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Huge superyacht squeezes down narrow Dutch canals |
Photographer Tom van Oossanen was on hand to capture the astonishing scenes as Viva, built by Dutch shipyard Feadship, was transported from its Kaag Island facility to the North Sea at Rotterdam last week. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:15:14 GMT) |
There's a new world's busiest airport |
Seven of the world's top 10 busiest airports in 2020 were in China while the former world's busiest airport -- Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the United States -- fell to No. 2 in the rankings after 22 consecutive years in the top spot. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 22 Apr 2021 06:13:25 GMT) |
Find out which countries are welcoming international tourists back |
There have been more than 142 million Covid-19 cases worldwide and vaccination roll outs have been much smoother in some countries than others. This pandemic is far from over, even though many of us are now itching to make plans to travel or to reunite with loved ones. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:41:01 GMT) |
The mini Venices around Europe |
Thought Venice was unique? Not quite as much as you had in mind. The territories of the Venetian Republic spread across much of Europe, meaning the Mediterranean is full of mini Venices. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:06:45 GMT) |
Greece opens its doors to Covid-free tourists |
Greece has lifted quarantine requirements for vaccinated travelers and those testing negative for Covid-19 from key tourism markets, including Europe, the UK and the United States, in what officials called "baby steps" on the road back to normality. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:39:11 GMT) |
'Hot Instagrammers' Netflix show sparks protests |
Thousands of locals in famed Australian beach town Byron Bay have signed a petition against a planned Netflix "docu-soap" set in the area. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:40:34 GMT) |
Thailand's 'sea people' adapt to life on land |
These days, Salamak Klathalay, like most of us, lives in a house, on land. But this is a relatively new experience for the 78-year-old. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:22:45 GMT) |
The postcard that came home after 60 years |
Leora Krygier bought a postcard written by a World War II British solider at a LA thrift store in 2003, and embarked on a year-long, continent-spanning mission to track down its writer. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Fri, 16 Apr 2021 10:47:05 GMT) |
This vacation hotspot is offering vaccinations to visitors |
After becoming one of the first destinations to fully reopen to tourism, the Maldives is now rolling out a program to inoculate foreign arrivals who are checking into its upscale island resorts. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:16:55 GMT) |
They met at an airport and fell in love |
A mutual friend put Finnish New Yorker Irja Uotila in touch with Mexican local Jesus Estrella during her 12-hour airport layover in Mexico City. Thirty years later Irja and Jesus are married with a daughter living in New York. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:22:13 GMT) |
Chrissy Teigen's mom Pepper talks cooking, family and why she has to eat Thai food daily |
As anyone who's visited Thailand knows, food is a key part of the experience. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:07:32 GMT) |
Aeropostale: The hero pilots who connected the world by airmail |
Flying was a dangerous business in the 1920s, but that didn't stop the hero pilots of Aeropostale who risked their lives to bring airmail from France to Africa and on to South America. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:59:55 GMT) |
American Airlines prepares for summer travel demand surge |
American Airlines is preparing to return many of its planes to the skies in anticipation of a summer travel surge. CNN's Pete Muntean reports. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:38:49 GMT) |
Las Vegas is set to come out of Covid-19 better than ever |
New casino resorts, innovative restaurants, expanded convention space and one-of-a-kind cultural destinations characterize the latest iteration of this desert city that continues to reinvent itself in the face of adversity. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:12:15 GMT) |
World's most powerful passport for 2021 revealed |
Temporary travel bans have undercut the freedoms traditionally enjoyed by the world's most powerful passports, with an Asian country holding onto the No.1 slot but the UK and the United States plummeting down the real-world ranking |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:07:45 GMT) |
The Welshman who mailed himself home from Australia in a box |
He'd only just arrived in Australia from Wales, but teenager Brian Robson quickly realized that he'd made a big mistake by emigrating to the other side of the world. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:38:53 GMT) |
The gleaming city that emerged from turmoil in the heart of Africa |
With noisy traffic and bustling markets, Kigali is much like other major cities in Africa, with one exception -- it's completely spotless. Thanks to a clean up program that is part of community efforts to distance Rwanda from its recent brutal past, it has some of the cleanest streets in Africa. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:51:17 GMT) |
Everglades Jetport: The 'world's greatest airport' that never was |
It was supposed to be the world's largest airport, a glamorous intercontinental hub for supersonic airliners with six runways and high-speed rail links to surrounding cities. But today, it's little more than an airstrip in the middle of nowhere. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:00:23 GMT) |
How American Airlines takes planes out of storage |
American Airlines is pulling all of its planes back into service by the end of the month. But it's not like restarting your car. Right now, crews are inspecting everything from cockpits to coffee machines aboard airliners that have been parked during the pandemic. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:07:40 GMT) |
Floating hotel concept creates its own electricity |
This new concept from Turkish design team Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio may just blow all the others floating hotels out of the water in terms of eco consciousness. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:38:49 GMT) |
What it's like to visit the Thai island of Phuket right now |
Pre-pandemic, Phuket's Patong Beach was not a place you'd go for peace and quiet. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Sat, 10 Apr 2021 02:39:32 GMT) |
You're vaccinated now, so can you go to a restaurant? What you should know |
As the vaccinated percentage of the population increases, you may be wondering whether now is finally the time to enjoy a meal that isn't homemade or takeout. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:24:39 GMT) |
The man recreating airplane meals to get through lockdown |
Some of Nik Sennhauser's earliest memories are of long-haul flights -- and of eating on a plane. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:38:49 GMT) |
Queen opens Buckingham Palace gardens for picnics this summer |
Green fingered enthusiasts will be able to freely roam the gardens of London's historic Buckingham Palace this summer, as Queen Elizabeth II allows self-guided tours of the grounds for the first time in the palace's history. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:35:02 GMT) |
The women explorers who changed the travel world |
They'd traveled hundreds and thousands of miles between them, but explorer Blair Niles and one-time spy Marguerite Harrison were disappointed to learn that they were deemed unsuitable to join the Explorers Club. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:24:19 GMT) |
With just $21, Hong Kong man sails to a new life in the US |
Sitting in Eddie Fong's living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Thu, 08 Apr 2021 01:02:37 GMT) |
Now you can move into an Italian house for just $12,000 |
Finding a dream house in Italy just got easier. Two towns ,Carrega Ligure in northern Italy and Latronico in the deep south, have created online platforms where buyers can view photos, maps and details of old abandoned buildings on sale and get directly in touch with the owner. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:01:15 GMT) |
Car ferries in the skies: The rise and fall of the Aviation Traders Carvair |
If an aviation enthusiast were to compile a roster of the world's weirdest looking planes, the ATL-98 Carvair would definitely merit a place of honor. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:25:40 GMT) |
Inside Turkey's incredible underground city |
Cappadocia in central Turkey is a unique landscape of naturally occurring rock formations known as "fairy chimneys" beneath which a city has been carved over hundreds of years. |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Sun, 18 Apr 2021 08:22:52 GMT) |
These American expats are willing to travel more than 5,000 miles for their shots |
Americans living overseas seem to be heading back to the United States in growing numbers to get vaccinated -- especially those in Europe frustrated by a vaccine rollout that the World Health Organization slammed in a recent report as "unacceptably slow." |
Read More...(Source: CNN.com - RSS Channel - App Travel Section - Sat, 03 Apr 2021 07:27:38 GMT) |
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shares what the social media platform is doing to provide accurate knowledge about coronavirus and combat the spread of misinformation. |
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Tesla owners warned of 'full self-driving' risks even before fatal crash |
Tesla's "full self-driving" feature has attempted to drive under a railroad crossing arm while a speeding train passes. It's nearly driven head on into a concrete wall of a parking garage, attempted ill-advised left turns, clipped at least one curb, and at least one driver was able to set a maximum speed of 90 mph on a street where the posted speed limit was 35 mph, according to videos posted on social media. |
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Foxconn's giant factory in Wisconsin sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was |
When first announced in 2017, Foxconn's plan to build a massive electronics factory in Wisconsin was hailed by then-President Donald Trump as a sign of the rebirth of American manufacturing. |
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Blockchain: What is it, and why does it matter? |
You've almost certainly heard the term blockchain. But you probably have no idea what it is or how it works, let alone why it generates so much hype. That's OK. Most people don't. |
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Wearable electronic skin could monitor your health |
Takao Someya, a professor at the University of Tokyo, has developed an e-skin designed to track your vital signs. |
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SpaceX is sending a capsule back to space, this time with different astronauts |
Four astronauts from three countries are preparing to leave Earth this week aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, marking the third-ever crewed flight for Elon Musk's company, and the first from SpaceX to make use of a previously flown rocket booster and spacecraft. |
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A social media app that's truly safe for kids? Celebrities bet on Zigazoo |
A young boy named Dawson leans back in a white rocking chair on a balcony: "I bought some rocks from Home Depot and we just painted them. Let me show you over here." |
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The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with four astronauts on board safely docked with the International Space Station. |
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App makers blast Apple and Google in Senate hearing on app store policies |
Apple and Google faced a battery of accusations on Wednesday from prominent app developers, including Spotify and Tile, who alleged that the large tech platforms have abused their dominance and harmed competition. |
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Justice Department is launching a ransomware task force |
The Justice Department has created a new task force dedicated to rooting out and responding to the growing threat of ransomware, according to an agency memo obtained by CNN Business. |
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Apple made a big mistake with its new iMacs |
Apple's new iMac is awesome: a technical marvel and a culmination of Apple's stunning engineering achievements over the past several years. It's also ugly as sin. |
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The '90s era Tamagotchi is back -- this time with a camera |
The '90s icon is back, but this time the Tamagotchi comes with a camera. |
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Ellen Pao: Meritocracy in tech is a myth |
Ellen Pao, the former Reddit CEO and venture capitalist, is urging companies to take another look at how inclusive their workplaces really are as communities grapple with a rise in anti-Asian hate. |
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A new way to pay at Whole Foods: Scan your palm |
Amazon will let customers at some Whole Foods stores pay with simple wave of their hands. |
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Apple's iOS 14.5 update lands next week — including new emojis, big privacy changes |
Apple unveiled a slew of new products at its annual Spring launch on Tuesday, but waited until after the event to announce big changes coming to software for iPhones and iPads "next week." |
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Social media platforms brace for the Chauvin trial verdict |
Social media companies are on high alert for a verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, knowing that their platforms have been used in the past to inflame tensions in the United States and that the same thing could well happen again in the wake of the verdict. |
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Apple unveils a new iPad Pro, colorful iMacs, AirTag and more |
Apple made good on its "Spring loaded" promise by unveiling a slew of new products at its annual Spring product launch event. |
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AirTag could give a nice bump to Apple's growing lineup of smaller stuff |
When people think Apple, they think big ticket items like iPhones, MacBooks and iPads. But the company's accessories line of iPhone cases, chargers and tablet keyboards is a critical part of its revenue growth strategy. |
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What to expect at Apple's 'Spring loaded' event |
Apple's April event kicks off today at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT. Here's what to expect and where you can watch the event live. |
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