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Surveillance Pricing, Explained: When the Price Is Built Around You
The price on your screen may no longer be a fact about the product — it may be a fact about you. A plain-English guide to surveillance pricing, what the FTC and Consumer Reports found, and the New York law that forces some companies to disclose it.
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The Secret in Our Stars: The Golden-Ratio Math Hidden in the USA Times Logo
The four stars in our masthead aren’t decoration. Each is 1.618× the last and trimmed by a power of the golden ratio. A fun tour of the number, the pentagram, and why we hid φ in our name.
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The Star Files: Eighteen Months of Sketches, Specs and φ — the Complete Evolution of the USA Times Logo
From a pencil sketch in September 2024 to a theorem in the masthead: spec sheets, whiteboard pentagrams, 5 a.m. research, a star weighed in grams, and the exact golden-ratio cuts. The full archive, in order.
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At Prince Street Pizza, the Nolita Slice Shop, Uber Eats Charges the Shop’s Own Price on Nearly Every Pie — One Square the Exception — and the Kitchen Eats the Commission
USA Times priced 18 whole pies at Prince Street Pizza in Nolita against the same shop’s Uber Eats storefront and found the same price on 16 of them – a $26.84 Original Prince, a $47.84 Spicy Spring, a $53.85 Naughty Pie – with one square, the Houston Jalapeno, $6 (about 13%) more on Uber. The…
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At Lombardi’s, America’s First Pizzeria, the Uber Eats Menu Matches the Counter — So the Landmark Eats Uber’s Whole Cut
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In Bushwick, Ops Lists Its Sourdough Pizza on DoorDash at the Counter Price — Then You Pay the Fees
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Movie Theaters in the Dominican Republic: The Complete 2026 Guide
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Britain’s Biggest Screen Is Selling Out Back to Front: We Checked All 159 Shows — and Every Seat Map — for ‘The Odyssey’
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Every True IMAX 1.43:1 Theatre in the World
A verified list of all 63 screens worldwide that can show a film in IMAX’s full expanded 1.43:1…
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Why We’re Building a Cinema That Doesn’t Crop the Picture
Partner Voice: Batmandir on building a private screening room at Boca Chavón mastered to IMAX’s true 1.43:1 expanded…