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Facebook Tweet Email Link An American woman who was hired by her British lover as a would-be assassin, but then botched the attack and spent five years on the run, has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Aimee Betro, 44, from Wisconsin, attempted to shoot a man dead outside his home in Birmingham, England, on September 7, 2019, but failed because her gun jammed – leaving her would-be victim to escape unscathed through “sheer luck,” according to prosecutor Hannah Sidaway, from the Crown Prosecution Service in the West Midlands. After a case that spanned continents and involved multiple crime…

United Airlines is elevating in-flight entertainment for its passengers, thanks to its latest collaboration. The Chicago-based carrier just announced a new partnership with Apple TV+, which will allow fliers to watch full seasons of the platform’s Emmy-nominated, hit shows like Severance, Silo, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Slow Horses for free on more than 130,000 seat-back screens and personal devices in the United mobile app. “That means customers can catch an episode or two on a short-haul route and pick up right where they left off on their next United flight, or binge the entire season in one sitting on a long-haul…

Just a week after OpenAI announced it would offer ChatGPT Enterprise to the entire federal executive branch workforce at $1 per year per agency, Anthropic has raised the stakes. The AI giant said Tuesday it would also offer its Claude models to government agencies for just $1 — but not only to the executive branch. Anthropic is targeting “all three branches” of the U.S. government, including the legislative and judiciary branches.  The package will be available for one year, says Anthropic. The move comes after OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind were added to the General Services Administration’s list of approved…

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…