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by Donald Wood Last updated: 8:00 AM ET, Thu October 30, 2025 Another day, another tech outage in the travel industry, as Microsoft was forced to deploy a fix to address an outage of its Azure cloud portal that caused issues for several airlines.According to The Associated Press, Microsoft’s technical issues impacted several major brands, including Office 365, Minecraft, Xbox Live, Copilot, Costco, and Starbucks, as well as several major airlines in the United States and beyond. Alaska Airlines reported that the computer issues with the Azure cloud portal were “at the heart of problems affecting their systems, including check-in…
Design platform Figma said today that it has acquired AI-powered image and video generation company Weavy. The startup will join Figma under a new brand called Figma Weave. Figma said that 20 people from Weavy will join the company but didn’t disclose the valuation of the deal. The Tel Aviv-based startup was founded in 2024 and raised $4 million in a seed round in June led by Entrée Capital, with participation from Designer Fund, Founder Collective, and Fiverr founder Micha Kaufman. Figma said that Weavy will exist as a stand-alone product for now and that, in the future, it will…
NEW YORK (AP) — Cassandra Peterson has entertained Halloween lovers as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, for more than four decades.Peterson developed the character in the 1980s, after leaving her career as a showgirl — a decision she credits at least in part to Elvis Presley, whom she says essentially saved her life.“He absolutely changed my life, 100%. I was a showgirl in Las Vegas. I was 17 years old, and he said, ‘This is no place for a 17-year-old girl. You need to get the hell out of here,’” Peterson, now 74, recalls. Presley told her she had a…
A Delta Airlines plane takes off near the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDelta Air Lines called on Congress Thursday to “immediately pass a clean continuing resolution” to reopen the U.S. government and pay air traffic controllers.U.S. air traffic controllers missed their first full paychecks on Tuesday as the government shutdown drags on through a fourth week with no end in sight while Republican and Democratic senators remain at an impasse.”Missed paychecks only increases the stress on these essential workers,…
An Australian cruise company has come under fire after an elderly passenger was found dead on an island in the Great Barrier Reef after being left behind by her ship following a hiking excursion.According to The Australian newspaper, Suzanne Rees, an 80-year-old Sydney resident, was on the second day of a cruise circumnavigating the continent on Saturday when she disembarked the Coral Adventurer at Lizard Island. Rees was reported missing after not showing up for dinner in the ship’s dining room, about five hours after the ship had departed the island.On Sunday, a search helicopter spotted her body about 55…
In a push to expand its AI footprint in emerging markets, Google has partnered with billionaire Mukesh Ambani–led Reliance Industries to bundle its AI Pro subscription with Jio 5G plans at no extra cost. On Thursday, Google announced a partnership with Reliance, India’s largest company by market capitalization, to offer its AI Pro subscription free for 18 months to eligible Jio users. The alliance comes just three months after Perplexity teamed up with Reliance’s archrival Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, to provide free access to Perplexity Pro for Airtel’s 360 million subscribers. India, the world’s most populous nation and…
A former Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student in her classroom in 2023 testified Thursday that she thought she had died that day. Abby Zwerner testified in her $40 million lawsuit filed against a former assistant principal who is accused of ignoring multiple warnings that the student had a gun.Zwerner was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her first-grade classroom at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News. Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, required six surgeries and does not have the full use of…
The just-wrapped Denver season of “Love Is Blind” may be the first time the show explored the Mountain West, but the Netflix reality dating show franchise is already a well-seasoned globe-trotter. In just five years, the show has aired seasons from nine different U.S. cities and spawned nearly a dozen international adaptations. Premised on challenging traditional ideas of love by focusing on emotional connections over physical appearance, each season reflects the cultural nuances of its environs — be that Dallas or Japan. Romance aside, the show hasn’t been received purely as a fairytale. It’s been subject to lawsuits over treatment…
by Donald Wood Last updated: 9:00 AM ET, Thu October 30, 2025 When Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest storms in recorded history, the travel industry was already preparing to lend a helping hand to the popular tourist destination and the surrounding impacted islands.Here are the airlines, cruise lines and travel brands that are stepping up to ensure that people impacted by the massive hurricane are taken care of in the coming weeks and months.Airlines American Airlines has resumed flight operations in Kingston, Jamaica; Holguin, Cuba; and Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, as the carrier remains…
Threads, Meta’s X rival, continues to ship new features at a rapid pace. Shortly after the launch of communities and disappearing “ghost posts,” the social networking app on Thursday introduced new tools that will give users more control over their conversations on the platform. One new feature, reply approvals, will allow you to decide which replies from other users will appear on your posts — before anyone else can see them. While Threads, like other social networks, already offers tools that let you limit replies to people you follow, your followers, or people you mention, the new feature allows you…