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American Airlines is upgrading its onboard snack experience, adding a new lineup of in-flight options for passengers in the main cabin. The new sweet and savory treats debut on select routes starting this fall, giving customers more options on flights throughout the day. Beginning in early October, passengers on morning flights will wake up to the smell of Lavazza coffee to drink alongside new Tate’s Bake Shop chocolate chip cookies. Kids and savory snackers can choose from Goldfish crackers or Peterson’s savory and sweet snack mix throughout the day. Passengers are seeking more choice The changes come as American Airlines has been focusing on “elevating” the in-flight experience. The updates build on other recent premium dining perks, such as the company’s centennial-inspired menus and new California wines. Customers are also encouraged to offer feedback. To that end, snacks will rotate over time, according to customer feedback and preferences, so fliers can look forward to more choices in 2027. “Small details can make a meaningful difference in the travel experience, especially the familiar touches customers look forward to throughout their journey,” American’s chief customer officer, Heather Garboden, said in a news release. “This updated lineup brings together beloved favorites and new choices in a way that feels familiar, elevated, and enjoyable.” At the beginning of the year, American also added free in-flight Wi-Fi, which it continues to roll out across many of its routes. The enhancements could potentially boost passengers’ perception of American Airlines, which fell near the bottom of a major ranking from The Wall Street Journal that was released in January. The ranking was based in part on customer complaints.
⭐ Key points: Sony announced the BRAVIA 6 OLED, a mid‑range OLED TV series aimed at offering a more affordable price tag. The lineup comes in sizes from 48 to 83 inches and, for the first time, includes four full‑spec HDMI 2.1 ports. The devices feature a 120 Hz panel, a Pentonic 800 chip system, and the Google TV operating system with Gemini. The televisions will arrive in Israel during the month …
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⭐ Main points: Yelston’s spin‑off “Marshalim” opens on 1.9 on HOT Zone; the Israeli drama “HaShmu’a” starring Oshri Cohen rises on 3.9 on HOT3; all six seasons of “Downtown Avi” come to HOT VOD on 8.9; on the movie channels: “Marty Soferim”, “Christy”, “Die, My Love” and “Thief on the Roof” will be added in September 2026 on HOT; the Yelston spin‑off series “Marshalim”, and the Israeli drama …
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⭐ Key points: Microsoft announced the "disc-to-digital" feature that allows converting existing game discs into digital licenses. The feature provides access to supported games via PCs through the Xbox Play Anywhere service and in the cloud. The digital license is linked to the physical disc, and selling or lending it transfers it to the next user's account. Testing will begin among Xbox Insider users on August 31 and will expand later. Microsoft […]
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It’s the middle of the workday, and Ok Go‘s guitarist, Andy Ross, and I are trying to figure out which word best represents the nexus of the words “Mars” and “Netflix” (hint: We both picked a movie starring Matt Damon). This little brain puzzle is par for the course on Ok Go’s new word game, Say the Same Thing. The app digitizes a game that anyone who’s taken an intro to improv course will be familiar with: Two or more participants say a word at the same time, and then try to get on the same wavelength to identify the sum of those two words. The process continues until everyone says the same word. The game, now available on iOS and Android, is actually a relaunch that’s been a long time in the making. Ross built a first version of the app back in 2013 that got over a million downloads in a week. The app ultimately fizzled out as Ross and Ok Go focused on other projects, but its loyal fans never forgot it. To this day, he says, he still gets messages asking when the game will come back, including from one memorable pair who met on the app and eventually got married. In recent months, as The New York Times’s Wordle has become a daily habit for people worldwide to connect and compete with friends and family, Ross realized that it was time to revive Say the Same Thing. “The success of some of the New York Times-style word games reminded us, ‘Hey, we have this really great game that people like, and maybe we should bring it back,’” he says. How Andy Ross built Say the Same Thing . . . again The original Say the Same Thing app started on tour. “When you spend that much time with the same people, you sort of have to pass the time in increasingly more complicated ways,” he says. “This was just a game that we played on the bus.” In those pre- and early-2010s years, Ross recalls, Ok Go wasn’t selling as many tickets or doing as well as it is today. To earn a secondary income, Ross was using his computer science degree to run an app tech startup, Space Inch, on the side. While playing the word game with his bandmates, he realized that it could make a great app, which led him to coding the interface and server component almost entirely by himself. When the app launched, it was such a huge success that the server got “totally hosed.” “I would be freaking out about the server going down and then have to go on stage,” Ross says. This time around, Ross says, he and another developer from the original team paid special attention to making sure that the game’s servers can handle a surge of users. While the core premise of the new app is the same as its predecessor, it has a few new capabilities to tap into the growing culture of social word game playing. There’s now a daily challenge that lets every user try their hand at an AI-generated word pairing and find out how their answer compares to the masses, as well as a leaderboard to track top-performing users. A streak function allows users to keep tabs on how many consecutive days they’ve played the game. And, to open the game up to family and friend group chats, it now has a mode for more than two players—the first two in the game to say the same word win. Ross sees the game as a lighthearted way to share inside jokes, get to know someone new, and take a brain break. In the future, he says, Ok Go fans might even be able to challenge him and his bandmates on the app. “I can’t promise how much we’ll play, but anyone can give it a shot,” Ross says.
