Palm

A private island in Palm Beach could become the most-expensive home ever sold in Florida, if it gets its asking price of $218 million.Developer Todd Michael Glaser and his partners bought 10 Tarpon Isle — the only private island in Palm Beach — for $85 million in 2021. They built a brand new house, turned the existing structure into a guest house, and added a giant pool, tennis courts and other amenities and have now relisted the property."I paid $85 million without a hesitation because there's only one of them," Glaser…

Panera Bread will be spreading its Amazon One palm payment kiosks to more stores in Missouri and Seattle in the next few months.Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Panera Bread isn’t telling its legion of customers to shove their hand directly into their broccoli and cheese bread bowl, but a few Missouri franchisees are letting their customers know they can throw their palm onto the kiosk to pay for their meal. It’s not the first time Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech has been seen outside anAmazon-owned business,…

The next time you walk into a Panera, you might be asked to scan your palm print in order to activate your MyPanera membership benefits. In a press release, Panera Bread announced that it will be deploying Amazon’s palm recognition technology at its locations. Amazon One, the contactless identity service owned by Amazon, is already being used at the company’s Amazon Fresh grocery stores, but this marks the first partnership with another brand. Panera says it will be the first national restaurant chain in the…

It's one of the most controversial vegetable oils on the planet, so what's palm oil doing in your deodorant?That's exactly what eco-conscious consumer Sheila O'Reilly wanted to find out when she called up makers of some popular consumer products.Palm oil is ecologically problematic and has been linked by the World Wildlife Fund, among several others, to deforestation and other environmental abuses. And those concerns are front and centre for O'Reilly when she is shopping for groceries and other goods. "If there is palm…

Apple's top executive Michael Abbott, who is in charge of cloud services, is leaving the company in April, Bloomberg News reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter.The iPhone maker did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.Abbott, who joined Apple in 2018, heads the iCloud service and is in charge of the platform that powers features such as Emergency SOS and Find My on iPhones as well as new features including iCloud data encryption.He previously held top roles…

My party of two peers around the manicured hedges at the north end of the Plaza Del Sol Shopping Center at exactly 4:30 p.m. It’s nearly dusk on a Sunday in late January. I’m not entirely sure what kind of early crowd I’ll find waiting to score walk-in slots for Bar Cecil, the 75-seat darling of the Palm Springs restaurant scene, but I am determined to dine here tonight.We turn out to be first in the queue. No regrets about showing up extra early, though, because I’ve been through this before at Cecil: By 5 p.m., when…

Oil palm producer Presco Plc logged its peak turnover since 2011 as Russia-Ukraine war disrupted the global supply chain of sunflower oil, details of the firm’s 2022 financials have shown. According to the company’s financials for the 2022 fiscal year, revenue took a leap to N83.1 billion from N47.4 billion the previous year. The increase is backed by expanded production from the 39,500 hectares providing raw materials for its core product palm oil, an ingredient for nearly half of products found on supermarket…

In the last two decades, palm oil has become an environmental boogeyman, an ingredient that conscious consumers should try to avoid. The oil, found in everything from baby shampoo to ice cream, earned its bad reputation. Over the last 30 years, palm oil companies leveled acre upon acre of trees in Southeast Asia, which were full of life and carbon. The demand for this ingredient, now the world’s most common edible oil, undoubtedly has fueled two of the most urgent crises of our time: climate change and the loss of…

The gate. (Photo by Kelly Peak Photography) A view of the artificial grass, palm trees and water feature off the gated entry. (Photo by Kelly Peak Photography) The great room. (Photo by Kelly Peak Photography) A view of the kitchen and peninsula island with seating. (Photo by Kelly Peak Photography) The walk-in appliance pantry. (Photo by Kelly Peak Photography) The primary bedroom. (Photo by Kelly Peak Photography) The primary bathroom. (Photo by Kelly Peak Photography) The tiled open shower in the primary bathroom.…

Apple recently announced its best apps and games of 2022. Included this year were five Cultural Impact winners. The company chose these titles, believing they could each influence culture and positively impact people's lives. Recently, I had the opportunity to discuss two of these apps with their creators. Dot's Home and Inua - Story in Ice and Time are vastly different both in the stories they tell and in their design. And yet, I can see why Apple chose each to win a Cultural Impact award. Dot's HomeDot's Home is a…