Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner said that the it will start testing dynamic pricing, also known as surge pricing, as early as next year. “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling,” he said.

The grown-up Disney superfan has become a much-mocked phenomenon online. But creating these consumers was always part of the corporation’s plan.

Jacob Chansley, more commonly known as the QAnon Shaman, was a guest of Glendale Republican Anthony Kern at the Arizona Capitol this week.

Despite a decade of dreaming, Elon Musk has only built one tiny Hyperloop tunnel in Las Vegas — and the people who built it say it's filled with dangerous chemical sludge. As Bloomberg reports, the Boring Company's scarce output — which thus far amounts only to driving Teslas around a few miles of neon-lit tunnel underneath Sin City as they ferry convention attendees at no more than 40 miles per hour — has also come with a massive buildup of waste, the consistency of a milkshake, that's said to burn the skin of anyone who comes in contact with it.

Described as a “full Wonka Experience” tearful kids received only two jelly babies and a quarter of a can of Barrs limeade Furious parents shelled out £35 for the world of pure imagination.

Change Healthcare's systems are down for a fourth straight day after parent company UnitedHealth Group disclosed that a suspected cybersecurity threat actor gained access to part of its information technology network on Wednesday. UnitedHealth, the biggest health-care company in the U.S. by market cap, owns the health-care provider Optum, which merged with Change Healthcare in 2022. Optum services more than 100 million patients in the U.S., according to its website, and Change Healthcare offers solutions for payment and revenue cycle management.

French President Emmanuel Macron says sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year.

Duke University is closing its century-old herbarium—a legendary plant collection and training ground—to the outcry of many. The original Gaga specimens lie to this day inside the collections of Duke University’s herbarium—the second largest collection of its kind owned by a private university, after Harvard. But where they’ll be in five years is uncertain. This month, Duke University announced its plan to shut down its century-old herbarium. Its collection of 825,000 specimens will be split and rehomed over the next two to three years. “Duke Herbarium will be the largest and oldest herbarium in the history of the U.S. to be abandoned by its host institution,” herbarium director Kathleen Pryer wrote in an email to Duke’s biology department last Wednesday night. Its closure “will lead to broken legacies and a colossal breakdown,” she continued, pleading with her colleagues to join her fight against the decision. The herbarium has been under pressure “since before Covid,” Pryer told Atmos. It takes up a lot of space—plus, while the five faculty members associated with the facility have brought in over $30 million in grants from the National Science Foundation over the last 20 years, according to Pryer, that doesn’t necessarily bring in much overhead.

The Pentagon awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX a one-year contract for Starshield in September.

Missouri is one of four states that does not let couples finalize a divorce if the wife is pregnant.

Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.

Trying to project the death toll from Israel’s military campaign over the next six months.

The Oregon Democrat wants Biden to promote the tech industry’s policy agenda worldwide. His wife owns up to $3 million in Big Tech stock.

An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct.

This is what happened when MAGA people thought I was one of them.

In the video, Thompson casts Nex’s action of squirting water in response to ongoing harassment as legally tantamount to the violence inflicted upon them. Thompson elaborates on the potential legal ramifications, suggesting that the altercation could be viewed as a “mutual fight,” a perspective that equates the water with physical assault. He warns Nex that if they were to press charges, the girls that beat them could also press charges against them for splashing water on them. "I will also tell you though is the saying 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander'," he says.

After a short trial, a Texas judge ruled that Barbers Hill school officials are not violating a new state law prohibiting hair discrimination. [ed: the school district argued that the student was still violating the dress code even if he did bundle his hair up on top of his head at school] [ed2: that fuckin' judge is named Chap Cain III]

Flaco escaped the Central Park Zoo in February 2023 after someone apparently cut the mesh of his zoo exhibit.

A city official found negligent after an investigation into the 2020 coal plant implosion in Little Village that left the community blanketed in dust is now leading the city’s department responsible for making sure buildings are safe. Mayor Brandon Johnson named Marlene Hopkins acting commissioner of the Department of Buildings after firing her former boss last week. Almost four years ago on Easter weekend, Hopkins and another buildings department official were in charge of making sure the implosion of an almost 400-foot chimney was performed safely. Instead, Hopkins and the other official failed to put a plan in place that would have prevented the dust-cloud mishap even “in the face of information that an implosion posed a high risk of environmental harm to the neighboring Little Village community,” former Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson wrote in a once-secret report the Sun-Times made public last year. The actions by Hopkins and the other official, then-Chief Building Inspector Jorge Herrera, “constituted poor public administration and a negligent dereliction of regulatory responsibility and duty,” Ferguson added. Hopkins, a city employee for more than 25 years, was the top buildings official overseeing the implosion of the former Crawford power plant on Pulaski Road just north of the Stevenson Expressway. Ferguson recommended both Hopkins and Herrera be disciplined, but former Mayor Lori Lightfoot chose not to do so. Ferguson also recommended the firing of a city public health official, Dave Graham, for his part in the bungled planning of the implosion, though Lightfoot also ignored that advice. Neither Lightfoot nor Johnson have officially released the Ferguson report on Crawford.

Utah could become the first state in decades to enact a law codifying ritual abuse. Others passed similar laws at the height of a since-debunked satanic abuse hysteria.