• ☝️ The Royal Meteorological Society announced the winners of the 2024 Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year competition, which attracted entries from 84 countries.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

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• 💰 US markets fell across the board (S&P: -0.3%; Dow: -0.2%; Nasdaq: -0.6%).
• ✌️ Ernst & Young resigned as the auditor to troubled server maker Super Micro, citing concerns about the company’s governance and transparency; Super Micro shares fell 33% on the day.
• ☕ Starbucks reported quarterly results that missed on both revenue and earnings. | ⌨️ Reddit turned a quarterly profit for the first time; has ~100 million daily active users; shares jumped 42% yesterday. | 📱 Meta reported quarterly results that beat expectations on revenue and earnings but missed on user growth. | ☁️ Microsoft posted strong quarterly results powered by cloud growth.

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SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

• ⚾ The Los Angeles Dodgers are MLB Champs: LA beat the New York Yankees 7-6 in Game 5 last night to clinch the best-of-seven series; the title is LA's eighth in franchise history; Freddie Freeman was named Series MVP. | ⚾ The Women’s Pro Baseball League, a six-team professional women’s baseball league based in the northeastern US, aims to begin competition in 2026, per a news release.
• 😱 A Scary Movie reboot is in the works, with the Wayans brothers reuniting for the first time in 18 years for a new original screenplay.
• 🎶🏆 Disney agreed to pay a reported $500+ million for the rights to stream the Grammy Awards from 2027-2036; the deal ends the show’s 50+-year run with CBS.

SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

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• 💼🤖 LinkedIn launched Hiring Assistant, its first AI-powered agent, which is aimed at helping job recruiters with tasks involved in employee recruitment.
• 📐 Two students who discovered a groundbreaking trigonometry-based method for proving the Pythagorean theorem as high school seniors have had their work validated by peer review, per a new study; they also identified nine more solutions to the problem.
• 🚫📝 A recent study testing methods to ensure the integrity of published research was retracted last month, in part due to its failure to follow one of the practices the study was looking to test (fully documenting key aspects of the project before running experiments).

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MISCELLANEOUS

• ☕ Starbucks will discontinue its Oleato olive oil-infused drinks on November 7 in a push to simplify its menu; the coffee chain is also removing its surcharge for dairy substitutes at the same time.
• 🗣️🗑️ Both presidential candidates are attempting to distance themselves from recent statements by people campaigning for them – comedian Tony Hinchcliffe for Trump, President Biden for Harris – that refer to Puerto Rico and Trump supporters as “garbage,” respectively.
• ⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled Virginia can cancel 1,600+ voter registrations the state government says are held by non-citizens; voters who believe they were improperly removed can still vote this election, as Virginia has same-day registration.

CLICKBAIT

• 😋🍫 Making a Snickers bar is a complex science − a candy engineer explains.