Arizona residents filed 1,028 National Do Not Call Registry complaints for every 100,000 people in fiscal 2025, the highest rate among the…
Set 23, 2026
Since Claude Fable 5's June 9 launch, users have documented usage-limit windows exhausted in minutes and metered bills reaching thousands of dollars…
Ago 11, 2026
USA Times editorial: Mayor Mamdani's new click-to-cancel rule, taking effect October 1, deserves more credit than it's gotten — for the policy…
Ago 10, 2026
New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection has adopted a rule requiring businesses to let customers cancel subscriptions as easily…
Jul 25, 2026
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says his administration concluded the city cannot enforce the ICC's arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, reversing a…
Jul 25, 2026
Final census: 21,904 NPR URL/headline records explicitly name the sitting U.S. president by surname across Obama’s second term, Trump’s first term, Biden’s…
Jul 17, 2026
Last checked: August 7, 2026 A news organization can correct an article in seconds. Correcting every copy of that article is a…
Set 22, 2026
Rates checked: August 6, 2026. Recheck vendor pricing before publication. Scope: API list-price illustration. Consumer subscriptions and enterprise contracts can be priced…
Set 21, 2026
A vehicle owner can file a safety complaint in minutes. What happens afterward may take months or years—and the public data does…
Set 20, 2026
In a draft enforcement policy statement approved 2-0 on Aug. 19, the FTC says undisclosed use of personal data to set individual…
Ago 26, 2026
"Many participants" said tightening would likely be necessary if inflation didn't decline, according to minutes of the July 28–29 FOMC meeting released…
Ago 25, 2026
The DOT's comment window closed Aug. 21 on a proposal to loosen — and possibly repeal — the 2011 Full Fare Rule…
Ago 24, 2026
The last six weeks of the year are the box office's crown jewels, and a very short list owns them. The most…
Out 17, 2026
Owning the box office two weeks running is a different order of achievement than one – and it scales with size. Geuses…
Out 16, 2026
The sleeper hit that climbs for weeks is a myth. Across 442 star movies in twenty years, 98% hit their biggest week…
Out 15, 2026
The received wisdom is diminishing returns. The domination data disagrees: the 2nd film peaks highest, and deep franchises stay strong – a…
Out 14, 2026
Superhero and sci-fi films reach total domination 4x more often than any other genre. Animation wins on volume, horror wins cheaply, and…
Out 13, 2026
2026 has already crowned 5 Phenomenons and handed the index its strangest anomaly in 20 years. The year so far, and what…
Out 12, 2026
Eighteen substances, side by side: legal status, how the effect scales with dose, how fast tolerance builds, and dependence potential drawn from…
Set 14, 2026
A step-by-step guide to building a permanent 36-inch wood-fired brick pizza oven, from the reinforced base and firebrick dome to insulation, chimney,…
Ago 9, 2026
The Odyssey is the first film shot entirely on IMAX 15/70 film, and demand for the 70mm presentation has stunned IMAX. Only…
Jul 25, 2026
The four stars in our masthead aren’t decoration. Each is 1.618× the last and trimmed by a power of the golden ratio.…
Jul 16, 2026
From a pencil sketch in September 2024 to a theorem in the masthead: spec sheets, whiteboard pentagrams, 5 a.m. research, a star…
Jul 16, 2026
Amazon put $5,001,377 behind the Five Borough Jobs Campaign — 97% of its disclosed 2026 funding — to fight a bill the…
Ago 23, 2026
America’s Secret Society: Inside the Hidden World of Competitive Softball To an outsider walking in cold, competitive amateur softball looks simple enough:…
Ago 7, 2026
New York’s trip-by-trip records show Uber and Lyft’s cut tripled since 2019 to ~23–24%. But the “50–80% take” claim? True on about…
Jul 25, 2026
Since Nov. 10, 2025, New York requires apps to state “this price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.” We…
Jul 25, 2026
A city report found the two apps buried the tip prompt — and tips cratered to $0.76 a delivery while rivals held…
Jul 25, 2026
The FTC opened a nationwide rulemaking on deceptive food- and grocery-delivery fees. USA Times spent months pricing the same food on the…
Jul 25, 2026
Update — September 10, 2026: The 70mm slate is growing. IMAX says at least four unannounced films will get a true 70mm…
Jul 17, 2026
Security warnings routinely use urgent language. The federal government’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog provides something more concrete: a date by which civilian…
Set 19, 2026
This series set out to answer a simple-sounding question — what does the gap between box office revenue and ticket admissions actually…
Set 12, 2026
Adventure and Action films alone have accounted for 48% of every dollar the U.S. box office has generated since 1995 — nearly…
Set 12, 2026
Six studios — Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox — have combined to take 77% of…
Set 11, 2026
IMAX alone took a record $1.28 billion in global box office in 2025, up 40% from the year before, and posted its…
Set 11, 2026
In 2005, studios put 137 movies into wide release in North America. By 2013, that number had fallen to 121 — and…
Set 10, 2026
USA Times reviewed screenshots from a July 2026 Claude conversation showing a safety flag resurfacing after the assistant explicitly said it was…
Jul 26, 2026
Testing Claude's Cowork environment against OpenAI's Codex on one specific, testable question — where does an API credential live between sessions –…
Jul 25, 2026
You will never fit a true-IMAX screen in an apartment. But a good projector gets you closer to the cinema than any…
Jul 17, 2026
A delivery pizza usually costs more than the counter price once the fees stack up. Here are the home ovens that close…
Jul 17, 2026
