A pedestrian was struck by a car in Groton while crossing at a crosswalk Saturday afternoon.Groton Police Department
A pedestrian was flown to a hospital Saturday afternoon after they were hit by a car while crossing the street in Groton, according to police.
Groton police responded to the crash on Main Street shortly after 2:05 p.m., the police department said in a press release. Preliminary reports indicate the car was traveling east in the center of town when it struck a pedestrian who was crossing at a crosswalk.
The pedestrian was seriously injured in the crash and flown to UMass Medical Center, police said. As of Sunday morning, they were still hospitalized, but in stable condition.
Groton police are still investigating the crash, and no charges have been filed in connection with the incident, the police department said Sunday evening. No further information has been released.
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The MBA-to-VC pipeline remains a very real thing. But that path is a little shakier than it once was, according to PitchBook reporting and new academic research.
Harvard placed 50 of its 1,004 MBA graduates into VC roles in 2024, with a median starting salary of $177,500. Stanford placed around 30 from its smaller class. More than 10,000 Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton MBA alumni currently hold senior positions at U.S. VC firms, PitchBook data shows.
The MBA’s grip on venture capital is loosening, however, according to Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev, who found that 44% of mid-career venture professionals held MBAs in the early 2000s, compared to 32% today.
What’s driving the change? VC has evolved beyond traditional sectors into AI and hardware, where technical experience beats business school credentials, so firms are increasingly scanning talent from companies like OpenAI and SpaceX rather than elite MBA programs. “There is less appetite for MBAs currently,” executive recruiter Will Champagne tells PitchBook.
Students haven’t gotten the memo yet; Stanford’s VC club still boasts 600 members out of the roughly 850 MBA students on campus. They’re paying a steep price, too. Nabbing an MBA at a top program can cost more than $200,000.
Early shoppers are taking to the web to warn about the potentially scratch-prone nature of specific iPhone 17 model and color combos. According to a Bloomberg report, those demoing the latest iPhone in-store noticed that the iPhone 17 Pro in Deep Blue and the iPhone Air in Space Black models already had very noticeable scratches and scuffs. The report is backed up by social media posts following the release, where users recorded display models with residual marks from being used with a MagSafe charger and showed off photos of the back camera housing with chipped edges.
In a video by JerryRigEverything, the YouTuber puts the iPhone 17 models to the test with razor blades, coins and keys. The video highlights the edges of the iPhone 17 Pro’s back camera housing as particularly prone to scuffing since the colored aluminum oxide layer from the anodization process tends not to stick to sharp corners. However, the YouTuber also purposely marked up the iPhone 17 Pro blue model’s camera plateau itself and the phone’s back, which showed clear scratches that were easily wiped off.
The visibility of the scratches could be attributed to Apple’s decision to switch back from the iPhone 16 Pro‘s titanium chassis to aluminum, which is known to be susceptible to marking. However, all of these scratches are cosmetic and won’t affect how these latest iPhones function. Many iPhone buyers may not even run into this issue at all, considering a majority of owners use a case.
Google is preparing a redesign of the Home app that focuses in on Gemini and AI features, and I’m a little nervous about it, but still optimistic.
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As we reported on earlier this week, the latest Google Home app update sets the foundation for a big Gemini-centric revamp. This includes “Google Home Premium” and the first new Google smart speaker in years. But it also brings a surprise redesign to the Google Home app.
The new app drops down to just three tabs along the bottom – Home, Activity, and Automations. An “Ask Home” search bar shows up at the top, and the main Home page then shows your favorite devices as well as a new button to show the rest of the list of devices. The Settings, Inbox, and other displaced features are then offloaded to the profile overflow menu.
While not as big of a redesign as the Google Home app we’ve come to know since 2023, it’s still a big shift.
Google, with that 2023 redesign and its moves in the time since, has done a lot to improve on the experience of operating a smart home, and the solution it has created scales pretty well to bigger smart homes too. There are plenty of faults, definitely, but the overall product has felt pretty good to me, and I’ve been looking forward to seeing continued progress.
On the other hand, I worry that the focus on AI will take away from the core parts of a smart home that, frankly, Google still needs to get better at.
As mentioned, Google has solved a lot of the sore points of running a smart home in the Home app, but there’s still a lot of work to be done. Barely a month ago, Google literally had to acknowledge that, yes, the experience of using Home, and especially Assistant, has been chaotic. If you’re throwing AI into the mix, that opens a new door to a whole new kind of chaos. AI services, even Google’s, aren’t exactly known for being the most stable and predictable things.
That said, I’m overall optimistic.
The Google Home app redesign isn’t overbearing, at least based on the preview we’ve seen so far, when it comes to shoving AI down your throat. It balances the existing experience with one enhanced by Gemini and, if all goes perfectly, it might even be better than what we have today.
We’ll find out more in the coming weeks, but what do you think?
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Samsung releases its Android 16 update
After several betas, Samsung has finally released its first stable Android 16 update, with One UI 8 now rolling out to the Galaxy S25 series globally. The update will be heading to more Galaxy phones over the next couple of months.
Meta launches new smart glasses
Ahead of Android XR’s upcoming debut, Meta this week launched its first pair of smart glasses with a display in the new Meta Ray-Ban Display. The $800 glasses look compelling, but they’re not the only news as standard display-less glasses also launched with 8-hour battery life in a welcome upgrade.
Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2
The latest Android 16 beta brings support for changing app icons on the homescreen among other additions. The beta is available for all Tensor-powered Pixel phones.
Nashua resident Hunter Nadeau is accused of killing 59-year-old Robert DeCesare with a handgun at Sky Meadow Country Club’s Prime restaurant in Nashua, the attorney general’s office said previously. There is no known connection between the two men.
“DeCesare was just having dinner with his family at the country club, and his life was tragically taken,” Formella said Sunday afternoon.
The shooting began when Nadeau shot a host at the country club’s wedding venue outside a set of bathrooms during a wedding celebration, Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke said Sunday afternoon. The host was flown by medical helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital and remains in critical but stable condition.
Nadeau then released a second round of gunfire inside Prime restaurant, striking DeCesare and another patron, Rourke said. Officials did not provide information about the third shooting victim’s condition or whether Nadeau opened fire on those attending the wedding.
Four other patrons were injured but not by gunfire, Formella said. Their injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening.
Though witnesses reported hearing Nadeau shout several different political slogans during the attack, his true motivation and whether he meant to target a specific victim or victims remains unclear, the attorney general said.
“There’s been reports that he made certain statements such as ‘Free Palestine,’ but based on the evidence we have gathered, Mr. Nadeau made a number of statements during the event,” he said. ” … I would say that at this point, the evidence leads us to believe that it is more likely that Mr. Nadeau was simply trying to make a number of statements to create chaos in the moment.”
Police responded to the country club Saturday evening after receiving several 911 calls reporting multiple gunshots, the attorney general’s office said previously.
The shooting garnered a huge police response, including officers from six local police departments, New Hampshire and Massachusetts State Police and three federal agencies, Rourke said Sunday afternoon. Nadeau was arrested in a nearby neighborhood within 30 minutes.
He praised police, federal agents and “selfless” restaurant patrons during and after the shooting.
Formella declined to specify what Nadeau’s position was while employed by the country club, but said that he had not worked there for approximately a year.
Nadeau faces a second-degree murder charge in connection with the shooting, but is expected to face further charges. He is set to be arraigned on the charges virtually in Nashua District Court at 1 p.m. on Monday, Formella said. The New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner’s Office is also set to autopsy DeCesare’s body on Monday.
The investigation into the shooting is still in its early stages, and more information will be released at a later time, Formella said.
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Grand Forks, N.D., columnist Marylin Hagerty went viral in 2012 when she reviewed her local Olive Garden. She died last week at the age of 99. We remember her and her work.
Travelers at major European airports including Heathrow, Brussels, and Berlin faced significant delays this weekend following what Collins Aerospace described as a “cyber-related incident.”
Collins Aerospace makes technology for airline check-in desks, so after the apparent cyberattack, airlines were forced to revert to manual check-ins, according to the Guardian. According to data from Flightradar24, more than 130 Heathrow flights had been delayed by 20 minutes or more as of 11am on Sunday morning, with 13 flights canceled on Saturday.
A post on the Heathrow social media account said, “Work continues to resolve and recover from Friday’s outage of a Collins Aerospace airline system that impacted check-in. We apologise to those who have faced delays, but by working together with airlines, the vast majority of flights have continued to operate.”
Heathrow, like other affected airports, has recommended that travelers arrive at least three hours before departure for long-haul flights, and at least two hours beforehand for short-haul flights.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a TikTok deal is expected to be signed “in the coming days,” after President Donald Trump posted an update on Friday that did little to clarify where the deal currently stands following a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said both that the two had “made progress” on “approval of the TikTok Deal” and that he “appreciate[s] the TikTok approval.” Trump also told reporters in the Oval Office that “he approved the TikTok deal,” Reutersreported.
But Chinese state-run media reported the call a bit differently, according to The New York Times, saying that Xi conveyed that the government “respects the wishes of the company in question and is glad to see business negotiations in line with market rules and a solution that conforms to Chinese laws and regulations and takes into account the interests of both sides.”
TikTok owner ByteDance did little to clear things up when it issued the following statement. “We thank President Xi Jinping and President Donald J. Trump for their efforts to preserve TikTok in the United States. ByteDance will work in accordance with applicable laws to ensure TikTok remains available to American users through TikTok U.S.”
During an appearance on ‘ “Saturday in America” the following day, Leavitt added a bit more detail to the announcement, after first saying, “We are 100 percent confident that a deal is done. Now that deal just needs to be signed, and the president’s team is working with their Chinese counterparts to do just that.”
“This deal means that TikTok will be majority owned by Americans in the United States,” Leavitt said. “There will be seven seats on the board that controls the app in the United States and six of those seats will be Americans.” According to Leavitt, data and privacy will be led by Oracle, “and the algorithm will also be controlled by America as well.”
She went on to say that “all of those details have already been agreed upon. Now we just need this deal to be signed, and that will be happening, I anticipate, in the coming days.”
This week, there have been multiple reports that the two sides were reaching the final stages of negotiations. The proposed terms reportedly include a brand new app for TikTok’s US users that will continue to use ByteDance’s technology for its algorithm, US investor control and a multibillion-dollar payday for the Trump Administration.
It still has yet to be made official. Trump also granted TikTok an extension on a full-on ban for a fourth time, so the two sides now have until December to figure it out.
Update, September 20, 2025, 4:40PM ET: This story has been updated to include new information from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Welcome to episode 70 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Abner, Damien, and Will talk through their feeling surrounding the upcoming smart speaker Google appears to be readying for launch next month. From whether a Gemini-powered smart speaker fits with what people ask for in their homes to debating if a display is absolutely necessary to make the device worth it, all three hosts work through their feelings on the looming reboot of a once-booming market, and where Google might intend to take the lineup moving forward.
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At the end of August, one MGM Springfield slot machine player walked away a jackpot prize winner.
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