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This seems to be a trial balloon. No active talks are underway. But it makes intuitive sense given Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's past and current ties with Expedia. -Rafat Ali
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Biltmore's holiday display includes 36 interior Christmas trees and 75 others around the 8,000-acre estate. Read more âș
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YouTube TV cancellations spiked to the highest level in a year during the Disney blackout. Its rivals also saw surges, however. Read more âș
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more âș
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Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety -- a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the school's high-profile location in Los Angeles. Similar systems are spreading to campuses nationwide as schools try to stop... Read more âș
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more âș
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An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time. Read more âș
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Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said the US needs to shift away from "power-hungry" chips, but Nvidia has a "death grip" on the sector. Read more âș
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Paramount and Netflix's bidding war for WBD heats up as Paramount revises its offer with a $40.4 billion guarantee from Larry Ellison. Read more âș
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Nick Woolsey spent his 20s living in Japan. He figured it would be easier to raise his children back in the States, but now he's returning to Japan. Read more âș
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Paramount Skydance isn't giving up on obtaining Warner Bros. Discovery just yet. The company has amended its $108 billion offer to include Larry Ellison's "irrevocable personal guarantee" equaling $40.4 billion. Ellison is the founder or Oracle and a backer of Skydance, created by his son David Ellison, Paramount Skydance's CEO. On December 17, WBD formally recommended shareholders reject Paramount's offer. WBD had already accepted an $82.7 billion offer from Netflix,... Read more âș
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Instacart has announced it will be ending price testing on its platform. This comes after a study published earlier this month revealed pricing experiments that led to some customers seeing higher prices than others and the FTC saying last week it would be investigating the grocery delivery app. "Effective immediately, Instacart is ending all item price tests on our platform. Retailers will no longer be able to use Eversight technology... Read more âș
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Taiwan has big plans for making more drones, but there are industry and economic hurdles to overcome, including getting more big businesses involved. Read more âș
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Yoshua Bengio, known as one of the "AI godfathers," said that while more jobs will be automated by AI, human qualities like love will always be valuable. Read more âș
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While we wait for the Reno15 and Reno15 Pro (and/or Reno15 Pro Max and/or Reno15 Pro Mini) to make the journey to Europe, a bunch of retailers on the continent have now listed the Reno15 FS 5G, and it seems to be ready to order even though it's not yet in stock. It's priced at âŹ459.90 and here's what you get for that amount of money. The phone has a... Read more âș
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Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. Korea's ET News reports that Samsung's upcoming "Wide Fold" is also set to launch in 2026, and will closely mirror the display size and 4:3 aspect ratio of Apple's first foldable. The machine-translated report says the Wide [âŠ] Read more âș
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These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We polled the staff of The Verge to find out what books [âŠ] Read more âș
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2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, âa long, disappointing year.â War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing [âŠ] Read more âș
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It might be hard to believe, but foldable phones have already been around for the better part of a decade. Granted, the first one I saw back in 2019 â which actually predates Samsung's Galaxy Fold â was a cobbled-together mess. But since then, phone makers have been steadily iterating and tweaking their designs, and this year, manufacturers have finally addressed all the major issues about foldable phones except one:... Read more âș
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You guys voted, and now we've got the winners for your favorite tech in 18 product categories. Read more âș
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You know that unsettling feeling when someone seems perfect on paper but something in your gut whispers "run"âthere's a reason for that, and it might just save you from years of manipulation disguised as friendship. Read more âș
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As China makes more advances on flying taxis, the Trump administration is hoping it can speed up the U.S. effort. The biggest startups hope for a 2026 debut. Read more âș
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Travel brands understand what personalization should deliver. Whatâs missing is integrated customer data that allows them to execute consistently across journeys and moments. Read more âș
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The policy is another sign that the economy is skewing toward the wealthy and away from the Middle Class. Read more âș
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Business travel platform Navan reported 29% revenue growth in its first earnings call as a public company, but the surprise departure of its CFO just months after going public has analysts seeking answers. Read more âș
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Airlines are under pressure to decarbonize, but now theyâre pointing fingers at AI for stealing the clean energy they need. The question is whether policymakers will listen. Read more âș
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The airline CEO carousel is spinning fast. Many boards are executing orderly transitions, but others are reacting to unexpected developments. Read more âș
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Everyone wants the luxury traveler, but no two hotel groups define âluxuryâ the same way. From yachts to boutique collections to loyalty tie-ins, hotel giants are rewriting the rules to win the richest guests in a race that keeps getting bigger. Read more âș
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This pre-Christmas announcement ensures regulators wonât be easing into the holidays. It's a seasonal surprise thatâs likely to turn silent nights into sleepless ones for some. Read more âș
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Hotel groups must ensure that short-term performance marketing doesnât quietly erode brand loyalty, which may be key to unlocking bookings driven by agentic AI. Read more âș
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Expedia and Booking are trying to be both the storefront and the supply chain. AI is squeezing the middle, and âdoing bothâ starts to look less like diversification and more like diluted power. Read more âș
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