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MindsEye studio confirm more layoffs, as CEO claims they've got "overwhelming evidence of organised espionage and corporate sabotage"
MindsEye developers Build a Rocket Boy have announced that they're making more redundancies, with CEO Mark Gerhard using the statement to continue insisting that proof the game was targeted by "organised espionage and corporate sabotage" will be forthcoming.
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Kym Barter appointed to Managing Director at Atlantis Dubai
Atlantis Dubai has promoted Kym Barter to managing director, placing him in charge of both flagship properties, Atlantis, The Palm and Atlantis The Royal, as well as Aquaventure World. In his expanded role, Barter will oversee the strategic direction and continued performance of the integrated resort portfolio, which includes two of Dubai’s most prominent luxury destinations.
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Alsimrah, Sharjah’s largest Ramadan tent, returns to Aljada with expanded capacity this Holy Month
Arada is welcoming guests to Alsimrah, the largest Ramadan tent in Sharjah, now set up at Aljada following its successful launch in 2025. With premium Iftar and Suhoor experiences available to book online, this one-of-a-kind setting offers guests the opportunity to immerse themselves in Emirati and Middle Eastern cuisine and culture.
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TAIBA appoints Tareq Derbas as vice president of hospitality operations
TAIBA, the leading Saudi company in the hospitality sector, announced the appointment of Mr. Tareq Derbas as Vice President of Hospitality Operations. This appointment reflects the company’s commitment to strengthening its leadership team and advancing its long-term growth strategy, in line with the evolving tourism and hospitality landscape in the Kingdom.
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Minister of Tourism Calls for Innovation, Resilience, and Connection to Navigate Global Poly-Crisis
Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett yesterday delivered a wide-ranging address at a high-level panel discussion on poly-crisis and its impact on the global tourism industry, underscoring both the profound vulnerabilities and remarkable resilience of tourism as the world’s most important economic activity.
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Marriott Announces Significant Growth and Strategic Expansion in the Caribbean and Latin America
Marriott International, Inc. announced an outstanding year of growth in its Caribbean and Latin America (CALA) region in 2025. The company achieved a record 94 signed deals in the region, adding 10,461 rooms to the pipeline, an increase of 40 percent in signed transactions and more than 30 percent in signed rooms compared to 2024. This performance reinforces Marriott’s long-term commitment to diversified expansion and meeting evolving owner interests in the CALA region.
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Air Tahiti Nui announces the opening of a direct route between Tahiti and Australia
Air Tahiti Nui continues to develop its international network and announces the launch of new direct service between Papeete and Sydney (PPT–SYD). This new service forms part of the airline’s strategy to sustainably strengthen French Polynesia’s connectivity with major regional hubs across the South Pacific.
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Disney Cruise Line Christens Disney Adventure with Star-Studded, Music-Filled Celebration
Disney Cruise Line welcomed its newest ship, the Disney Adventure, to its rapidly expanding fleet in a dazzling entertainment showcase that celebrated the beloved Disney stories, characters, and music that come to life onboard. The elegant artistry of the christening ceremony punctuated the introduction of the cruise line’s first ever ship to sail in Southeast Asia.
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Trip.com Group Reinforces AI Innovation and European Collaboration at ITB Berlin
Trip.com Group concluded its participation at ITB Berlin with strong demonstrations of its leadership in travel technology, artificial intelligence and strategic partnerships across Europe. At a series of panel discussions, the company shared insights into how innovation and data are reshaping traveller behaviour and partner opportunities, underscoring its commitment to powering the full travel journey from trip planning to in-trip support and beyond.
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British Airways Middle East operation
We remain unable to operate flights from Abu Dhabi, Amman, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai and Tel Aviv. The UK Government advice has now been updated to note that: “commercial options are available to depart the region, and if your presence in the UAE is not essential, you may wish to consider departing, if you judge you can access these options safely”.
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Scaremongering by AENA Chairman Cannot Mask Flimsy Arguments for Increasing Airport Charges
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expressed outrage at the recent remarks from Maurici Lucena, Chairman and CEO of AENA, the operator of the vast majority of airports in Spain, suggesting that airlines calling for airport charges reductions were “compromising safety and security.”
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SEABOURN INTRODUCES “YOURS TO EXPLORE EVENT,” OFFERING SUITE UPGRADES AND SHIPBOARD CREDIT
Seabourn, the leader in luxury and expedition travel, invites travelers to embrace a world of curated luxury with its new “Yours to Explore Event.” Available now through May 5, 2026, the promotion will offer a complimentary two-category Veranda Suite upgrade and shipboard credit for guests booking select 2026 and beyond ocean and expedition voyages.
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Booking without headaches - safety and hospitality for the LGBTQ+-community
When Karl Krause books a hotel with his husband Dan Colijn, it raises many questions. How will the couple be received? Will they get odd looks? Will they get the double bed they want? Together, the founders of the award-winning travel blog Couple of Men travel the world. The uncertainty of whether they are really welcome at their hotel always travels with them, said Karl Krause, speaking at the panel discussion entitled “Travel Proud - Making Travel Truly Inclusive” at the LGBTQ+ pavilion at ITB...
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Layan Life by Anantara Launches a New Generation of Longevity Retreats for Women
Layan life by Anantara, the brand’s flagship wellness retreat nestled within the luxurious Anantara Layan Phuket Resort, has unveiled a new collection of women-focused retreats designed to support, celebrate and empower women across all chapters of life — from tech-overloaded teens and women navigating the hormonal fluctuations of midlife, to those entering their wiser years wanting to stay strong, mobile and well.
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Air Transat 15% Off Flights to Canada for International Women’s Day
In honour of International Women’s Day, Air Transat, the award-winning Canadian leisure airline, is embracing the growing ‘Wandering Women’ trend and offering 15% off flights* to Canada to female travellers seeking the empowerment of solo travel.
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British Holidaymakers Turn Away from 40°C Mediterranean Summers in Search of Cooler Escapes
With parts of southern Europe repeatedly exceeding 40°C in recent summers, extreme heat has become a structural feature of Mediterranean travel. In response, British travellers are increasingly turning to Alpine alternatives to offer a more predictable and restorative climate.
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Fukuoka City - Japan’s Epicentre for ‘Slomadism’ in 2026
Fukuoka City is gaining attention as Japan’s most attractive destination for ‘slomads’ as the digital nomad community slows down and looks for places to stay put for a few months rather than a few weeks. Fukuoka was the first city in Japan to introduce the Startup Visa (in 2015), an initiative allowing foreign nationals to live in the city long-term while launching businesses or working as freelancers. Numerous digital nomads have been drawn to the ‘startup hub of Asia’* by its urban convenience...
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Building High-Performance Agentic Systems
Most enterprise chatbots fail in the same quiet way. They answer questions. They impress in demos. And then they stall in production. Knowledge goes stale. Answers cannot be audited. The system cannot act beyond generating text. When workflows require coordination, execution, or accountability, the chatbot stops being useful. Agentic systems exist because that model is insufficient. Instead of treating the LLM as the product, agentic architecture embe...
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Ted Season 2 Review
As soon as Ted Season 2 starts you know you're on familiar ground, with phone sex lines and sperm-soiled tissues.
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Troubleshooting Intermittent Query Failures on Azure SQL DB Read Replicas (Error 3947)
Recently, I worked on an interesting customer case involving intermittent query failures while fetching reporting data from a read replica. The customer was running their database on the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale service tier, utilizing the read scale-out replica to offload reporting traffic from the primary compute node. However, while loading reports, the application occasionally took longer than usual and then failed with the following error:<...
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Measuring KPIs like Response Times for Shared Mailboxes
Shared mailboxes are not CRM systems. However, many Microsoft 365 tenants use shared mailboxes to handle customer queries and then want to measure KPIs such as agent responsiveness to customer queries or the number of queries handled per agent in a month. As explored in this article, it’s possible to use the Microsoft Graph to extract some KPI-like data from shared mailboxes.
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YuanLab AI Releases Yuan 3.0 Ultra: A Flagship Multimodal MoE Foundation Model, Built for Stronger Intelligence and Unrivaled Efficiency
How can a trillion-parameter Large Language Model achieve state-of-the-art enterprise performance while simultaneously cutting its total parameter count by 33.3% and boosting pre-training efficiency by 49%? Yuan Lab AI releases Yuan3.0 Ultra, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model featuring 1T total parameters and 68.8B activated parameters. The model architecture is designed to optimize performance […] The post
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Can you use AI to implement an Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI)?
The Short Answer: Yes. And It's Better Than You Think. If you've worked in healthcare IT for any length of time, you've dealt with this problem. Patient A shows up at Hospital 1 as "Jonathan Smith, DOB 03/15/1985." Patient B shows up at Hospital 2 as "Jon Smith, DOB 03/15/1985." Patient C shows up at a clinic as "John Smythe, DOB 03/15/1985." Same person? Probably. But how do you prove ...
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Did Live Nation punish a venue by taking Billie Eilish away?
John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy. In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global's existing Ticketmaster contract would expire at the end of September, and Abbamondi and his team had evaluated proposals from SeatGeek, AXS, and […]