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• Despite a downbeat August, the S&P 500 index is still boasting impressive year-to-date gains.
• The benchmark stock-market gauge is up over 17% so far in 2023, and one expert sees it climbing even higher. 
• Morgan Stanley's Andrew Slimmon sees the S&P 500 nearing 5,000 by year-end – what

• A Ukrainian soldier explained how his unit took out a Russian attack helicopter using a howitzer.
• Footage of the claimed attack was shared in February, but was grainy and unclear. 
• They targeted it with the artillery piece as it rested on the

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• In 2003, while at Harvard University, Vivek Ramaswamy appeared on an episode of MSNBC's "Hardball."
• He asked Rev. Al Sharpton why he should vote for him given his lack of formal political experience.
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Hurricane Idalia made landfall over Florida this morning as a high-end Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds over 100 miles per hour.

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'Super Mario Bros. Wonder' is being showcased this week, which means it's a chance to hear Mario's new voice.

Rosamund Pike teases a more human turn for Moraine in Wheel of Time’s second season. A Lego Jurassic Park special is coming to Peacock. Plus, LaKeith Stanfield takes on Nazareth’s other disciples. Spoilers now!

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As governments increase demands for labels on AI-generated content, Google DeepMind has released a potential solution: a watermarking tool. Named SynthID, the system harnesses deep learning to embed digital stamps into the pixels of images. According to DeepMind, the watermarks are imperceptible to the human eye, but detectable with an algorithm. The UK-based research lab said the watermark doesn

Instagram looks like it’s working on a longer version of Instagram Reels, allowing users to record up to 10 minutes of videos. Leaker Alessandro Paluzzi shared screenshots of two side-by-side Reels pages, one to record for three minutes — the current standard for shortform videos — and another for 10 minutes.

Michael Mann's "Ferrari" is showing at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Watch the trailer with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz.

Samsung Electronics is releasing a food and recipe app powered by AI with 160,000 recipes readily available to users, the company announced on Wednesday. The app, called Food, builds on its previous acquisition of Whisk, a food database that Samsung acquired in 2019.

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Sometimes, product leaks feel like shots in the dark, dependent on sources of dubious nature who have all the motivation and ability to fake people out. And then there’s Google, who seems a little bit too willing to drop hints of its still-unannounced Pixel 8 Pro phone. The tech giant accidentally uploaded an image of…

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