Unusual flavour Australia’s top ice cream

Judges at the Melbourne Royal Dairy Awards, which elevates the best of Australian dairy, crowned Elato Artisanal Ice Cream’s fig ripple the winner in the ice-cream category for its “multifaceted” burnt spicy caramel flavours and “great balance and depth of flavours”.

“Great balance and depth of flavours … rich creamy ice cream … delicious!…

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Surprise winner of ‘worst’ pizza topping

A new survey says that it has determined America’s least favourite pizza topping, according to a post on YouGov.com. The results are based on a poll that included 6000 adults from the United States.

According to the results, America’s most disliked topping is anchovies. The small fish has a big taste and is often the butt of bad-pizza-topping jokes. While people not liking anc…

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Robert De Niro’s Ex-Assistant Wins $1.2 Million in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

NEW YORK — A jury awarded more than $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former personal assistant Thursday, finding one of his companies responsible for subjecting her to a toxic work environment.

While the jury found De Niro was not personally liable for the abuse, it said his company, Canal Productions, engaged in gender discrimination and retaliation against former assistant Graham Ch…

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Review- ‘Black Panther- Wakanda Forever’

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ryan Coogler’s follow-up to the resplendent 2018 Marvel adventure Black Panther, offers spectacle to spare. The production design, once again by Hannah Beachler, balances elaborate manmade glamour with the glory of the natural world, as represented by the landscape of the African fantasy kingdom of Wakanda. When Angela Bassett’s impe…

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Stacey Abrams on Writing and Her Future in Politics

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Stacey Abrams has twice been the Democratic candidate for Governor in Georgia (unsuccessfully), founded FairFight Action to increase voter registration, and is currently the Senior Counsel to Rewiring America, a nonprofit that seeks to switch all households to using elect…

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Exclusive- The Kenyan Workers Behind ChatGPT

Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse

ChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November. The powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate text on almost any topic or theme, from a Shakespearean sonnet reimagined in the style of Megan Thee Stallion, to complex mathematical theo…

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How Business Is Shaping Our Future

One year ago, we launched TIME Business, a new franchise devoted to exploring the growing influence of business not only on our economic lives but also as a force shaping society and our collective future. Led by executive editor John Simons, we’ve chronicled everything from the future of work to how American shoppers broke the supply chain. We’ve brought you inside the C-suites wit…

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No Crypto Crackdown in Sight

The feds dropped the hammer on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, arresting him in the Bahamas on Monday night as part of an eight-count indictment that includes wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering. Then, more hammer-strokes fell. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates financial markets, filed civil charges alleging he defrauded his investors and his customers.…

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Michael Lewis on His Book About SBF

When the journalist Michael Lewis announced in May that he was writing a book on Sam Bankman-Fried after spending months with the FTX crypto mogul in the Bahamas, it was anticipated to be the definitive account of an era-defining financial collapse. Lewis has a long history of deftly chronicling moments of social and economic sea change, from Liar’s Poker to Moneyball to Read more

Altria Keeps Funding Anti-Smoking Programs

Tobacco giant Altria, which owns the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and a stake in vaping company Juul Labs, has for years quietly funded substance-use-prevention training for middle and high school students, despite ample research suggesting that industry-sponsored school programs do not discourage teenagers from smoking—and may in fact do the opposite.

Altria has for more than a dec…

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