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RealTime Reservation is acquiring STAY, a guest experience platform for hotels and resorts, in a deal that combines RTR’s ancillary booking platform with STAY’s tools for mobile ordering, digital menus, guest requests, and feedback. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition, which the company plans to announce publicly Tuesday at the HITEC hospitality conference, targets a basic infrastructure gap: ancillary services — spa, restaurants, cabanas, activities — typically run on separate vendor systems with separate payment setups.  That makes it difficult for hotels to bundle services into a single guest transaction or measure total non-room revenue across properties. source

NASA astronaut Anil Menon will be available for limited media interviews beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Monday, June 22, to discuss his upcoming mission to the International Space Station as part of Expeditions 74/75. The virtual interviews will take place from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and will stream live on the agency’s YouTube channel. Media interested in participating must submit a request to the newsroom at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, by emailing jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. A copy of NASA’s media accreditation policy is online. Menon is scheduled to launch to…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. military wants to see if it can enhance the capabilities of the 2,000-pound-class Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) precision-guided bomb as a bunker-busting munition. JDAM-ERs already come with wing kits that allow them to glide dozens of miles to their targets, helping keep the launch platform away from threats. This would also open up new opportunities for low-angle, lateral attacks on hardened targets. In general, bunker-buster bombs are released relatively close to and above what are often higher-value and…

A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber plane crashed on Monday in Siberia’s Irkutsk region during a training flight, the Russian Defence Ministry said, but the aircraft’s four-person crew had managed to safely eject.The Tu-22, which can carry hypersonic “Kinzhal” missiles and is code-named “Backfire” by NATO, is a Soviet-era supersonic bomber that Russia has since used for combat missions in Syria and Ukraine.Unverified footage of the crash on social media showed a plane nose-diving into a thickly wooded area not far from the banks of the Angara river, producing a huge column of smoke.“The crew ejected. There is no threat to…

Key Points Overseas tourism to the U.S. dropped 6.5% in May, with inbound travel still below pre-pandemic levels. The sharpest declines came from Western Europe, Africa, and Oceania, while only the Middle East and South America saw increases. Despite the upcoming World Cup, projected boosts in international tourism may fall short of expectations, with booking demand lagging. Summary In May, overseas visitation to the U.S. fell by 6.5%, leaving inbound tourism well below pre-pandemic numbers. Western Europe, Africa, and Oceania posted significant declines, while only the Middle East and South America saw growth. Although the 2026 World Cup is anticipated…

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this picture of downtown San Francisco and nearby communities on May 27, 2026. The image captures two of the region’s iconic bridges. The Golden Gate Bridge connects the northern San Francisco Peninsula with Marin County to the north, while the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge spans the bay toward Oakland to the east.   Read more about this photograph on Earth Observatory. Text credit: Kathryn Hansen Image credit: NASA source

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The service says the Warthog will fly to 2030. Evidence shows a lack of commitment and the irreversible loss of A-10 combat capability is instead just months away. This September, the A-10 “Warthog” Thunderbolt II was scheduled to make its final flight. Instead, the A-10 deployed again, this time supporting combat operations over the Strait of Hormuz, striking Iranian fast-attack craft and maritime threats near one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints. The A-10 was also the “Sandy” escort that recovered…

When Ebola re-emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year, it was a contained outbreak. By travel industry standards, however, it was a continent-wide emergency. “It’s affecting tourism across the whole of East Africa,” said Keith Vincent, CEO of Wilderness, one of Africa’s leading safari operators. “It hasn’t crossed the border out of the Congo, Uganda, and Sudan. But the world seems to punish us because it’s so scary. Africa is still treated like one place, when in reality, it’s a massive continent with a huge range of experiences.” The perception shows up in booking data, in cancellations,…

Are you ready for a new view of the universe? The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal distant worlds, dark energy, and the structure of the cosmos, and we want you to be a part of it!   Digital creators and social media users are invited to register to our NASA Social for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch. Roman is NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission, designed to explore everything from our outer solar system to the edge of the observable universe. This mission is scheduled to launch on Aug. 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Multiple videos circulating on social media show the crash of a Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire-C bomber today. Footage shows the swing-wing bomber entering a steep nose-down dive before slamming into the ground, producing a large plume of black smoke. The footage has not been independently verified, but Russian authorities have confirmed the loss of the aircraft. The Russian Ministry of Defense said the Tu-22M3 crashed while making an approach to land in the Irkutsk region, in southeastern Siberia, during what it described…