Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don’t have to):

412 articles, 13 podcasts, 11 press releases, 613 tweets, and 11 YouTube videos

1. US Sues Google Over Search Monopoly

Let's face it; no one says "Bing it" when looking to find information on the internet. Google just got hit with a US antitrust suit over its Search practices. Microsoft may recall a similar suit over its browser back in 1998 with a bit of schadenfreude.

2. More Retailers Look to Special Sale Events

Prime Day was a huge success, and Black Friday is already on the horizon. What better way to keep us spending our money than even more special sales events? Walmart, Target, and Best Buy have all jumped the gun with sales.

3. LinkedIn Adds Instagram-like Stories

We're not sure a business-focused networking site has enough street cred to make this happen, but LinkedIn has added a new Stories feature, aping apps like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. How do you do, fellow kids?

🦑 Go Deeper

A superconducting material that can work at room temperature has been discovered by scientists. We won't see hoverboards any time soon, though, reports Sascha Brodsky in this deeper look.

We can see why advertisers love LinkedIn: it's full of people who make more than $75K per year, with all the purchasing power that implies. Still, why do we want yet another Stories feature in our online resume service?

🤓 Nerd Out

"Matching blocks for science!" -Alice Newcome-Beill, Associate Commerce Editor

Drop into a mini-game in first-person shooter video game Borderlands 3 and you could be helping real scientists studying the human gut biome. (Share on Twitter)

💎 You Know You Want It

Walkie talkies for grown-ups

Image: Lifewire/Rob LeFebvre

It can be tricky using your phone for quick, easy communication, what with opening an app, finding a contact, and the like. These Relay+ devices, then, offer instant push-to-talk functions that operate on LTE, so you're never too far apart. Get a few, get a ton (for your company) and just... talk.

🚀 Facing the Future

Hang on, let me answer my wrist.

Fitness tracker tattoos, anyone? We'll all likely be printing our tech right on our skin in the near future, if these researchers who found a way do it without heat are successful.

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