When travel reporter Zach Griff checked into The Pell, a JDV by Hyatt property in Rhode Island, he expected a relaxing stay with his wife and 9-month-old daughter. Unfortunately, he left on a sour note after the hotel charged him a $500 smoking fee following his stay.

The problem? Griff says he’s never smoked a day in his life, let alone in a hotel room while staying there with his family.

Griff, a senior reporter at The Points Guy, took his story public on social media after the hotel allegedly charged him the $500 fee based on readings from an air quality sensor. The sensor data was supplied by a third-party company called Rest, which claims hotels can easily collect fees from smoking events.

Reminds me of this skit from please don’t destroy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fbdJyd08g

Thanks Romania! This is smart and sensible law.

Ticketmaster wants you to know it’s “all in” on up-front pricing. In a blog post published on Monday, the company triumphantly declared that it’s “putting fans first” and including fees in the first price you see for a ticket. Not mentioned in Ticketmaster’s announcement: An FTC rule requiring that exact change just so happened to take effect today.

Clickbait title, GTA 6 delay has nothing to do with the game industry

Previous titles from rockstar like RDR2 and GTA 5 were also delayed

That would be lovely. One of the things holding up back linux is lack of good creative software. For example things like video editing or image post processing.

I very much like the UWP version and prefer it over the desktop version

It’s a shame they are killing it

This goes to show that Microsoft is completely pulling the plug on first class touch support for their products to support surface devices. Since Panos Panay left Microsoft, surface devices have been losing what makes them special.

The inquiry reported that Trump withheld military aid[a] and an invitation to the White House from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in order to influence Ukraine to announce an investigation into Trump’s political opponent Joe Biden, and to promote a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine–⁠not Russia–⁠was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump

Trump hates Zelenskyy and Ukraine. There is no finding common ground with him.

It was very clear from the Trump’s first term when he withheld aid from Ukraine unless Zelenskyy took blame for the hacking that Russia did.

Why aren’t republicans telling Putin to resign? Putin is the one who started the war.

Looks like this:

Key to its success is Xiaomi’s LaserLink technology. This is a proprietary optical communication module, apparent as a small dot on the back of the phone and the lens where data is transferred as light (near-infrared laser) at speeds of up to 10 Gbps.

The lens has two pins that connect on the back to draw power from the phone

The price hike is happening in March when the tariffs are coming

US is offering nothing to Ukraine, no NATO, no more weapons, no more aid, no security guarantees, etc.

What are they even negotiating?

Yuck. Match group needs to be disbanded. It’s insane that they own all the dating apps.

I’m hoping for a mobile phone but based on the hints I think it will be a mobile gaming device

USAID was helping Ukrainian hospitals with emergency supplies during Russian missile attacks, helping Ukrainian refugees, helping Ukrainian disabled veterans, etc. No wonder Russia welcomes this.

Interfering with their efforts in killing Ukrainians

Trump is sowing division in his own backyard, threatening to hit even the European Union (EU) with tariffs - all in his first month in office. His actions may have other US allies wondering what is in store for them.

In contrast, China will want to appear a calm, stable and perhaps more attractive global trade partner.

“Trump’s America-first policy will bring challenges and threats to almost all countries in the world,” says Yun Sun, director of the China programme at the Stimson Centre.

"From the perspective of US-China strategic competition, a deterioration of US leadership and credibility will benefit China.

Art of the deal

Do these solutions provide address autocomplete suggestions, directions, or streetview like images?

This is very cool!