Sunday, July 09, 2023

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American Airlines May Now Give Away Your Seat When You Run To Make A Connection



300+View from the Wing / 16h
Last month American Airlines fully rolled out a new tool called AURA, the “AUtomated ReAccommodation” tool to rebook passengers when their flights are cancelled or delayed. But this tool does so predictively . And it's causing seats to be given away from passengers that make their flight. Continue reading ...


Virgin Australia Adds Boeing 737 MAX To Fleet, Reveals New Interiors
3KOne Mile at a Time / 18h
Virgin Australia has just taken delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX. The airline is now showing off the interiors of these jets, and has revealed that existing aircraft will be reconfigured as well. Let’s go over all the details. Details of Virgin Australia’s Boeing 737 MAX order Virgin Australia currently has 33 Boeing 737 MAXs on order, comprised of: Eight Boeing 737 MAX 8s, which the airline


How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
400+Ars Technica - All content / 20h
Enlarge (credit: AHMET YARALI/Getty ) Meta's long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it's called Threads . The new social media app launches at a time when alternatives, like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill, are vying for users who are dissatisfied with Elon Musk's handling of Twitter's user experience, with its newly introduced rate limits and an uptick in hate speech . Meta owns Facebook, In



How to Optimize AWS Lambda Functions with Provisioned Concurrency & Auto Scaling
How-To Geek / 2h
AWS Lambda functions are a serverless solution for running code in the cloud without setting up your own servers. The primary downside is that initialization times can be high, leading to increased latency. With Provisioned Concurrency, you can solve this issue. Read This Article on How-To Geek ›


Save 80% on a lifetime subscription to Headway Premium
Mashable / 4h
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Headway Premium is on sale for £47.31, saving you 80% on list price. Self-improvement is a powerful goal, but it’s also time-consuming. The inspiring best-selling books may be out there, but the time to sit down, read, and learn from them probably isn’t. Headway does some of the work for you, giving you a library of nonfiction best sellers condensed into 15-minut


Quordle today - hints and answers for Sunday, July 9 (game #531)
TechRadar - All the latest technology ne... / 4h
It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's good fun, but also difficult. What's more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also


10 of the best JavaScript courses you can take online for free
Mashable / 4h
TL;DR: A wide range of free JavaScript courses are available for free on Udemy. Learn about everything from back-end development to website building. Learning to code can sometimes feel like an impossible task, but it's all about taking it slowly. Don't jump in with advanced techniques, or you're going to feel overwhelmed. Instead, start with a beginner-friendly course on Udemy. A wide range of b


The Stylish Nothing Ear 2 Earbuds Are Now Available in Black
How-To Geek / 6h
In the world of mid-range wireless earbuds, Nothing’s Ear 2 stands out from the competition. Not only does it offer a robust set of features, but it has an iconic semi-transparent design (which some brands are now copying). And for those who need an extra splash of style, Nothing Ear 2 is now available in a black colorway. Read This Article on Review Geek ›


Arcade1Up's Bigger 'NBA Jam' Deluxe Edition Packs Light-Up Buttons
How-To Geek / 6h
Arcade1Up is back with another variant of one of its most popular arcade cabinets. Yes, we’re talking about the new NBA Jam 30th Anniversary Deluxe edition, which arrives later this year just in time for the 2023-24 NBA season tip-off. Read This Article on Review Geek ›


The Latest Nook eReader Offers Physical Buttons for Old-School Control
How-To Geek / 6h
With its thick bezels and physical page-turn controls, the Nook Glowlight 4 Plus looks plainly outdated. But to some people, an old-school design may be a selling point—eReaders from Kindle and Kobo have lost some of their simplicity, and Nook is here to fill the gap. Read This Article on Review Geek ›


Wordle today: Here's the answer and hints for July 9
Mashable / 7h
It's finally Sunday, and that means closing the week out with a fresh Wordle puzzle. As always, we're here with some tips and tricks to help you work out the solution. If you just want to be told the answer, you can scroll to the bottom of this article for July 9's Wordle solution revealed. But if you want to solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. Wher


3 reasons why the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless is worth the $95 annual fee
The Points Guy / 8h
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information. Hotel credit cards are often overlooked when compared to their airline card counterparts. Mid-tier hotel cards , with annual fees of up to $100 , can be an incredibly valuable addition to any wallet, whether you’re an infrequent traveler, a road warrior or a nonstop jetsetter. These cards tend to have relatively low


'Quordle' today: Here are the answers and hints for July 9
Mashable / 9h
If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you've come to the right place for hints. There aren't just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you'll get what you need. What is Quordle ? Quordle is a five-letter word guessing gam


The old, good version of TweetDeck is back
Engadget / 10h
Earlier this week, Twitter began migrating users to the "new" version of TweetDeck after its decision to limit how many tweets people could view temporarily broke the previous iteration of its list aggregator. For many, the change was a downgrade due to the new version missing some of the features found within its predecessor. If you want to go back to using the previous release of TweetDeck, now


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Music, Arts & Literature / 11h
vomitpinata : TIGERMAN no.1 (1975) art by ERNIE COLÓN


allcatsconstitutethesamefamily: Source details and larger...
Music, Arts & Literature / 11h
allcatsconstitutethesamefamily : Source details and larger version . Spotty: my modest collection of vintage leopards .


Weekly Review: July 08, 2023
One Mile at a Time / 12h
I hope everyone is having a nice weekend! I’m grateful to be at home with family, enjoying our tropical Florida summer. 😉 I don’t have any immediate travel plans, though I am starting to plot some adventures for later this summer, once the peak summer travel season is over. On the points & travel front, this week Virgin Australia took delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX, Cathay Pacific Asia Mil


Meta’s Threads goes live, OpenAI launches GPT-4 and Pornhub blocks access
100+TechCrunch / 12h
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR) , TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the week in tech. Been too slammed to follow the news cycle as closely as you’d like? Not to worry. That’s why WiR exists. We’ll get you up to speed in no time. Thanks to the July 4th holiday, the workweek was somewhat disrupted. But plenty still happened. Meta released Threads, its Twitter competitor, which quickly gre


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Music, Arts & Literature / 12h
thekimonogallery : Obi and kimono by Gofukuyasan. Japan


Hayao Miyazaki's final film will be Studio Ghibli's first IMAX release
Engadget / 12h
Hayao Miyazaki's final film, the tentatively titled How Do You Live ?, is coming to IMAX theaters. The milestone marks a first for Miyazaki and the animation studio he co-founded nearly four decades ago. According to Anime News Network , the film will also screen in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Cinema and DTS:X when it arrives in Japan on July 14th. As Gizmodo notes, past Studio Ghibli films did not receiv


67 new Hyatt hotels where you can get 500 extra points per night
500+The Points Guy / 12h
Editor’s note: We’ve updated this post with new hotels where you can earn 500 extra points per night. I stayed at the Hyatt House Johannesburg Sandton in South Africa shortly after it opened in early 2022. When I checked my account activity after my stay, I earned far more points than expected. Looking at the details, I noticed an “opening bonus” of 2,000 points. Then, I remembered that Hyatt off


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Music, Arts & Literature / 12h
ilikevintagebooks : The King of Beasts -The Wild Beasts, Birds, and Reptiles of the World 1892


Ahsoka's Natasha Liu Bordizzo on Sabine's Journey, Franchise Future
20Gizmodo / 12h
Next month’s Star Wars: Ahsoka sees the titular non-Jedi (voiced by Ashley Eckstein in animation and played in live-action by Rosario Dawson) make a return to live-action after previously showing up in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. Outside of Ahsoka herself, the big draw of her show is