Monthly Archives: October 2022

More Chipotle customers are ordering in-store, while the chain keeps investing in digital and drive-thru

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Chipotle saw a huge bump in in-store sales as digital sales dropped slightly. Mobile orders made up nearly half of sales in 2021, and the chain continues to invest heavily. Chipotle is returning the Boorito promotion to restaurants this year. After years of turning toward mobile orders and delivery, Chipotle customers are…

Lindsey Graham says there are ‘gonna be people jumping off bridges in San Francisco by the thousands’ if Jim Jordan becomes chair of the House Judiciary Committee

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham campaigned in Ohio for Senate candidate JD Vance. During a speech at a Republican Party dinner in Lima, Graham riled up a crowd of the party faithful. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio…

The US and Canada are updating a Cold War-era system to keep an eye on Russian and Chinese missiles. Experts say they need to add a lot more territory too.

Thule Air Base in Greenland in November 2006. US Army Corps of Engineers The US and Canada are modernizing NORAD to watch for Russian, Chinese, and North Korean missiles. To really improve its coverage, NORAD should expand to include Greenland, two researchers say. That kind of integration could benefit each country’s security, but there are…

Meta says it will lose even more money on the metaverse in 2023

A year later, Meta’s pivot to the metaverse is proving even more expensive. Reality Labs is losing more money than ever, Facebook’s parent company disclosed in its latest earnings report. Reality Labs, the unit that oversees the company’s virtual and augmented reality projects, lost $3.7 billion in the third-quarter of 2022, a jump from a…

Xbox Game Pass accounts for 15 percent of Microsoft’s gaming revenue, says Phil Spencer

Microsoft’s Game Pass service is profitable and accounts for about 15 percent of the company’s overall Xbox content and services revenue. Microsoft Gaming chief Phil Spencer shared the tidbit of information in an on-stage interview at The Wall Street Journal’sTech Live conference (via The Verge). “Game Pass as an overall part of our content and…