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Students at college campuses across the U.S. will be able to get digital food orders delivered via robot. Online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform Grubhub is partnering with autonomous delivery robot provider Starship Technologies to enable robotic deliveries at multiple colleges. Currently, Grubhub delivery is available via Starship robot at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Wayne State University, Southern Methodist… Source link

Digital ticketing systems aren’t working all over the country at multiple college football stadiums this weekend. The schools have called it a “nationwide outage” that is preventing fans from accessing their tickets on mobile devices. Currently, the schools which have admitted their systems aren’t working include: Michigan, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, Arizona, Purdue, UCLA, James Madison, Bowling Green, Washington, William & Mary and Miami (OH). The company at the heart… Source link

You no longer need to try to mash potato chips on top of your burger. Kraft Heinz (KHC) is out with Heinz Dip & Crunch. The company announced the two-in-one dipping package on Tuesday. It’s got a new Heinz sauce on one side and “salty potato crunchers” on the other side. The product was tested earlier this year at select Jack in the Box restaurants on the West Coast. Now, the product is set to roll out at major retailers, including Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT), as well as at regional… Source link

The national average price for gas has topped $4 a gallon for the first time in over a decade as gas costs continue to soar in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As of Sunday afternoon, the national average of a regular gallon of gas was $4.009, according to AAA. That’s up 8 cents from Saturday and up 40 cents from last week. The U.S. hit the $4 national average a day earlier than analysts expected. The record high for the national average is $4.11, set on July 17, 2008, according to… Source link

Google isn’t ready to give up on the traditional workplace just yet: The massive tech company has just announced plans to spend over $7 billion this year on offices and data centers across the U.S. “Coming together in person to collaborate and build community is core to Google’s culture, and it will continue to be an important part of our future,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a recent blog post. “So we continue to make significant investments in our offices around the country.” The… Source link

After a pause last year, Google announced Thursday that it will spend $7 billion on real estate in 2021. That money is going to be used to expand and build out space in 19 states.  Some of that is going toward data centers, further building out its cloud business. But that real estate is also going toward office space – adding room for thousands of hires in cities such as Atlanta and Chicago and opening new offices in Texas and Mississippi.  Google CEO… Source link