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A new era of in-flight connectivity launched today at United Airlines. The Chicago-based carrier debuted its first mainline aircraft equipped with high-speed Starlink Wi-Fi. The milestone makes United the first airline in the United States to offer a Starlink connection on a mainline flight for both personal devices and in-flight entertainment screens. The Starlink-equipped aircraft is a Boeing 737-800 that operated United flight 2940 from New Jersey’s Newark Airport (EWR) to Houston (IAH) at 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday with more than 170 customers. From Houston, the aircraft will then operate two additional flights: flight 365 to Fort Lauderdale, Florida (FLL),…
Google is launching a new tool that uses AI to make it easier for Gmail users with Google Calendar to schedule their meetings. On Tuesday, the company launched a Gemini-powered “Help me schedule” feature that will surface ideal meeting times based on calendar availability and then display them to the person you’re emailing to set up a meeting. The company notes that the feature is designed to work for one-on-one meetings, not those with multiple contacts or group meetings. The launch of the new feature comes amid a flurry of Google Workspace announcements that focus on infusing AI more deeply…
Notable reaction to the death of R&B and neo-soul icon D’Angelo , who died Tuesday at 51.Jamie Foxx“I remember hearing your music for the first time… I said to myself damn whoever this is they are anointed… Then when I finally got a chance to see you… Like everyone when they saw the most incredible music video of our time… I was blown away… I thought to myself I have to see this person in concert… I had my chance to see you at the house of blues… You came out and got right down to business… Your voice was…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 11:00 AM ET, Tue October 14, 2025 Princess Cruises’ ship Sapphire Princess is back on the water after a two-week drydock in Portland, Oregon.After undergoing refurbishments, the 2,670-guest vessel is offering new guest experiences. These include two popular specialty restaurants, Makoto Ocean and Crown Grill, which will open to travelers on November 16. Both restaurants are $60 per person and included as a specialty dining option for guests who book the Princess Premier package. Sapphire Princess is now heading to Mexico before repositioning for a season of South America and Antarctica cruises. In the spring…
Three years after removing its job listings feature, Facebook is bringing it back to users in the U.S., focusing on helping people find local jobs in entry-level, trade, and service sectors. Job listings, available to all users 18 years and older, can be found in a tab within the Marketplace section as well as in Groups and Pages. Users can filter and sort jobs by category, distance, and job type. Facebook also says it will provide tailored recommendations for relevant opportunities based on users’ job browsing history. After submitting their applications, they can chat with companies via Messenger to arrange…
LELAND, Miss. (AP) — A fifth person has been arrested and charged with capital murder in a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, the FBI said.Terrogernal S. Martin, 33, was arrested Tuesday and received a $1 million cash bond, according to the FBI in Jackson. Additional arrests are pending, the agency said without elaborating.The arrest comes a day after the FBI announced that Teviyon L. Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25, are charged with capital murder, while Latoya A. Powell, 44, is charged with attempted murder…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Leaf-peeping season has arrived in the Northeast and beyond, but weeks of drought have muted this year’s autumn colors, and sent leaves fluttering to the ground earlier than usual.Soaking in the fall foliage is an annual tradition in the New England states as well as areas such as the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina and Upper Peninsula of Michigan. As the days shorten and temperatures drop, chlorophyll in leaves breaks down, and they turn to the autumn tones of yellow, orange and red. Maple leaves turn to fall foliage…
NEW YORK (AP) — When Tamara Deverell, the production designer on Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” first strode across the nearly finished set of Victor Frankenstein’s lab, she couldn’t help herself.Deverell had by then spent countless hours toiling over the film’s central set, a massive laboratory perched atop an old Scottish stone tower, with a massive round window letting light in on a workshop full of ornate apparatus and a malformed body splayed out on the operating table.“I walked into the lab set when we were just finishing it,” Deverell says, “and I was like, ’It … it’s alive!” In making…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesSpotify is officially bringing video podcasts to Netflix.The partnership will bring a selection of podcasts from The Ringer, a network acquired by Spotify in 2020, to the streaming company in early 2026 for U.S. users.The podcasts will range from sports to culture to true crime, aiming to both complement Netflix’s current slate and bring in new audiences, pulling from The Ringer’s lineup. The companies said more markets outside of the U.S. are in the pipeline.”This partnership marks a new chapter for podcasting,” Spotify’s Head of Podcasts Roman Wasenmüller said in a statement. “Together with Netflix,…
While AI companies, startups, and others are rolling out their own web browsers that embed AI services deep into the web surfing experience, Mozilla’s Firefox is instead allowing its customers to swap out their default search engine for an AI-powered search option in the browser they already use. The company on Tuesday announced that it’s bringing AI answer engine Perplexity to Firefox, letting customers decide whether they want to use AI to search the web and find new information. Mozilla had previously announced it was testing the integration, but the option was only available in select markets, including the U.S.,…