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Flying Fourth of July weekend or later this summer? Pack your patience and this game plan. Y ou know travelers are in for a bumpy Fourth of July weekend when airlines and the U.S. government begin pointing fingers at each other in the days ahead of the holiday. For months, travelers have been dealing with above-normal levels of flight delays and cancellations, with airlines chopping more than 15% of scheduled summer flights due to staffing shortages and other operational issues. Unfortunately, experts see more of the same on the horizon. “Looking at the past few weeks, I don't think there's any reason to think that things are going to go especially smoothly this weekend,” says Scott Keyes, co-founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights , an airfare deals newsletter with more than two million subscribers. “With 11 million travelers expected to fly over July Fourth, we are expecting a busy holiday weekend and travelers should be prepared for potential disruptions,” says Hayley … [Read more...] about The Smart Traveler’s Survival Playbook For Summer Flight Cancellations

Roe v. Wade is no more, but this is not 1972, the year before it was passed. In some ways, it’s even worse. advertisement advertisement When the Supreme Court ruled last week that banning abortion is not unconstitutional, abortion immediately became illegal in several states with “trigger laws” primed to take effect with just such a ruling. It’s about to become illegal in several more states in which previously passed laws restricting abortion had been blocked by federal courts. Millions of people are about to lose access to safe, legal abortions, and those who provide abortion access or support will face consequences ranging from civil suits to arrest in some states. These are grim times for abortion access. And the forecast is even more grim because we now live in an era of unprecedented digital surveillance. I’ve spent most of my career helping to protect activists and journalists in authoritarian countries, where it is often wise to think … [Read more...] about Now that ‘Roe’ has been overturned, it’s up to the tech industry to protect our data

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Amazon’s AMZN Prime Day sales event, and other summer deals, are expected to entice a majority of consumers to open their wallets and spend, in spite of concerns about inflation and the economy, according to findings in an Adobe ADBE Commerce study released today. Adobe Commerce is predicting that online spending for summer deals likely will be strong because 61% of consumers surveyed in June said they were looking forward to Prime Day and other summer sale events. Of those who plan to shop for Prime Day and other retail deals, 76% said they will spend more or the same amount as last year, when Prime Day broke records for spending. Amazon’s summer Prime Day sale is a two-day event this year, scheduled for July 12 and 13. The Adobe commerce report is more optimistic about Prime Day spending than many analysts who fear the annual sales event is losing momentum. Amazon recently told select third-party … [Read more...] about Adobe Survey Shows Consumers Will Spend Big On Prime Day And Summer Sales

- A + A (June 30): It was an unusually frigid December weekend when Cheng Wei summoned his inner circle to his Beijing office. The founder of Didi Global Inc, dressed entirely in black, told his lieutenants to slash spending by a fifth in 2022 and begin layoffs after staff return from Lunar New Year vacations. He delivered his bombshell flanked by a giant Powerpoint slide that read: “Don’t live with illusions. Face reality.” “We had a tough year,” said the reserved billionaire known as Will, who that day seemed even gloomier than normal, according to people briefed on the gathering. “But next year will be even tougher.” That sombre gathering encapsulated what many in the room already suspected — the ride-hailing champion once feted for running Uber Technologies Inc out of China was no more. In its place was a defeated shell worth a fifth of its value at the peak, bleeding users, blocked from raising funds for cherished projects — and whose executives were constantly … [Read more...] about Inside Didi’s US$60b crash that changed China tech forever

Pesident Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the Reception hall of Malacañan Palace before the presentation of credentials of Ambassadors from Bangladesh, Vietnam and Egypt. INQUIRER PHOTO/JOAN BONDOC Despite earlier misgivings, President Duterte signed on Tuesday the Paris Agreement detailing commitments to deal with climate change. Mr. Duterte submitted to the Senate the instrument of accession, dated Feb. 28, for ratification. “After examining the text thereof, I find it advisable to accede to the Paris Agreement and seek the Senate’s concurrence thereto,” he said. The Paris Agreement aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping the global average temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The pact also seeks to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C above preindustrial levels. The Philippines earlier pledged a 70-percent cut in emissions by 2030. On Wednesday afternoon, … [Read more...] about Duterte finally signs Paris Agreement on climate change

In Silicon Valley, it's never too early to become an entrepreneur . Just ask 13-year-old Shubham Banerjee. The California eighth-grader has launched a company to develop low-cost machines to print Braille, the tactile writing system for the visually impaired. Tech giant Intel Corp. recently invested in his startup, Braigo Labs. Shubham built a Braille printer with a Lego robotics kit as a school science fair project last year after he asked his parents a simple question: How do blind people read? " Google it," they told him. Shubham then did some online research and was shocked to learn that Braille printers, also called embossers, cost at least $2,000--too expensive for most blind readers, especially in developing countries. "I just thought that price should not be there. I know that there is a simpler way to do this," said Shubham, who demonstrated how his printer works at the kitchen table where he spent many late nights building it with a Lego … [Read more...] about 13-Year-Old Boy Builds Braille Printer With Legos, Starts Company