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Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
Some of them even track your precise movements in stores. They then analyze all this data about you and sell it to consumer brands eager to use it to precisely target you with advertising and otherwise improve their sales efforts. Leveraging customer data this way has become a crucial growth area for top supermarket chain Kroger and other retailers over the past few years, offering much higher margins than milk and eggs. And Kroger may be about to get millions of households bigger. In October 2022, Kroger and another top supermarket chain, Albertsons, announced plans for a $24.6 billion merger that would combine the top two supermarket chains in the U.S., creating stiff competition for Walmart, the overall top seller of groceries.
U.S. regulators and members of Congress are scrutinizing the deal, including by examining its potential to erode privacy: Kroger has carefully grown two “alternative profit business” units that monetize customer information, expected by Kroger to yield more than $1 billion in “profits opportunity.” Folding Albertsons into Kroger will potentially add tens of millions of additional households to this data pool, netting half the households in America as customers. While Kroger is certainly not the only large retailer collecting and monetizing shopper data through the use of loyalty programs, the company’s evolution from a traditional grocery business to a digitally sophisticated retailer with its own data science unit sets it apart from its larger competitors like Walmart, which also collects, analyzes and monetizes shopper data for brands and for targeted advertising on its own retail ad network.
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Best Hogwarts Legacy easter eggs
The Hogwarts Legacy easter eggs are many – with such a deep pool of lore to pull from, it’s hard to turn a corner in the wizarding school and not notice something from the many books and movies. These could be lines of dialogue to full areas of Hogwarts, and while they are fun to discover, the world is so vast that they’re easy to miss.
If you’ve read our Hogwarts Legacy review, you’ll know that the open world game is perfect for hardcore fans of the Harry Potter series, with the faithful recreation of Hogwarts, in particular, being a highlight of your wizarding journey. Have you seen any nods to the movies during your time at school? Talking mirrors and de-gnoming gardens aside, there are hundreds of Hogwarts Legacy easter eggs to discover, and these are our favourites.
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Minecraft 1.19.60 on Bedrock Has New Spawn Eggs and Blocks
Minecraft might be over a decade old at this point, but Microsoft is still keeping it alive with regular updates. There’s an update rolling out for the Bedrock edition right now with a few great improvements.
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Are Brown Eggs Better Quality Than White Eggs?
You’re at the grocery store and debating between which eggs to purchase. There are brown eggs and white eggs, but are they different?
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20 Avengers Easter Eggs And Things You Missed In The MCU’s First Team-Up Movie
The Avengers is a great crossover film, celebrating its individual protagonists’ eccentricities, melding those unique personalities under a single banner, and setting up bigger stakes and conflicts moving forward. That it manages to do all this without once slowing down or dragging in the middle is a feat.
It’s also an extremely quippy movie. There are lots of one-liners that juxtapose with the movie’s end-of-the-world stakes. Compared to the DCEU films that followed, Avengers has a relatively light tone, as opposed to the dark, self-serious, and angst-ridden nature of Zack Snyder’s DC films. But today, one could make a somewhat similar comparison between the MCU Phase 1 and Phase 4.
The current movies are so loaded with backstory and self-referential allusions and clues that it’s almost a relief to go back to a time before all that–before there was an afterlife in Moon Knight, or a literal Zeus character in Thor: Love and Thunder–before half of all life disappeared and then reappeared. Back in 2012, a simpler time, The Avengers were just six individuals–not all of whom had superpowers)–and the biggest threat was a single portal over NYC rather than the destruction of the universe ad infinitum.
Here are 20 Easter Eggs and trivia facts about Marvel’s The Avengers, which is now streaming on Disney Plus. The next Avengers film, Avengers: Kang Dynasty, won’t be out until 2025, and its sequel, Avengers: Secret Wars, won’t be out until 2026.
1. “I don’t always get what I want.”
When Bruce Banner is talking to Natasha, and discusses his inability to control the Hulk, he’s rocking a cradle that’s splattered with green paint. It alludes to the “Other Guy,” and it underlines how Bruce feels isolated from intimate things, like falling in love or starting a family, that most people take for granted.
2. Out of Time
A deleted scene, prior to Steve Rogers’ boxing introduction, shows him walking around New York City, looking at all the technology and people, and feeling like he doesn’t belong. He also stops by a cafe near Stark Tower, where a waitress takes his order and asks if he’s there to see Iron Man fly by. We later see this same waitress on a news report near the end of the movie, praising the Avengers. There’s also a brief Stan Lee cameo in this deleted scene, but because he also appears in a newscast cameo at the end of the movie, it’s rendered redundant.
A lot of fans criticize Phase 4 for the number of references and plotlines that seemingly go nowhere. But there were lots of plotlines in Phase 1 that never materialized either. Like in this shot, which says that SHIELD contacted Mephisto to learn about the Tesseract.
4. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Height
Robert Downey is 5’8. Gwyneth Paltrow is 5’9. But in the film, she appears to be the same height or even shorter than her co-star in some shots. That’s because Paltrow is walking around barefoot the entire time, and Downey is known for wearing platform shoes to give himself a lift.
Pepper Potts, Paltrow’s character, was originally not in the movie. But Downey insisted on giving her a part, because he thought Paltrow’s character would help show Tony’s character development.
5. The Cellist
We hear Pepper asking Agent Coulson about the cellist he’s dating. On the TV show Agents of SHIELD, “the cellist” is introduced in Season 1, Episode 19 as Audrey Nathan. Amy Acker plays the role.
6. Schubert Composition
The song playing during the scene where Loki extracts the man’s eye is “Schubert’s String Quartet No. 13,” by Franz Schubert. It has an A Minor key, which gives it an appropriate level of foreboding.
7. AC/DC Love
The song that Tony Stark uses to hijack Natasha’s PA system is “Shoot To Thrill” by ’80s rock band AC/DC. This is the same song that Tony uses when he makes his grand entrance at the Stark Expo in Iron Man 2.
8. Odin’s Ravens
According to Norse legend, Odin has two Ravens, Huginn and Muninn, who serve as his eyes and ears abroad from Asgard. You can see the two ravens in this shot, during Thor’s confrontation with Loki.
9. Stark Improvisations
“Doth Mother know you wear-eth her drapes?” is an improvised line by Downey, who was riffing off the prior reference to Shakespeare in the park. Downey is notorious for these types of improvisations; the first Iron Man movie didn’t have a finished script when the filmmakers started shooting.
10. Mark VI Improvements
Tony Stark constantly improves his armor, usually in response to how the prior armor was damaged or destroyed. In Iron Man 2, Whiplash nearly short-circuited the Mark V with his electric whips. So Tony, when making the Mark VI, designed it to absorb electricity. That’s why we see its power charge to 400% capacity when Thor shoots Tony with lightning.
11. Playing Galaga
Downey improvised his line about the SHIELD agent playing Galaga. Director Joss Whedon later shot the scene of the man actually playing Galaga to build upon the joke.
12. True Lies Jet
In the director’s commentary, Whedon mentions that the fighter jet which attacks Hulk is the same one used in the 1994 action comedy True Lies, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.
13. Ferrigno Audio Cameo
Lou Ferrigno, the original Hulk in the 1977 CBS television show, performed the Hulk’s roar effects in The Avengers.
14. “Are you an alien?”
Famous character actor Harry Dean Stanton plays the security guard who finds Bruce Banner after he crashes from the sky and asks, “Are you an alien?” It’s a direct reference to the 1979 Ridley Scott movie Alien, starring Sigourney Weaver and co-starring Stanton in a supporting role.
15. Shawarma Restaurant
At the end of the movie, Tony says that he saw a shawarma restaurant that he would like to try. In this shot, you can see the restaurant in the background during the fight.
16. Stan Lee Cameo
During the newsreel footage at the very end of the film, we see Marvel’s creative visionary Stan Lee, who plays a skeptical old man in the park. Lee appeared in every single MCU up through Avengers: Endgame, until his unfortunate passing at the age of 95 in 2018.
17. A113
We see “A113” in the corners of the SHIELD computer monitors. It’s a common Easter egg in visual effects-heavy movies, and it’s a reference to a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts, where many digital effects and animation artists learned their craft.
18. Senator Boynton
The senator we see in the newsreel footage is Senator Boynton. An enemy of Tony Stark in the comics, Boynton attempts to gain possession of the Iron Man armor and wants to create his own version of it via Project Firepower.
19. First Look at Thanos
In the mid-credits scene, we learn that Loki is not the Big Bad; he’s having his strings pulled by the Mad Titan Thanos. This is the first time we see Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The reference to “courting death” is a reference to the Infinity Stones storyline. In the comics, Thanos collects the Infinity Stones as a means of courting Lady Death, an all-powerful cosmic entity.
20. Cap’s Beard
Captain America is covering his jaw in the end credits scene. The filmmakers shot the scene late into production, and by that time, actor Chris Evans had already moved on to filming the Korean film Snowpiercer, which required that he grow a beard. He’s wearing a prosthetic over the beard in this scene, and he’s using his hand to cover it and mask the effect.
Fans decipher Dead Space Remake’s ‘Indecipherable’ text log and find tasty Easter eggs
I love secret languages in games. I’m too slow to decipher any of them myself, but I enjoy seeing a game’s community pick apart foreign symbols to uncover a game’s deep mysteries (Tunic’s musical language was especially fun.) Fortunately for me, players have already deciphered the ‘Indecipherable’ text log in the new Dead Space remake, revealing a poem that potentially hints toward the series’ future. Naturally, spoilers within.
Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’ video contains juicy Easter eggs
Singer Miley Cyrus is back with her latest single and music video, “Flowers.” The song is an upbeat anthem for singlehood, providing not-so-subtle references to Cyrus’s ex-husband, actor Liam Hemsworth.
Unsurprisingly, sleuths on TikTok and beyond have identified several Easter eggs harkening back to Cyrus’s and Hemsworth’s relationship.
The first is the drop date: January 13, Hemsworth’s birthday. While “Flowers” released on January 12 in the United States, it was already the following day in Australia, Hemsworth’s home country.
Now, let’s get to the actual song. The first lyrics are, “We were good, we were gold / Kinda dream that can’t be sold / We were right ’til we weren’t / Built a home and watched it burn.” This is in reference to Cyrus and Hemsworth’s Malibu home, which burned in a 2018 wildfire.
As for the chorus, fans across social media pointed out that the lyrics seem to be in direct response to those in Bruno Mars’s “When I Was Your Man,” a ballad about the one that got away.
The lines to “When I Was Your Man” are, “I should have bought you flowers and held your hand / Should have gave you all my hours when I had the chance / Take you to every party ’cause all you wanted to do was dance.”
The chorus to “Flowers” is, “I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand / Talk to myself for hours, say things you don’t understand / I can take myself dancing, and I can hold my own hand.”
There’s a rumor that Hemsworth once dedicated the Bruno Mars song to her, but that hasn’t been verified — and would be weird, considering it’s a breakup song.
The next Easter egg is also speculation, but would be sweet if true. In the latter portion of the video, Cyrus dances in a suit. Fans are already reporting this is the same suit that Hemsworth wore to the Avengers: Endgame premiere, where he supposedly asked Cyrus to “behave for once” after she pretended to lick him. TikTok sleuths have been examining the footage of this moment, with many suggesting Hemsworth actually said “you’re gonna pay for it”.
If nothing else, it’s a similar suit. While rumors are flying, the target of the song is abundantly clear.