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American Express’ pending $700 million acquisition of TheFork, Tripadvisor’s dining reservations platform, could speed up one of its key goals — expanding its global network. Amex said dining is one of the chief avenues for cardholder engagement, and TheFork is the leading restaurant reservations brand in Europe — essentially its OpenTable. TheFork does business with 50,000 restaurants in Europe in 11 countries. Access to perks and other incentives for TheFork reservations could help Amex compete with Mastercard and Visa in Europe and may appeal to U.S. travelers. Amex already owns Resy, a dining reservations platform that skews toward hard-to-reserve premium…

For $1,700 a night with a two-night minimum, Equinox Hotel New York will watch you sleep, score it, and share the results with a neuroscientist. It’s the Sleep Lab, four Premier King rooms wired like a clinical trial, with an adaptive mattress, a contrast-therapy shower whose ice setting drops to 46 degrees — the industry’s cold plunge usually stops at a polite 50 — and a bedside device that assesses your sleep quality each morning. The hardware is only part of the story. The headline is Matthew Walker, the Berkeley neuroscientist and Why We Sleep author whose name now functions…

The Gila River is among the Southwest’s most important rivers, delivering water for people, farms, and wildlife while linking the snow-fed mountains of southwestern New Mexico to the desert lowlands of southwestern Arizona. In wetter years, seasonal snowfall on the Mogollon Mountains and Black Range provides much of the river’s spring flow and helps refill San Carlos Reservoir, which is formed by the Coolidge Dam. When filled to capacity, the reservoir is one of Arizona’s largest bodies of water. However, in 2026, lackluster snowfall left the mountain snowpack in the Gila River watershed at 2 percent of the 1991-2020 March…

Oracle is putting artificial intelligence inside the hotel software its customers already run, and not charging extra for it. The company on Tuesday announced Opera Cloud Assistant, a set of AI tools built into front desk, revenue, and configuration screens inside Oracle’s hotel property management system. Oracle is making the tools available at no additional cost. For hotel staff, the pitch is fewer interruptions. An associate who hits a wall mid-shift can ask the system how to run a report or handle a guest issue without stopping to find a manager or digging through manual source

One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of HD 80606 b, an exoplanet four times the mass of Jupiter with an extremely elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star. The research team is presenting their study and preliminary findings Tuesday at the 248th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, California. “Hot Jupiters are already considered some of the most extreme exoplanets we know of, but even among that population, HD 80606 b is one of the most extreme,” said Tiffany Kataria, the study’s principal…

PARIS — KNDS, the French-German maker of the Leopard tank and the Caesar truck-mounted gun, pitched a new howitzer with a barrel longer than any NATO production artillery, which the company said gives the weapon a range of up to 60 kilometers (37 miles) with standard high-explosive shells.The howitzer uses KNDS Germany’s Artillery Gun Module mounted on a tracked Boxer chassis and fitted with a French barrel. The company has already fired a prototype of the gun, and aims for serial production between 2032 and 2035, KNDS France artillery engineer Pierre Septfons told a handful of journalists in a briefing…

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber The Pentagon is increasingly looking to helicopters as aerial counter-drone platforms, following years of lessons from global conflicts where uncrewed aircraft have proven to be lethal and cost-effective weapons that have overwhelmed traditional air defense systems. Starting on June 22, U.S. Air Force reservists from the 301st Rescue Squadron will take a page out of the Ukrainian Air Force’s strategic playbook, rehearsing counter-drone operations using HH-60W Jolly Green II combat rescue helicopters off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to a contract notice published last month. The four-day exercise, though planned for…

One year after opening its net-zero hotel in Manchester, Radisson says the property has matched its pre-conversion energy costs and that profit targets remain the same. The hotel, formerly a Park Inn, was fully electrified as part of its conversion and rebrand to Radisson. Developers replaced gas boilers with four industrial heat pumps and converted the kitchen from gas to induction. They removed all fossil fuels from the building’s direct operations. Typically, a heat pump, which runs on electricity, might use 1 unit of electricity to generate 3 to 4 units of heat energy. The initial concern was that energy…

Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company’s low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon official said Tuesday. “They’re built, and sitting in a payload processing facility waiting for trips to orbit,” said Steve Metayer, vice president of Amazon Leo Production Operations, during a teleconference with reporters. “And we’re currently manufacturing several satellites a day.” Metayer spoke on the eve of the company’s next mission, during which an Ariane 64 rocket will launch three dozen Amazon Leo satellites into orbit from a spaceport in French Guiana. Liftoff is targeted for 7:53 am ET…

AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird satellites 8, 9, and 10 are encapsulated inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket payload fairing ahead of launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: AST SpaceMobile / SpaceX AST SpaceMobile is bouncing back from the loss of its BlueBird 7 satellite last month with the launch of three more in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning. The company is launching BlueBird 8, 9, and 10 onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. AST SpaceMobile’s low Earth orbit constellation is designed to generate space-based broadband services to unmodified smartphones in the United States…