A new Ember analysis finds that a solar plant can now require less upfront investment than a coal or gas plant to deliver the same amount of electricity, after solar could require up to five times more a decade ago.
Aug 29, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
A Trail Tale is an interactive Appalachian Trail pixel-art journal that lets you click through each day to learn about landmarks and track Andy Moliski’s fortitude and morale affected by weather and scenery.
Aug 29, 2026 ·
The Verge
Leaving work at 64 with a $380,000 pre-tax 401(k) and doing no Roth conversions for nine “gap years” led to her first required minimum distribution being taxed at the 22% bracket.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Realty Income (NYSE: O) is a REIT landlord yielding 5.1% with 31 consecutive annual dividend increases, and it now generates around 20% of revenues from Europe.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple’s new M6 (built on TSMC’s 2nm process) is the first 2nm consumer-computer chip and ships in a refreshed Mac mini starting at $899 on Sept. 22.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 2026 US Open Tennis Championships run Aug. 30–Sept. 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York, with the tournament starting on Sunday Aug. 30 and culminating in the men’s singles championship on Sunday Sept. 13.
Aug 29, 2026 ·
Engadget
Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE and deported to the UK after overstaying his visa after a final order of removal was issued on July 22.
Aug 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Jim Cramer says investors should start with a worldview on the economy and interest rates, then narrow to sectors, and his approach led him to PepsiCo (PEP) based on oil/gas falling and the company paying a dividend while waiting.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Red Lobster will close two more locations in Alabama (Montgomery and Huntsville) on Sept. 6, reducing its total from 524 to 522 locations (495 in the U.S.).
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX plans a $100 billion Starship buildout on 125,000 acres near Pecan Island, with construction starting in 2027 and an initial launch targeted for 2029.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Morgan Stanley raised its CrowdStrike price target to $238 from $227 while keeping an Overweight rating after CrowdStrike reported record Q2 net new ARR of $333 million, up 51% year-over-year and 17% above Street expectations.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
XRP was about $1.43 on Aug. 28 and had 30-day returns of 33%, but the article argues that holder value may lag because XRP Ledger transaction fees in Q2 were $48,168 and are burned while circulating supply increased by about 272 million XRP per month in the first half of 2026.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AMD’s x86 client CPU market share rose to 30.3% in Q2 2026 (from 21.1% two years earlier) even as the overall desktop/laptop market shrank more than 20% last year due to soaring memory prices, so the gain reflects share in a shrinking market rather than a demand boom.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft’s fiscal 2026 Cloud revenue exceeded $214B and Azure revenue surpassed $100B, with Microsoft adding 31 new data centers in the quarter to reach 88 facilities and planning to nearly double its infrastructure footprint within two years.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Whoop Life costs $359 per year and bundles blood pressure insights, an ECG Heart Screener package, priority phone support, and a 5.0 medical-grade sensor.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking up to $150,000 per work plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped, with total damages potentially reaching several billion dollars.
Aug 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Raised its acquisition guidance to a record $150 million from $120 million as renewed leases shifted from five-year flat terms to 10-year agreements with 3% annual escalators and annual rent growth now covers 45% of the portfolio through 2026.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Windscribe’s Back to School deal cuts a full year of Pro VPN access to $39 instead of $69 (64% off), which works out to a little over $3 per month and stays locked for the lifetime of the subscription.
Aug 29, 2026 ·
CNET
1080p can look better than 4K on a TV when the “4K” stream is heavily compressed, since compression discards fine details like shadow transitions, film grain, texture details, and complicated motion information before the TV decodes it.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Engadget
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overruled Kalshi’s attempt to block Nevada from overseeing its prediction market platform.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Engadget
