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We Asked Mars Wrigley’s ‘Chief Halloween Officer’ About This Year’s Top Candy Trends—Here’s What He Had To Say

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Key Takeaways Candy is expected to account for about one-third of the $13 billion Americans are set to spend on Halloween this year. While chocolate remains the bedrock of Halloween, experts say tastes are shifting toward fruit flavors, sour candies, and the combination of sweet and spicy. Viral sensations like "Dubai chocolate" are proving to be more than just a flash in the pan, according to industry insiders. October is here, which means prime-time baseball—and Halloween, the “Super Bowl” of candy sales. Americans are expected to shell out more than $13 billion to celebrate Halloween this year, according to the…

“It’s time to go”: Nobel Prize winner opted for suicide in Switzerland

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Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. (archive picture) Picture: sda At the age of 90, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman chose to die a self-determined death in Switzerland. He spent his last days in Paris - conscious, fulfilled and quiet. No time? blue News summarizes for you The Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman chose assisted suicide in Switzerland on March 27, 2024.The Nobel Prize winner wanted to forestall a phase of mental and physical decline.His final step was well-considered - and yet difficult for many to understand. In March 2024, Daniel Kahneman celebrated his 90th birthday…

Unlikely alliance builds cleaner geothermal energy network in Massachusetts community

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Geoff Bennett: Now the story of an unlikely partnership between a utility company and climate activists and how they worked together to help one community switch its heating and cooling to a cleaner source.Science correspondent Miles O'Brien has the story, part of our Tipping Point coverage on energy and climate. Miles O’Brien: Retired schoolteacher Carol Canova has lived in this tiny little house in Framingham, Massachusetts for 30 years. From this humble perch, she has experienced firsthand a historic energy transition. She started with an oil-burning furnace, then switched to gas, and now heats and cools with an electric heat…

‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies | Film

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FallThe only movie I have literally had to take breaks from in order to give my sympathetic nervous system time to downshift out of flight or flight mode, Scott Mann’s 2022 psychological thriller Fall is brilliant in its simplicity. Thrill-seeking climbing influencer Hunter convinces her bestie Becky to do a little immersion therapy after her husband Dan’s sudden death during a climb leaves her fearful, depressed and suicidal. The goal: to climb a decommissioned TV transmission tower deep in the California desert that’s roughly twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. When the rickety ladder that gets them to a…

The fixer’s dilemma: Chris Lehane and OpenAI’s impossible mission

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Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during the Clinton years, Airbnb’s chief crisis manager through every regulatory nightmare from here to Brussels – Lehane knows how to spin. Now he’s two years into what might be his most impossible gig yet: as OpenAI’s VP of global policy, his job is to convince the world that OpenAI genuinely gives a damn about democratizing artificial intelligence while the company increasingly behaves like, well, every other tech giant that’s ever claimed to be different. I had 20 minutes with him…

URC: Scarlets’ poor start ‘not a crisis’ – head coach Dwayne Peel

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"It's a sobering one, we knew Stormers were going to be a good side, and we needed to be at our very best to be able to compete. We weren't that."That's what happens when you're up against the bigger teams, the best teams - if you're not at maximum, it's going to be a difficult night."Peel is concerned by an ever-growing injury list, with Tristan Davies and Max Douglas the latest casualties."The injury side of things is tough at the minute. We lost two locks again [against Stormers], the only two locks who were fit, so we'll just have to…

Family offices still bet on AI and health care even as deals slow down

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Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, takes the stage during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Deal-making may have rebounded on Wall Street, but investment firms of the ultra-wealthy are still moving cautiously. Family offices made 54 direct investments in September, down 46%…

AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline

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It feels like it was just yesterday that Sony hardware architect Mark Cerny was first teasing Sony's "PS4 successor" and its "enhanced ray-tracing capabilities" powered by new AMD chips. Now that we're nearly five full years into the PS5 era, it's time for Sony and AMD to start teasing the new chips that will power what Cerny calls "a future console in a few years' time." In a quick nine-minute video posted Thursday, Cerny sat down with Jack Huynh, the senior VP and general manager of AMD's Computing and Graphics Group, to talk about "Project Amethyst," a co-engineering effort between…

Trump showing ‘no interest’ in negotiating to end shutdown, Jeffries says

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Geoff Bennett: Well, keeping our focus on the shutdown, yesterday, we heard from Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune.And, today, for a Democratic view, I spoke earlier with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.Leader Jeffries, welcome back to the "News Hour." Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): Thanks for having me on. Geoff Bennett: When you were on this program nine days ago, you said there'd been no communication from either the White House or Republican leaders in the House or the Senate about ending this shutdown. It doesn't appear that that's changed. Has it? Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: It has not changed, unfortunately.This…

TV tonight: a French psychological thriller about a ‘perfect’ nanny | Television & radio

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The Intruder9pm, BBC FourA claustrophobic “don’t trust the perfect nanny!” psychological French thriller from the creators of Paris Police 1900. When wealthy mother of three Paula (Mélanie Doutey) returns to work, she and her husband hire Tess (Lucie Fagedet) to be a live-in au pair. But too-good-to-be-true Tess soon starts to unsettle Paula, who is left feeling – and looking – like she can’t handle being a working mother. Hollie RichardsonThe Celebrity Inner Circle5.20pm, BBC OneA gameshow in which celebrity-civilian pairings are put through convoluted rounds containing impossible-to-follow rules, while host Amanda Holden screams “You little shafters!” at them. This…