At a challenging time for the restaurant industry, major chains like Chipotle and Cava are putting money behind automated makelines from startup Hyphen. The San Jose, California-based company aims to help restaurants achieve two key goals in a hyper-competitive environment: speedy throughput and good customer service. The technology makes for a less chaotic and more
Month: December 2025
A graph displaying the Apple stock price on a smartphone app. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Retail investors have had a gangbuster year in 2025. Mom-and-pop investors bought the dip at key points this year, providing strong returns as the market climbed to all-time highs. Once thought of as unsophisticated and easily duped,
Nearly a century after debuting in Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, the character Harry Haller has reemerged, still on the prowl, as a famous Norwegian photographer in London. Well, not exactly. To be sure, Kristian Hadeland, the protagonist of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The School of Night, is something of a lone wolf. Like Haller, he has didactic
In an interview Wednesday, Britain’s Queen Camilla spoke publicly for the first time about an assault she experienced as a teenager. The incident, which occurred in the 1960s, helped convince the queen to make opposition to domestic abuse one of her royal causes, she said during a special episode of BBC Radio 4’s Today program,
Walt Disney Animation’s Zootopia 2 has crossed $1.46 billion global, becoming Walt Disney Animation Studios top grossing movie of all-time. Note, Pixar’s Inside Out 2 remains the top grossing overall animated title for Disney at $1.698 billion, and the top all-time MPA animated feature title at the box office. China’s Ne Zha 2 with $2.15
Oh, look at that, Donald Trump was wrong again. After predicting strong television ratings as host of the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors, CBS’ broadcast of the annual event in fact drew its lowest viewership in history, according to The Hollywood Reporter. After the 2024 honors received 4.1 million viewers, Nielsen data for this year’s broadcast
Matthew Perry Crypt Marker Seen For First Time … 2 Years After Tragic Death Published December 31, 2025 7:35 AM PST | Updated December 31, 2025 8:51 AM PST Two years after the tragic death of film and TV star Matthew Perry, his previously unmarked final resting place has a new plaque to commemorate the
Application of Geneva stripes We go once more into the breach at Parmigiani Fleurier, this time as part of a guided tour with other Asian press. Our last story on this most amazing of watchmaking nodes – the brand itself is just one part of the set-up – covered all the basics of all the
In the world of fine champagne, refinement is often found not in abundance but in restraint. Brut Nature Champagne represents the most uncompromising expression of this philosophy. As part of the broader Extra Brut family, it speaks to a modern vision of luxury defined by precision, transparency and respect for raw material. These champagnes strip away excess
Silver bars are stacked in the safe deposit boxes room of the Pro Aurum gold house in Munich, Germany, January 10, 2025. Angelika Warmuth | Reuters BEIJING — China is set to tighten controls on silver exports from Thursday, expanding restrictions on the once-ordinary metal critical to the U.S. industry and defense supply chains. Tesla
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Image Credit: Getty Images Isiah Whitlock Jr., the actor best known for his performances in The Wire, Veep, Your Honor, The Residence and more, died on December 30, 2025. He was 71. Fans and peers of Whitlock Jr. were shocked to learn of his death, especially since he had made recent public appearances. Below, learn
The conclusion of Wicked has come and gone from the 2025 movie schedule, but the release of the pair of movies feels like something we’re going to be talking about for years to come – especially for longtime fans of the musical. I just came across Jon M. Chu’s explanation of how Ariana Grande and
Taylor Swift Fan Thanks Her For $600 Tip … Magic of Xmas!!! Published December 30, 2025 5:50 PM PST | Updated December 30, 2025 6:37 PM PST Play video content TMZ.com The Arrowhead Stadium worker who went viral for framing part of a $600 tip she got from Taylor Swift says the kind gesture made
Hawkins is right now a hotbed of chaos and fractured worlds. But beneath all the cosmic disturbance, a tender sapling of human emotion called love not only survived but thrived. Stranger Things Season 5 is tying up all the loose ends pretty quickly, with every character facing their demons head-on. And Max and Lucas shared
From left: The Anatom Plasma High-Tech Ceramic and Anatom High-Tech Ceramic (PHOTOGRAPHY SOON LAU / AWESOME IMAGE STUDIO ART DIRECTION SARAH SAW) Nostalgia is a powerful thing. So powerful, in fact, that there has been an overwhelming demand for reboots and revivals all over popular culture. Childhood cartoons are getting modern overhauls, computer games are seeing remakes, motorcycles
Mortgage rates are lower, home prices are easing and there is more supply on the market for sale. All of that adds up to improved affordability for today’s homebuyers. Saving for a down payment, however, is still the biggest hurdle for first-time buyers. Prices nationally are basically flat compared with where they were a year
Sourdough What if a loaf of bread could change your life? For Lois Clary, an exhausted software engineer at a robotics company, her favorite hole-in-the-wall’s sourdough and spicy soup takeout are what gets her through coding all day, week after week, while still limiting human interaction. But when the restaurant has to shut down spontaneously,
Farewells are a natural part of life. While we often grieve family and close friends, we can also mourn people we never met who still left a lasting impression on our lives through their creativity and influence. Throughout 2025, the world said goodbye to a group of individuals whose talents inspired millions around the world.
Jujutsu Kaisen is finally returning after two and a half years of eager anticipation, with continuous waves of fallout coming after the Shibuya Incident. Satoru Gojo is sealed away inside the Prison Realm, following a horrific Halloween terrorist attack with mass casualties. Following these events, Yuji Itadori will soon see the repercussions come his way,
Peppa Pig: 02-06 Silverdale, WA – Central Kitsap PAC02-07 Tacoma, WA – Pantages Theater02-09 Abbotsford, BC – Abbotsford Centre02-10 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall02-11 Bend, OR – Tower Theatre02-14 Walnut Creek, CA – Lesher Center for the Arts02-15 Folsom, CA – Harris Center02-18 Burbank, CA – Luther Burbank Center for the Arts02-20 Modesto,
Alabama Barker My Lingerie Ain’t From My Dad’s Sleigh, Weirdos!!! Published December 30, 2025 7:46 AM PST Alabama Barker is definitely all out of Christmas spirit … ’cause she just torched people giving her grief over gifts she got from her fam … which included lots of lingerie. Here’s the deal … Alabama did an
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From new escapements and oscillators to radical chronograph architectures and unprecedented chiming complexity, 2025 revealed a shift in luxury watchmaking. If recent years were defined by consolidation, anniversary-driven releases and cautious evolution, 2025 saw brands increasingly willing to make visible, structural bets on the future of mechanical watchmaking rather than relying on incremental updates or
In an era where inclusion is becoming a societal imperative rather than a moral option, Nihal Al-Saleh, founder of Life Skills Hub (LSH), is reshaping what it means to empower individuals of all abilities. Under her leadership, the Qatar-based social enterprise has grown into a thriving community space where people with special needs build confidence,
Two Xiaomi electric car models in different colors are pictured here on Nov. 2, 2025. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s electric car boom is ending in 2025 on a soft note, with sales dipping and analysts warning that a fierce price war is likely to persist. Not only did Tesla see its sales drop by 7.4% from
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Best-Selling Backlist Books of 2025 We will eventually get a list of the best-selling books of 2025,
At trumpkennedycenter.org, for example, one will find a site that suggests visitors “Ring in the New Year with a performance by The Epstein Dancers,” presumably a reference to Trump’s history with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. An altered logo for the center appears below, blackened by redactions similar to those found in the recently released
Sony’s sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hit tracking last week in what looks to be a $20M-plus 4-day opening over the MLK holiday weekend. That would make director Nia DaCosta’s British horror pic written by Alex Garland and produced by Danny Boyle one of 32 movies to open north of $20M at the
The Kennedy Center already saw a Christmas concert canceled in protest of its recent name change. Now, a pair of shows scheduled to take place at the once-prestigious Washington, DC, venue on New Year’s Eve has been called off, also reportedly due its board’s decision to rebrand as “The Donald J. Trump and The John
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