‘Pervert glasses’: Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses grows • Crete 7-bedroom estate with coach house, pool, bocce ball court: $2.2M
Working Lunch Tuesday, August 11, 2026 | | |
| | | | | Mayor Brandon Johnson appointed a new chief financial officer Monday, filling one of two vacancies on his fiscal team heading into his fourth budget cycle this fall. | | | | | Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit, but the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget “pervert glasses.” | | | | | This estate includes a main residence with four bedrooms, five fireplaces, plaster walls and original hardwood floors. A separate coach house offers three more bedrooms. | | | | | Americans who have followed what was long considered the formula for a middle-class life — earn degrees, work full-time, marry, buy a home, raise children, stick to a budget — increasingly wonder why financial security feels elusive. | | | | | WK Kellogg Co. says it will eliminate artificial colors from its entire cereal portfolio by the end of 2026, a year ahead of its original schedule. | | | | | Paying for social media posts is a political strategy in campaigns that raises thorny questions about compensation and disclosure but one that will likely only grow more common. | | | | | Gold steadied after its biggest weekly gain since January, with traders assessing a surprise contraction in the US jobs market that allayed concerns around an interest-rate hike. | | | | | The Beverly flagship location of Rainbow Cone celebrated its first century with balloons, temporary tattoos and a giant ice-cream-shaped cake Sunday. | | | | | Raising the stakes on the standoff with the city over the advent of video gambling terminals, Bally’s Chicago is pausing construction on nearly all non-gaming amenities at its $1.7 billion casino complex going up in River West. | | | | | The experimental drug, called daraxonrasib, does not cure pancreatic cancer, which is one of the deadliest and most difficult-to-treat cancers, but it gives many patients the next best thing: more time. | | | |
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