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McDonald’s posted mixed results at its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, beating expectations for earnings per share but missing expectations for revenue growth, and an analyst from Consumer Edge noted that recent affordability concerns could be driving customers to avoid eating out at the fast food mainstay.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund have launched the Phoenix Species Project, an initiative dedicated to recovering endangered species.
The project will provide support to recover 100 species facing imminent extinction, spanning mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, invertebrates and plants from 30 countries in habitats ranging from oceans to volcanic plains. The initiative will work in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples, local communities, scientists and conservationists.
‘Emergency Basis’
The unidentified producer says he created AI-generated vocals for several tracks and is seeking at least $220,000 for the alleged work
Kanye West is facing another lawsuit accusing him of mistreating a fellow musician.
University of British Columbia researchers have developed an edible, seaweed-derived coating that can keep strawberries fresh for at least four days at room temperature, outperforming uncoated berries stored in the refrigerator.
Why Wait?
“Making my first record seemed like the beginning of something that I’d imagined for a long time,” Costello writes in the liner notes, “before I had any sense of a potential audience”
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Smithsonian researchers have identified the genetic relationships among all Hawaiian honeycreeper species known to have existed—and subsequently faced major losses—since the arrival of Europeans to the islands.
A win for Valve's refund policy
I do not have $200 to spare on one single video game right now. In this economy, spending such an obscene amount of dough on one game would be tantamount to throwing it down the drain, it would position me as a bourgeois elite who cares not for their fellow persons, it would label me as someone so silly that they should never be trusted with anything ever again. The funniest punchline to this would be that I did in fact spend $200 on a video game, specifically a video game called This Game Costs 200 Dollars, but I didn't do that because [see my opening comment]. Instead, I will tell you about how this game almost made its developer $1.3 million.