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Sign for the fast food brand Wendy's.

UPDATE: Feb. 28, 2024, 11:39 a.m. GMT. Wendy's has since clarified in a statement to Mashable that it "will not implement surge pricing." Rather, it may experiment with variable pricing strictly to lower prices when their restaurants are quieter.

"We have no plans to [raise prices when demand is highest] and would not raise prices when our customers are visiting us most," Wendy's wrote in a new



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Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Andrii and Ioanna talk about multilingual LLMs, the latest news from Mistral AI, some boardroom drama, language learning theories, and a few things in between. The



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After roughly a decade, multiple leadership changes and a regular spot in Apple rumor reports, the Apple Car project, internally known as Project Titan, could well be dead. A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple has officially canceled the car, breaking the news to nearly 2,000 employees working on it.

Apple will reportedly move “many employees working on the car” to the company’s



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An antitrust probe of Microsoft’s surprise deal with French startup Mistral will come down to the role of “decisive influence,” legal experts say. Microsoft revealed on Tuesday that it’s investing €15mn in the partnership. Under the terms of the pact, Mistral receives access to the US tech giant’s supercomputers. In return, Microsoft can offer Azure cloud customers access to the startup’s latest



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Aqara’s U200 smart lock is a retrofit, Matter-over-Thread door lock, with support for Apple Home Key promised. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Aqara has launched its Smart Lock U200 on Kickstarter, where you can currently nab the device for $209, down from the $249.99 it’ll cost you when it goes on sale later this year. According to the Kickstarter page, it



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Zurich, Switzerland
  • Zurich city employees got an unexpected — and short-lived — boost to their pay packets this month.
  • A technical error meant that all 30,000 people working for the city were given double their pay.
  • Legally they have to pay it all back, and that's a gargantuan administrative task.

The city of Zurich is trying to recoup roughly 175 million Swiss Francs, about


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a Beyond Meat produced, burger, meatball as well as a chicken nuggets lay on a table on November 21, 2022 in Miami, Florida.
  • Beyond Meat says it plans to increase prices to boost its profit margin.
  • It also plans $70 million of cost cuts and will discontinue some products, like its plant-based jerky.
  • US sales fell by a third in 2023. The company attributed it to "misinformation," sales discounts, and low demand.

Beyond Meat has unveiled details of a massive turnaround plan, including raising the



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The remains of a downed Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter bomber are pictured in Lyman, Donetsk Region, eastern Ukraine.
The remains of a downed Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter bomber are pictured in Lyman, Donetsk Region, eastern Ukraine.
  • Ukraine's Ministry of Defense said it took down its 10th Russian fighter jet in 10 days.
  • A Su-34, one of Russia's best and most expensive jets, was destroyed on Tuesday.
  • Ukraine, however, is struggling with a lack of resources and diminishing



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A render showing the incoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6.
Say goodbye to the rounded-corners that featured on previous Galaxy Z Fold devices. | Image: Onleaks / Smartprix

Samsung’s incoming Galaxy Z Fold 6 smartphone appears to have leaked in unofficial renders published on Wednesday by SmartPrix and OnLeaks, giving us our first look at the company’s latest flagship foldable. The images show a much boxier design that’s more in



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Nothing's drip feed of specs and line drawings gets us to this point. At MWC 2024, the company finally revealed its next phone in the flesh during its MWC soiree. Sadly, it was in a glass box — which seems to be the not-great trend of this year's Mobile World Congress

But, for a phone seemingly pitched as its cheapest device yet, it looks good. Cool, even. The Nothing design DNA is fully there



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Boomers are becoming less likely to sell their homes and move.
  • US internal migration has significantly slowed over the last five decades.
  • Local home prices influence older homeowners in expensive states less than in past decades.
  • Despite wages encouraging migration, housing-related factors have significantly offset this.

Fewer Americans are moving within the US, and boomer homeowners in more


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