Rotisserie chicken is the ultimate budget-friendly, convenient option for a flavorful meal without the hassle of dealing with prep. But despite being sold at almost any grocery store, not all rotisserie chickens are created equal—and a recent report reveals the standout from the bunch. In a recent study by Consumer Reports, the nonprofit group dove into the world of rotisserie chicken, ranking 10 popular offerings by major retailers. But the report goes beyond just the taste and texture. Experts conducting the study also focused on less notable yet important factors that make up a great rotisserie chicken, including sodium content…
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Home prices just experienced their biggest year-over-year drop in almost a decade, according to new data from Realtor.com. The asking price of a new home in the U.S. has fallen consecutively for eight months, according to the new report on monthly housing trends. The average asking price of a new home dipped by 2.5% between June 2025 and June 2026 – one sign of a market coming unstuck. This month, the national median list price for a home sat at $430,000, down from June 2022’s highs around $449,000. “Eight straight months of falling prices and seven straight months of rising…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Google’s AI Overviews are sometimes wrong. This has been a perennial complaint about the Gemini-written summaries that appear at the top of search results since their debut in mid 2024. It also happens to be true. Optimists might dismiss the infamous “glue on pizza” moment and others like it as simply early bugs in a new feature. But in the spring of 2026, The New York Times commissioned AI startup Oumi to study how frequently AI Overviews give bad answers. The latest version was accurate 91% of the time, which sounds pretty good…
President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.Mere startups when he took the oath of office, the new ventures have now eclipsed in revenue much of his vast property portfolio that took him decades to accumulate. Fueling their rise were billionaire investors and Trump’s own move to quash a federal crackdown on the industry.Trump got more than $500 million from his World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including “governance tokens,” according to the required annual disclosure…
When one of the world’s biggest sports clubs, Sporting Clube de Portugal (SCP), was founded in 1906, it was centered on one code: “Develop the human, then the athlete.” Now, 120 years later, the club is getting a major rebrand that brings that code to the forefront of its identity—with a high-design twist. SCP teaches sports including soccer, futsal, handball, volleyball, and rink hockey for everyone from young kids to elite adults. It’s best known for its men’s professional soccer team, which plays in the Primeira Liga (the top flight of Portuguese football), and has produced generational talents including Cristiano…
Being a great chef doesn’t automatically make someone a great manager. That’s one reason American Express and Resy are launching a new national leadership academy designed to help restaurant owners and managers build stronger teams, improve profitability, and navigate an increasingly complicated industry. Announced Monday, the new Restaurant Academy is being created in partnership with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation and will bring together 30 restaurant leaders from across the country for a four-month leadership development program beginning this fall. The launch comes at a time when restaurant operators face pressure from nearly every direction. Food costs remain elevated,…
When Brian Patrick wakes up each day, he logs on to his computer and starts combing through social media, news articles, and YouTube videos to find the craziest things prominent AI executives have ever said. He always finds something. There’s the clip of Oracle founder Larry Ellison admitting to building body cameras that record users while they’re in the bathroom. A sound bite of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk advocating for merging humans with AI. Even an interview with Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann, in which he compares his relationship with AI wearables to peoples’ relationships with God. Once he’s pulled one…
Federico Casalegno has been thinking about ears. Billions of ears. “Ears are almost like fingerprints. Every one of us has a different one,” says Casalegno, executive vice president of design at Samsung. It’s a pertinent topic for Samsung, maker of a variety of earbuds, and for Casalegno, who’s in charge of figuring out how to make those earbuds—along with a deep portfolio of wearable technology products like smartwatches and smart rings—as comfortable and useful as possible. [Photo: Samsung] Wrapping one’s head around billions of ears—or wrists or fingers or, indeed, entire heads—is a tricky prospect, but also an increasingly important…
Believe it or not, laptops are suddenly interesting again. Apple kicked things off in March with the MacBook Neo, a $599 laptop that felt like an aggressive attempt to do to the low end of the market what the MacBook Air did to the middle. Even with a $100 price hike this week due to the rising cost of components, it remains a cheap and cheerful MacBook that puts its Windows competition to shame on the merits. When Computex Taipei happened earlier this month, it felt like the rest of the industry had awakened. Dell revived its XPS line as…
As a knowledge worker who spends a lot of time on the internet, I struggle with distractions and information overload. I’ve tried a lot of practices to stop doomscrolling, some of which have worked. For example, I now read a nonfiction book first thing in the morning and a fiction book before I go to bed. This means I no longer start my morning and end my day staring at my phone. But I was still struggling to stay off screens when waiting in line, commuting, or exercising. I found myself getting sucked into a rabbit hole of rage-bait when…