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In 2023, the Grimace Milkshake arrived at McDonald’s around the world. This purple-colored, berry-flavored milkshake quickly went viral in a way McDonald’s didn’t expect, leading to some very strange, funny, and sometimes disturbing short videos. And now, McDonald’s is bringing back the infamous shake alongside a whole slew of purple menu items in Germany. As first spotted by Snackator on Twitter on April 28, McDonald’s Germany has just launched a new purple menu inspired by fast food mascot and (I guess) popular character Grimace. Once a villain, Grimace is now a silly purple doofus that wouldn’t harm a fly. He’s…
Elon Musk returned to the witness stand on Wednesday to continue telling his side of the story in his legal battle against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Under cross-examination from OpenAI’s lawyers, Musk was pressed on all the ways he tried to squeeze the organization over a 2017 power struggle that he ultimately lost. Around this time, Musk tried to hire away OpenAI researchers and stopped sending it funding he had previously promised, according to emails presented as evidence in the case.As the cross-examination began, tension rippled through the courtroom. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers started the day by reprimanding…
The Google TV platform is getting a bunch of new features via a software update. The biggest news here is likely a novel integration of YouTube Shorts. The platform will soon display a row of personalized Shorts directly on the home page. In other words, the short-form vertical video format continues to move off of phones and onto bigger screens. Disney+ recently got in on this trend with the introduction of an in-house vertical video platform. Google has even seemingly left the door open to integrate other platforms, as the announcement says this feature…
A scientist produced this map of land subsidence (sinking) in Mexico City using data from the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission captured between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17, 2026. The region has been a well-known hot spot of subsidence for decades, and images like this help confirm that NISAR is performing as expected in its first year of operation. The dark blue color indicates areas found to be subsiding by more than half an inch (more than 2 centimeters) per month, due in large part to groundwater pumping, which has led to compaction of the dry, ancient lakebed…
Over the weekend, YouTuber Modded Hardware discovered a new expiration date for digital PlayStation games that suggested players would be locked out of their purchases without regular online checks. Confusion ensued, followed by shades of Xbox’s disastrously received digital DRM plans ahead of the launch of the Xbox One. Sony has finally stepped in with an official statement on the matter. “Players can continue to access and play their purchased games as usual,” a spokesperson for the company told GameSpot in a new statement. “A one-time online check is required to confirm the game’s license, after which no further check-ins…
When a new administration moves to Washington, DC, there are always changes in policy priorities and personnel. Alex, a lawyer in the Department of Justice’s Voting Section, had survived Donald Trump’s first term, and thought he could make it through the second.Within hours of the president’s inauguration, he knew he had misjudged the situation.“I was just wrong,” he says. “It was wildly different than the first Trump administration. There was just a sense that this was not going to be the same. And then in the Voting Section, what happened is they just started dismissing cases.”The Voting Section was established…
Meta’s superintelligence team is working on a new set of AI agents that are meant to help the company’s users “achieve the diverse goals in their lives,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg, who is reportedly also overseeing an AI clone of himself, said that his goal is for the agents to be more approachable and easier to use than existing agent products like OpenClaw. Speaking during Meta’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday, Zuckerberg said that the upcoming business and personal agents will build on the newly-released Muse Spark model, the first from Meta Superintelligence…
Shipping a car across the country isn’t like booking a flight. There’s no flat rate, no standard fare, and no single price chart that applies to everyone. The cost of car shipping depends on a handful of specific variables, and understanding them puts you in a much better position before you ever contact a carrier. Before diving into what affects pricing, grabbing an instant car shipping quote based on your actual details is the fastest way to get a real number rather than a guess. “How much does it cost to ship a car?” is probably the first thing anyone types into Google when…
Listen to this audio excerpt from Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager: Your browser does not support the audio element. As the four Artemis II astronauts traveled on a 694,481-mile journey around the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft provided them with all the essentials for deep space life, including daily exercise. The crew used an exercise device called the flywheel throughout their mission to maintain their physical and mental health, and Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager, led the team responsible for developing the flywheel for the historic flight. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Schulte oversees the team that designed, built, tested, and flew the flywheel used on Artemis II, and currently develops a fleet of more reusable…
When are we getting Final Fantasy VII Remake part three? That’s the question on every fan’s mind as they wait for Square Enix to officially reveal a first look at the trilogy’s closer. Director Naoki Hamaguchi didn’t tip his hand as to when that announcement will happen, but he did recently provide some good news about the project’s progress and his reflections on a decade spent bringing it to life. “I’m unable to share concrete details at this time,” he said in a new interview with Comic Book. “What I can say is that development itself is proceeding on time…