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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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Stores open at midnight as fans rush to buy Nintendo Switch 2 59 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Peter Gillibrand Newsbeat reporter Share Save Getty Images The Nintendo Switch 2 has been released worldwide, with stores opening at midnight so fans could get their hands on the long-awaited console the moment it became available. Some shops have the devices available to buy off the shelf - but in most cases customers have been picking up consoles they had ordered in advance
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Inspiration4 mission commander Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments, stands for a portrait in front of the recovered first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) on February 2, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. Days after his nomination for NASA was pulled by President Donald Trump, Jared Isaacman told investors in his payments company Shift4 that his "brief stint in politics was a thrilling experience." Isaacman said in the l
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Belkin is officially breaking into the gaming accessories space with the launch of a new product portfolio designed specifically for the Nintendo Switch 2. Belkin is launching the accessories on the launch day for Nintendo’s newest hybrid game console, and all of the products are officially licensed to work with the Switch 2. If I were Nintendo, I would be happy about Belkin’s entry into this market as it validates the opportunity. The products include a Nintendo Switch 2 Charging Case, which
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s thin Galaxy S25 Edge survives its drop test, though not without some damage. Even with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, the front screen is quick to crack, though remains operational. The rear Victus 2 glass puts up more of a fight, but even it’s quickly undone. Pretty much everything about a smartphone is a compromise. That may sound like a bit of a negative position to be coming from, but it really does make all the sense in the world when you stop t
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As Apple continues its years-long breakup with Qualcomm, the chipmaker’s CEO says he is already looking beyond the iPhone, as he tries to reassure investors that the company’s long-term plans don’t depend on Cupertino’s roadmap. Speaking on Yahoo Finance’s Opening Bid podcast, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon downplayed the consequence of its high-stakes relationship with Apple, saying the company is already planning as if the iPhone maker will fully move to its own in-house modem in the next few ye
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Conkdor, an ostrich-like enemy that made its debut in Super Mario 3D World, should not be able to drive. First, it is a bird. Second, it has no hands. But in Mario Kart World, Conkdor can race alongside Mario on bikes, cars, and magic carpets, just like everyone else. This newfound ability of dozens of new characters to compete in the game is a first for the series, and a change that required the developers to rethink how they approached playable characters. “I have to say that in previous Mar
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Tesla sales are continuing their decline worldwide. The carmaker is still grappling with the severe damage CEO Elon Musk has dealt to its brand following an incredibly unpopular embrace of far-right ideologies and a chaotic pay-for-play attempt to gut the federal government's budget. Sales figures, particularly in Europe and China, are looking grim. The carmaker sold 15 percent fewer cars in China last month than a year earlier, as Reuters reports. Across Europe, sales are still in freefall,
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WhatsApp is getting its own version of OpenAI’s Custom GPTs, Google Gemini’s Gems, and so on. These are custom-made chatbots that can be created without a single line of code and with whom the user can have conversations afterward. Here’s how it’s going to work. WhatsApp to join Meta’s AI Studio offerings According to WABetaInfo (via Tecnoblog), the feature is currently rolling out to a small number of WhatsApp beta testers on iOS and Android. It introduces a new section called “AI Studio,” w
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Swift is the only language that scales from embedded devices and kernels to apps and cloud infrastructure. It’s simple, and expressive, with incredible performance and safety. And it has unmatched interoperability with C and C++. It's the combination of approachability, speed, safety, and all of Swift’s strengths that make it so unique.
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Samsung has been the gold standard for solid-state drives for years, and with the February debut of the Samsung SSD 9100 PRO, the company has once more set a new benchmark for internal SSD performance. This model arrives as the direct update for the widely praised 990 PRO series and it comes with an uptick in speed and efficiency that few can match. What’s more astonishing, however, is how quickly this monster has seen its price cut: In a span of a few weeks, Amazon has undercut the price of th
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Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Notes app in One UI 8 has received some interface and functional improvements. The latest version of the app includes a new customizable toolbar, an updated Default note style menu, and new search filters. Samsung has also added the Math Solver feature on devices with an S Pen. The One UI 8 beta update for the Galaxy S25 series brings several improvements and new features for Samsung’s Weather, Calendar, and Reminder apps. However, these aren’
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In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat, an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading “An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.” Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer, the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism, far from improving the world, was actually responsible for most of its ills. That his bien-pensant readers thought otherwise, Moldbug contended, was
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Apple's iPhone is expected to see a slump in sales growth this year. Apple President Donald Trump's tariffs are causing a lot of concern and uncertainty about rising prices and new data suggests that global smartphone sales will suffer for it this year. On Wednesday, market research firm Counterpoint released a report slashing its previous estimates for global smartphone shipments in 2025, from a 4.2% year-on-year increase down to 1.9%. While tariffs are not the only factor cited in the report
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) teamed up with DOGE to fire 10,000 employees while relying on "hopelessly error-ridden" personnel records, a class-action complaint filed yesterday alleged. The lawsuit said the HHS terminated thousands of workers on April 1, shortly after sharing the flawed personnel records with the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB). "These agencies knew that the re
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is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. The US Department of Commerce has renamed its AI Safety Institute to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), shifting its focus from overall safety to combating national security risks and preventing “burdensome and unnecessary regulation” abroad. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced the change on June 3rd, cal
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET If you have a Samsung account you haven't used in a while, consider checking on it to see if there's anything you need. Otherwise, it might get deleted. Until now, inactive Samsung accounts have been left untouched. If you switched phones to another brand, you had a little assurance that your old information would still be there if you ever needed it or decided to go back to Samsung someday. Also: Grab the Samsung Galaxy S25 for up to $560 off - here's how That's changing soo
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Series: On the Hook: Investigating Towing Practices in Connecticut More in this series Caret This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. The Connecticut Senate on Friday overwhelmingly passed the most significant reform to the state’s towing policies in decades, a measure lawmakers said would help protect drivers from predatory towing. House Bill 7162 overhaul
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A recently launched Russian satellite is getting uncomfortably cozy with a U.S. reconnaissance satellite, leading Space Command to worry that it’s part of an anti-satellite weapon being deployed to orbit. Cosmos 2588 launched on May 23 to a near-circular orbit, placing it eerily close to a U.S. reconnaissance satellite, USA 338. The move prompted suspicion that it’s an attempt by Russia to deliberately stalk the U.S. government satellite. This isn’t the first time Russia has deployed a sneaky s
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“My wife taught me something,” Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the crowd at London SXSW. He was addressing the headlines about the company looking to hire human workers after previously saying Klarna used artificial intelligence to do work that would equate to 700 workers. “Two things can be true at the same time,” he said. Siemiatkowski said it’s true that the company looked to stop hiring human workers a few years ago and rolled out AI agents that have helped reduce the cost of custom
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Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET Pixel phones get a lot of credit for their excellent cameras and battery-saving tools, but Google's hardware is also strong in the safety department. With a healthy dose of Google's AI on board, Pixel devices offer some powerful personal safety features as well as integrations that will watch your back even when you let your guard down. Many of them require nothing more than a quick trip into the settings menu. Also: 7 Google Pixel phone settings you should change im
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Generative AI developers should take steps to ensure the use of their tools doesn't harm young people who use them, the American Psychological Association warned in a health advisory Tuesday. The report, compiled by an advisory panel of psychology experts, called for tech companies to ensure there are boundaries with simulated relationships, to create age-appropriate privacy settings and to encourage healthy uses of AI, among other recommendations. The APA has issued similar advisories about t
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Allison Murray/ZDNET The Samsung Freestyle 2 is currently $305 off when you buy it at Walmart, making it cost just under $500. ZDNET's key takeaways The Samsung Freestyle 2 is a solid projector available for $800. Sharp image quality, an internal battery, and the ability to play games without a console make this projector ultraportable. The second-generation feature upgrades are geared toward gaming, which may not be relevant for all users. There's a saying that goes something like, "Don
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk's big government adventure appears to be at an end. As promised in April, Musk has returned his attention to his car company, which is facing serious headwinds. In the first quarter of the year, Tesla sold tens of thousands fewer electric vehicles than it did the year before, despite a rise in worldwide EV sales. Data from April looked even worse, with substantial sales declines in Europe and China. May's numbers don't look much better. Although Tesla only publishes its glob
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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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Meta and search engine company Yandex have been "covertly tracking" Android users in the background of their devices, according to experts. Academics at the Radboud University in the Netherlands and IMDEA Networks said they discovered Meta and Yandex have been tracking Android users' browser activity without their consent and then using the data in their apps. Meta said it was looking into the issue, while Yandex denied collecting any sensitive data. Gunes Acar, assistant professor at Radboud
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On an average day, you might unlock or look at your phone dozens of times, which makes the lock screen a hot property for advertising. Ad tech company Glance has been taking advantage of that for years with its ad-laden lock screen experiences, but it's going further in the age of AI. Samsung and Glance have teamed up to deliver a new "AI shopping" experience that uses a selfie to create custom fashion ads. This feature is rolling out to numerous Samsung phones in the next month. Glance has bee
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk's big government adventure appears to be at an end. As promised in April, Musk has returned his attention to his car company, which is facing serious headwinds. In the first quarter of the year, Tesla sold tens of thousands fewer electric vehicles than it did the year before, despite a rise in worldwide EV sales. Data from April looked even worse, with substantial sales declines in Europe and China. May's numbers don't look much better. Although Tesla only publishes its glob
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LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky speaks at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York on Sept. 20, 2021. in New York City. Microsoft is giving LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky a bigger job, expanding his role to include oversight of Office productivity software, CNBC has learned. Roslansky, who took over LinkedIn five years ago, is becoming executive vice president of Office, reporting to Rajesh Jha, Microsoft's executive vice president for experiences and devices, according to a person familiar with the m
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Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority From left to right: Galaxy Z Fold 4, Z Fold 5, Z Fold 6. TL;DR Samsung released a cryptic teaser for an “Ultra” foldable, which fuelled speculation that a Galaxy Z Fold 7 Ultra is coming. However, a reputed leaker says that no “Ultra” version will be coming this summer, and Samsung is merely using “Ultra” to refer to upgrades to the camera, performance, and thinness. A separate report from South Korea suggests Samsung’s next Unpacked event may happen in NYC ea
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