COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 24 (ZFJ) — Cornerstone Grill & Loft will have its liquor license suspended for 90 days, starting from this Friday, Oct. 30.
The Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners (BOLC), which regulates the sale of alcohol in the county, confirmed the suspension as well as a $7,500 fine to the ZFJ over a phone call on Friday, Oct. 23.
The suspension means Cornerstone would not be able to legally sell alcohol for the rest of the fall semester and thus would lose out on holiday revenue, beginning with Halloween.
EDISON, N.J., April 16 (ZFJ) — Round1 Bowling & Arcade opened in Menlo Park Mall on Feb. 7, 2026.
Round1 is a Japan-based amusement center chain with locations across America. The one in Edison is located in the former Rainforest Cafe at 55 Parsonage Road Space 1850A.
Entertainment facilities include a huge arcade, bowling alley, billiards, and karaoke. The bowling alley is located on the left and near the party rooms.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 2 (ZFJ) — Raising Cane’s opened a location in College Park on Dec. 9, 2025.
Cane’s is a fast food chain that was founded in Louisiana and specializes in chicken fingers. Its combo boxes also include fries, signature Cane’s sauce, Texas toast, and coleslaw.
Raising Cane’s in College Park midnight on opening day, Dec. 9, 2025. ZFJ/Alvin Wu
The store address is 7400 Baltimore Avenue. It is located on the corner of Baltimore Avenue and Knox Road, placing it across from city hall and adjacent to Terrapin’s Turf and the College Park Shopping Center.
Dec. 27 (ZFJ) — GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke resigned on Aug. 11, with the platform’s leadership now more integrated into Microsoft’s CoreAI team.
In an internal memo sent to employees of the code repository service, Dohmke announced his decision to leave GitHub to become a startup founder again. He said that “GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon” and added that he’ll be staying through the end of 2025 to help with transitioning.
Jan. 20 (ZFJ) — Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are investing in nuclear energy as the race to develop artificial intelligence technologies heats up.
AI technologies, which are currently rapidly gaining traction, demand significant computational power to train and operate. Data centers house the hardware for them and are consuming increasingly more energy.
According to a December 2024 report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy research facility, total American data center electricity usage increased from 58 TWh in 2014 to 176 TWh in 2023.
Aug. 8 (ZFJ) — The Federal Reserve maintained the target federal funds rate at 5.25-5.50% at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)’s July 31 meeting.
This rate was set on July 26, 2023, and has been held steady since then. The Fed has been aggressively increasing the interest rate since raising it from 0.00-0.25% to 0.25-0.50% in March 2022 in order to fight stubborn inflation.
“The labor market has come into better balance and the unemployment rate remains low,” said Fed Chair Jerome Powell in his opening remarks at a press conference.
April 14 (ZFJ) — YouTube is requiring creators to disclose when realistic-appearing content—anything that can easily be mistaken for a real person, place, scene, or event—has been generated or altered using artificial intelligence, announced the video platform on March 18.
Examples provided by YouTube of content requiring disclosure include digitally replacing a person’s face, synthetically generating a person’s face, making it appear as if a real building caught fire, altering a real cityscape to appear differently, and realistically showing a fictional tornado moving toward a real town.
Feb. 6 (ZFJ) — Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music corporation, has pulled all of its music from TikTok following the expiration of its previous licensing agreement on Jan. 31 after renewal talks collapsed.
That means that any TikToks containing music from Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Drake, Harry Styles, and many, many more artists have had their audio muted. Until a new licensing agreement is finalized, TikTok users won’t be able to add any music from Universal’s catalog to their videos.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (ZFJ) — The New York Times filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit on Dec. 27 against Microsoft and OpenAI for using its news articles unauthorized to train generative artificial intelligence models.
The Times says it initiated negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI in April 2023, but no licensing agreement, like in the case of The Associated Press, was reached, leading to the lawsuit.
“Defendants insist that their conduct is protected as ‘fair use’ because their unlicensed use of copyrighted content to train GenAI models serves a new ‘transformative’ purpose,” wrote The Times in its civil complaint.
Dec. 17 (ZFJ) — The Fed maintained the target federal funds rate at 5.25-5.50% for the third time in a row on Wednesday, Dec. 13, noting that inflation has eased but is still elevated.
“Inflation has eased from its highs, and this has come without a significant increase in unemployment,” said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. “This is very good news. But inflation is still too high, ongoing progress in bringing it down is not assured, and the path forward is uncertain.
