Author: News Room
After doing tie-ins with iconic scary movie characters like Chucky and M3gan, Coca-Cola’s Fanta wants to make some spooky personas of its own.Ahead of Halloween, the soda brand is introducing four characters as part of a kickoff to what it’s calling Fanta’s Haunted Universe, which it describes as a collection…
There’s a special kind of dread that hits when your car makes a noise it’s never made before. You know the one. That grinding, clunking whine that translates straight into dollar signs. I’ve bought a lot of cars over the years, and here’s what I’ve learned: Reliability isn’t a luxury…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tamara Hancock, who lives in the greater Phoenix area — one of the first areas to have access to Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service, which is expanding to 500 US cities by the end of the year. She’s used the…
Consultants are having an identity crisis.AI’s arrival has raised questions about the value consultants provide. And while people have always questioned what consultants actually do, the AI era has magnified the issue.Consultants are rebranding themselves and overhauling how they pitch their services to clients. It’s led to the rise of…
Housing affordability is at a crisis low. You’ve read that headline a hundred times. Incomes have to rise or home prices have to crash to return to the housing affordability levels pre-COVID. It’s true if you measure a home in dollars earned. It is not true at all if you…
I used to own a bar/restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida. And like virtually everyone who has ever worked in the restaurant business, I’m a heavy tipper. At least, I thought I was. I can remember a time not long ago that tipping 20% was considered a monster tip, offered for exceptional…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 39-year-old Kristin Cavallari, a reality TV star and entrepreneur based in Franklin, Tennessee. It has been edited for length and clarity.I live and die by my schedule.My three kids, who are 10, 12, and 14, are my first priority. Next comes…
Since getting laid off from a big bank in March, Lamar Rogers has used AI to help him apply to nearly 200 jobs.He turns to Claude to tailor his résumé, uses an AI-powered dashboard for every interview, and recently vibe-coded a résumé-review app. Yet Rogers draws the line at letting…
Chick-fil-A is entering its chicken-and-waffles era. The popular fast-food restaurant is offering a new limited-edition menu at its stores that features waffles for the first time in the restaurant’s 80-year history, aside from a limited test last year. “In this year of newstalgia-inspired celebrations, we wanted to bring something unique…
Shuayb Qureshi didn’t know many people in New York, and his work at Meta made it hard for him to find new friends.So, on a whim, the now-31-year-old software engineer started posting videos on Instagram.”I’m like, maybe I can record myself doing some sort of stuff like that, talking to…
