With a hub of companies based in the Silicon Valley, the plant-based meat industry has focused much of its marketing on its futuristic-sounding “food tech” origin story. But as it turns out, the positioning fell flat with consumers, contributing to a two-year decline in sales as recently reported in Good Food Institute’s State of the Industry report. Impossible Foods, continuing its bid to win over flexitarians and broaden its audience, wants to shed that science fictionesque label via a...
Gmail's future update will let you see who sends you the most emails in a certain period of time and unsubscribe from them.
"Crazy Rich Asians" will soon come to Broadway, years after author Kevin Kwan's bestseller jumped from page to screen in a watershed moment for Asian representation in Hollywood. Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures revealed on Wednesday that director Jon M. Chu will helm a stage musical based on Kwan's "Crazy Rich Asians" trilogy. The musical also will be based on Warner Bros.'s 2018 film adaptation of the first novel, which Chu directed. Playwright Leah Nanako Winkler will write the book, which will...
Mealer's recent social media posts questioning a recent road redesign in the Heights neighborhood drew the ire of Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis, who has championed the expansion of bike lanes in the Houston area along with other multimodal infrastructure projects.
New technology is right around the corner, and demanding new games lurk on the horizon.
It looks like new users to X will have to pay a small fee if they want to post and interact with posts from other users.
Hunting for life on other planets is hard; it’s like trying to spot an ant on the other end of a football field. The closest potential host, Venus, is 25 million miles away. Beyond our Solar System, exoplanets that have piqued astronomers’ interest are light-years away. To search for life from these sizable distances, scientists look for biosignatures: elements, molecules, or substances that might have been made by life. These include oxygen and methane, among other compounds. But there’s...
Last month, Reddit debuted a new ad format that looks just like real user posts. Called free-form ads, the posts mimic the site's megathreads that include a variety of media in one thread. Now, the site is adding another new ad format: Dynamic Product Ads. In 2023, the company says people added "reddit" to their search queries over 32 billion times. Reddit hopes that Dynamic Product Ads will help advertisers reach those customers by showing them relevant products exactly when they're researching...
With the handheld gaming market exploding, it's time for Sony to re-enter the fold with a true PlayStation handheld.
OpenAI continued a push to grow its business internationally with the opening of a new office in Japan, while pledging to collaborate with the government to develop the technology in the country.
A bipartisan bill, the LOANS for Biomedical Research Act, would create a new type of bond to help fund health care innovation.
Got a traffic ticket or misdemeanor fine in Duson? There may be a chance to pay it off at $10 per hour, that is if you’re willing to cleanup liter, dig a ditch or clean a cop car.