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Girl Scouts of the USA is adding two firsts to its 2027 cookie season. One is Sparkables, designed to open the door to more families with food allergies, while the other, called Patch Pals, opens it to dogs. Both products will launch nationwide on January 12, 2027, as online-only offerings for direct shipping. They will join returning favorites such as Thin Mints, Samoas or Caramel deLites, and Peanut Butter Patties or Tagalongs during the annual cookie season.

Google is changing how Search looks across Europe, all thanks to a regulatory nudge. The company has begun rolling out a redesigned results experience across the European Economic Area to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act, giving rival services more visibility while scaling bac...

The White House's Build the Wall game has come tumbling down. The Tetris-like browser title disappeared from the administration's online Arcade on Tuesday, four days after The Tetris Company publicly distanced itself from the project and warned that it takes copyright infringement "very seriously...

Images: JR East (edit) JR East is preparing to send off one of Japan’s most familiar transit mascots, but not before giving passengers a say in who takes over. On Tuesday, the railway operator unveiled three candidates to replace the Suica Penguin, which will “graduate” on March 31, 2027, after 25 years as the face of its contactless fare card.

MAGA has picked up a new mascot, though the joke was originally supposed to be on them. An AI-generated caricature created by satirical account Forbidden HQ to mock Trump supporters has instead been embraced by parts of the pro-Trump internet, where users have renamed, remixed, and repurposed the...

Loewe has buckled down on branding in a refreshing way. The Spanish fashion house's Type Fussbett sandals spell out L-O-E-W-E using five oversized metal fasteners, turning a familiar fastening detail into a piece of wearable typography.At first glance, the sandals look like chunky multi-strap sli...

Boulangerie Le Toledo has found a new way to let its pastries bake the branding. The Montreal bakery has been reimagined by local studio Nouvelle idée, which took inspiration from the irregular air pockets inside laminated dough and turned them into a flexible visual language for the growing busi...

Even if you believe you once saw Bigfoot lurking somewhere beyond a tree line, police in Damariscotta, Maine, can rule out at least one recent suspect. After multiple reportings of a large, hairy figure roaming around town, officers tracked down the mystery creature and discovered a far less myth...

XPENG is bringing the idea of robots making robots a little closer to the factory floor. The Chinese EV maker has launched a highly automated production line for its IRON humanoid in Guangzhou, with more than 80% of core manufacturing processes handled automatically and the first completed robot ...

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra just passed a test whose entire joke is that machines should fail it. The model reportedly completed all 48 levels of Neal Agarwal’s browser game I’m Not a Robot, working through a progressively stranger mix of visual puzzles, logic challenges, timing tests, and precision tasks. The run was shared on Monday by Sharif Shameem, who works on OpenAI’s Labs team.