• ☝️ RMS Titanic, Inc., the company that owns salvage rights to the Titanic’s wreckage, recently made its first unmanned dive to the site in 14 years; the nearly month-long expedition resulted in 2+ million high-resolution photos of the sunken ship.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets rose in August (S&P: +2.3%; Dow: +1.8%; Nasdaq: +0.7%); the S&P notched its fourth-straight winning month.
• 🏨 ~10,000 hotel workers went on strike this weekend; more are expected to join in the coming days; affected hotels include those operated by Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott. | ⚖️ HP is continuing legal proceedings in the UK that seek up to $4 billion in damages from UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's estate.
• 📈 Costco’s membership-price hikes took effect on Sunday.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• 🏈 College football: #1 Georgia defeated #14 Clemson; #7 Notre Dame beat #20 Texas A&M; and #23 USC upset #13 LSU; see other highlights from the weekend (link). | 🎾 US Open: The men’s and women’s quarterfinal matchups were finalized after yesterday’s action; betting favorites Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic were upset early on the men’s side, while Coco Gauff was upset on the women’s side. (Dive deeper) | 🏀 Angel Reese, rookie forward for the Chicago Sky, broke the WNBA record for most rebounds in a season (with eight games remaining).
• 🙏 NHL star Johnny Gaudreau, 31, and his younger brother were killed by a suspected drunk driver while riding bicycles on Friday; Gaudreau, aka “Johnny Hockey,” was a fan favorite who played 10 seasons for the Flames and Blue Jackets.
• 🌭 Joey Chestnut defeated Takeru Kobayashi in Netflix‘s Unfinished Beef hot-dog eating contest; Chestnut broke his own world record by eating 83 hot dogs and buns, while Kobayashi set a new personal best with 66.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💉🦠 People who took semaglutide, the active ingredient in weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, were 33% less likely to die from Covid in a series of new studies; semaglutide users could still contract the virus, but suffered fewer adverse effects.
• 🧑‍🚀 NASA said the “strange noises” astronaut Butch Wilmore said he noticed coming from Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft appear to have come from a speaker feedback loop.
• 🔋 An energy startup plans to build the world's biggest battery in Lincoln, Maine; it aims to store 130 million times more energy than a high-end laptop; the project received $147 million in grants from the Department of Energy.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🎓📲 The University of Texas at San Antonio is offering a new major for aspiring influencers called Digital Media Influence.
• 🇻🇪✈️ The Justice Department seized Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s airplane – described as the country’s equivalent to Air Force One – after determining its acquisition violated US sanctions.
• 🏢🚨 The city of Aurora, Colorado, is seeking an emergency court order to shut down apartment buildings the city’s mayor says have been overrun by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

CLICKBAIT

• 🤔🥩 What happens to meat as it's cooked?