire for her VC fund.
• Wischoff ended up hiring Neal Mintz, a 26-year-old who impressed her with his enthusiasm and drive.
• During the interviews, Mintz offered to set up the firm's payroll for free.

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DJI tells The Verge that it currently cannot freely import all of its drones into the United States — and that its latest consumer drone, the Air 3S, won’t currently be sold at retail as a result.

That’s not because the United States has suddenly banned DJI drones — rather, DJI

• Lydia Koh is a fine art wedding photographer and founder of a Singapore-based photography company.
• Koh said a timekeeper can help couples with a less stressful experience — a lesson from her own wedding.
• She also said couples often stress over preparations and overlook quality time with their

• Apple Chief People Officer Carol Surface is leaving after less than two years, Bloomberg reports.
• Surface's exit adds to the number of top-ranking employees set to leave or switch roles soon.
• Surface reported directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Apple's chief people officer is

Apple introduced some new tools to its Apple Business Connect program that could be useful for the everyday consumer. The most notable update is the introduction of Business Caller ID. When this feature rolls out next year, companies of any size can register to have their name, logo and department appear when they contact customers. In practice, that can help people distinguish between a phone

Meta has begun laying off employees across various departments, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Reality Labs, according to people familiar with the matter. Rather than a mass, companywide layoff, these smaller cuts seem to coincide with reorganizations of specific teams.

Some Meta employees have started

• The One Direction singer Liam Payne died at the age of 31, multiple outlets reported.
• Authorities said the British star fell from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
• Payne was part of One Direction from 2010 until the group split in 2016.

The former One Direction singer Liam Payne has died after falling

• Clay supports revenue operations and growth teams to automate outreach to potential customers.
• The company last raised a $46 million Series B at a $500 million valuation led by Meritech in June.
• Its customers include Anthropic, Notion, Vanta, Ramp, and Intercom.

Clay, the AI-powered sales startup, is set to be valued at $1.3 billion in a new funding round, two sources told

Newly unsealed grand jury documents revealed that two Sudanese nationals allegedly attempted to launch thousands of distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks on systems across the world. The documents allege that these hacks aimed to cause serious financial and technical harm to government entities and companies and even physical harm in some cases.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed

• United Airlines did not mention the cost of July's CrowdStrike IT outage in its earnings report.
• The incident especially affected Delta, which canceled thousands of flights.
• United executives took a subtle jab at Delta by highlighting their "no excuses" philosophy.

United Airlines reported its earnings on Tuesday, but