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A Southern California couple was convicted by a jury on Friday for operating a business that assisted pregnant Chinese women in traveling to the United States without disclosing their intent to give birth and secure American citizenship for their babies.

Austrian Airlines (AUA) faced a turning point in September 2009 when the Austrian government sold its national carrier to Lufthansa, driven by the financial pressures of the 2008 global financial crisis. Years of losses had taken their toll on AUA, making the sale a strategic move to stabilize the airline.

A burgeoning middle class in India is driving a significant surge in outbound tourism, reshaping the travel landscape across Asia. Destinations from Hong Kong to Central Asia are witnessing a spike in interest from Indian travellers, fuelled by improved connectivity and affordable travel packages.

TUI Group is accelerating its global expansion by making a bold move into the Latin American (LATAM) market. This strategic initiative leverages TUI’s advanced technology and taps into the expertise of its Spain & Portugal team, positioning the company for substantial growth across the region.

Mexico once attracted vacationers to a string of Pacific coastal destinations, each with its own unique personality and vibe. Known collectively as the Mexican Riviera, five iconic spots claimed the lion’s share of international tourism: Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, and Acapulco. Daily nonstop flights from the Western U.S. and Canada brought waves of beach-hungry, beer-loving tourists seeking the perfect Mexican beach vacation—complete with golden sands, clear waters, beach vendors, parasailing, and fresh seafood, with perhaps a dash of local culture thrown in.

Every year, millions of Kiwi travellers put their brainpower to the test at 30,000 feet with Air New Zealand‘s famous in-flight quiz.

The concept of a visa, formal endorsements on travel documents, has evolved significantly over centuries, shaping the way we travel today.

The Australian Government has issued an urgent travel advisory urging all Australians in Lebanon to depart the country immediately.

The 2024, the Boutique Hotel Owners Conference by the Boutique & Lifestyle Leaders Association (BLLA) will adopt the theme The Mycelium Network. This theme draws its inspiration from the complex and cooperative structures of mycelial networks found in nature, emphasizing the indispensable role of interconnectedness and collaboration within the hospitality industry.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke about their continued stay aboard the International Space Station during a press conference held yesterday. The two are now fully incorporated into the ISS crew, as the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that was meant to take them home last week was instead sent back to Earth uncrewed.Early on, the two were asked if they felt “let down” by Boeing. “Absolutely not,” said Wilmore:“This operation is not easy. NASA does a great job the people at Nasa do a great job of making a lot of things look easy. Sending probes beyond the edge of our solar system; going in [and] getting samples from asteroids; humans in space. It’s a very risky business and things do not always turn out the way you

Francis Ford Coppola wanted voice recognition software to let audience members ask Adam Driver’s Cesar character a question during theatrical showings of Megalopolis, according to a Telegraph interview with the director. Then, the software would trigger the theater’s projector to play a clip of “the most relevant response” from Driver.Apparently, it was actually in the works. Amazon had agreed to make a “custom version of its Alexa voice-recognition software” to do this, but the team working on it was laid off during a huge round of layoffs in 2022, writes The Telegraph. Alas.“Imagine!” Coppola beams. “You could see Megalopolis five times in its opening week and it would be different each time! It would have been the future of the

Shogun Showdown sometimes breaks my brain. The new deckbuilding roguelike is all about tactics, and a key part of the game is that you can always see what the enemies plan to do next. Every once in a while, that gets me in a quandary where I know I’ll lose. But when things click into place and I clear everyone out in one fell swoop, I feel like a strategic genius. In the game, which just left early access, you’re constantly trying to position your character across a small level to either attack your foes or dodge their moves. As you play, you can upgrade your “tiles” (think: cards) to improve their damage, add perks like freezing ice, or lower their cooldown so that you can use them more frequently. You’re also able to stack up to

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 52, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I swear I don’t always just share absurdly expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Chappell Roan and college football and the problem with pennies, watching Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist and Jennifer Garner’s delightful AD home tour, taking copious notes on Ben Thompson’s newslettering process, making surprisingly great bread with a random recipe from Reddit, and trying out Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold.I also have for you some expensive but excellent new gadgets, a couple of great new tech podcasts, the best pause music

For so many years, the Evernote elephant was a truly iconic logo. Evernote was one of the first productivity apps to embrace smartphones, to enable cross-platform sync, and to make it really easy to store and create almost anything. And so Evernote was huge.But Peak Evernote was roughly a decade ago. Since then, the product has often felt stagnant (or worse), the company churned through executives and business plans, and it seemed like Evernote was slowly turning into a zombie app. Not gone, not even forgotten, just sort of there.In 2022, when Bending Spoons acquired the company and soon after laid off nearly all its staff, millions of Evernote users were confused about what the future held for the tool they had relied on for so

R.T. Thorne’s postapocalyptic thriller frames farming and community as the keys to humanity’s survival after society collapses.

Last week, The Flappy Bird Foundation announced a game called Flappy Bird. But while the group has been framing it as the triumphant return of a classic mobile game, Flappy Bird’s original developer, Dong Nguyen isn’t calling it a comeback in fact, he says he’s not involved at all.Nguyen posted as much on X (for the first time since 2017!) this morning, saying he didn’t “sell anything.” The Flappy Bird Foundation wrote in the announcement it shared with press last week that it had “acquired the rights from Gametech Holdings, LLC,” which had secured the trademark from Nguyen, but it doesn’t appear as though that was the result of any dealings between him and the group.No, I have no related with their game. I did not sell anything.
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Apple has hiked the price of its battery repair service for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Now, it will cost $119 to get your battery replaced in either phone a $20 jump over its older fee. The price remains the same for the standard and “Plus” models, as do those for last year’s phones, as MacRumors notes.The company doesn’t seem to have started charging more for other battery replacements yet, but it wouldn’t be unexpected. In 2022, Apple drove the cost of iPhone 14 battery service up by $30 to $99. Increases for iPad, MacBook, and older iPhone battery repairs came after that, and Apple Watches followed suit later. (One longs for the salad days of battery drama-induced $29 battery replacements!)Defective batteries are covered

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