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• In August, home prices climbed a seasonally adjusted 0.68% from July, hitting a record high for the fourth consecutive month, per Black Knight.
• Prices in nearly half the nation's 50 largest markets climbed by 0.75% or more.
• "Even on a non-adjusted basis, August's gain of +0.24% was more than 60% larger than the 25-year average for the month."

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In a blog post published today, crowdfunding site BackerKit announced it will no longer allow “solely” AI-generated content on its platform. This new policy “aims to address growing concerns regarding ownership of content, ethical sourcing of data, and compensation for the process of creating content.” This policy…

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The city of lights is beset by bed bugs. Sightings of the tiny urban pest in public places throughout Paris have apparently increased as of late, and officials are calling for aggressive action to curtail the menace in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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• Bill Ackman said the Fed is likely done hiking interest rates as the economy starts to weaken.
• "High mortgage rates, high car rates, high credit card rates — they're starting to have an impact on the economy," he told CNBC.
• The billionaire investor is also betting that 30-year Treasury yields are going to rise further.

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X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has made a special revenue sharing deal with Paris Hilton and her media company, 11:11. It even includes a custom hashtag for a word that Hilton has been trying to popularize since at least 2019: “sliving.”

A combination of the words “slaying” and “living,” sliving is supposed to be

Samsung is reportedly set to formally launch cloud gaming inside the Samsung Game Launcher on Galaxy phones at its developer conference this week on October 5th, according to the Korea Economic Daily.

The new cloud service, which has been in slowly expanding beta for a few months now, is targeted at mobile games, unlike most other cloud

TikTok users might be able to pay not to see a deluge of ads in the future.

Android Authority has screenshots of TikTok prompting users to select between staying on the free version of the app with ads or upgrading to an ad-free experience. According to the screenshot, some users have the option to pay $4.99 a month to not see ads.

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OnePlus and Oppo are releasing the same foldable phone under different names, OnePlus confirmed in an announcement emailed to The Verge today. The company says that Oppo chief product officer Peter Lau, who co-founded OnePlus, directed teams at both companies to develop the phone in tandem to be released under both

• Walgreens said that screens on some of its cooler doors caught fire and malfunctioned.
• Cooler Screens, the company behind the displays, planned to roll out the screens in hundreds of Walgreens locations.
• The problems were detailed in documents that Walgreens filed in response to a lawsuit.

Screens Walgreens installed on some of its in-store coolers allegedly caught on fire

You’d think a Pikachu in a grey felt hat wouldn’t be able to spark crowd-swelling hysteria, but if the last few years have proven anything, Pokémon has developed a concerning relationship with speculative markets that can turn even the most humble cross-promotional event into an absolute headache. Or maybe more of an…

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