Tips for Getting Your Commercial Property in Top Shape | The Startup Magazine

A commercial property has to work for customers, employees, vendors, and visitors. When the building looks neglected or functions poorly, it can affect impressions, safety, comfort, and productivity. Getting the property in top shape does not require a major renovation. Often, commercial property improvements come from identifying worn areas, prioritizing repairs, and creating a maintenance plan.

Start with the Exterior

The outside of the property sets expectations before anyone reaches the front door. Walk the parking lot, sidewalks, entrances, landscaping, lighting, signs, and loading areas with a practical eye. Look for faded markings, cracked pavement, blocked walkways, loose handrails, and poor drainage. These details affect how easily people move around the property and whether the business appears organized.

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Hawk fire: 90,000 told to evacuate as wildfire approaches Reno, Nevada | BBC News

Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate from an area close to Reno, Nevada, as a large wildfire reached the outskirts of the city.

Around 42,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes immediately, with a further 45,000 people urged to get ready to leave.

Officials warned the fire was expected to burn for two more days and said there was no timeline for people to return to their homes.

The fire, which was first reported on Saturday morning, had so far injured six people, officials said. Windy and unpredictable weather conditions have contributed to its spread.

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US-Canada trade war heats up as Trump threatens to hike auto tariffs | BBC News

President Donald Trump has threatened to hike US tariffs on automobiles originating in Canada, as the trade war between the two neighbours continues to heat up.

Trump said on Monday that he will increase tariffs on Canadian cars and trucks, as well as auto parts, from 25% to 50% as of 1 January.

It comes after US-Canada trade talks collapsed late last week, with each side accusing the other of making unreasonable last-minute demands.

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Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case | TechCrunch

Zillow and Redfin have reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and five states, ending a legal fight over a 2025 partnership that the FTC claimed hurt competition in the rental-listing market. The settlement was announced on Monday, just as the case was scheduled to head toward trial this morning.

The case stems from a deal announced last year in which Redfin agreed to display Zillow’s rental listings on its websites rather than compete directly with Zillow for rental advertisers. The arrangement could have kept Redfin out of the rental advertising business for as long as nine years. Redfin owns Rent.com and ApartmentGuide.com, two major rental-listing platforms.

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TikTok reportedly tested a safety feature by withholding it from millions | Mashable

For millions of TikTok users, protection from harmful content spirals depended on which side of an experiment they landed on.

A confidential internal document obtained by Bloomberg Aug. 4 found that TikTok excluded 10 percent of its U.S. users from an algorithmic safety update in early 2022. At the time, that would have amounted to roughly 15 million people.

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Samsung Galaxy phones could soon get a popular Apple feature | Mashable

Samsung might borrow a good Apple feature soon.

And you might not even need new hardware to use it. Leaker Fahad Ali Javed (via AndroidAuthority) posted screenshots of the upcoming One UI 9.5 update, which included several new features for Samsung devices. Perhaps the most noteworthy one, though, is the seeming addition of app mirroring. This feature allows iPhone users to receive notifications and otherwise control their phones using a linked Mac computer.

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SpaceX revenue jumps 92% but stock tumbles as investors weigh AI spending | CNN Business

SpaceX’s first earnings report as a public company blew past expectations. But it continued to burn through cash in pursuit of CEO Elon Musk’s vision for an AI-powered, Mars-colonizing future, putting investors on edge and sending SpaceX shares down in late trading.

The newly public satellite, space, and AI behemoth brought in $7.8 billion in revenue in the April-June quarter, which SpaceX said was up 92% from the same period in 2025. But the company remained unprofitable, losing $541 million in the second quarter, following a $4.3 billion loss in the first three months of the year.

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Mortgage rates climb to highest level in a year | CNN Business

Five months into the war in Iran, rising oil prices and stubborn inflation are driving mortgage rates to the highest level in a year.

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate climbed to 6.66% this week, the highest since July of last year, according to Freddie Mac. That’s up from 6.58% last week, marking the biggest one-week jump in mortgage rates in 10 weeks.

Just a few months ago, mortgage rates dipped below 6% for the first time in years, fueling hopes that lower borrowing costs would revive the sluggish housing market.

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‘We are not giving up yet’: Private mission to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix it | Live Science

A private mission to rescue an ailing NASA space telescope may now need a rescue of its own. The LINK spacecraft — designed by private company Katalyst Space to boost the orbit of NASA’s ageing Swift Observatory — is reportedly spinning unexpectedly in the weeks after its launch, so much so that stabilizing the spacecraft will likely delay the telescope rescue.

Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft launched July 3 from a mid-air Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket mounted aboard a modified Lockheed Martin L-1011 airliner. The spacecraft lifted off after less than a year of development, on a mission to catch NASA’s nearly 22-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before the telescope falls back to Earth.

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Total eclipse, shooting stars, and the Milky Way: Why Aug. 12 could be the greatest single day and night for skywatching for years | Live Science

Skywatchers across North America and Europe should mark Wednesday, Aug. 12 on their calendars. From a daytime solar eclipse to the peak of the Perseid meteor shower beneath a moonless sky, the date offers an exceptionally rare combination of celestial events within a 24-hour period. Add brilliant Venus and the glowing band of the Milky Way after sunset, and the result is a full day of astronomy that could become one of the standout skywatching opportunities of the year.

The first spectacle arrives during daylight as the moon partially covers the sun across Alaska, eastern Canada and parts of the northeastern U.S. A dramatic total solar eclipse will be visible along a narrow path stretching across eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain — and that’s where eclipse chasers will be. However, about 779 million people in North America, Europe and North Africa will see at least a 10% partial eclipse, according to Time and Date.

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