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Starbucks is laying off over 1,000 workers and axing over a dozen menu items—including frappuccinos that baristas are sick and tired of making

“We have to clear the noise out both in food and beverage menus,” Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol told Fortune.

26.02.2025 10

Fortune

Dave Smith

Apple just unveiled a new iPhone months outside its typical announcement window—but the most interesting thing about it isn’t the price tag

The new iPhone 16e could spell the beginning of the end for Apple's business with Qualcomm's cellular modems.

20.02.2025 30

Fortune

Dave Smith

Black women in the U.S. were 3.5 times more likely to die during childbirth than white women in 2023

Excessive bleeding, blood vessel blockages and infections are leading causes of maternal deaths.

06.02.2025 2

Fortune

Dave Smith

Trump’s inauguration is reportedly sold out of VIP tickets—and some people who donated more than $1 million will get nothing in return

Trump's inauguration committee has raised more than $170 million so far—a record.

09.01.2025 8

Fortune

Dave Smith

A massive Chinese campaign just gave Beijing unprecedented access to private texts and phone conversations for an unknown number of Americans

The Chinese government has denied responsibility for the hacking.

27.12.2024 10

Fortune

Dave Smith

Police say an Amazon driver ditched 80 packages in the woods before Christmas because they were ‘stressed’

“This is a human resources matter for Amazon,” Lakeville Police Chief Matthew Perkins said in a statement.

27.12.2024 40

Fortune

Dave Smith

Mark Zuckerberg insists the 5,000-square-foot underground structure in his secret Hawaii compound is not a ‘doomsday bunker’

The underground shelter is more than twice the size of an average private family home in the U.S.

27.12.2024 10

Fortune

Dave Smith

The Fed is weighing ‘significant changes’ to its annual stress tests for large U.S. banks to lessen the risk of large year-on-year swings

The stress test has helped banks more than double their capital levels over the past decade-plus.

24.12.2024 10

Fortune

Dave Smith

Most people scorn AI hallucinations, but researchers love them—and one scientist says they helped him win his Nobel Prize

In October, David Baker was the only American scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

24.12.2024 4

Fortune

Dave Smith

Honey, the popular browser extension promoted by MrBeast and over a thousand YouTube channels, accused of being a scam in

PayPal purchased Honey for $4 billion in 2020.

24.12.2024 4

Fortune

Dave Smith

Is Honey a scam? The popular money-saving browser extension touted by YouTubers like MrBeast is accused of ripping off customers and influencers

PayPal purchased Honey for $4 billion in 2020.

23.12.2024 10

Fortune

Dave Smith

Bad news for prospective homebuyers: The Fed’s rate cuts are unlikely to bring down stubbornly high mortgage rates anytime soon

The 3% mortgage rates that existed for nearly a decade before the pandemic aren't going to return in the foreseeable future.

18.12.2024 10

Fortune

Dave Smith

Elon Musk is wowed by Google’s new quantum chip, which it claims ‘cracks a key challenge’ that’s existed for almost 3 decades

Google claims Willow can solve puzzles that would take regular computers longer than the age of the universe to figure out.

10.12.2024 4

Fortune

Dave Smith

Tim Walz calls Tony Hinchcliffe a ‘jack wad’ after insulting Puerto Ricans at Trump’s NYC rally—’they pay taxes and serve in the military at almost a higher rate than anybody else’

Hinchcliffe made other lewd and racist comments about Latinos, Jewish, and Black people.

28.10.2024 10

Fortune

Dave Smith

Hurricane Milton is already mucking up professional sports, canceling games and throwing schedules out of whack

Milton, a Category 5 hurricane, is expected to hit Florida in the next 24 hours.

08.10.2024 9

Fortune

Dave Smith

Sam Altman is setting himself up for a massive $10 billion payday as more OpenAI executives head for the exit

The OpenAI CEO stands to become one of the world's richest people.

27.09.2024 30

Fortune

Dave Smith

Brett Favre reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis during hearing on welfare funds scandal

Parkinson's disease is a progressive disorder that affects the nervous system and causes nerve cells to weaken in parts of the brain.

24.09.2024 3

Fortune

Dave Smith