Apple Could Raise iPhone 17 Prices In Hours, Due To Memory Chip Crisis

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Apple’s price hold on the iPhone may be about to end, according to a new report. And the price increase for the iPhone 17 could happen as soon as Monday, Aug. 10. Here’s the latest.

We wore shorts to the office. Our boss didn't.

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Steve Russolillo

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Shorts at the office. Appropriate or not?

'If You're Not a Netflix Subscriber, You Definitely Should Be' — Take-Two Boss Teases Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look

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: Aug 9, 2026 10:26am UTC

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look will hopefully give us the first proper gameplay reveal for GTA 6 — and it will be exclusive to Netflix for six hours. This unprecedented marketing beat has drawn criticism from some who have said Rockstar is effectively paywalling a video game trailer. Meanwhile, many questions remain. Is this extended look along the lines of a standard gameplay trailer? A mini GTA 6 documentary? A Netflix show? Something else entirely? Strauss Zelnick, boss of Rockstar parent company Take-Two, is keeping his cards close to his chest. But in a new interview with IGN, he said everyone will tune in regardless.

Admissions guru shares best advice for wealthy parents to get kids into elite colleges

An Ivy League whisperer shares her best advice for wealthy parents to get their kids into an elite college

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Here’s When Apple Will Reveal Its iPhone 18 Pro Special Event

This post, first published on Aug. 6, was republished on Aug. 9 with further details of the iPhone release schedule from keynote announcement to iPhone on-sale date and everything in between.

A 0.42-nanometer breakthrough could push transistors beyond silicon

For more than a decade, atomically thin semiconductors have stood out as a promising route beyond conventional silicon. These materials can be just a single atom thick while still offering impressive electrical properties. In principle, they could enable transistors that are smaller, faster, and more energy efficient than today's devices. Yet even as researchers have discovered increasingly capable two-dimensional semiconductor materials, one stubborn engineering problem has remained.

The Hundred: Trent Rockets continue dominance of women's competition as qualification for knockouts is clinched

Trent Rockets booked a place in the knockouts of The Hundred women's competition with a thumping nine-wicket win over already-eliminated MI London.

Nat Sciver-Brunt (67no off 36 balls) and Beth Mooney (54no off 44) struck sublime half-centuries as Rockets eased to their 122-run target with 18 balls to spare to claim a fifth-straight win.

Who are key players for chances of success this season?

Football leagues around Europe are gearing up for the new season and preseason training and friendlies are in full flow.

All eyes will be on the transfer window as clubs scramble to find the missing pieces, either in the starting lineup or to complete the squad.

Forget Quake, Worms: The Director's Cut just got a free expansion for the series' 30th anniversary

If you've checked in on Worms creator Andy Davidson sometime in these past few years, you'll know he's been hard at work on Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5, an unofficial but nonetheless Team 17-approved expansion pack for the original strategy-party mashup's Amiga-exclusive sequel. The goods have finally arrived: you can download the whole thing for free now.

New to The Street Show 766 Broadcasts Tonight at 6:30 PM ET on Bloomberg Television, Featuring BioVie's Bezisterim Parkinson's Disease Clinical Results

Sponsored Programming Also Broadcasts Across Bloomberg Television in Latin America and MENA, Expanding the Global Reach of New to The Street's Featured Companies

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 8, 2026 / New to The Street, one of the longest-running U.S. business television brands focused on public and emerging companies, announces the broadcast of Show 766 tonight at 6:30 PM ET on Bloomberg Television.