Barnes & Noble at UConn in downtown Storrs is closing its doors at the beginning of the New Year to make way for a new brewery, the first of its kind in the village. Urban Lodge Brewery, which is ...

Build-A-Bear is launching an original animated series called KABU featuring familiar characters from its line of build-your-own plush toys. The series will debut Dec. 26, 2025 on the Build-A-Bear ...

Early on, viewers meet several characters who are typically in Jay’s orbit, including his longtime manager and friend, Ron, played by Adam Sandler (who’s getting Oscar buzz). Also in the fold is Jay’s ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Disney is taking a $1 billion equity stake in OpenAI, while also striking a deal that would allow its famous characters be used on Sora, the AI company’s video generation platform. Disney’s investment ...

Disney has formally demanded Google stop allowing Disney characters to appear in AI images and videos. This comes as Disney and OpenAI have announced a licensing deal that sees Disney acquire a $1 ...

Coca-Cola Company (KO) announced that its board of directors has set a succession plan for the beverage giant. Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Henrique Braun was selected to ...

Safe to say James Cameron will never cast Tilly Norwood in a movie. During a recent interview with CBS’ Sunday Morning, the director of “The Terminator” explained that even before the invention of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – American Signature Inc., the company behind Value City Furniture, will close its Columbus headquarters and lay off 326 employees as it struggles with mounting debt. The company filed ...

Character.ai has introduced Stories, its first format that was specifically created to “enhance [teens’] experience,” on the same day the company removed their ability to engage with its chatbots.

Meta AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot now have eerily human voices. WSJ’s Joanna Stern strapped the AI bots to a tripod and took them to a cabin in the woods to test their ...

The University of Notre Dame has reinstated “Catholic Mission” among its staff values after it opted to drop the language in an effort to reprogram the school’s Catholic identity as overarching. In a ...