Week of June 23, 2025
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The Most Expensive Place to Buy a Home in Each State
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Many supermarkets offer a less expensive store brand of many big national brands. And they tend to make the house brand packages look similar to the famous brand. The maker of Oreos said enough is enough, and they are suing Aldi over their lookalikes.
That story is in Mouse Print* this week.
J.D. Power questioned nearly 50,000 consumers about their auto insurance carriers. They asked about their satisfaction with level of trust; price for coverage; people; ease of doing business; product/coverage offerings; problem resolution; etc. The results are broken down by region, and sometimes individual state. If you haven't comparison shopped for car insurance lately, you might be surprised by how much the competition charges.
Food & Wine magazine's food editors conducted a blind taste of 11 national brands of vanilla ice cream. They were asked to rate each on flavor and texture. In last place was Breyer's Natural Vanilla, and the winner was...
The Wall Street Journal's personal technology reporter, Joanna Stern, used a variety of artificial intelligence tools to create a short video starring a computer-generated version of herself. Except for her voiceover narration, it was totally created by computers. You'd be hard-pressed to tell the real Joanna from her AI counterpart. Here is the text version of this story. While this type of sophisticated technology could be used for legitimate purposes, imagine how evil-doers might use it to create false impressions. We'll show you that even more amazing video next week.
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