Germany's JAB to buy Douwe Egberts firm in $9.8 billion deal German investor Joh A Benckiser (JAB) is to buy the owner of Douwe Egberts coffee in a 7.5-billion-euro ($9.8 billion) deal to create a global hot drinks empire aimed at taking on market leaders Nestle and Mondelez. More
Google sells Frommer's guides back to Arthur Frommer Arthur Frommer, the avuncular, erudite travel icon who 57 years ago inspired a generation of cost-conscious Americans to pack their bags with Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, is taking back control of his travel guidebook brand from Google and intends to resume publishing Frommer guidebooks. More
NYC soda size rule eyed from coffee shops to clubs At barbecue joints, coffee counters and bottle-service nightclubs, a coming clampdown on big, sugary soft drinks is beginning to take shape on tables and menus in a city that thrives on eating and going out. More
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On 14th May 2024, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the M.2 HAT+, a circuit board you can use to add M.2 peripherals such as NVMe storage drives and AI accelerators to the Raspberry Pi 5.
You dont need a full-frame camera to get amazing photos; your smartphone is more than enough if you know how to use lighting properly. Here are five ways that I get the perfect lighting for my smartphone pictures.
OpenAI's early May 2024 ChatGPT update was enormous, bringing heaps of new features to the world's leading generative AI chatbot. Most of the improvements center around enhancing user interaction, new functionalities, and improving overall performance, and there are heaps of reasons why you should give them a try.
Moon Alert: Caution! Avoid shopping or making important decisions until 7 p.m. EDT today (4 p.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Libra into Scorpio.
Happy Birthday for Monday, May 20, 2024:
You’re inventive, versatile and an excellent communicator. You respond quickly to events around you. Your personal freedom is vital to you.
Dear Amy: I was adopted as an infant and found my birth mom when I was in my 30s. She had gotten pregnant in high school and gave birth to me at 17.
We lived in different parts of the country and after I found her, we saw each other once a year for over a decade until she died suddenly last year.
After her death, her brothers and sisters, who I’d only met once before, started regularly calling, sending constant texts and inviting me to family holiday dinners and on family vacations.
I don’t feel a connection to them, don’t consider them family, and find it very uncomfortable to be around them.
What do I owe them?