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It’ll have ramifications for benefits recipients and retailers alike. Plus: Huge driverless trucks and a deportation deal.
Plus: Deportation fears, public utilities, airport lounges, and customs logistics.
Plus: Solar panels, influencer shopaganda, rent control, and tribute bands.
Mia Sato at The Verge talks about how influencers have changed the internet.
Home price growth is slowing. Plus: contactless payment, GED classes, and buy now, pay later.
The housing market is on the up and up. Plus: U.S. oil production, minimum wage increases, and AI travel influencers.
Fewer than 1% of job listings in 2025 advertised an end-of-year bonus, one study showed. Plus: Play-Doh and anime.
Tim Walsh, toy designer with The Playmakers and author of “Timeless Toys,” talks about the origins of Play-Doh.
“What walks down stairs alone or in pairs and makes a slinkety sound? Everyone knows it’s Slinky!”
Home heating costs are expected to jump more than 9% this winter. Plus: Slinkys, widgets, “football,” and AI training.
!["In the 1970s, [Betty James] purchased an idea for a plastic slinky," recounted Michelle Parnett-Dwyer, curator at The Strong Museum National of Play. "And then in the 1990s she gets a call from Pixar, and they said, 'We would love to bring your Slinky dog into our movie Toy Story.'"](https://img.apmcdn.org/8155ed6454ba363c62a65aee1e2a2d3166a7fd47/widescreen/5dacbb-20251218-slinky-toy-history-of-toys-webp2000.webp)
