functions
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Open match that finished at 3:33 a.m.: the courtside sponsorship from Oura, the smart ring whose key functions include sleep tracking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
A long obscure board that oversees L.A.’s federal homelessness funds has published a request for qualifications seeking new applicants for the four federally-mandated functions that make up LAHSA’s core work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Even today, aside from making a mortgage payment — which functions as a sort of forced-savings mechanism — households typically don’t save much at all, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Shares of Salesforce, which sells software with which companies manage their sales and marketing functions, fell about 30% early this year after the release of surprisingly adept new coding tools from Anthropic and OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
A triplet-based code had 64 combinations—enough for all twenty amino acids, with extra ones still left over to specify other coding functions, such as “stopping” or “starting” a protein chain.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
