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by Mia Taylor Last updated: 3:10 PM ET, Wed July 23, 2025 While many of us are still busy celebrating summer, California’s Disneyland Resort is already in full swing planning for the end-of-year holiday season.Disney officials have just revealed some of the details surrounding the entertainment and experiences that will be available at the park this year between November 14, 2025 and January 7, 2026. The festivities will include limited-time entertainment, special food and beverages, merchandise and more. All of this will be in addition to the special anniversary entertainment and experiences taking place at the same time in celebration of…

A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5 p.m. PT, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding challenge launched by Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski. The winner was a Brazilian prompt engineer named Eduardo Rocha de Andrade, who will receive $50,000 for the prize. But more surprising than the win was his final score: He won with correct answers to just 7.5% of the questions on the test. “We’re glad we built a benchmark…

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Hulk Hogan, a mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in professional wrestling who turned the sport into a massive business and cultural touchstone, died Thursday at 71, Florida police said.Hogan was pronounced dead at a hospital after authorities in Clearwater responded to a morning call about a cardiac arrest, police said. Hulk Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, waits in the courtroom during a break in his trial against Gawker Media in St. Petersburg, Fla., March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, Pool, File) Hulk Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, waits in the courtroom during a break…

Something Bold (and Delicious) is Brewing at McDonald’s: A First Sip into the Future of BeveragesCourtesy: McDonald’sMcDonald’s said Thursday it is planning to test new coffee drinks, refreshers and flavored sodas at more than 500 restaurants later this summer, hoping to cash in on younger consumers’ love for fun, colorful drinks.”We’re seeing real momentum in beverages, with more people – especially our Gen Z fans – turning to cold, flavorful drinks as a go-to treat,” Alyssa Buetikofer, chief customer experience and marketing officer of McDonald’s USA, said in a statement. “It’s a great opportunity for us to meet our US…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The US Food and Drug Administration appears poised to continue with a plan to ban prescription fluoride supplements at a time when many experts say that access to the products has become especially important. Most US residents live in a community where fluoride is added to the public drinking water, according to federal data from 2022. But this year, Utah and Florida became the first states to ban the practice, and similar legislation has been introduced in several other states. Fluoride is a mineral that can be found naturally in some foods and groundwater. It can…

by Mia Taylor Last updated: 6:45 PM ET, Wed July 23, 2025 Whether its robots serving drinks, chatbots helping with online reservations or facial recognition technology at the airport, high-tech is playing a greater role in travel every day.The latest offering on the technology front can be found in O’ahu, Hawaii where a new XR or extended reality bus tour for visitors has just been unveiled amid much local fanfare. Known as the “XploreRide” the new bus tours of O’ahu feature use of virtual reality headsets and integration of extended reality visuals that are “layered over O‘ahu’s landscapes” as guests…

An old colleague always had a curious request at lunchtime. For health reasons, he was vegetarian, but he still missed the taste of ground beef. So he’d ask the chef in the cafeteria for a veggie burger that was cooked next to the beef patties. The grease that seeped over made the plant substitute taste that much better. The folks at Mission Barns must have overheard our lunchtime conversation. They have developed animal-free, cultured pork fat. The product just received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The stamp of approval allows the startup to…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The images of skeletal children that are now pouring out of Gaza are shocking but they should not be surprising. Humanitarian groups with decades of experience distributing aid in the Strip have been warning about this scenario for months, since Israel began throttling aid to a trickle. Haunting footage of lifeless bodies with sharp bones protruding through stretched skin can be seen around the world. The pictures of starvation in Gaza are horrific, distressing and inescapable. The main United Nations agency for Palestinians said Thursday that “people are being starved, while a few kilometers away supermarkets…

Versant signage on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on July 21, 2025.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesComcast on Thursday announced the expected board members of its cable networks spinout, Versant.They come from backgrounds in media, technology, finance and other industries, according to Versant.Versant will be the parent company of what are now NBCUniversal’s cable networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel. On the digital front, it is also set to house Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass and SportsEngine.The spinoff is expected to be completed by the end of this year.Here is…

Marriott International’s formidable portfolio of brands continues to expand with the company’s acquisition of citizenM now completed.The lifestyle brand includes 37 hotels for a total of 8,789 rooms in upward of 20 cities in the US,  Europe and Asia Pacific – with two properties in the pipeline representing more than 300 rooms. “As travelers continue to seek innovative lodging offerings that blend technology with genuine, people-first hospitality, the citizenM brand is the perfect addition to our portfolio,” said Marriott International President and CEO Anthony Capuano. International.“Marriott has proven success in growing select-service lifestyle offerings, including our AC, Moxy, and Aloft…