📈 Coca-Cola will raise prices to offset higher commodity costs
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Coca-Cola will raise prices to offset higher commodity costs. The beverage company joins a number of other consumer giants, such as Kimberly-Clark and J.M. Smucker, in hiking prices. While the move will help their profit margins, it may come at the expense of cash-strapped consumers who are still struggling from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. (Amelia Lucas via CNBC)
Compliance Will Not Save My Body. Chicago Police Officer Eric E. Stillman chased a boy down an alleyway. It was the early morning of March 29. In Minnesota, opening statements in the Derek Chauvin trial were coming in a few hours. (Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic)
They Hacked McDonald's Ice Cream Machines-and Started a Cold War. Of all the mysteries and injustices of the McDonald's ice cream machine, the one that Jeremy O'Sullivan insists you understand first is its secret passcode. (Andy Greenberg via WIRED)
Cryptocurrency Giant Binance Hires Former Top Bank Regulator. A former top U.S. banking regulator is set to join Binance, one of the world’s biggest bitcoin exchanges, in the latest move by a cryptocurrency company to deepen its ties to Washington. (Alexander Osipovich via Wall Street Journal)
Is President Lopez Obrador Destroying Mexico?. In Mexico, the presidential palace has become the set of a televised drama. Every weekday morning, the star uses his pulpit to promote his agenda and lash out at his enemies. (Nathaniel Parish Flannery via Forbes)
The Pandemic Will Be More Deadly This Year. Consider the surging case count in India. A false sense of complacency is discouraging any course correction, and numbers could get worse still. Covid-19 is going to kill more people in 2021 than it did last year. (David Fickling via Bloomberg)
Microsoft's xCloud beta arrives on iOS and PC this week. Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) will officially arrive on iOS and PC tomorrow, April 20th. The service will arrive on devices via browsers, allowing Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to play Xbox games on iPhones, iPads, and PCs. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
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