Published on: 2025-06-05 04:01:27
How airline fees have turned baggage into billions 59 minutes ago Share Save Sam Gruet Business reporter Reporting from Toronto Share Save Getty Images Airlines in the US alone made $7.27bn from check-in luggage fees last year With Air Canada and Southwest the latest airlines to charge passengers for check-in luggage, the ballooning cost of such ancillary or "junk fees" is provoking anger among politicians and consumer groups. At the same time, sales of suitcases small enough for passengers t
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In 1999 Bill Gatespenned a moving tribute to the Wright brothers. He credited their winged invention as “the World Wide Web of that era,” one that shifted the world into a global perspective. So it’s only fitting that Microsoft later became the force behind Flight Simulator. And, like the Wrights’ original Flyer, the game’s legacy has extended beyond flight to embody the shift of perspective that flight allows. Flight Simulator promised to fit the whole world into your computer, and the game
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"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture the essence of human intelligence, they defy even our most basic intuitions about it. They have emerged not because they are thoughtful solutions to the problem of intelligence, but because they scaled effectively on ha
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Thinking about subscribing to SpaceX's satellite internet service provider, Starlink? Be warned: The company appears to have quietly jacked up a demand-based fee in certain states. Redditors first began noticing the change this week while trying to get Starlink service in the Pacific Northwest, PCMag reported, finding that the "demand fee" at checkout was $500. The outlet noted that this fee was previously set at $250 in April for areas where the service was nearing a preset customer limit. Th
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As we've mentioned previously, Nintendo did not see fit to provide press with early review hardware for the Switch 2. Today, though, with the June 5 launch of the Switch 2 having already arrived in regions like Japan and Australia, the ever-efficient UPS driver delivered final retail hardware straight from Nintendo of America to the Ars Orbiting HQ. Kyle Orland The hardware and software Nintendo sent us. The hardware and software Nintendo sent us. Kyle Orland Kyle Orland A quick setup guide, as
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A ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the hack on Kettering Health, a network of hospitals, clinics, and medical centers in Ohio. The healthcare system is still recovering two weeks after the ransomware attack forced it to shut down all its computer systems. Interlock, a relatively new ransomware group that has targeted healthcare organizations in the U.S. since September 2024, published a post on its official dark web site, claiming to have stolen more than 940 gigabytes of data from Ke
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You’ve heard of Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) before, where you see unstyled HTML appear, then the CSS loads and the browser suddenly updates to display the correct style. A similar problem exists when streaming responses generated by AI that I call “Flash of Incomplete Markdown” (FOIM). I’ve reproduced this within OpenAI’s playground by throttling my connection speed to dialup internet speeds: While this is greatly exaggerated due to the slow speed, you can see the incomplete markdown appe
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Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York. Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said. While large corporations are known to deve
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The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) announced a strategic three-year collaboration with Amazon Ads. The deal will combine the Esports World Cup’s (EWC) premier esports and gaming event, returning to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from July 7 to August 24, with Amazon’s full-funnel advertising and entertainment services to deliver unprecedented fan experiences and expand the tournament’s global reach. Building on the success of their 2024 collaboration at the inaugural Esports World Cup, which featu
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I recently did something sort of unusual: I went to a preview event for a game that’s been out for almost three years. I’ve played around 400 hours of Pokémon Scarlet, according to my Nintendo Switch, since it was released in late 2022. It’s safe to say I know the game pretty well. And yet, when I was invited to preview Pokémon Scarlet and Violet on the Nintendo Switch 2 ahead of the new console’s launch, I gladly took the opportunity to see three-year-old games I already own. I wanted to find
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Identify Bird Songs and Calls Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you heard. Sound ID works completely offline, so you can identify birds you hear no matter where you are. Available for birds in the US, Canada, Europe, with some common birds of Central and South America, and India. More species and regions coming soon. More About Sound ID Identify Birds in a Photo Snap
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WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - MAY 30: United States President Donald Trump departs at the White House to U.S. Steel's Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania in Washington D.C May 30, 2025. President Donald Trump's new dollar-pegged stablecoin is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand, new data shows. The USD1 token — launched by Trump's decentralized finance firm, World Liberty Financial — has so far failed to break out of a narrow speculative niche, accordin
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We've long known that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were on the list to receive a Switch 2 performance upgrade. Now, players have their first look at how these games play on the new console, via Nintendo Today, the Switch 2 news app. There's no way to embed the video in this article — Switch 2 footage is locked down on Nintendo Today — but the Wario64 Bluesky account shared a 33-second-long recording of the footage that you can view here. The showcase confirms that Scarlet and Violet will run at
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It's been 70 years since Disneyland opened its gates, and the original Disney park is now celebrating its anniversary. As Walt Disney himself predicted, Disneyland will "never be completed," as long as imagination remains in the world -- and it's continuing to grow with new rides, experiences and entertainment planned for 2025 and beyond. The same is true for the 53-year-old Walt Disney World in Florida, which has new lands being built right now (not to mention the brand new Disney theme park j
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We've long since known that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were on the list to receive a Switch 2 performance upgrade. Now, players have their first look at how these games play on the new console, via Nintendo Today, the Switch 2 news app. There's no way to embed the video in this article -- Switch 2 footage is locked down on Nintendo Today -- but the Wario64 BlueSky account shared a 33-second-long recording of the footage that you can view here. The showcase confirms that Scarlet and Violet will
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I have played a lot—believe me when I say an ungodly amount—of Mario Kart in my life. I’m certain it would tally up to thousands of hours in total, spanning every version of the kart racer since the original Super Mario Kart released on SNES up to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch. Despite having so much digital karting experience, I hardly consider myself an elite player who takes home first place every time, and yet I keep returning to get red-shelled over and over again for a simple reason: Mario
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When working on the first Mario Kart game for Switch 2, Nintendo decided against sticking to numbered sequels, opting instead to call what would have been the series’ ninth entry Mario Kart World. It signaled the team’s ambition to try a more modern approach to the popular franchise. Mario Kart World is the Switch 2’s most high-profile launch title, and it’s the series’ newest game in roughly a decade. That’s a lot of pressure even for a Nintendo flagship property, but Mario Kart World does not
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From the very beginning, the goal for Mario Kart World was ambitious. A follow-up to the Switch’s (and Wii U’s) best-selling game, one that steadily grew over the years, World’s original concept focused on two key changes: doubling the amount of racers, and creating a connected, open world for players to explore. It was so big that, early on in development for the original Switch, the team was having a hard time making it work on the hardware, and eventually it shifted to become the main launch
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Witcher 4 is still years away from release, but we now have a much better idea of what the open-world RPG will look like. CD Projekt Red showed off a gorgeous tech demo of The Witcher 4 during Epic Games’ State of Unreal keynote this morning at Unreal Fest 2025. What we saw wasn’t actual gameplay footage — the developer worked with Epic to make this playable build specifically for the conference — but it does show off some of the new Unreal Engine 5.6 features that will powe
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Last week, United Airlines and JetBlue Airways announced a strategic partnership named Blue Sky, aiming to enhance connectivity and combine customer benefits, but without merging operations. The agreement is still awaiting regulatory approval, but both airlines expect to start rolling out the partnership later this fall. If it's approved, passengers will be able to earn and spend frequent flyer miles between the two airlines. "This collaboration with United is a bold step forward for the indus
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Southwest Airlines has changed its rules around portable chargers and power banks. Moving forward if you want to charge your phone during a flight, your power bank will need to be visible when in use. This means you won't be able to charge your phone inside of your carry-on bag or the overhead bins. The new safety policy is intended to lower the risk of lithium-ion battery fires. This change comes in response to a series of incidents involving overheating lithium-ion batteries. According to the
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Pierre Longnus / Getty Images If you're catching a flight on Southwest Airlines soon, you need to know about an important new rule that affects how you charge your phone. In a statement to Business Insider last week, the airline said passengers are now required to keep any portable chargers fully in sight while in use. You're still able to bring these chargers and keep them in your bag (not in your checked bags, though). You just can't have your phone tucked in your carry-on or overhead bag wh
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After years of unsuccessful attempts to find the name of a long-forgotten app through Google, I tried pasting my query into Gemini: “Back in my teens I saw a software demo for a Mac/Windows app that tracked what you were doing and offered to complete repetitive tasks for you. Like renaming all files in a folder it would interrupt after a few and offer to do the rest. Maybe late 80s or early 90s.” Gemini instantly responded with the app by name and with references. (out of all the services I tr
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New research suggests that heightened solar activity shortens the lifespans of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, and may send them careening back to Earth at greater velocities. Perhaps unintuitively, this could increase the risk of satellite debris making landfall. This preprint study, which has yet to undergo peer review, adds to a wealth of evidence showing that solar storms wreak havoc on Elon Musk’s Starlinks. Over the last several years, the frequency and intensity of these storms have increa
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download news doc github extensions forum contact AtomVM Welcome to AtomVM, the Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices! AtomVM is a lightweight implementation of the the Bogdan Erlang Abstract Machine (aka, the BEAM), a virtual machine that can execute byte-code instructions compiled from Erlang or Elixir source code. AtomVM supports a limited but functional subset of the BEAM opcodes, and also includes a small subset of the Erlang/OTP standard libraries, all optimized to run on tiny micr
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They're dropping like flies. Angry Sun Now that more than 7,000 Starlink satellites are orbiting our planet, scientists have been given a golden opportunity to study the effects the Sun's activity can have on the aggregate lifespans of such minimalist, constellation-based spacecraft. As New Scientist reports, it's turning out that ferocious solar storms caused by the Sun pelting our atmosphere with energized particles can significantly reduce the crafts' lifetimes, by prematurely pushing them
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Virtual Threads Ate My Memory: A Web Crawler’s Tale of Speed vs. Memory Dario Balinzo Follow 5 min read · 2 days ago 2 days ago -- 1 Listen Share Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash I built a simple web crawler using good old platform threads. It was just a multithreaded crawler, nothing fancy. But then, curiosity struck: “What happens if I use Virtual Threads instead?” Virtual Threads are one of my favorite recent additions to the Java ecosystem. Switching from platform threads to Virtual
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With summer vacations on the horizon, Disney Experiences are popping off at their bi-coastal theme parks, Disney Cruises, and international destinations. Walt Disney World is getting a nighttime parade featuring new Pixar and Disney Animation Studios favorites, while Mickey Mouse and the Fab Five get dapper outfits to shine along with Starlight. Spooky fun is already beginning with the Disney Villains getting their own show at WDW’s Hollywood Studios and Halloween party tickets going on sale.
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TL;DR Google is inviting Pixel Superfans to apply to attend a June 27 pre-launch Pixel event. Last year’s Pixel 9 launch was in August, following years of October launches. With Android 16 expected for early June, a late June/early July Pixel 10 launch feels plausible. If you’re not already a big fan of Pixel smartphones, this is the year to start changing your tune. Google’s move to having TSMC produce the Tensor G5 chip that will power its Pixel 10 series has the potential to be the most im
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Asdf Overlay Blazingly fast™ & Easy to use Windows Overlay library Asdf Overlay provides an easy to use interface to draw on top of window framebuffer by hooking rendering backends GPU shared texture was used to avoid framebuffer copy via CPU. As a result, Asdf Overlay is capable of rendering overlay with any size without performance loss. Supported API OpenGL OpenGL DX9 DX9 DX10 DX10 DX11 DX11 DX12 DX12 Vulkan Features Supports multiple backends Blazingly fast™ GPU accelerated share
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