Thanks to a newly unveiled innovation by Hormel, we might all soon be eating an entirely new type of pepperoni on our pizzas—and if you can believe it, that wasn’t even the biggest story in the food world this week. Read on for more info about a McDonald’s system outage, the closure of 1,000 Dollar Tree stores, and the French pastry craze known as the crookie. McDonald’s Customers Unable to Order Food After Global Outage McDonald’s customers worldwide experienced an unprecedented moment...
Canada’s housing minister openly mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford on social media Friday over his concerns over fourplexes. Throughout the week, the premier has made it clear that he does not support a provincial mandate to build fourplexes in residential neighbourhoods—something that both the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force and the federal government have recommended. Later, he clarified he was just against four-storey “towers.” “You have to differentiate between putting four...
Some payment channels will have shortened hours of operation while others will be temporarily deactivated from March 27 (Holy Wednesday) to March 30 (Black Saturday).
Apple just announced that the 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is set to occur from June 10 until June 14. The WWDC 2024 keynote is scheduled for June 10 at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. The remaining festivities are online and free for developers to attend. What should we expect at this year’s keynote? WWDC is typically a software-centric event, so we might hear some details on the work Apple has been doing around AI over the last year or so. Other reports...
A new chapter in the Sam Bankman-Fried saga: On Friday, federal prosecutors asked a New York judge to sentence the founder and former head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX to between 40 and 50 years in prison. They cited claims that Bankman-Fried participated in a “historic fraud” and cost customers and investors at least $10 billion as the rationale behind the hefty jail time. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have argued that five or six years behind bars would be appropriate, maintaining that he’s not an...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms have decided to halt one of their most attractive products from March 31 following increased regulatory scrutiny by the Reserve Bank of India, we reported on March 22. Companies such as Liquiloans, Lendbox, and Faircent will be impacted after the P2P Association decided to stop these products. 108721348The move could impact P2P investment opportunities through popular consumer-facing fintechs like Cred and BharatPe. Instant withdrawal schemes of...
From SpaceX making in-space fuel transfers to Devin's AI achievements, host Josh Burstein takes us on a comedic journey through the week's top stories.
This week, we learned which U.S. state is ordering the most booze through Instacart, and whether Huy Fong’s ex-supplier of hot peppers now makes a better sriracha than Huy Fong itself. We also learned what makes Spanish potato chips superior to American ones, and why Del Monte found it necessary to develop a single-serving pineapple for solitary shoppers. Read on for all the top grocery news of the week. Huy Fong’s Ex-Supplier Now Makes Its Own Sriracha. How Does It Taste? Huy Fong recently...
Hi, this is Pratik Bhakta in Bengaluru. From valuations to regulations, the sentiment shift in the world of fintechs has been palpable over the last six months. Regulatory actions have pushed investors, founders and even product managers to start thinking differently.The incident with Paytm Payments Bank was an eye opener of sorts for the entire industry. The message is very clear: there is nothing grey in regulatory terms, it is either white (following regulations) or black (breach of...
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Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You came and shook up the game. The album is set for a No. 1 debut and will move between 190K and 220K album-equivalent units in the first week. In addition, We Don’t Trust You was Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day of 2024. On Friday, March […] The post Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘WE DON’T TRUST YOU’ Set for Massive First Week, Tops Spotify Charts first appeared on The Source.