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Consumer confidence is feeble, gas prices remain high, the labor market has the jitters, there’s war in the Middle East, and AI doomerism has become part of pop culture. So . . . time to book a cruise? Apparently so.
Nobody who’s remotely familiar with John Wilson’s funny, angsty HBO series How To with John Wilson will be surprised to discover that his debut feature documentary, The History of Concrete, is not really about concrete.
Jane Doe. Across social media, people are posting in solidarity with the young woman implicated in a sexual assault case that has horrified the country.
Every founder is subject to burnout, even the founders of a massive lifestyle, retail, and media brand. Joanna Gaines, co-founder of Magnolia, launched the brand alongside her husband, Chip, nearly 25 years ago.
The Democratic and Republican parties both have brand problems, so independent candidates across the country are using campaign logos specifically designed to let voters know they stand with neither of them.
The last pennies for general circulation were minted last year, but a newly passed bipartisan bill to formally sunset the 1-cent coin includes a single clause that keeps the penny alive, even if it’s just as a collectible.
The Humboldt Penguin, which lives on the Pacific coast of Chile and Peru, faces a lot of challenges, including warming waters, the flu, boat accidents, and fishing nets that can drown them. Those hazards have had a catastrophic effect on the population.
Amazon has new Kindles. The company says it redesigned the lineup from the ground up. I look at them and see, well, Kindles. What new can you do with a slab of digital ink? Not much. Still, they made the front completely flat, with no seams, like a phone.
The National Hockey League is rolling out a “Hot for Hockey” campaign intended to build upon the success and popularity of the hockey romance genre. League executives told ESPN they were going to court BookTok creators and market their players in a way that will “demystify what’s happening behind…
If you live in a place with a cold winter, dressing for work in the middle of January is more complicated than it seems. You want to wear your jeans to the office, but ordinary denim doesn’t provide enough warmth on freezing day. The available solutions aren’t great.
Matternet wants to make fried chicken rain from the sky. To do that, the drone delivery company has developed a new version of its last-mile logistics system, which features a drone that carries up to 11 pounds and simpler, lower-cost dock stations.
Americans are crazy about sports. But whether that passion requires taxpayers to subsidize new facilities every time leagues and franchises ask for them needs rigorous scrutiny. A lot of money is at stake.
A consortium of designers, branding professionals, and grocery experts have been named to design a visual identity for New York City’s municipal grocery stores. Their goal? To make something that looks authentically New York. New York City’s Economic Development Corp.
Sam Terris spent his childhood roaming the woods around Walden Pond. Growing up in Concord, Massachusetts, he and his friends would spend hours outdoors, away from their parents. “We were really bored kids, so we had to invent games and activities to keep ourselves stimulated,” he says.
Entertainment companies everywhere are now acknowledging that they have to operate based upon two clocks. One of them is an alarm clock—the premiere you clear your night for, the finale you go to great lengths to avoid spoilers for, and the release that causes you to refresh the page at midnight in…
Aaron Braun had decided to play the long game with his Dunkin’ Rewards points. For five years, his employer, an IT company that kept him on the road, covered his coffee and breakfast via a company card linked to his Dunkin’ account, so he never bothered to redeem his points.
OpenAI just announced a new suite of AI agents called “dots,” and they look like something you might find in an animated kids show. Dots were the star among more than 20 announcements made at OpenAI’s fourth annual developer conference, DevDay, which took place on September 29 in San Francisco.
The federal government has a chatbot. President Donald Trump launched america.gov on Tuesday, a new site that looks like ChatGPT or Claude with a prompt box to query the federal government. The underlying LLM draws its responses from official state sources.
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