Employees shouldn’t have to work while on vacation. Jasmina007/Getty Images Expedia reported 8% growth in lodgings bookings from the same quarter in 2019. That progress looks good until you remember Airbnb just posted three-year growth of 73%. Airbnb’s profit also improved by about $700 million. The late-pandemic return to travel has obviously been good for…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping sits down during a visit to Renmin University of China in Beijing, capital of China, April 25, 2022. Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images China’s yuan is on its longest losing streak since October 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal. The currency has lost 5% against the greenback so far in…
The iPhone Mail app now has an unsending feature. Shutterstock A new iOS 16 feature lets you ‘unsend’ emails you’ve sent through your iPhone’s default Mail app. After sending an email, you’ll have about 10 seconds to unsend it, but you can change this to be longer. Most email apps give you a small grace…
Photo illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Elon Musk is trying to back out of his $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter. In his lawsuit against the company, he said it is undercounting the number of bots on the site. But Twitter’s lawyers said the tool Musk is using once classified his account as…
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange NYSE in New York, the United States, on March 9, 2022. Michael Nagle/Xinhua via Getty Magic Empire Global stock soared as much as 5,799% in its IPO debut on Friday.The move in the Hong Kong-based stock comes just days after shares of AMTD Digital saw a…
Frustrated that games don’t run as well on the Xbox Series S as you’d expect given the 1440p-capable hardware? Microsoft might have a fix. The Verge has learned the company’s recently highlighted June Game Development Kit gives programmers more access to memory, freeing up “hundreds of additional megabytes” of RAM for their games. That can…
DreamWorks has been open sourcing some of its technology in recent years, and now its animation division is preparing to make more tools freely available. DreamWorks Animation said it will release its MoonRay ray-tracing renderer as open-source software later this year. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, DreamWorks will offer up its Arras cloud rendering framework…
Monster Hunter Rise, in both its Switch and PC forms, is fab – Eurogamer called it “as good as video games can get” – and its Sunbreak expansion is perhaps even better. More, then, is an extremely welcome proposition, and we’ll soon know exactly what’s in store for Sunbreak’s first major post-launch update when it’s…
Holding up the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra to see the size If you’re curious to see how your Android phone stacks up when compared to other handsets, here’s how you can run benchmark tests. If you want to see just how powerful your phone’s performance is, there are few tools better to judge it than…
OPINION: Amazon buying the maker of Roomba robot vacuum cleaners gives it control over a dangerous volume of in-home data. Is it time for us to take stock and protect our most sacred spaces? If you own a few select products, Amazon knows an insane amount about what goes on in your home. If you an…