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  • Fashion Icon Kate Moss’s Onetime London Home in St. John’s Wood Now on the Market

    Fashion Icon Kate Moss’s Onetime London Home in St. John’s Wood Now on the Market

    At the height of her fame—and infamy—supermodel Kate Moss picked up this charming Victorian home nestled on the tree-lined streets of St. John’s Wood in north London. That was back in 2007, per The Daily Mail, when the British fashion icon had a young daughter and a budding romance with The Kills guitarist Jamie Hince, who she would go on to marry (and divorce).

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    The living room of Kate Moss’s onetime home in London.

    After moving into the five-bedroom hideaway, Moss put her own fashionable stamp on the interiors, creating a neon-lit party area, jungle-inspired living room, and filling the primary suite’s dual closets with her enviable collection of designer shoes and couture. She even held a medieval-themed 35th birthday bash at the home—complete with pig roast—attended by famous friends including Stella McCartney, much to the chagrin of her neighbors.

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    The dining room and kitchen have direct access to the sunken terrace.

    Moss ultimately unloaded the property in 2012, ready for a fresh start with her new husband, and purchased a lavish residence near friends Jude Law and Sienna Miller in the posh Highgate area. The new owners gave the 4,700-square-foot dwelling a pared-down makeover with modern furnishings while still retaining period elements like the living room’s original parquet floors.

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    A freestanding tub and fireplace in one of the baths.

    Today, the three-story abode is on the market again, this time for £5.95 million, or roughly $8 million, with Arlington Residential. Highlights include an eat-in kitchen that opens onto a sunken terrace, a walled garden shaded by mature trees, a sky-lit entry vestibule, and multiple dressing rooms. There’s plenty of charm outside as well, with a stucco-clad exterior featuring preserved details such as swirling wrought-iron railings, sash windows, and French doors.

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    The residence features multiple dressing areas.

    While Moss has decamped from London and lives in the Cotswolds, her former London retreat now awaits a new steward to write the next chapter of its stylish story.

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    Geoffrey Montes is an associate editor at ELLE Decor with a serious love for all things real estate and design. Before that, he worked at Architectural Digest, Galerie, and Preservation magazines, covering everything from jaw-dropping listings to world-famous architects and design events like Salone del Mobile and Homo Faber.

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  • FDA grants first US approval for decades-old eye drug – Nature

    FDA grants first US approval for decades-old eye drug – Nature

    1. FDA grants first US approval for decades-old eye drug  Nature
    2. FDA approves breakthrough eye drops that fix near vision without glasses  New Atlas
    3. FDA Approves Aceclidine Ophthalmic Solution 1.44 Percent as First Eye Drop for Presbyopia Treatment  geneonline.com
    4. Firm Advises LENZ Therapeutics in Matters Related to FDA’s Approval of VIZZ  Wilson Sonsini
    5. Bye bye, bifocals? New eye drops can fix farsightedness  Popular Science

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  • Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying to win back customers

    Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying to win back customers

    During that call, Sonos CFO Saori Casey said that the company expects “tariff expenses will be approximately $5 million in Q4.” In Sonos’ fiscal Q3, it paid $3.5 million in tariffs, Casey said.

    Sonos is still recovering from app problems

    Since July 2024, when Sonos’ then-CEO Patrick Spence admitted that a software update inadvertently broke many Sonos devices, the company has been trying to prove to customers and investors that its pricey audio devices are still worth buying.

    During the earnings call, Conrad said he believes the value of Sonos gadgets “compounds over time, thanks to the kinds of software updates that deliver new experiences.” But a widely reviled app update last year damaged Sonos’ reputation in this area. The update stripped the app of some basic features, such as the ability to edit playlists and song queues, and many Sonos devices, especially older ones, stopped functioning properly.

    Meanwhile, Sonos hasn’t released a new product since the Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4 subwoofer in October 2024. In March, reports surfaced that Sonos axed its streaming video player. Conrad told investors yesterday that Sonos has a release roadmap going beyond its 2026 fiscal year. Any devices in that roadmap, however, will be challenged to sell customers on their software, long-term reliability, and price.

    Customers may cut Sonos some slack, considering the widespread impact that tariffs are expected to have on electronics pricing. In May, the Trump administration axed the de minimis exemption that enabled duty-free imports of goods worth $800 or less, impacting electronics such as PC peripherals and DIY parts. Currently, the US and China have paused tariffs as the countries look to reach an agreement by August 12. At that time, goods imported from China could face tariffs as high as 145 percent, which would significantly impact the prices of most electronics sold in the US.

    But Sonos is already struggling to release and sell new products at high prices, so raising them even higher could further harm the company.

    “We lost the momentum in 2024. We’re starting to get it back, and we’re going to accelerate our pace from here,” Conrad said.

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  • Five England players nominated for women’s Ballon d’Or after Euro 2025 triumph | England women’s football team

    Five England players nominated for women’s Ballon d’Or after Euro 2025 triumph | England women’s football team

    Five of England’s European Championship-winning squad have been nominated for this year’s women’s Ballon d’Or, including three Arsenal players who claimed a club and country double of European titles this summer.

    Leah Williamson, Alessia Russo and Chloe Kelly all shared Champions League and Euros triumphs, and are joined on the nominees list by Lucy Bronze and Hannah Hampton, who both won domestic trebles with Chelsea and clinched back-to-back European titles with victory over Spain in Basel last month.

    For the men’s Ballon d’Or, four English players have been nominated, with Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane, Cole Palmer and Declan Rice all on the list alongside Scotland’s Scott McTominay, who has been recognised after his widely lauded contribution to Napoli’s Serie A triumph. The Arsenal and England full-back Myles Lewis-Skelly made the young players’ list.

    Sarina Wiegman, the Lionesses’ coach, has been nominated for the women’s Johan Cruyff Trophy, for the best coach, alongside Arsenal’s Renée Slegers and Chelsea’s Sonia Bompastor. Nigeria’s Justine Madugu and Brazil’s Arthur Elias have also been nominated after their triumphs in their respective continental competitions.

    The 19-year-old England striker, Michelle Agyemang, is nominated for the young player award – the Kopa Trophy. Her two late equalisers in the knockout stages of Euro 2025 were instrumental in England reaching the final. The Chelsea youngster Wieke Kaptein is also on that five-player list.

    Leah Williamson claimed a club and country European double this summer. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA

    Hampton, who saved two penalties in the Euro 2025 final, is also nominated for the Yashin Trophy for goalkeepers, along with Arsenal’s Daphne van Domselaar.

    Seven Arsenal players are among the women’s Ballon d’Or prize list, after their Champions League final victory over Barcelona in Lisbon, with Spain’s Mariona Caldentey, Australia’s Steph Catley, the USA’s Emily Fox and Norway’s Frida Maanum joining Williamson, Russo and Kelly. Chelsea have two further representatives in Sandy Baltimore and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd, while the Scotland and Real Madrid midfielder, Caroline Weir, has also made the list, alongside Brazil’s Marta and last year’s winner, Aitana Bonmatí of Spain.

    As expected, the men’s Ballon d’Or list also includes big-name nominees such as Kylian Mbappé, Mohamed Salah and Vinícius Júnior, along with Manchester City’s Erling Haaland and the new Arsenal signing Viktor Gyökeres. Arne Slot and Enzo Maresca are among five nominees for the men’s coach prize.

    Chelsea and Liverpool have both been nominated for men’s club of the year, while Arsenal and Chelsea are in the running for the women’s club of the year.

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  • The Hundred 2025 results: Northern Superchargers skittle Welsh Fire for 94 in 47-run thrashing

    The Hundred 2025 results: Northern Superchargers skittle Welsh Fire for 94 in 47-run thrashing

    Having chosen to bat first, Superchargers found themselves pegged back by a wicket every time they seemed to be building momentum.

    Annabel Sutherland looked in good touch but the Australia international – one of three in the home team – holed out off Matthews for 28 and at 89-4 from 65 balls, the innings could have gone either way.

    Armitage and Wareham ensured things went in the Superchargers’ favour as they stayed together for the remainder of the innings.

    The pair found the boundary regularly enough to keep the score moving and Wareham ended the innings with a bang, smashing a Jess Jonassen full toss into the stands.

    Fire’s chase got off to the worst possible start with Dunkley run out after setting off for a single that was never on and, when Linsey Smith bowled the dangerous Matthews, the pressure was on.

    Beaumont countered well, her experience shining through as she hit three sixes in an innings of controlled aggression, but a stand of 42 with Georgia Elwiss was ended by another run out.

    Wareham removed Jonassen before Grace Ballinger struck the telling blow, having Beaumont caught at cover by Armitage to leave Fire 58-5 at the halfway stage.

    There was no way back for Fire, with Superchargers bowlers targeting the stumps to great effect, taking five wickets from 19 balls that would have hit the timbers – including three bowled dismissals.

    Despite some late resistance from Shabnim Ismail and Katie Levick, Superchargers wrapped things up with two balls left in the match and go top of the table on net run-rate.

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  • Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff and other tennis stars’ lobbying for better pay results in record $90 million bag from upcoming U.S. Open

    Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff and other tennis stars’ lobbying for better pay results in record $90 million bag from upcoming U.S. Open

    Prize money at the U.S. Open will rise to nearly $85 million across all competitions this year, including a record $5 million each to the women’s and men’s singles champions, and total player compensation is jumping 20% to $90 million, the most in tennis history.

    The U.S. Tennis Association announced the payouts Wednesday for the year’s last Grand Slam tournament, which begins with the new mixed doubles event and its $1 million top check on Aug. 19-20. Singles competition starts on a Sunday for the first time — Aug. 24 — as those brackets expand from 14 days to 15.

    The increases at Flushing Meadows — where last year’s total compensation was $75 million — come as the sport’s leading players have been in discussions with each of the four major tournaments in a bid to receive a higher percentage of revenues at the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, French Open and Australian Open.

    Novak Djokovic, Coco Gauff and 2024 U.S. Open champions Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner were among 20 players who signed a letter sent to the heads of the four Grand Slam events in March seeking more prize money and a greater say in what they called “decisions that directly impact us.” Since then, some players have held talks with the majors.

    The previous high amount for a U.S. Open singles championship was $3.85 million in 2019, before decreasing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    This year’s $5 million check represents a 39% hike from last year’s $3.6 million. The same percentage increase was applied to the singles runners-up, who get $2.5 million each. Semifinalists will earn $1.26 million, a 26% rise.

    At Wimbledon, which ended last month, prize money went up about 7% to about $73 million at the exchange rate when the All England Club announced its player payments. The singles champions were paid about $4 million apiece.

    In New York, the winning teams in women’s and men’s doubles will receive $1 million, a new high for those events at the U.S. Open, where total prizes for qualifying are going up to $8 million, a 10% increase.

    The $85 million in 2025 U.S. Open prize money includes singles, doubles, qualifying and wheelchair events.

    Wednesday’s news comes after the USTA said in May that its main arena, Arthur Ashe Stadium, would be overhauled as part of an $800 million project touted as the “largest single investment” in U.S. Open history.

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  • Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey joins Villarreal

    Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey joins Villarreal

    Villarreal have signed Ghana international Thomas Partey on a free transfer following the expiry of his contract with Arsenal, the La Liga club said on Thursday.

    The 32-year-old defensive midfielder has agreed a season-long deal and will join the Villarreal squad in training on Friday.

    Partey was charged last month with raping two women while he was a player for the Premier League club. He is accused of five counts of rape relating to two women, plus a charge of sexual assault against a third woman, between April 2021 and June 2022.

    “The club is aware that the player is currently involved in legal proceedings in England. The player vehemently defends his innocence and denies all charges against him,” Villarreal said in a statement.

    “The club respects his presumption of innocence as a fundamental principle and is awaiting the verdict of the courts, which will be responsible for clarifying the facts of the case. In accordance with British law regarding ongoing proceedings, the club will not comment further on this matter.”

    Partey made 167 appearances for Arsenal, scoring nine goals after joining from Atletico Madrid in 2020.

    Villarreal, who beat Arsenal 3-2 in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday, begin their La Liga campaign at home to promoted Real Oviedo on August 16.

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  • Niantic launches Supercell’s “first AI Innovation Lab,” led by former Niantic PM

    Niantic launches Supercell’s “first AI Innovation Lab,” led by former Niantic PM

    Former Niantic project manager lead Jessica Jung has joined Supercell to lead its “first AI Innovation Lab” in San Francisco after getting “an offer that [she] couldn’t refuse.”

    In a LinkedIn post, Jung said she was founding the lab after it was “clear that Supercell is looking to explore at the edge of what’s possible with AI and build completely new entertainment categories.”

    “Just as they disrupted the gaming ecosystem over a decade ago with mobile, Supercell is positioned to become innovators once again,” Jung added (thanks, MobileGamer).

    Before then, Jung had been working on building her own AI startup — a consumer AI company building interaction models, multimodal agents — and cognitive wellness, and worked on Niantic’s AR virtual pet app.

    “We’re building the lab from 0->1, exploring how AI can give developers superpowers to realize their creativity and make novel new interaction loops that we’ve never seen before,” Jung wrote.

    Supercell recently increased its investment in Space Ape, acquiring the London-based studio in November 2024.

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  • AI-designed superglue retains extreme strength under water

    AI-designed superglue retains extreme strength under water

    Extremely sticky, waterproof glues have long been a critical necessity of mankind. Now, researchers have developed two such superglues that were designed by artificial intelligence after taking inspiration from a plethora of sticky proteins found in nature (Nature 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09269-4).

    One of the holy grails of materials science has been concocting strong and reliable waterproof glues, a quest that’s notoriously dependent upon trial and error, thus making the process luck based. Traditional glues often fail in wet environments because water disrupts the critical interactions needed for adhesion. Yet, nature is replete with organisms such as mussels, barnacles, and other marine creatures that have evolved to adhere strongly in wet, even turbulent conditions.

    Hailong Fan of Hokkaido University, Japan, and his team mined a comprehensive dataset of over 24,000 adhesive proteins from bacteria, eukaryotes, archaea, and viruses, spanning over 3,800 species. “Rather than mimicking one organism like the mussel, we essentially let evolution be our guide, treating nature as a massive design database,” Fan says.

    They found that despite their taxonomical diversity, these proteins shared characteristic amino acid sequences, especially the pairwise arrangements of amino acid functional classes involved in adhesion. Next, they created 180 novel, waterproof glues from random, free-radical copolymerization of six monomers, each representative of an amino acid functional class.

    Then the team measured the underwater strength of every glue, with an Escherichia derived glue emerging strongest at 147 kilopascal. Mussels, by comparison, can latch onto rocks with roughly 800 kPa of force. The researchers used this data to train machine learning models to conjure novel, better performing designs and predict their underwater strengths. Next, the team synthesized glues predicted to have topnotch strengths, measured their actual strengths, and then again fed this data to the ML models. Ultimately, they ended up with three sample glues (named R1-max, R2-max and R3-max), each being the top-performer of its respective “learning” round.

    They found that the glues exhibit mind-boggling underwater strength with R1-max topping the chart at more than 1 million Pa. More than 200 cycles of attachment and detachment failed to weaken R1’s grip, and it held together plates of various materials under a 1 kg load for more than a year, demonstrating its reusability and longevity. A rubber duck that was attached to a seaside rock with R1-max withstood relentless crashes of ocean waves and tides, a testament to its exceptional durability. And R2-max instantly sealed a 2-cm-diameter hole at the base of a three-meter pipe filled with tap water.

    Robert Macfarlane, a materials scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who wasn’t involved in the study, describes the work as mimicking “a biological evolution process that optimized material design for a specific performance.” He calls it “an interesting example” of using machine learning and data mining to produce functional materials.

    Using commercially available monomers and simple free-radical polymerization makes this approach scalable, Macfarlane says. He adds that “processing the materials into useful and application-ready form factors, and other issues, including the long-term stability and toxicity of the materials, and the response of these materials to different environments” would have to be addressed before its widespread adoption.

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  • DLA Piper welcomes Emma Whenham to the Investment Funds practice

    DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Emma Whenham as a Partner in the Investment Funds practice. She will be based in the San Francisco office.

    Whenham advises on structuring and capital raising for private funds with a focus on the real assets sector. She frequently represents global sponsors and newly organized firms in the formation and raising of both open and closed-ended private funds. Her work also includes advising on internal economic, strategic, and governance matters, co-investment arrangements, and secondary transactions.

    “We are thrilled to welcome Emma to the firm. Her private equity fund formation experience and business connections will further strengthen our fund formation and transactional services,” said John Cusack, Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Investment Funds practice.

    “Emma is widely recognized as an exceptionally talented practitioner, and we’re thrilled to welcome her to our team as we expand our real estate funds offering in the San Francisco market,” said Jesse Criz, US Co-Chair of the firm’s Investment Funds practice.

    The firm’s global investment funds team provides a dynamic, integrated service to sponsors, fund managers and institutional investors, supported by the firm’s international tax and regulatory networks. The team advises clients on the full spectrum of private investment funds, all major investment strategies and all stages of a private investment fund’s life cycle.

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