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Chipotle restaurant sign on exterior of a building under clear blue sky, Pleasant Hill, California, April 16, 2026.Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesFast casual chain Chipotle is set to open its first restaurant in Mexico this week, the company announced on Monday. The store will open on Thursday in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, part of the Monterrey metropolitan area. Chipotle said the opening is part of the Mexican food chain’s previously announced partnership with restaurant group Alsea.Thursday’s opening will be the first of a larger rollout of restaurants in Mexico, including an expansion into…

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Last month, we passed along Modern Vintage Gamer’s (MVG) confident assertion that Doom is functionally impossible to run on the Neo Geo, owing to the console’s sprite-based display hardware and lack of a frame buffer. We all should have known better than to tell a dedicated group of hackers that something is “impossible,” though, as two recent projects have made great progress toward functional Doom ports on stock Neo Geo hardware. Both of these projects have significant graphical compromises that limit how viable they would have been for a marketable, ’90s-era console port, as MVG lays out in a new…

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Wall Street is focused on Netflix as the streaming platform prepares to release its second-quarter financial results post-market Thursday at the start of earnings season. It’s an event that could drive the “beaten down” stock to its lowest price in nearly two years, according to NYSE insider Jay Woods . “This stock has been beaten down,” Woods told CNBC, noting that shares could slide below the critical $70 level. Netflix last traded below $70 per share in September 2024. Woods added that Netflix investors should look out for a so-called “fold” in the firm’s chart, or a pattern that suggests the…

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The right to natural gas measure arrives as the state pursues policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions from natural gas. Colorado currently generates around a third of its electricity from methane gas, and around 70 percent of the state’s homes use it for heating. In 2022, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission issued a rule requiring emissions from heating buildings to be cut by 41 percent by 2035. The state relies on incentives to encourage homeowners to make energy efficiency upgrades in their homes. Rebates for switching to electric heat pumps, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, were hugely popular with…

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The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency, said Monday that it opposes transit fees in the Strait of Hormuz after President Donald Trump demanded that ships pay protection money.”We have always been consistent on our stance on fees – IMO stands firmly against charging fees for passage through straits used for international navigation,” a spokesperson said. “There is no legal basis through which to introduce mandatory tolls simply to transit through a strait,” the spokesperson said. Trump on Monday said the U.S. military will protect ship traffic through Hormuz, but demanded reimbursement equivalent to 20% of the value of…

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Samsung’s shipments were up as well, once again making it the largest global smartphone OEM by shipments, at 24 percent. Samsung’s focus on flagship phones has apparently helped it even as it raised prices on budget devices. The Galaxy S26 series, and particularly the Ultra variant, have sold better than last year’s models in spite of higher prices. Samsung is also strong in markets like India and the Middle East where lower prices and aggressive promotions have buoyed sales. For what it’s worth, Omdia is reporting a smaller 4 percent drop for Q2 smartphone shipments, but it, too, shows Samsung…

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Andy Burnham has effectively been confirmed as the new Labour leader after 349 MPs have nominated him to replace Sir Keir Starmer.It is now mathematically impossible for a rival to run against the MP for Makerfield, with Burnham on track to become prime minister on 20 July.He still requires the backing of three organisations affiliated to the Labour Party, at least two of which must be trade unions, although this is expected to be a formality for him.The former mayor of Greater Manchester will field questions from Labour MPs as the only participant in an online hustings on Monday evening.It…

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