The housing market is about to get a lot more expensive for millennials and Gen Z

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A young adult in their home.

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  • Student loan payments are set to resume in October, and that will weigh further on home affordability. 
  • Gen Z and millennials looking to buy a home will be squeezed particularly hard. 
  • A recent Moody's report found roughly 5 million borrowers will resume paying about $275 a month.

The housing market is already historically unaffordable, but for Gen Z and

US stocks rise as traders brush off hotter-than-expected August inflation report

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  • US stocks rose on Wednesday even as inflation clocked in hotter than expected.
  • Consumer prices rose 3.7% year over year in August, above the estimated 3.6%.
  • Still, traders are largely expecting the Fed to hold interest rates steady at their next policy meeting.

US stocks rose Wednesday as traders digested hotter-than-expected inflation during the month of August. 

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Ring announces a wearable for your lost pets that's just a QR code

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Amazon’s Ring is mostly known for doorbell cams and consumer-grade surveillance tech, but the company’s moving past humans and onto our beloved furry friends. It just announced the Ring Pet Tag to help find lost pets, as the tag attaches to a collar and allows access to a bevy of digital information about the animal, should it wander away from the yard.

Here’s how it works. If you happen upon a

Ring’s new Pet Tag puts a QR code on your dog or cat’s collar to help if they go missing

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The Pet Tag attaches to a collar. | Image: Ring

Amazon-owned Ring is launching a $9.99 Pet Tag today to make it easier to bring lost pets back home. The Ring Pet Tag essentially puts a QR code on your dog or cat’s collar, which links up to an app. If the unthinkable happens, someone can scan the QR code and help reunite the lost pet with its owner.

The QR code is linked to

Adobe’s Firefly generative AI tools are now widely available

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Following several months of beta testing, Adobe has announced that its Firefly generative AI model is now commercially available across Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Express, and Adobe Experience Cloud.

That means the Firefly-powered workflows that have so far been limited to the

Ukrainian soldiers are using camouflaged saunas on the front line to bathe and disinfect after weeks in the trenches

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Members of the Ukrainian military relax in a makeshift sauna built by members of the brigade in an underground bunker while on a day off from being stationed in Bakhmut at a position on the outskirts of Donetsk on December 14, 2022.

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  • An Estonian filmmaker sent Ukrainian soldiers saunas to the front lines, the BBC reported.
  • The saunas are camouflaged and come equipped with

Hands-on with Therabody’s new TheraFace Mask

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The LED face mask from Therabody features vibrating massage and 3 LED light colors. It's the latest in Therabody's beauty lineup.

Americans hate the economy because pay hasn't kept up with inflation — and it could stay that way until next year

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Inflation has soured Americans' feelings about the state of the economy.

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  • Americans continue to be unhappy with the economy despite many strong data points.
  • One popular explanation, inflation, has fallen in recent months.
  • But wages still haven't fully caught up to the price surges of recent years.

Unemployment in the US remains near a

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