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Expedia aims to expand its Vrbo business in 2023. The move to bring creative production in-house and shift the narrative could help, but deeper strategic shifts would be required to compete with Airbnb. -Dennis Schaal
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Long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely started his career at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Last month 73-year-old Cringely explained why his site went on a two-year hiatus â and it's not just because of a heart attack and a stroke last July: Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company called 2Brains... The work we were... Read more âș
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Around 1750 BCE in Ur, a customer named Nanni complained in clay about the bad copper sold to him by the merchant Ea-nasir. It is the oldest known written customer complaint, and several others were found in Ea-nasir's house. The behaviour behind a one-star review, nearly four millennia early. Read more âș
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Finding an affordable music streaming service is getting harder, but one old-school platform keeps costs down with a different approach to listening. Read more âș
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A new study found Claude Opus 4.6 outperformed professional fundraisers and elite debaters in persuasion tasks, raising fresh concerns about AI influence. Read more âș
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Samsung recently released the third One UI 9 beta for the Galaxy S26 series smartphones, which are currently the only smartphones eligible for the One UI 9 beta program. However, the Korean brand is already working on One UI 9 for the Galaxy S25 series, Galaxy A16 5G, Galaxy A17 5G, Galaxy A34, Galaxy A57, and the unannounced Galaxy S26 FE, and it has now begun testing One UI 9... Read more âș
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Researchers warn AI capabilities are advancing faster than human understanding, creating growing concerns about oversight, transparency, and control. Read more âș
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The paper leaks, the cancellation and the rescheduling of the NEET-UG examination has thrown the lives of over 2.2 Mn⊠Read more âș
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A quick note before this goes any further. Iâm a writer, not a therapist or psychologist, and what follows is a personal reflection rather than advice. A chatbot is not a replacement for a friend or a mental health professional. I use it for entertainment and curiosity rather than as something to rely on for ... Read more Read more âș
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We return to the wondrous world of Star Fox Zero on the Wii U ahead of the launch of the next Star Fox 64 remake. Read more âș
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While raising two young children and expecting a third, I'm also helping care for my father as Alzheimer's slowly takes him away. Read more âș
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macOS 27 ends the Hackintosh era, but Apple's affordable Apple Silicon Macs may have made the DIY movement irrelevant long before Intel support disappeared. Read more âș
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Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, but still represent a significant amount of training data at over [âŠ] Read more âș
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There's more than a few different types of cordless hedge trimmers on the market today, but Consumer Reports says only two are at the top the list. Read more âș
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I risked it all on a career change that I wasn't sure would work in the travel industry. I'm glad I took a chance on myself. Read more âș
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IHG CEO Elie Maalouf is telling franchisees that eight years of tech investment has begun to expand their margins. It's an open question whether this early tech advantage will woo more hotel owners, boosting the growth rate of IHG's system. Read more âș
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The sale gives Tripadvisor the cash to chase the $1 trillion experiences market through Viator. Read more âș
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A localized Ebola outbreak is leading to a continent-wide demand slump. The mechanism is well understood and almost nothing has been done about it. Read more âș
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Western Europe makes up more than 35% of the high-spending overseas tourist crowd. Federal data shows theyâre continuing to pull back on U.S. travel. Read more âș
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Hotels have chased non-room revenue for years without consolidating the fragmented tech underneath. This acquisition puts one shopping cart and one shared data foundation ahead of any new feature. Read more âș
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The centenary deadline may have slipped, but Ćeker's broader point is that Turkish Airlines is now big enough that the number of aircraft it operates matters less than what it does with them. Read more âș
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Amadeus will publicly introduce two hotel AI tools at HITEC, but its bigger play is infrastructure. As AI agents move closer to travel booking, the GDS wants to help define how hotels are found, priced, changed, and paid for. Read more âș
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Even as Marriott builds a walled garden, it is buying real estate in everyone else's. That hedging action is understandable given that no travel company is yet sure where travelers will actually start their searches. Read more âș
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Premium is evolving beyond a product category to become an entire ecosystem. Instead of chasing each otherâs offers and upgrades, travel brands should leverage the premium economy through the lens of customers they already interact with. Read more âș
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