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Starbucks says it doesn’t add potassium to its Dark French Roast coffee after another coffee company accused it of mislabeling the product

A Starbucks barista prepares a drink at a Starbucks Coffee Shop location in New York. Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images A coffee company filed a complaint claiming Starbucks adds potassium to its Dark French Roast coffee. The complaint says the alleged potassium levels means Starbucks is selling misbranded food in North Carolina. Starbucks said it…

Elon Musk ruthlessly fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. He’s the latest in a long line of Silicon Valley giants to face Musk’s wrath, from Jeff Bezos to Mark Zuckerberg.

Kevin Dietsch, Carina Johansen, and Tobias Hase/Picture Alliance, all via Getty Images Elon Musk fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on his first day of owning the company. Musk is known for his fiery temper and cutthroat tweets and has clashed with many of tech’s biggest players. He’s targeted people including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and…

Putin’s time in the KGB taught him ‘how to lie’ and to think like a terrorist, ex-spies say

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin in Saint Petersburg on October 9, 2022. Gavriil Grigorov/Getty Images Putin’s time in the KGB helps explain his worldview and brutal approach to warfare, ex-spies say. A former KGB agent told Insider the biggest thing Putin learned from the Soviet spy agency was…

Dunkin’s controversial new rewards program looks more like Starbucks’. Here’s how they stack up.

David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Dunkin’ recently rebranded its rewards program under the new name Dunkin’ Rewards. It looks a lot like Starbucks Rewards with tiers for free coffee, food, and espresso drinks. Starbucks Rewards is a better deal for getting free drinks, but Dunkin’ has better…

Hubble vs. Webb: New NASA telescope reveals never-before-seen details from the early universe, within 400 million years after the Big Bang

The James Webb Space Telescope, left, is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, right. NASA/Chris Gunn; NASA NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is 100 times stronger than the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble showed astronomers a single galaxy in the early universe, but JWST revealed it was two mysterious objects. Compare the images to glimpse how…

Geri Halliwell-Horner joins the cast for Sony’s upcoming Gran Turismo movie

Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell-Horner and Djimon Hounsou have been cast in Sony’s upcoming Gran Turismo movie. The former is interesting not just because of her “rare narrative screen appearance”, as The Hollywood Reporter puts it, but also because the Spice girl is married to team principal of Red Bull’s Formula One team, Christian Horner. Sony’s…