• ☝️ The ongoing Perseid meteor shower reached its peak overnight Saturday, showering the night sky with up to 100 meteors per hour.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets closed mixed on Friday (S&P: -0.1%; Dow: +0.3%; Nasdaq: -0.6%); the Nasdaq fell two straight weeks for the first time this year.
• 🤔 A look at the inverted yield curve: The price of longer-term US Treasury bonds remains below those of shorter-term bonds, an anomaly known as an inverted yield curve; it’s earned fame as a harbinger of economic downturns, the WSJ reports.
• ⚖️ Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of FTX, was ordered to jail after a judge revoked his bail for alleged witness tampering.

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• 🍿 Barbie held the top spot at the domestic box office for a fourth straight weekend with $33 million in ticket sales; The Last Voyage of the Demeter earned just $6.5 million in its opening weekend vs. a reported production cost of $45 million.
• 🏈 Men who play organized football are more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease later in life, per a peer-reviewed study published Friday in JAMA Network Open.
• ⚾ The MLB launched an investigation into social media posts involving Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco; the posts accuse Franco, 22, of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 👣 Walking 4,000 steps/day – or roughly two miles – reduces the risk of dying from any cause, with additional steps leading to a further decrease in mortality, per a new meta-analysis of studies published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
• 👂 Researchers in London have successfully reversed hearing loss in mice using gene therapy, per a new study published in PNAS.
• 🤖🚘 California regulators late Thursday voted to allow self-driving car companies Waymo and Cruise to launch 24/7 paid driverless ride-hailing services in San Francisco; on Saturday, as many as 10 driverless Cruise vehicles in SF stopped working, causing traffic jams. (Background)

MISCELLANEOUS

• ✈️ A Florida-bound American Airlines plane dropped 15,000 feet in 3 minutes during a flight on Saturday; the plane went on the land safely at its destination.
• 🚫 Private jet owners may soon be able to keep their flight information private, thanks to a new bipartisan FAA reauthorization bill that passed the House in late July by a 351-69 margin.
• ⚖️🚨 A small Kansas town’s police force raided the office of a local newspaper and the home of its owners on Friday; US legal experts say the raid, which centers around a confidential tip the newspaper received, is likely unprecedented in modern times; a 98-year-old co-owner of the newspaper collapsed and died one day after the raid.

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