• E-tongue can detect white wine spoilage before humans can (LINK).

• Stegosaurus skeleton sold for $45M to hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin (BBG).

• Some drones are now sitting on power lines to charge (NEW ATLAS). 

• J.D. Vance is the first major party nominee to have facial hair in 75 years (NYT).

• Amazon Prime Day shoppers spent $14.2B on July 16-17 (up 11% YoY) (CNBC).

• For first time in 1B years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism (LINK)

• SpaceX will spend $843M to crash the International Space Station (AXIOS).

• Disneyland workers might strike for the first time in 40 years (CNN).

• New credit card for NYC millionaires has 30k+ people on the waitlist (FORTUNE).

• Bud Light sales continue to fall, slipping to the #3 beer in America (YF).

• Patagonia has figured out a way to partly recycle wetsuits (FAST).

• T-Mobile ranked the fastest internet provider in the U.S. (LINK).

• Andreessen Horowitz’s co-founders endorsed Trump (YT).

• D’Amelio family launched a venture capital fund (444 Capital).

• Anthropic launched a $100M AI fund together with Menlo Ventures (TC).

• What Musk's Texas relocation plan for SpaceX and Twitter headquarters could mean for California (ABC).

• Startups are building balloons to hoist tourists 100,000 feet (CNBC).

• 47% of U.S. workers doubt Social Security will pay them upon retirement (WSJ).

• How Uber acquired its first 1M drivers (TWITTER). 

• Ticketmaster: how someone reverse-engineered its ticket generation algorithm to make their own tickets (LINK).

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