Taking lunch breaks during the week is tough sometimes, particularly because of how time-consuming it can be to stand in line. But with the Ritual app, you can skip the line by ordering ahead for takeout. The app was first released as a beta program in New York City, but the final version is now also available in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Ritual sets out to eliminate the pain points that come with lunchtime at the office. By ordering ahead of time, you can pick up your food at the location without having to wait in line or pay extra fees.
Collectively, Ritual has more than 1,600 restaurants in the U.S. and Toronto available to order from. When you first open the app, it will tell you exactly how many restaurants are within a five- minute walk depending on your current location. You can also scroll through the feed to see restaurants around you that are a bit further.
To order food — simply pick the restaurant and the dish you want, then add it to your order and “Check Out” at the bottom of the app. Since you can save your personal card or company card, you can pay straight through the app. You also receive a notification letting you know when to leave for pick-up.
Ritual offers a rewards system as well, which can be used to unlock special offers or redeem money to be used on future orders. You can earn points by completing tasks as a small as setting a profile picture on the app, trying a new spot for the first time, inviting friends to Ritual, and more.
Ritual also uses lunch as a way to bring co-workers together, by encouraging you to use the app socially. Its latest “Piggyback” feature allows you and your office to collaborate on orders.
Upon downloading Ritual, you have the option to confirm the company you work at so that you can receive notifications when they’re starting to place their orders. You also get points every time you bring back the orders for your co-workers — the more orders you pick up, the more points you earn.
Ritual is currently available for download on iOS and through the Google Play Store.
Merely days after the iPhone Duo hit the shelves, images of broken screens on the phone started popping up across social media. Until now, it’s been unclear what’s causing the line of defective pixels that appears vertically along the crease, as well as horizontally, on the phone’s inner display.
Apple has finally acknowledged the issue, which has shown up on iPhone Duo units owned by customers as well as demo units in stores. In a statement shared with Bloomberg, Apple says that not all iPhone Duo units are affected and that those that are tend to show the display fault early on. The company added that users who experience problems with their iPhone Duo display should contact AppleCare for a replacement.
Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.
I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.
Apple's first foldable phone is now on shelves, in short supply, but with an unreal amount of buzz around it. After all, it's the first foldable iPhone, and there's plenty that this phone gets right. But there's also a lot that is either broken or underwhelming. What's peculiar is the dialogue around this phone, and how it has completely overshadowed every other attempt at making a phone with a similar form factor.
I've spent some time with the iPhone Duo, and I've used the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for almost three months now. In my opinion, Samsung deserves more credit. When the Galaxy Z Fold 8 arrived earlier this year, it was celebrated in some circles and ridiculed in others for supposedly copying what Apple would eventually deliver with the iPhone Duo. The dialogue was pretty odd, for multiple reasons. Samsung has been making foldable phones for years, so claiming that it copied a product Apple hadn't even launched was simply absurd.