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  • Customers at the CaliExpress restaurant in Pasadena will order and pay for their food from self-serve kiosks, and they can then watch as robots grind premium beef for their burger and cook up fries.
  • British officials unveiled plans Thursday morning to sell the majority of its centuries old postal service. It's the largest privatization of a government service the country has seen in decades. The public offering of the world's oldest postal service would take place in the coming weeks.
  • The federal government pays for free lunches for students from low-income families in public schools. But for families who don't qualify, paying for lunch can be a struggle.
  • I'm a real person and I love this candidate, I swear!
  • A statement from the company says that unit will become a separate publicly-traded company by the end of the year, and allow Time Warner to focus on its TV side. Time Warner had been in talks to combine its magazines with another company but those negotiations broke down.
  • Cerberus Capital owns Freedom Group, which had merged with the company that made one of the guns used in last week's shootings in Connecticut. Cerberus Capital said in a statement that it's looking to sell its stake in the gun manufacturer. The move follows pressure from the California State Teachers Retirement System among others.
  • Fruit Strike Gum is known for its rainbow packaging and wavy, zebra-patterned sticks. But much like its fast disappearing flavor, Fruit Stripe is going away.
  • Kathleen Murray's yard of sparse yellow grass, shriveled plants and bandicoot-dug divots is now the lawn of legends. The contest was created in Gotland, Sweden, to encourage the conservation of water.
  • A Londoner opted for a new way to thwart neighborhood cats from stealing her pet's food. She hung a magnet to Milo's collar that unlocked a fancy cat-door. It turns out Milo had been slipping into neighbors' homes. And the magnet started picking up their spare keys, eventually scattering more than 20 sets of keys around her owner's home.
  • Kiam Moriya was born in 2000 at 12 minutes past noon. So Wednesday afternoon, the young man can say: I turned 12 at 12:12 on 12-12-12. He told Yahoo News he's marking the occasion with donuts arranged in the shape of the number 12.
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