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Resiliency Patterns for Azure Front Door: Field Lessons
Abstract Azure Front Door (AFD) sits at the edge of Microsoft’s global cloud, delivering secure, performant, and highly available applications to users worldwide. As adoption has grown—especially for mission‑critical workloads—the need for resilient application architectures that can tolerate rare but impactful platform incidents has become essential. This article summarizes key lessons from Azure Front Door incidents in October 2025, outlines how Microsoft is hardening the pl...
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Hands on with Aqara’s new Matter-compatible camera
The first Matter camera is here - sort of. Camera support came to the smart home standard last year, and Aqara's Camera Hub G350 is the first to support it. The G350, which was announced at CES, launched this week and is a pan-and-tilt indoor security camera with up to 4K video resolution. Today, the […]
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Porting C++ from IBM Power to x86: Solving Silent Endianness Corruption with C++and Github Copilot
Migrating C++ applications from IBM Power Systems to Azure x86 involves a subtle but critical architectural difference that is the byte order. When legacy code compiled for Big-Endian hardware is recompiled for Little-Endian x86 without modification, multi-byte integers silently corrupt. There are no compile errors, no runtime exceptions, just wrong values in production. This guide walks through the endianness challenge, demonstrates a practical refactoring workflow using GitHub Copilot, and ...
2 hours ago
Trademark Collection by Wyndham Marks Milestone, Surpasses 100 U.S. Hotels
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchisor with more than 8,300 hotels spanning approximately 100 countries, is celebrating a major milestone for its Trademark Collection by Wyndham brand: more than 100 hotels now open across the U.S. The achievement highlights a rapid rise for the highly-sought-after soft-brand, which, as the fastest growing in the U.S., has doubled the size of its domestic portfolio in the last five years as independents increasingly turn to Wyndham to ...
2 hours ago
Ocean Maya Royale Emerges as Riviera Maya’s Leading Intimate Five-Star All-Inclusive Sanctuary
Ocean Maya Royale, a five-star, adults-only all-inclusive resort from Ocean Signature Resorts portfolio, announces its official positioning as the top choice romantic getaway for the U.S. market. Perfectly blending traditional colonial-mediterranean ambiance with romantic modern spaces and a spectacular beach, the property offers an intimate, peaceful escape designed specifically for couples seeking serenity, retirement-style relaxation, and personalized hospitality.
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Three Years of TripGenie: How Travellers Around the World are Using AI Differently
As AI becomes an everyday part of travel planning, one thing is increasingly clear: while the technology may be global, how travellers use it is anything but uniform. New data from TripGenie, Trip.com’s AI travel assistant, reveals that three years of real-world usage have surfaced new patterns in how travellers plan, decide and navigate their journeys.
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Air Premia Expands Economy Seat Pitch by Reducing Seat Count
Air Premia, Korea’s only hybrid airline, has enhanced passenger comfort by reducing the total number of seats while expanding seat pitch to enhance passenger comfort. The airline announced that the economy class seat pitch on aircraft HL8701 has been increased from 31 inches to 33 inches. Following the adjustment, the aircraft’s total seat capacity has been reduced from 344 seats to 326 seats, a decrease of 18 seats.
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Choice Hotel International’s Ascend Collection Surpasses 500 Hotel Openings
Ascend Collection, an upscale soft brand of Choice Hotels International, Inc. and the first and largest soft brand in the upscale segment, has surpassed its 500th property milestone with the opening of new hotels including The Harrison Hotel in Downtown Hollywood, Florida and The Gould Hotel in Seneca Falls, New York. Together, these additions underscore Ascend Collection’s continued momentum and reflect the brand’s commitment to delivering guests one-of-a-kind, locally inspired stays that celeb...
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You Will See, the Marca Chile campaign to project global image
Marca Chile, the organization responsible for promoting the country’s image abroad, has chosen ‘You Will See’ as the motto for its campaign, aimed at strengthening institutional and business relations, and generating strategic content, while also fostering a positive perception of the country. The initiative ‘You Will See’ began in São Paulo (Brazil) and has traveled to Madrid, New York and London. ‘You Will See’ focuses on four main pillars: innovation, tourism, clean energy, and gastronomy.
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Vail Resorts to Bring My Epic Gear Experience to All Rentals
Vail Resorts today announced plans to integrate the best features from My Epic Gear® into traditional gear rentals, as part of a multi-year effort to transform the gear experience for all skiers and riders.
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The New Terminal One at JFK and Ethiopian Airlines Announce Strategic Partnership
The New Terminal One at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) today announced a strategic partnership with Ethiopian Airlines, the flag carrier of Ethiopia and a member of Star Alliance. Ethiopian will join the New Terminal One’s growing community of international carriers, strengthening connectivity between the United States, Africa, and key destinations across the globe.
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Maldives emerges as key travel hub as private jet arrivals surge
The Maldives is reinforcing its role as a global tourism hub as rising private jet arrivals and additional airline services offset aviation disruptions linked to unrest in the Middle East. Recent data from Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) shows a sharp rise in private aviation traffic. A total of 128 private jets landed in the Maldives between 28 February and 14 March, a 166 percent increase compared to the same period last year when 70 aircraft arrived. The figures indicate a clear shif...
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Is the New Agent 365 Worth $99?
Microsoft 365 E7 bundles Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Entra Suite, and the new Agent 365 into a $99/user/month SKU. The big question is whether investing in Microsoft 365 E7 licenses make sense for tenants? Buying a big batch of licenses will simply throw money away unless those licenses can be used. Paul Robichaux debates the issues and suggests some advice about how to assess the need for E7.
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Announcing the IQ Series: Foundry IQ
AI agents are rapidly becoming a new way to build applications. But for agents to be truly useful, they need access to the knowledge and context that helps them reason about the world they operate in. That’s where Foundry IQ comes in. Today we’re announcing the IQ Series: Foundry IQ, a new set of developer-focused episodes exploring how to build knowledge-centric AI systems using Foundry IQ. The series focuses on the core ideas behind how modern AI systems work with knowl...
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Foundry IQ: Give Your AI Agents a Knowledge Upgrade
If you’re learning to build AI agents, you’ve probably hit a familiar wall: your agent can generate text, but it doesn’t actually know anything about your data. It can’t look up your documents, search across your files, or pull facts from multiple sources to answer a real question. That’s the gap Foundry IQ fills. It gives your AI agents structured access to knowledge, so they can retrieve, reason over, and synthesize information from real data sources instead of relying ...
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"Two Kinds of People": The Line That Defines ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’
Sergio Leone’s cinematic world is as good (a.k.a. chaotic) as the American Old West. What’s more, each one of his movies boasts dialogues that ooze philosophy and wisdom quite as wild as their characters. And The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...
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21 Iconic Foley Sounds Created With Household Items
In cinema, they say, the craft is at its best when it cannot be noticed. Weird, but makes sense. Essentially, filmmaking is the medium of replicating life, from real to reel. The less you can spot the difference, the better the craft. Whether it is acting or
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7 Iconic Movie Scenes Where Love Speaks Without a Kiss
How do you know if your partner loves you? Okay, let me rephrase it. How are you sure that they love you? In cinema, a kiss or an intimacy scene is pretty much the shorthand for love. We’ve glorified the first kiss so much that we tend to forget that sometimes, love doesn’t need physical contact ...
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7 Best Quotes From ‘Fight Club’, Ranked
David Fincher’s charismatic neo-noir masterpiece became a pop-culture sensation as the years rolled on. The film turned frustration into action and rebellion into philosophy. Whether they were spoken in dimly lit, dingy basements or isolated alleys late at night, the film’s dialogue iconically captured youth rage, isolation, and dark humor...
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The Final Goodbye: Why the Last Line of ‘Léon: The Professional’ Is Perfect
The quietest moment from Léon: The Professional (1994), directed by Luc Besson, is also its coldest, heaviest, and most unforgettable. Four understated words define Léon’s character and the film’s core of brewing vengeance without overcomplication or exaggeration.But we nee...
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What Gandalf Teaches Us About Choice In ‘The Lord Of The Rings’
The vast, alluring world of The Lord of the Rings hinges on a crucial, brave, and admirable moral decision. Deeply distant from the saga’s quintessential battles, mystical conquests, a...
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The Story Behind the Famous “I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed” Line From 'Predator'
Would you believe me if I told you that screenwriter Jim Thomas originally got the idea of Predator from a joke he once overheard—the only person Rocky Balboa had yet to fight was an extraterrestrial, so, if a fifth movie of the
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19 Times Hitchcock Played “Where’s Waldo” in His Own Movies
Long before the craze for “verified” social media accounts and an insatiable hunger for “followers,” there lived a portly man with a distinctive silhouette, who had understood the significance and hidden potential in branding through self-promotion. Quite a bit like today’s content creators—except, instead of t...
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Isle of Man Experiences partners with Virgin Experience Days to reach UK gift market
Isle of Man Experiences, a recently launched brand by tour operator Duke Travel, has boosted its presence across the UK through an exclusive new partnership with Virgin Experience Days. The move places the Island’s unique offerings directly into the hands of a national audience looking for the perfect gift, experience or short trip.
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Tivoli Hotels & Resorts Announces Its Third Property in Brazil
Tivoli Hotels & Resorts is proud to announce the opening of Tivoli Maiorana Belem Pará Hotel, the brand’s third property in Brazil and its first in the country’s Northern region, located in the heart of the city of Belém, the capital of Pará state. After hosting COP30 last November, Belém has been attracting the world’s attention not only for its environmental importance — known as the gateway to the Amazon — but also for its vibrant cultural and gastronomic scene.
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How to Build High-Performance GPU-Accelerated Simulations and Differentiable Physics Workflows Using NVIDIA Warp Kernels
In this tutorial, we explore how to use NVIDIA Warp to build high-performance GPU and CPU simulations directly from Python. We begin by setting up a Colab-compatible environment and initializing Warp so that our kernels can run on either CUDA GPUs or CPUs, depending on availability. We then implement several custom Warp kernels that demonstrate […] The post
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Picsart now allows creators to ‘hire’ AI assistants through agent marketplace
Picsart's AI agent marketplace will launch with four agents, then add more agents each week.
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The iBuyPower Limited Edition Honkai Star Rail "Firefly" Prebuilt Gaming PC Is Now Available
Powerfully equipped with an AMD 9800X3D CPU and Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU.