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Abercrombie & Kent (A&K) is expanding its reach into the Nordic region with the acquisition of destination management partner Borealis DMC.The Copenhagen-based company boasts expertise in one-of-a-kind offerings in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Norway and Sweden. The acquisition expands the company’s portfolio of destination management companies (DMCs) “with an international network of more than 3,000 staff, in over 65 offices and 40 countries,” said A&K.“The Nordic region provides access to experiences that epitomize adventure and luxury in their purest forms,” said Rebecca Osman, chief destination officer at A&K Travel Group. “This acquisition aligns perfectly with our commitment to unlocking…

Amid the rise of new AI-powered low-code developer tools aimed at hobbyists and non-technical folks, Uno Platform is doubling down on enterprise developers instead. Montreal-based Uno Platform offers a suite of enterprise-grade tools for developers to build cross-platform .NET applications that can be supported on Android, Apple, Linux, and Windows systems. Users code an application once and Uno Platform makes it easy to ship other types of applications from the existing codebase. “If you’re coding something once and it works on five different platforms on desktop, web, and mobile, you’re getting 5x the productivity already,” Uno Platform co-founder and CEO…

Facebook Tweet Email Link A judge in Chile has agreed to suspend proceedings against a teenage American pilot and social media influencer who has been stuck on a remote Antarctic island since late June after he was accused of landing there without permission. Ethan Guo was attempting to fly to all seven continents solo, raising funds for cancer research, when he landed on a part of Antarctica where the South American country maintains a territorial claim. Prosecutors accused him of providing false information to ground control about his landing point. On Monday, a judge approved an agreement between Guo’s lawyers…

GALICIA, Spain (AP) — At a humming factory in the Spanish town of O Carballino, workers sling dozens of limp octopuses into a metal cauldron, wincing as strings of slime splatter their aprons. Nearby, others slice tentacles and pack them into vacuum-sealed bags destined for restaurants and retailers across Europe, Asia and the United States — part of a growing global appetite for an animal that’s become increasingly scarce in its native waters.Though O Carballino proudly calls itself Spain’s octopus capital — complete with a towering bronze octopus statue, streets lined with the pulperias that offer them up to diners…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé has an Emmy to go with her 35 Grammys. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, her legal name, was listed as one of a half dozen people on a team that won outstanding costumes for a variety, nonfiction or reality show for “Beyoncé Bowl,” her Western-themed halftime show on Netflix’s Christmas NFL game between the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans. The show in her hometown of Houston brought the live debut of songs from her “Cowboy Carter” album.The special Emmy is Beyoncé’s first. She has been nominated for 10 others without a victory. And it takes her halfway to…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 1:45 PM ET, Tue August 12, 2025 Atlas Ocean Voyages is changing up its stateroom categories as it unveils a new luxury offering.Starting with expeditions launching April 2, 2026, guests will be able to book the Concierge Collection featuring upgraded amenities.  As part of the new offering, the company is reclassifying three existing stateroom categories under a new Junior Suite designation that includes Concierge Collection amenities: Horizon Deluxe Stateroom will become Horizon Deluxe Junior Suite (E1 category) Veranda Deluxe Stateroom will become Veranda Deluxe Junior Suite (E2 category) Horizon Stateroom will become Horizon Junior Suite (A1/A2 category) The new…

Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators.  Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily went into effect. Although the app has since come back online and is available to download, TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, so Meta is ready to capitalize on CapCut’s possible absence in the future with its new Edits app. We’ve created this…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Tuesday not to give eastern Ukrainian land to Russia, saying that abandoning the Donbas region would open the door for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “start a third war” in Ukraine. Zelensky’s warning comes ahead of Putin’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, where the Russian president is expected to demand Ukrainian land as part of a peace deal. While there is confusion over Putin’s reported conditions for a ceasefire, most versions stress that the Russian president will demand that Ukrainian forces withdraw from all parts…

Direct Travel announced the expansion of its eight-year partnership with OMNIA Partners. As part of this expanded strategic partnership, OMNIA Partners members now have access to Direct Travel’s next-gen platform, Avenir Travel Edition. OMNIA Partners connects thousands of organizations across the corporate, private equity, real estate, education, and government sectors—representing more than $30 billion in annual spend—with value-driven programs from best-in-class suppliers. The expanded relationship enables members to leverage a broader range of travel solutions from Direct Travel to simplify travel management and drive better outcomes, according to Tuesday’s announcement. “Managing travel shouldn’t be complicated—but too often, it is,” said Christal Bemont, CEO of Direct Travel,…

Anthropic is increasing the amount of information that enterprise customers can send to Claude in a single prompt, part of an effort to attract more developers to the company’s popular AI coding models. For Anthropic’s API customers, the company’s Claude Sonnet 4 AI model now has a 1 million token context window — meaning the AI can handle requests as long as 750,000 words, more than the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, or 75,000 lines of code. That’s roughly five times Claude’s previous limit (200,000 tokens), and more than double the 400,000 token context window offered by OpenAI’s GPT-5.…