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NEW YORK (AP) — For little ghosts, witches, KPop Demon Hunters and superheroes, Halloween is one of the most exciting nights of the year. But it’s also one of the busiest for parents as they try to keep track of their trick-or-treaters, give out candy and watch over their homes. Fortunately, there are some tech tricks out there that can help families stay safe this Halloween, and have a little more fun too. Keeping tabs on your kidsIf your children are outfitted with Apple or Google-branded smart phones or watches or tracking tags, you can use the Find My or…

Several years ago, as a skunkworks team of engineers inside Rivian set out to develop an electric micromobility vehicle, one question loomed: “What do we build in-house?” Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said in an interview recounting the early days of Also, which spun out of Rivian earlier this year. “We realized the only way to do this well is to build everything,” said Scaringe, who sits on Also’s board. The result, which was revealed Wednesday at an event in Oakland, is a pedal-assist electric bike called the TM-B that is more than just a bike, according to Scaringe…

Carnival Cruise Line’s 2,980-passenger Carnival Valor will begin homeporting year-round in Mobile, Alabama, on May 15, 2027, sailing on six- to eight-day itineraries to The Bahamas.The ship, which currently offers cruises out of New Orleans, is the first Conquest ship to homeport in Mobile. The Bahamas itineraries will call at the line’s private destinations of RelaxAway, Half Moon Cay and Celebration Key.Carnival Valor will finalize its New Orleans deployment with a five-day itinerary on May 1, and two four-day sailings on May 6 and 20. Until the ship arrives in Mobile, Carnival Spirit will be deployed at the destination seasonally…

Cloud monitoring and security platform Datadog has solved an age-old joke: What’s up, dog? Datadog’s answer is not, “Not much, you?” Rather, the company launched a web dashboard that shows developers the status of dozens of services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Slack — essentially letting them check whether major software providers are functioning properly. The tool is free, so anyone can check Updog to find out if major SaaS providers are up … dog. Datadog clearly had fun with this branding, as they should. Rhys Sullivan, a software engineer, said in an X post in June, “you’re telling…

Hilton Worldwide has released its third quarter results for 2025, which show a net income for the quarter of $421 million, but the company’s RevPAR number for the U.S. market declined 2.3 percent during that same period. System-wide comparable RevPAR, on a currency neutral basis, is projected to be flat to an increase of 1.0 percent compared to 2024. In the third quarter of 2025, Hilton opened 199 hotels, totaling 24,800 rooms, resulting in 23,200 net room additions. It also continued to expand its luxury and lifestyle brands, with the addition of the Conrad Hamburg, (the brand’s debut in Germany)…

Also, the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian, has landed a commercial deal with Amazon to supply the e-commerce company with thousands of its new pedal-assist cargo quad vehicles that are big enough to carry more than 400 pounds of packages and small enough to use a bike lane. Under the multi-year collaboration, the two companies will work on customizing the pedal-assist vehicles to meet Amazon’s delivery needs in Europe and the United States. The TM-Q pedal-assist electric quads will launch in spring 2026, according to Also, which was revealed on Wednesday at an event in Oakland alongside the company’s…

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s developing AI-powered smart glasses for its delivery drivers. The idea behind the glasses is to give delivery drivers a hands-free experience that reduces the need to keep looking between their phone, the package they’re delivering, and their surroundings. The e-commerce giant says the glasses will allow delivery drivers to scan packages, follow turn-by-turn walking directions, and capture proof of delivery, all without using their phones. The glasses use AI-powered sensing capabilities and computer vision alongside cameras to create a display that includes things like hazards and delivery tasks. Amazon likely hopes that the new…

by Donald Wood Last updated: 9:35 AM ET, Wed October 22, 2025 The Walt Disney World Resort announced that the 2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts will take place from January 16 through February 23.The EPCOT International Festival of the Arts debuted in 2017 and has grown into one of the theme park’s most popular seasonal events, which highlights visual, performance, and culinary creativity. As part of the festivities, the Disney on Broadway Concert Series returns to the America Gardens Theatre with several performances per day, all included in the price of admission. Seating is first-come, first-served, and new…

OpenAI unveiled its AI browser, ChatGPT Atlas, during a livestream on Tuesday. There are other AI browsers such as The Browser Company’s Dia, Opera’s Neon, Perplexity’s Comet, and General Catalyst-backed Strawberry. OpenAI’s launch is notable because of the sheer scale of reaching potentially 800 million of its weekly ChatGPT users. For the company, the browser is much more about keeping ChatGPT central than about making web browsing better. While Atlas is currently available only on the Mac, the company is already working on bringing it to Windows, iOS, and Android — all the surfaces where ChatGPT already exists. OpenAI has…

Viking celebrated a significant milestone on October 21 – the simultaneous christening of nine river boats, which brings the total fleet size to 100 river, ocean and expedition vessels.The ceremony was held onboard Viking Honir in Basel, Switzerland, while the other eight Longships were scattered around the globe – three in Rostock, Germany; two in Luxor, Egypt; and one each in Porto, Portugal; My Tho, Vietnam; and Paris, France. All seven godmothers – and two godfathers – were in Basel, and the other ships joined the festivities via live hookups.Viking Chairman and CEO Torstein Hagen, who started the company 28…