9/28/26 - VMAs, Star Trek Tech, and Phone Game Apps
Monday 9/28/26
Celebrate:
Family Day
Fish Tank Floorshow Night
Gold Lining Day
International Right to Know Day
National Drink Beer Day
National Good Neighbor Day
National Strawberry Cream Pie Day
Read a Child a Book You Like Day
World Rabies Day
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1. Avengers Endgame: Encore $26M
2. Resident Evil $23.3M
3. The Heart of the Beast $20M
4. Primetime $20M
5. Forgotten Island $12.8M
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The VMAs were held last night!
Congratulations, Madonna, on winning Artist of the Year.
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Residents across Milwaukee spent hours calling local authorities after a low-frequency, indescribable sound echoed through the night air for over two hours. Local social media blew up with jokes about alien invasions and sci-fi movie sound effects, leaving city officials scratching their heads as to whether it was industrial machinery or something far stranger.
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Five U.S. cities have officially deployed an autonomous, friendly-looking sidewalk robot named "Dax." Moving at walking pace, they continuously perform surveys of the sidewalk level, measuring gradients, width, and vertical changes—the kinds of things that would be done by a surveyor crew.
The data is packaged up and forwarded to city planners for the purpose of more easily triaging which sidewalks are more urgently in need of repair. Municipalities report that pedestrian injury claims are dropping, and local kids have turned the little maintenance bot into a neighborhood celebrity.
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Syndicated television audiences first welcomed Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D into their living rooms with the two-hour series premiere "Encounter at Farpoint."
HowStuffWorks.com has ten technologies from Star Trek that actually did come to life!
Tricorder - the idea has happened in many medical situations
Telepresence - basically video conferencing.
Geordi's VISOR
Universal Translator - you now have earbuds that translate in real time. (better than a fish in the ear)
Hypospray - they are called Jet Injectors.
Probably the most noticeable are communicators. Flip-phones were perhaps distant cousins, but your Cell Phone does what they did!
Read more here
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Last Week in South Africa, thousands of people came together on Heritage Day to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest simultaneous cookout.
Over 2,200 people lined up at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, tongs in hand, to grill traditional meat and sausages simultaneously under the watch of official record adjudicators.
No word on if they did it yet.
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Few mobile games have had the staying power of Angry Birds. Since Rovio launched the original game in December 2009, the franchise has expanded from a simple slingshot puzzler into racing games, RPGs, match-three games, virtual reality experiences and dozens of spin-offs. This year, the Angry Birds series has surpassed 5 billion downloads worldwide.
Interesting thing is, the first Angry Birds title to show up is #70.
As of 2026, these are the most downloaded mobile games of all time, worldwide, on all app stores.
Subway Surfers (2.22 billion)
Free Fire (1.97 billion)
Roblox (1.48 billion)
Candy Crush Saga (1.44 billion)
8 Ball Pool (1.29 billion)
Ludo King (1.28 billion)
PUBG MOBILE (1.26 billion)
My Talking Tom (1.03 billion)
My Talking Tom 2 (920 million)
Temple Run 2: Endless Escape (920 million)
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Health practitioners are pushing a minimalist daily framework called F-STAR to combat early autumn fatigue: Food (whole foods), Sleep (consistent hours), Treadmill (10 minutes of walking), Avoid (late-night screens/toxins), and Relationships (a quick daily check-in with a friend). The simple daily checklist is designed to keep energy stable without complex routines.
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For months, New Yorkers have been baffled by videos of mysterious figures climbing out of manholes across the city. Now we have an explanation—and it's stranger than fiction. Two men were arrested last week after allegedly entering a Manhattan sewer near the hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was staying during the UN General Assembly. Prosecutors say one suspect told police they were searching the city's sewers for gold and other valuables.
The suspects, 26-year-old Kevin Rodriguez and 25-year-old Samuel Reveron, were charged with trespassing and conspiracy. The arrests follow a pattern of similar incidents dating back to May, with groups seen entering manholes in Brooklyn, Queens, and near Penn Station. Urban explorer Steve Duncan, who has spent years navigating New York's underground, says he's never found anything valuable—and warns the real dangers are low oxygen and explosive gas. The hunt for sewer gold may be based more on urban legend than reality.
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If you've been outside at all in the last few weeks, you've noticed a lot of bees..more like wasps and yellowjackets, not the honey bees.
Why so many?
Today's Useless Fact of the Day - They've spent the whole spring and summer reproducing and growing their hive, so there are more workers out and about.
As flowers begin to fade and natural nectar sources decline with the cooler weather, the food supply drops. At the same time, the colony's nutritional needs shift. Wasps and bees become intensely food-motivated, driving them to scavenge for alternative sugars—which is why they frequently crash outdoor lunches, soda cans, and fruit trees.
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