Happy Labor Day to readers in the U.S. and Canada, and happy Monday to everyone else.

Lots of grown-up glum faces as football fans have a second week of preseason games to help lower their expectations. Smaller faces slump glum for another reason: schools all over the country are now in session or counting down the days.

Now that all the NFL teams have played a preseason game, there are two fan camps. One, those of the winning teams, feel good about the season. The other, fans of losing teams, say their guys didn’t play their starters and are hiding high-powered offenses during the preseason.

We made it to August! Congrats! NFL training camps have opened, and major league baseball only has another 50 or so games left, then basketball starts. Up north it’s starting to cool down, and down south there are only another six or eight weeks of serious heat.

Making the Google Assistant more accessible by using buttons and RFID tags to trigger commands.

The Internet of Everything will be all-inclusive, from huge data centers to single-purpose sensors. While individual power requirements vary across the IoT, the need for energy efficiency will be present everywhere.

Now we hit the looong stretch of summer, between the Fourth of July holiday and Labor Day in early September.

We are barreling toward summer, and World Cup fans received notice the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team was there to take names and kick … everybody. Fans are thrilled.

Yesterday was Memorial Day in the U. S., and a good chance for everyone to remember those who came before and reflect on their sacrifice.

‘Twas a sad weekend for fans of Westeros and the Marvel Comics Universe.