Air Canada, Virgin Australia and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) have been named finalists in the World Aviation Festival’s Battle of the Airline Apps competition, set to take place during WAF 2026 from 13-15 October in Lisbon. The competition, which spotlights innovation in airline mobile technology, will challenge carriers to showcase how their apps are transforming the passenger journey – from booking and check-in to in-flight engagement and post-travel loyalty.
Read full articleAmadeus is preparing to introduce its new “Amadeus Max for Travel Sellers” across the Gulf region as part of its continued commitment to advancing intelligent travel technology and empowering travel sellers with faster, smarter, and more efficient workflows.
Read moreMainland China-based printed circuit board (PCB) maker Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing has cleared its final listing hurdle in Hong Kong and is moving towards a share sale that may rank among the city’s largest initial public offerings (IPOs) in the fourth quarter, according to people familiar with the matter. The company passed its listing hearing with bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) recently, the people said, requesting anonymity because the information was...
Read moreCloudbeds, the hospitality management system built for ambitious hoteliers who demand more, today announced its new affiliation with Preferred Hotels & Resorts as the latest addition to the brand’s Alliance Partner Program. This partnership solidifies Cloudbeds’ position as a recommended provider of unified hotel management technology for Preferred Hotels & Resorts member properties across the globe. Through this partnership, Preferred Hotels & Resorts’ member hotels will be able to adopt Cloudbeds’ intelligent platform to help turn technology into a driver of profitable growth. Built on a unified data model, the Cloudbeds platform brings operations, distribution, guest experience, and revenue marketing together, giving teams a shared, real-time understanding of their business and the ability to act on it.
Read moreThe Orionid meteor shower peaks in October as Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet.
Read moreChinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek on Wednesday open-sourced a suite of core tools tailored for Huawei Technologies’ Ascend AI chips, marking a step forward in the country’s push to end dependence on processors from US giant Nvidia amid US export curbs. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released six software modules that mirror its prior open-source tools for Nvidia’s AI chips, aiming to build a new “independent and controllable” software ecosystem for graphics processing units (GPUs),...
Read more[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] The European Commission defines Industry 5.0 as placing human-centricity, sustainability and resilience at the core of industrial progress. In practice, this means AI-powered robots take on repetitive, physically demanding or hazardous work while people focus on critical thinking and higher-value decisions. The future of manufacturing is about using intelligent technology to help people be better at what they do, while...
Read moreMainland Chinese and Hong Kong stocks may face a challenging fourth quarter as investors contend with underwhelming stimulus measures from Beijing, tighter financial conditions in the US and a shift in the narrative around the artificial intelligence trade, according to analysts. The two markets were likely to consolidate throughout the rest of the year to digest the negatives before settling on a clearer direction, according to brokerages including Zheshang Securities and CCB International. CCB...
Read moreCybersecurity researchers have disclosed technical details of a recently patched critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5), has been described as a memory overflow bug in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol handling that's rooted in the NetScaler
Read moreSam Altman spoke in San Francisco during OpenAI’s annual event for tech developers.
Read moreResidents in Brentford raise concerns about sewage flowing into the local canal network.
Read moreAn earthquake has rattled thousands in the Pacific Northwest, including in the major city of Seattle.
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