Despite the fact that 64-year-old travel author, photographer, lecturer, interpreter and translator Paul Hellander was born and raised in the United Kingdom, growing up nextdoor to members of legendary band The Beatles in Liverpool, and chose to migrate to Australia in his adulthood, to date, […]
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Seven of the best islands in Europe for a spring break
The next stop in our sun worshipper's tour is Sicily, which, at the time of writing, is a€€25 (HK$240) Ryanair flight from Malta. Italy's southernmost island gets the nod over rival tourist honeypots such as Capri and Ischia. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel […]
Facebook Stories will add AR doodles and Boomerang GIFs
According to TechCrunch, Facebook’s tech allows your drawings to wrap around objects like mailboxes and tables in the real world. However, its implementation is still far from perfect, and it can only adapt to the contours of an object when it’s in optimal lighting conditions […]
Two Marist students set to travel after awarded Fulbright Fellowships
Gardner, who is a member of the Marist College Band, Kappa Delta Pi (the education honor society), Sigma Delta Pi (the Spanish honor society) and the College's Emerging Leaders Program, will travel to Spain this fall to begin her teaching assistantship. She spent the fall […]
The best Mediterranean islands to hole up on in April
Travel, as you appreciate, is all about timing. July and August … Completing the top 12: Ibiza, much less popular than its larger siblings, and the Greek islands of Kefallonia and Naxos. Among the most desirable dozen, Greece, Italy and Spain are each represented by […]
Applications for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF are now open
Listen up startup fans — the moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. Applications to Startup Battlefield are finally open! Now, we told you that Disrupt San Francisco 2018 is going to be our biggest, boldest, most ambitious Disrupt ever: triple the floor space, […]
Why It’s Almost Impossible for Fastballs to Get Any Faster
A wickedly fast fastball isn’t the anomaly it once was. A decade ago, Major League pitchers threw a grand total of just 196 triple-digit fastballs in a single season. Last year, 40 pitchers collectively threw 1,017. But while baseball’s hallmark pitch has increased in popularity, […]
Misfit’s $150 slimmed-down hybrid watch is now available
It can track your steps, calories burned, distances traveled and even your sleep duration. You can also take it swimming, since Misfit says it’s water resistant up to 164 feet. In addition to acting as your fitness companion, Path can also notify you if you […]
Growing number of Syrian refugees in Germany making ‘reverse escape’ to Turkey: report
"The fact that refugees are using the same route to go to Turkey which they originally used to get to Germany is a paradox,” Dominik Bartsch, the German ambassador to the UN Refugee Commission, told Panorama. Refugees with a German residence permit can legally travel […]
FedEx will use smart glasses to help pilots land in emergencies
The system is small, light and easy to install, Osterhout claims, and it’s easy to see as much from a quick glance. Smart glasses are usually bulky by themselves, but they’re relatively compact inside an oxygen mask. Not surprisingly, FedEx is the first customer. It’s […]