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Umaro bacon If you’ve ever tried vegan bacon, you probably didn’t mistake it for pork. But when I recently made a vegan BLT with a new type of plant-based bacon, it was fairly hard to tell that it wasn’t the real thing. It was crispy. It had a similar appearance. And the flavor was surprisingly spot on. The...

Breakdancing If you haven’t thought much about breakdancing since Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo hit multiplexes in 1984 —or are too young to know what that even is—it may come as a surprise to learn that a competitive headspin-to-headspin “dancesport” version of the form has been steadily growing in global popularity over the last few decades and is now set...

Popeyes fish sandwich calories Almost 1.5 years to the day after Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen launched its now-famous Chicken Sandwich, the fast-food chain is unveiling another sandwich that it hopes will drive customers equally wild. The Cajun Flounder Sandwich launches tomorrow: It’s a Cajun-seasoned fried filet, served on the same brioche bun with pickles that diners know from the...

Designer movies Sometimes you take a look at your Netflix queue and think there’s nothing decent on the service. That’s not entirely true! Netflix has certainly lost its library of mainstream Hollywood films over the past few years. But for the designer in search of inspiration–or anyone with a love of visual culture–Netflix is still loaded with some...

Snake game modes There’s something about a classic arcade game that withstands the test of time—and that’s certainly the case with the Google Snake game. The free two-bit game first launched nearly 20 years ago and, to this day, remains a popular in-browser game as well as one of the most downloaded smartphone games for Android. The Google Snake game is simple...

Nbcuowned rotten tomatoes the roku channel Ever since Rotten Tomatoes was dreamt up in 1998 by three Asian-American University of California at Berkeley undergrads who initially built the website to collect old reviews of Jackie Chan movies, it has been synonymous with its scores. The famed “Tomatometer” averages reviews from professional critics and slaps a movie or TV show...

Applegrothaus fastcompany If you own a certain type of Kia, the company may owe you money. And no, this has nothing to do with TikTok users revealing how easy it is to steal some Kia models. Instead, this is due to a class action settlement Kia has agreed to after claims that the anti-lock brake systems (ABS) on certain...

Source apple eu spotifyyun Spotify and a group of European companies are asking Europe’s top antitrust regulator to take immediate action against Apple for what they claim are anticompetitive practices that have harmed their businesses. In a letter addressed to the European commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, the music-streaming service and seven other media companies—including Proton, Basecamp, and...

Video chat on tv While video chat is no replacement for in-person interaction, sometimes it’s the best you can do. I’ve never loved chatting through tiny screens, though. It just feels so distant to hunch over a phone or laptop, staring at a considerably shrunken version of whoever I’m talking with. That’s why it’s nice to conduct video calling through your...

Comcast 1tb The most frequent reaction to last week’s news that Comcast will subject all its residential broadband customers to a 1.2 terabyte monthly data cap has been “How could they?!” Broadband experts consistently say there’s no technical reason to enforce usage limits on wired connections such as cable internet. A less frequent reaction: “How could you?” As in,...