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• In 2023, for the first time since 2016, Subway opened more stores than it closed.
• Subway has closed thousands of stores, resulting in years of decline in net restaurant count.
• It has undergone a huge brand overhaul in recent years, including its biggest-ever menu refresh.

For the first time since 2016, after years of store closures, Subway finally opened more sites

Welcome to another installment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week, an exploration of animals and their mischievous behavior. Let’s talk about the Great Ape Escape of 2019, when a band of chimpanzees at the Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland brazenly scampered to the edge of freedom.

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Amazon is entering a new stage of AI-powered shopping with the launch of Rufus, its new shopping assistant chatbot.

Available today in beta to a small group of users in the U.S., Rufus is rolling out more widely across the country in following weeks. "Select customers" will be able to access the tool by updating the Amazon Shopping app, according to the company.

The e-commerce AI bot will be

• Ryanair has bought 40 houses near Dublin Airport to rent out to cabin crew.
• Local politicians spoke out against it as housing is in high demand in Dublin.
• CEO Michael O'Leary said he had "absolutely nothing to apologise for."

Europe's biggest airline is buying up houses near its Dublin headquarters to rent out to new cabin crew, Ryanair said

AI-generated voices mimicking celebrities and politicians are making it harder for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fight robocalls. FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel wants the commission to recognize calls that use AI-generated voices as artificial, making the use of voice cloning technologies in robocalls illegal.

Under the FCC’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), artificial

• After living in Northern England my entire life, I moved from Manchester to New York City.
• Though I love living in the US, I long for a Sunday roast in a cozy pub.
• I miss how accessible the countryside was and how friendly people from Manchester are.

In the summer of 2023, I moved to New York City from Manchester

• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the latest to slam Apple's new app store rules.
• Zuckerberg called the changes "so onerous" that he doubts any developer would choose to use them.
• Developers and some senior execs have been vocal in their criticism of the new rules.

Meta has joined the ranks of companies criticizing Apple's new App

• Kimo Bentley left her NYC med-spa business to move to Maryland, home to her fiancé, Daron Pressley.
• The couple have a 4-year-old child and split their finances proportionally.
• Pressley covers the bulk of their expenses with an annual income of about $200,000.

This is part of our series Splitting the Difference, which examines the financial lives of couples.

Kimo Bentley had two

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is feeling pretty philosophical about his roller coaster of a week, which saw him berated by Congress over the harmful content on his products one day and celebrated by investors for delivering buckets of dough the next.

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• Ukraine's military chief said the country must prepare for a decline in Western support.
• He said Ukraine can instead beat Russia using technology, such as drones.
• Valerii Zaluzhnyi, nicknamed the Iron General, made the comments in an op-ed for CNN. 

Ukraine's military chief

Google said it isn’t putting out a YouTube app for Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, so a third-party developer has stepped in to make one instead. Juno is the work of Christian Selig, the developer behind the now defunct Reddit app Apollo. It costs $4.99 and is already available from Apple’s App Store.

Although it’s an