Dave’s Hot Chicken Co-Founder Arman Oganesyan said his pop-up tent turned national food chain is focused entirely on its food and its customers, allowing it to stand out among its mega competitors. “You always have your big chicken competitors like the Chick-fil-A’s and the Raising Cane’s, but [again] we like to focus on our food. We like to focus on our customer,” he said to Yahoo Finance Live. Its menu includes 4 combo meals that feature chicken tenders or chicken sandwiches, and include… Source link

In a strange way, the best thing that could have happened to Google (now masquerading as Alphabet, its parent company) was Facebook. Why? Because although Google invented surveillance capitalism, arguably the most toxic business model since the opium trade, it was Facebook that got into the most trouble for its abuses of it. The result was that Google enjoyed an easier ride. Naturally, it had the odd bit of unpleasantness with the EU, with annoying fines and long drawn out legal wrangles…. Source link

Rumor has it that Apple is going to debut its own search engine “sooner rather than later.” This is good news for consumers as competition between Apple and Google means more resources would be spent to do search even better, but oddly enough it’s also good news for Google on one front — the battle with regulators. Apple is definitely refining some search products and we know it is because of the companies it has acquired since 2013. Technology from Topsy Labs already powers specific… Source link

People hold signs at a protest in Times Square after footage showing Tyre Nichols’s fatal beating at the hands of Memphis, Tenn., police officers was released on Friday night. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Protests unfolded across the U.S. on Friday night after body camera footage and surveillance video showing Memphis, Tenn., police officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols were released. Nichols’s family, the Memphis police chief and President Biden called on protesters to remain peaceful in… Source link

A Google executive claims he was booted by the tech giant for rejecting a high-ranking female boss’ grabby advances at a posh company dinner. Ryan Olohan, 48, accuses Google and one of its top executives, Tiffany Miller, of firing him after Miller groped him at a Chelsea restaurant in December 2019 and told him she knew he liked Asian women — which Miller is, according to a blockbuster federal lawsuit filed Nov. 30 in Manhattan. Miller, director of… Source link

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The work she does is just so incredible. Working or volunteering for an animal rescue might seem like a dream come true (and it definitely could be), but it also comes with a lot of challenges. Even visiting a shelter can be heart-wrenching! That’s why animal behaviorist and welfare advocate @savannapalmerr posted a TikTok sharing the realities of rescuing pets. Some of these dogs have us reaching for the tissues! As heartbreaking as these scenes are, though, we know there are angels like… Source link

Google researchers have made an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts (via TechCrunch). The model is called MusicLM, and while you can’t play around with it for yourself, the company has uploaded a bunch of samples that it produced using the model. The examples are impressive. There are 30-second snippets of what… Source link

The White House this week released data showing the number of student borrowers in each state who applied for or were automatically eligible for President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. More than 26 million people applied for cancellation in the few weeks the loan forgiveness application was available. Over 16 million of those applications were fully approved by the Education Department (ED) before it stopped accepting applications because of lawsuits. Overall, more than 40… Source link

This janitor in Vermont amassed an $8M fortune without anyone around him knowing. Here are the 3 simple techniques that made Ronald Read rich — and can do the same for you Warren Buffett is reported to have once said, “You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.” It might sound too simplistic to be true, but if you doubt the Oracle of Omaha’s wisdom, you should hear the story of… Source link