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AAA Five Diamonds are the highest coveted designation a property can receive. And two hotels in Pennsylvania and one in Florida are the newest properties with this earmark, representing less than one percent of the nearly 23,000 AAA Diamond lodgings boasting Five Diamonds.In June, nine hotels and eight restaurants received AAA Four Diamonds for their upscale amenities and fine dining. New AAA Five Diamond Hotels:The Chateau at Nemacolin | Farmington, Pennsylvania The Grand Lodge at Nemacolin | Farmington, Pennsylvania The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort | Longboat Key, Florida New AAA Four Diamond Hotels: Concorde Hotel New York | New York,…
After 13 years of deploying robots into its warehouses, Amazon reached a new milestone. The tech behemoth now has 1 million robots in its warehouses, the company announced Monday. This one millionth robot was recently delivered to an Amazon fulfillment facility in Japan. That figure puts Amazon on track to reach another landmark: Its vast network of warehouses may soon have the same number of robots working as people, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. The WSJ also reported that 75% of Amazon’s global deliveries are now assisted in some way by a robot. TechCrunch reached out to…
A terrifying scene unfolded aboard a Spring Airlines flight traveling from Shanghai to Tokyo when the aircraft was forced into an emergency dive on Monday.Citing Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Associated Press reported that the crew aboard the Boeing 737 received an alert from the cabin pressure system and declared an emergency, which prompted a controlled rapid descent. As a result, the aircraft descended from approximately 36,000 feet to under 10,500 feet in just 10 minutes. The chaotic incident led to oxygen masks being deployed and at least one traveler writing a farewell note. “I heard a…
Growth-stage fundraising is picking up speed again, but it’s not the same game it used to be. At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, we’re bringing in someone who knows how the rules have changed and how to win in today’s market: Cathy Gao, partner at Sapphire Ventures. Gao has backed breakout startups like Culture Amp, Gem, Sword Health, and EliseAI. She’s sat on both sides of the table as an investor and operator. At Gusto, she helped scale post-Series B. Now she’s helping founders cut through the noise and land deals in an increasingly competitive environment.…
The NCAA’s House settlement era launched on Tuesday, with athletic programs across the country free to start paying millions to their athletes in the biggest change in the history of college athletics.It’s the death of the NCAA’s longstanding amateur model, certain to cause headaches and disputes among powerhouse and small-time programs alike. Scattered among them, however, is a handful of schools that have decided to wait it out at least a year to see how things develop, including legal risks and Title IX concerns.Call them the opt-outs.The Ivy League removed itself from the conversation early, saying in January its schools…
Costa Cruises announced a summer sale promotion open to residents of North America. The summer sale includes a complimentary upgrade to a ‘Cruise Plus Drinks’ package for the price of ‘Cruise Only’ on select Caribbean cruises through 2026 and must be booked by August 29. The promotion features the ‘My Drinks’ beverage package which includes a selection of fine wines, cocktails, beers, spirits, cappuccino, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, unlimited juices and soft drinks, plus two half-liter bottles of San Benedetto mineral water per cabin daily. From authentic Caffè Vergnano coffee beverages to aperitifs at the Aperol Spritz Bar, cocktails at…
Apple’s iPads come with built-in productivity tools like Notes, Calendar, and Reminders, but if you’d like to explore new ways to maximize productivity and organize your life, there are many apps out there to help you. Although the iPad started off as a device that could be used to stream content or browse the web on the go, Apple has essentially turned its iPads into computers that can handle a variety of different tasks for personal, work, and school use. As a result, there are numerous apps to help you do things like create a single place to organize your…
CNN — The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on the sands of Bagdad beach in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, home to an endangered species of sea turtle. Just across the border lies Starbase, SpaceX’s launchpad and company town. Since November, Conibio Global, a small non-governmental organization, has taken on a daunting task: cleaning up trash from SpaceX, one of the most powerful companies in the world. Jesús Elías Ibarra, founder of Conibio Global, told CNN that in November 2024, he witnessed one of SpaceX’s launches and saw…
NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial said Tuesday that it has reached a verdict on four of five counts against the hip-hop mogul. But the partial decision remained under wraps after jurors were told to keep deliberating because they were stuck on the top charge, racketeering conspiracy.Prosecutors, Combs’ defense team and Judge Arun Subramanian reasoned that after just two days of deliberations, it was too soon to give up on reaching a verdict on all counts. So rather than taking a partial verdict, Subramanian told the jury to continue weighing the remaining charge.…
Nothing on Tuesday launched its newest flagship phone after a two-year gap. At an event in London, the company unveiled the Phone (3), which starts at $799 and aims to take on bigwigs like Samsung and Apple with its differentiated design and features targeting tech enthusiasts. Since releasing Phone (1) in 2022, the GV-backed startup has relied on a transparent design to make its phone stand out from others. The Phone (3) follows that same design language, but it introduces a stranger camera arrangement that forgoes the typical square or circular alignment found on other smartphone devices. (If you are…