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A CT scan of Stanley’s viral Quencher cup has confirmed what the company has been saying all along: There’s only lead at the bottom of the cup. The lead is covered by a stainless steel cover, which Stanley says makes it “inaccessible to customers.” In the end, though, lead exposure might come down to a matter of luck.Do We Have to Send Humans to Mars for Exploration?The team at Lumafield, a hardware manufacturing company that makes CT scanners, ran Stanley’s Quencher tumbler through one of their machines last week. While…

Target has sacked a long-time employee and several others across the US for purchasing special-edition Stanley cups, citing a policy against workers using their position to gain an unfair advantage when buying merchandise. Catherine Carter, who has worked for the American retail giant for 19 years at one of its stores near Miami, Florida, USA, revealed that she had “never been written up, never called out, never been late.”However, her squeaky clean almost two decades of work came to a brutal ending on January 3 when…

Every few years there is some terrible new status symbol that becomes ubiquitous and, thus, inescapable. Several years back it was those dumb Canada Goose jackets that retailed at prices of up to $1700 and made everybody look like Death Star employees. Lately, however, the marker of status is just a cup. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors By now, you and everybody you know have likely heard of the Stanley Quencher—a relatively mundane-looking stainless steel tumbler that retails for between $20-$45…

To slightly paraphrase a quote from Bram Stoker's ‘Dracula,’ “The coffee is the life!” Many of us cannot imagine not starting the day with a hot cup of joe, whether we brew it at home, at the office, or grab it at a local café. What really makes our day is when someone puts in the effort to make our cup special somehow. It might be placing a small biscuit or chocolate on the saucer or drawing something on the surface of the coffee.However, some baristas and coffee lovers take things to the next level. We wanted to…

Starbucks fans who want to be a bit more environmentally friendly in 2024 can rejoice. The coffee giant has decided it will be the first national coffee chain to accommodate reusable cups for customers’ drive-thru and mobile orders. “Starting January 3, 2024, customers will be able to use their own clean, personal cup for every visit at all company-operated stores and participating licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada — including drive-thru, the Starbucks app, and in café,” the company said in a…

Starbucks announced today that customers will now be able to bring in their reusable cups whether they’re walking into a store or driving up in the US and Canada. The company claims it’s the first national coffee retailer to give customers this option for drive-thru and mobile orders.For years, customers have been able to walk into select Starbucks locations to fill reusable cups (although the practice was put on hold between 2020 and 2021 due to the covid-19 pandemic). What’s changing is that now clean, refillable cups…

Not many animated athletes manage to reach icon status, but it seems safe to say that Lightning McQueen has managed just that. The character first debuted in 2006’s Cars, a flick that soon spawned a franchise. A franchise that entirely follows anthropomorphized vehicles, which all by itself is a tall task. Add to that the long delay between each of its releases — five years between the first and second, and six between second and third — and the way its branching offerings compounded in the time between flicks, and the…

One thing to keep in mind as you do this -- printers can be very finicky, so not every setup works with every piece of hardware. Just ask any IT admin for their opinion on printers and you'll get an earful.How to share a printer to your LAN from LinuxWhat you'll need: The only things you'll need for this process are a running instance of Linux, a printer already attached (and working), and a user with sudo privileges. Also: 8 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with MacOS or WindowsI'll demonstrate on Ubuntu…

Starbucks locations in Colorado are going BYOC – as in “bring your own cup.” The coffee company is currently running a pilot program at 192 locations in the Centennial State where customers can bring their own personal cups that baristas will use to fill their orders. Historically, Starbucks has allowed customers to bring reusable cups with the company’s branding to be filled, but during this test period, it will allow any cup or mug. All you have to do is tell your barista at the counter or in the drive-thru that you…

THE OLD Pineapple & Pearls was, by any measure, a resounding success. The restaurant opened seven years ago in Washington, D.C., to rave reviews from local critics; diners lined up for chef-owner Aaron Silverman’s playfully elegant tasting menu of a dozen or more courses. A year in, the Michelin Guide awarded it a coveted two stars. Which is why I was surprised to learn that Mr. Silverman had burned the whole concept to the ground and started from scratch.  A two-year pandemic closure had given the chef…