In a departure from its usual fermented fare, Carlsberg has offered a new experience: A chocolate bar—that is, a drinking establishment made entirely out of chocolate.
The brewer built the edible edifice outside the Old Truman Brewery in London’s Shoreditch neighborhood, disguising it as a billboard in the shape of a giant chocolate bar (the confectioner’s kind), then unwrapping it to reveal the unusually sweet watering hole.
v.20 n.12 – Released March 22, 2016
The FBI and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have added their voices to growing concerns about the risk of cars being hacked.
In an advisory note it warns the public to be aware of “cybersecurity threats” related to connected vehicles.
Last year Fiat Chrysler recalled 1.4 million US vehicles after security researchers remotely controlled a Jeep.
People who suspect their car has been hacked were told to get in contact with the FBI.
The public service announcement laid out the issues and dangers of car hacking.
SeaWorld announced Thursday it will end its killer whale breeding programs and take a “new direction” amid changing social attitudes.
The company said the 24 orcas it currently has in three parks would be SeaWorld’s last generation, a long awaited move following intense criticism from animal-rights campaigners over keeping the whales in captivity.
“SeaWorld has been listening and we’re changing,” the company said in a statement. “Society is changing and we’re changing with it. SeaWorld is finding new ways to continue to deliver on our purpose to inspire all our guests to take action to protect wild animals and wild places.”
Rumors are flying today that Apple is moving part of its cloud business from AWS to Google’s Cloud Platform. We did some asking around and yes, it does appear that Apple has made some moves to diversify its iCloud storage, tapping Google for some of that business.
This is another huge win for Google and a — at the very least perceived — loss of ground for AWS, which has watched as Dropbox moved large parts of its US storage business in-house and Spotify moved at least part of its business to Google, too.
v.20 n.11 – Released March 15, 2016
SYDNEY — Cookie Monster has been hanging out Down Under with the cute, cuddly and crazy locals.
The Sesame Street muppet turned up with an entourage to Taronga Zoo in Sydney on Monday, searching for cookies. Instead, the blue cookie destroyer found a cuddly quokka, a red kangaroo, a koala with attitude and an emu to chase around.
THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI River watershed is awash with rainwater. Houses flooded, roads washed away, and peoples’ lives in soggy ruin. The only logical thing to do is blame California.
Seriously. Sort of. The weather system that parked near the Lower Mississippi watershed arrived after a California drive-by. But the Golden State’s massive massifs squeezed most of the moisture out of the system. It would have been fine if it hadn’t straddled Mexico for an extended bout and replenished its moisture from the humid waters on either side of the isthmian nation.
Brazil is in a free fall.
Data released on Monday showed that economic activity in the world’s seventh-largest economy fell 8% this January from a year before. That makes it the 11th month in a row that activity has fallen.
This is going to be a difficult problem to solve because Brazil’s government is a complete mess right now.
Millions of Brazilians took to the streets over the weekend, peacefully protesting corruption that has reached the highest levels of the country’s government. It all stems from a 2014 corruption sting called “Operation Car Wash,” which showed the ruling party was engaged in widespread corruption of Petrobras, the country’s massive quasi-state oil company.
Marcelo Claure took over as Sprint’s CEO and president in August of 2014.
At the time, Sprint had the slowest 4G network compared to the other major carriers, was losing customers, and had just been rated the worst carrier in the country.
To turn Sprint around, Claure said he would make the company more “cost efficient” and “aggressive in the marketplace.”
But even after thousands of layoffs, significant investments to improve its network, and deep price discounts to woo new customers, the carrier still hasn’t addressed its biggest problem — its lack of identity.
