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Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and car rentals (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/kayak-launches-an-ai-m…

Kayak launches an 'AI Mode' for travel questions, search, and bookings | TechCrunch
Kayak is bringing AI directly to its main platform with a new “AI Mode” that lets travelers research, plan, and book trips through a built-in chatbot.

Rams have an unusual travel plan for London game that no NFL team has ever attempted

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-have-unusual-travel-plan-for-london-game/

Ich denke, Karl Drais würde vor lauter Begeisterung eine Extrarunde auf seinem Schwarz-Rot-Gold angemalten Laufrad durch den Karlsruher Schlossgarten drehen.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-i…

Judge lifts travel restrictions for Mahmoud Khalil | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-lifts-travel-restrictions-for-mahmoud-khalil/

Photos from a Holiday week
#travel #photography
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Photos from a Holiday week
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Kayak: in principle, an application that may be well-served by "old" rules-based AI. Its function is supposed to be deterministic, needing more data ingestion & analysis than humans can tolerate.
But if they're calling it "AI" today, I'm sure it's a LLM/neural net gadget which will hallucinate flights & fares. Because we're playing out the theory that the #XRisk

Time to continue my #rail travel stories. It's a few years since I was at the seaside last, since the travel's too long for me now. Before, I used to visit Świnoujście and Kołobrzeg a few times. The route to Kołobrzeg is quite straight, whereas Świnoujście gets interesting because of Szczecin on the way there.
So over all these years, using regional Poznań – Świnoujście trains, I've made all these variations:
• a direct train that reversed on Szczecin Główny station (i.e. the main station in Szczecin)
• a direct train, except that I got off at Szczecin Dąbie to stretch my legs, and then entered the same train 40 minutes later as it stopped at the same station again
• a direct train that passed through Główny and used a roundabout track to reverse
• a direct train, except that I got off at the first stop at Szczecin Dąbie, and changed trains to "Błękitny" that went faster from Szczecin to Świnoujście
• the "Orkan" train that used the rail bypass to go straight from Szczecin Zdunowo to Szczecin Załom, and skip all the other Szczecins (except I only went as far as Goleniów back then)

Cruise & Travel Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Travel Time and Weather-Aware Traffic Forecasting in a Conformal Graph Neural Network Framework
Mayur Patil, Qadeer Ahmed, Shawn Midlam-Mohler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12043 h…

Travel Time and Weather-Aware Traffic Forecasting in a Conformal Graph Neural Network Framework
Traffic flow forecasting is essential for managing congestion, improving safety, and optimizing various transportation systems. However, it remains a prevailing challenge due to the stochastic nature of urban traffic and environmental factors. Better predictions require models capable of accommodating the traffic variability influenced by multiple dynamic and complex interdependent factors. In this work, we propose a Graph Neural Network (GNN) framework to address the stochasticity by leveragin…

Retired School Teachers and Students: Be aware when traveling to the USA
#Math #Travel

Snap OS 2.0: AR-Brillen bekommen Echtzeitübersetzung, Snapchat-Features & WebXR
Snap zeigt neue Funktionen für die Spectacles. Ein neuer Browser mit WebXR, ein alltagstauglicher Travel Mode und Snapchat-Features stehen im Mittelpunkt.

🏒 Rapid rise of private club and travel teams found in youth sports
#sports

Rapid rise of private club and travel teams found in youth sports
A new study provides evidence of the explosive growth of private club and travel teams in youth sports over the past 60 years.

Santa Barbara is gearing up to host its 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18, 2025.
Free tours aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin and Tall Ship Mystic Whaler are offered,
along with harbor rides on Azure Seas and Kelpie.
This year, Santa Barbara Sailing Center will introduce sailing lessons for attendees.
To promote eco-friendly travel, MOVE Santa Barbara County offers a free bike valet for festivalgoers.
Visit before or after you get a sk…

Santa Barbara to Host 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18 - edhat
The day-long event at the Santa Barbara Harbor on October 18 is a free community tradition runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

TripScore: Benchmarking and rewarding real-world travel planning with fine-grained evaluation
Yincen Qu, Huan Xiao, Feng Li, Hui Zhou, Xiangying Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09011

TripScore: Benchmarking and rewarding real-world travel planning with fine-grained evaluation
Travel planning is a valuable yet complex task that poses significant challenges even for advanced large language models (LLMs). While recent benchmarks have advanced in evaluating LLMs' planning capabilities, they often fall short in evaluating feasibility, reliability, and engagement of travel plans. We introduce a comprehensive benchmark for travel planning that unifies fine-grained criteria into a single reward, enabling direct comparison of plan quality and seamless integration with reinfo…

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09)
Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris

Mysteries of travel insurance:
You may get a 2% discount if you put "All of Europe" instead of any list of Western European states. But it also occurs if you just add one of these:
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Hungary
• Croatia … etc
This reduces your risk (to them) — as if you're tougher? Even if you're in France, Germany, Belgium etc …
And yet, this list doesn't include:
• Czechia
• Slovenia
Does that make these one…

Fridays I work from home. Do I work? Of course, of course, but not really of course 😆
Looking forward to prepping the travel laptop; in two weeks I'll head back for a couple of days.
What's on it? FreeBSD and the River window manager.
And then the mystery of the liveslaks; dloading the latest KDE iso as we speak, so I can install it on the work laptop. If it works, that is.
That's all the real work I'll be doing 🤣

Most Western African migrants remain local and travel short distances
Irene Tafani, Ola Ali, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Massimo Riccaboni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10314 https://

Most Western African migrants remain local and travel short distances
Migration patterns are complex and context-dependent, with the distances migrants travel varying greatly depending on socio-economic and demographic factors. While global migration studies often focus on Western countries, there is a crucial gap in our understanding of migration dynamics within the African continent, particularly in West Africa. Using data from over 60,000 individuals from eight West African countries, this study examines the determinants of migration distance in the region. Ou…

Tryst with Travel: Historical and Literary Perspectives
https://ift.tt/iENRDMu
updated: Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 12:28pmfull name / name of organization: Gargi College,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Platoon-Centric Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory Using Safe Reinforcement Learning
Ruining Yang, Jingyuan Zhou, Qiqing Wang, Jinhao Liang, Kaidi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12378

Platoon-Centric Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory Using Safe Reinforcement Learning
With recent advancements in Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) emerges as a promising eco-driving strategy to reduce the number of stops and idle time at intersections, thereby reducing energy consumption and emissions. Existing studies typically improve energy and travel efficiency for individual CAVs without considering their impacts on the entire mixed-traffic platoon, leading to inefficient traffic flow. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Kraak & Smaak:
🎵 Travel Light (feat. Ivar)
#Kraak #Smaak
https://kraaksmaak.bandcamp.com/track/kraak-smaak-travel-light-feat-ivar
https://open.spotify.com/track/37qLbAeOU3yhpLlD2gyTsp

Understanding variations of galactic energetic particles in the heliosphere: modelling and radiation hazard assessment
Miguel Orcinha, Fernando Bar\~ao, Bruna Bertucci, Emanuele Fiandrini, David Pelosi, Nicola Tomassetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11837

Understanding variations of galactic energetic particles in the heliosphere: modelling and radiation hazard assessment
The intensity and energy spectrum of energetic charged radiation in the heliosphere are significantly influenced by solar activity. This phenomenon is known as solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays. As interplanetary travel becomes a reality, missions in low Earth orbit become longer and more frequent. In low Earth orbit we need to estimate the influence of Earth's magnetosphere accurately to assess the radiation hazard experienced by astronauts during space missions, there is an emergent …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Rival Schools:
🎵 Travel By Telephone
#RivalSchools
https://open.spotify.com/track/0FgSTUS1Dbw3D1JUsWUh7E

Travel Business Unlocked Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

I built GeoOpen as an open, historical IP geolocation database. I didn’t expect it to attract so many different users so fast.
Tenzir’s latest blog shows how they use it: "Time-Travel for Investigators: Live & Retro GeoIP/ASN Enrichment".
🔗 Tenzir blog post https://tenzir.com/blog/live-and-retro

Time-Travel for Investigators: Live & Retro GeoIP/ASN Enrichment - Tenzir
The data pipeline engine for security teams. Collect, shape, optimize, enrich, store, replay, and route your security data. As a data pipeline management (DPM) solution, Tenzir automates security data across its entire lifecycle.

The OTP | Titans Travel to Sin City https://www.tennesseetitans.com/video/the-otp-titans-travel-to-sin-city

Hab mir nun einen zweiten AP gekauft der nur via VPN ins Internet darf. Das GL-inet Gerät ist klein, aber die Leistung beeindruckt. Hat eine sehr gute GUI und darunter läuft ein OpenWRT. AdGuard z.b. kannst du einfach per klick installieren, VPN Einrichtung geht ebenfalls super einfach.
https://amzn.eu/d/3hj3EAC…

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

Spencer Rattler explains why losing Oklahoma QB job to Caleb Williams was 'blessing in disguise'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/spencer

Snap announces Snap OS 2.0 for its Spectacles glasses, updating first-party apps and adding new features like Travel Mode and support for WebXR (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/snap-os-2-0-spectacles-specs-consumer-ar/

Snap OS 2.0 Brings The AR Glasses Closer To Consumer-Ready
Snap OS 2.0 is out now, adding and improving first-party apps like Browser, Gallery, and Spotlight to bring the AR platform closer to being ready for consumers.

How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000 from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit card for luxury clothing and travel (Charlotte Klein/The Cut)
https://www.thecut.com/article/food52-shannon-muldoon-company-…

The Food52 Exec Who Spent $270k on the Company Credit Card
Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon, 38, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer using the company credit card for clothes and travel.

Cyrillic typewriter keyboard.
Uzhhorod, Ukraine
October 2016
#travel

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a rundown of the top infosec-related long reads.
Don't miss this week's selection, which includes
--How the Huione Group launders billions in scams and crypto heists,
--Fears of China spying on the UK financial system,
--How stolen iPhones travel around,
--Cyber played only an incremental role in the Israel-Iran conflict,
--CISA 2015 must be reauthorized,
--Watermarks to weed out deepfa…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 8/2/25
How the Huione Group launders billions in scams and crypto heists, Fears of China spying on the UK financial system, How stolen iPhones travel around, Cyber played only an incremental role in the Israel-Iran conflict, CISA 2015 must be reauthorized, Watermarks to weed out deepfakes, more

We had lunch today with longtime friends who have a time share condo in Florida, where they have spent time every January going back 20 years. The husband doesn't think it's a big deal to continue going. The wife doesn't want to go back as she thinks boycotting U.S. travel is the right thing to do. It was obviously a sore spot between them, so we kinda changed the subject. But not before we made it clear that we won't set foot in the USA as long as the orange moron is president.

Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
After nearly a decade in limbo and years of negotiations,
a treaty announced in June and set to come into effect over coming months,
will scrap most barriers to travel and trade that went up after Britain’s divorce from the E.U. became official at the end of 2020.

Some 40,000 Gibraltarians will regain what millions of traveling Brits miss most:
the ability to wander unfettered, without passports or time limits, througho…

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.

NestGNN: A Graph Neural Network Framework Generalizing the Nested Logit Model for Travel Mode Choice
Yuqi Zhou, Zhanhong Cheng, Lingqian Hu, Yuheng Bu, Shenhao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07123

NestGNN: A Graph Neural Network Framework Generalizing the Nested Logit Model for Travel Mode Choice
Nested logit (NL) has been commonly used for discrete choice analysis, including a wide range of applications such as travel mode choice, automobile ownership, or location decisions. However, the classical NL models are restricted by their limited representation capability and handcrafted utility specification. While researchers introduced deep neural networks (DNNs) to tackle such challenges, the existing DNNs cannot explicitly capture inter-alternative correlations in the discrete choice cont…

Austria and Italy Finish Digging World’s Longest Rail Tunnel–Ready to Reshape Travel Maps https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/austria-and-italy-finish-digging-worlds-longest-rail-tunnel-ready-to-reshape-travel-maps/…

Austria and Italy Finish Digging World’s Longest Rail Tunnel–Ready to Reshape Travel Maps
The tunnel will take thousands of the more than 2 million trucks that cross the pass every year off the roads.

Vibe Check: Understanding the Effects of LLM-Based Conversational Agents' Personality and Alignment on User Perceptions in Goal-Oriented Tasks
Hasibur Rahman, Smit Desai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09870

Vibe Check: Understanding the Effects of LLM-Based Conversational Agents' Personality and Alignment on User Perceptions in Goal-Oriented Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) enable conversational agents (CAs) to express distinctive personalities, raising new questions about how such designs shape user perceptions. This study investigates how personality expression levels and user-agent personality alignment influence perceptions in goal-oriented tasks. In a between-subjects experiment (N=150), participants completed travel planning with CAs exhibiting low, medium, or high expression across the Big Five traits, controlled via our novel T…

16 Underground Cities You Never Knew Existed: Hidden Worlds That Will Leave You Awestruck https://inspiremymantra.com/16-underground-cities-you-n…

16 Underground Cities You Never Knew Existed: Hidden Worlds That Will Leave You Awestruck
Beneath the bustling cities and serene landscapes of our world lies a realm few have dared to explore—a hidden tapestry of life carved into stone, shrouded in

Heute Glück mit dem Wetter gehabt beim Besuch von Schloss #Moritzburg #travel

Kellogg will travel to Kyiv for Ukraine's Independence Day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/kellogg-will-travel-to-kyiv.html

Sonic CD: chasing the generators
I had some questions before, and I have now answered them. Do I need to travel to the future after destroying the machine in the past, or is it sufficient to just explode the generator? No, you don't need to travel to the future; you can finish the act in the past, and you're still told you created a good future.

Caoilinn Hughes - following in Joyce's railway tracks.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/26/train-travel-following-in-james-joyce-tracks-to-trieste

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Angles ↕️
在路上 - 去西安/ 角度 ↕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Have vaccines, will travel. 💉💉 🧳✈️
#health #vaccines #travel

Mapy (#mapy #osm

Travel Bans vs. Social Distancing: A Mathematical Analysis
Christian Borgs, Karissa Huang, Geng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08895 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Travel Bans vs. Social Distancing: A Mathematical Analysis
As the world grows increasingly connected, infectious disease transmission and outbreaks become a pressing global concern for public health officials and policymakers. While policy interventions to contain and prevent the spread of disease have been proposed and implemented, there has been little rigorous quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of such interventions. In this paper, we study the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) infection process on a dynamic network model that models two …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- Time Travel is Cheating: Going Live with DeepFund for Real-Time Fund Investment Benchmarking
Li, Shi, Wang, Duan, Ruan, Huang, Long, Huang, Tang, Luo

The Doppler boosted LISA response to gravitational waves
Tom van der Steen, Henri Inchausp\'e, Thomas Hertog, Aur\'elien Hees
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10038 https://…

The Doppler boosted LISA response to gravitational waves
The future space-based gravitational wave observatory LISA is expected to detect massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), ranging up to thousands. Such high-precision observations require accurate modeling of the detector response. However, current derivations of the response function neglect the motion of the spacecraft during light travel time, omitting velocity-dependent terms of order $β= v/c \sim 10^{-4}$. In this work, we derive the velocity-dependent …

Reflexionen über Kommunismus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/opinion/airport-lounge-travel-credit-card.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk8.R56H.G3l8_vfLgioX&smid=url-share

Opinion | America’s Airport Lounges Are Crowded and Crummy
Airport lounges have never been more popular — and not worth the hassle.

From Covid-19, we learned that a somewhat coordinated global response is (would be) required, because people travel. Forget about that under the Trump regime and his antivaxx buddy RFK jr.
This will first hurt Americans, but in Europe, we're bound to feel the impact too.
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftA…

Treehouses, Time Travel, and Tragedy
A collapsed tree, a misdated ancestor, and a man wrongfully imprisoned—this week’s stories all circle truth, loss, and what gets buried, whether in the backyard, family records, or a broken justice system.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/treehouse

Treehouses, Time Travel, and Tragedy – Bob Mueller
A backyard dream resurfaces, an 1821 mystery catches my eye, and a wrongful conviction case demands we pay attention.

Astrophysicist Proposes Paperclip-Sized Spacecraft Could Travel at Lightspeed to a Black Hole - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/2124249/astrophysicist-proposes-paperclip-sized-spacecraft-could-travel-at-lightspeed-to-a-black-hole

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Welp we had a weekend of #HeritageOpenDays trips planned but that was before my uncle was sent home from hosp with weeks to live and we made an almost impromptu flying visit to Devon to see him, and the weather decided to throw a wobbly this weekend and make travel and building appreciating pretty unappealing, so we're both knackered from yday's trip and a day behind on stuff plus…

Filing: corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan plans to raise up to $960M in a US IPO and is targeting a valuation of up to $6.45B (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/travel-tech-firm-navan-a…

It's Dream Cruise time again 🏁
Same detours as in years past. Downtown Pontiac service will be temporarily moved from the Phoenix Center up to Huron & Perry starting Friday at 6pm. 710 and 740 have local event reroutes. Woodward service will be on bypass all day Saturday.

MICROTRIPS: MICRO-geography TRavel Intelligence and Pattern Synthesis
Yangyang Wang, Tayo Fabusuyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05080 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

MICROTRIPS: MICRO-geography TRavel Intelligence and Pattern Synthesis
This study presents a novel small-area estimation framework to enhance urban transportation planning through detailed characterization of travel behavior. Our approach improves on the four-step travel model by employing publicly available microdata files and machine learning methods to predict travel behavior for a representative, synthetic population at small geographic areas. This approach enables high-resolution estimation of trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and route assignm…

This is why you apply the Principle of Least Privilege, friends.
(Short: don’t give access to things people don’t absolutely need access to; and then when you DO have access to something, don’t use it persistently unless you absolutely need to.)
(link via @… )

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
#travel
https://themodernfield.com/best-smal…

14 Mountain Towns in the U.S. So Beautiful They Feel Like Heaven on Earth
We all get that deep urge to swap city noise for the scent of pine. I know I have. Hence, I am always on the search for the best small mountain towns in the US. 

PricingLogic: Evaluating LLMs Reasoning on Complex Tourism Pricing Tasks
Yunuo Liu, Dawei Zhu, Zena Al-Khalili, Dai Cheng, Yanjun Chen, Dietrich Klakow, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12409

PricingLogic: Evaluating LLMs Reasoning on Complex Tourism Pricing Tasks
We present PricingLogic, the first benchmark that probes whether Large Language Models(LLMs) can reliably automate tourism-related prices when multiple, overlapping fare rules apply. Travel agencies are eager to offload this error-prone task onto AI systems; however, deploying LLMs without verified reliability could result in significant financial losses and erode customer trust. PricingLogic comprises 300 natural-language questions based on booking requests derived from 42 real-world pricing p…

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China #China

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China
China’s Guangdong Province is battling its worst-ever chikungunya outbreak, with thousands of infections spreading across major cities and nearby regions. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, the disease underscores how climate change, urbanization, and global travel are fueling mosquito-borne threats.

Space travel is bad for human eyesight - blind people traveling to Mars would be less affected https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WbQcFgfz__Y Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for already-blind astronauts?

"E-bikes can cut carbon, congestion, costs — if cities take them seriously"
#EBikes #Travel #Emissions

E-bikes could cut carbon, congestion, and costs — if cities take them seriously
E-bike sales are booming, providing a clean form of transportation that also improves public health. Yet cities remain committed to cars.

Once again I'm on my way with #DeutscheBahn and #DBS
Let's hope that my travel curse is not striking today 🤞

Everything AI In Travel
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Modelling and evaluating travel information during disruptions: An illustrative example from Swedish railways
Abderrahman Ait-Ali, Anders Peterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08254

Modelling and evaluating travel information during disruptions: An illustrative example from Swedish railways
Accurate and timely travel information is an asset for enhancing passenger travel experience during normal traffic, and for mitigating the discomforts during disruptions. With longer and more frequent disruptions as well as increasing ridership, traffic delays can incur substantial costs for passengers and other transport stakeholders, e.g., operators and infrastructure managers. Such costs can, however, be reduced thanks to effective travel information strategies during traffic disruptions. In…

A paper recently published in a behavioral sciences journal describes a high school student’s hyperthymesia,
an extraordinary ability to retrieve autobiographical memories.
Teenager With Hyperthymesia Exhibits Extraordinary Mental Time Travel Abilities:
https://www.

Teenager with hyperthymesia exhibits extraordinary mental time travel abilities
Scientists in France have documented the case of a teenager with extraordinary autobiographical memory. She can vividly reexperience past events and imagine future ones in detail, highlighting a rare form of mental time travel and emotional memory organization.

Light Travel Time Effects in Kilonova Models
F. McNeill, S. A. Sim, C. E. Collins, L. J. Shingles, R. Damgaard, A. Sneppen, J. H. Gillanders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09261 htt…

Light Travel Time Effects in Kilonova Models
The extremely rapid evolution of kilonovae results in spectra that change on an hourly basis. These spectra are key to understanding the processes occurring within the event, but this rapid evolution is an unfamiliar domain compared to other explosive transient events, such as supernovae. In particular, the most obvious P Cygni feature in the spectra of AT2017gfo -- commonly attributed to strontium -- possesses an emission component that emerges after, and ultimately outlives, its associated ab…

Ukraine considers easing travel ban for men ages 18-24, parliament speaker says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/ukraine-considers-easing-travel-ban.html

PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT!!!
Coastal #dunes are a complex and delicate ecosystem. There is nowhere that it is OK to drive any vehicle through them. Any #dunebuggy is an implement of destruction.
#Michigan

Aidan | Travel Photographer (@atschieber.bsky.social)
Off roading on the coastal dunes 🏜️ #scape - #michigan #dunes #photography #outdoors #landscape #photohour #photographersunited #offroading #landscapephotography #nature #EastCoastKin #travel #dunebuggy #landscapephotography #jeep #coast #wrangler #PhotographersOfBluesky

Greener Travel: Why Cut Car-bon Miles? - A journey of 1000 miles begins with 1 step; not to a car please! #podcast #CarFreeDay #transport -

Greener Travel: Why Cut Car-bon Miles?
A journey of 1000 miles begins with 1 step; not to a car please! #podcast #CarFreeDay #transport

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/6]:
- TripScore: Benchmarking and rewarding real-world travel planning with fine-grained evaluation
Yincen Qu, Huan Xiao, Feng Li, Gregory Li, Hui Zhou, Xiangying Dai

Kullerstad, Östergötland | Exploring Sweden https://biveros.com/kullerstad-ostergotland/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=Biveros/magazine/BIVEROS BULLETIN&utm_medium=mastodon

Kullerstad, Östergötland | Exploring Sweden
A travel guide to Kullerstad parish in Östergötland, Sweden. Covers the medieval church, local sights, history, and travel information.

Three stories, one thread: a dying tree, a flawed family record, and a man’s 20-year wrongful imprisonment. What gets lost—and what we uncover—matters.
Read the full post: https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/treehouses-time-travel-and-tragedy/

Treehouses, Time Travel, and Tragedy – Bob Mueller
A backyard dream resurfaces, an 1821 mystery catches my eye, and a wrongful conviction case demands we pay attention.

Happy International Left Handed Day to all those afflicted, including my oldest daughter. Just over 10% of people are left-handed, and only 5% to 6% for women. Some studies have reported that rightys have higher IQs than lefties. Hey, it's just science people, don't shoot the messenger. Things have improved for left-handers, and rarely are they seen as evil because of how they write. The word sinister comes from the Latin word for left-handed.
My daughter being a southpaw was a huge advantage during her competitive softball years. As one of only 2 left-handed pitchers in a league of 1,200 girls, she was very effective league play and in travel tournaments despite being slower than average. She did have a wicked curve that broke in sharply on right-handed batters.
#LeftHanderDay

Buccaneers RB coach Skip Peete will travel with team after Wednesday medical episode, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buccane

How liveable are London's 15-minute neighbourhoods? Exploring liveability profiles and active travel patterns in London
Philyoung Jeong, Ivann Schlosser, Alexei Poliakov, Elsa Arcaute
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09296

How liveable are London's 15-minute neighbourhoods? Exploring liveability profiles and active travel patterns in London
Healthy and liveable neighbourhoods have increasingly been recognised as essential components of sustainable urban development. Yet, ambiguity surrounding their definition and constituent elements presents challenges in understanding and evaluating neighbourhood profiles, highlighting the need for a more detailed and systematic assessment. This research develops a composite Liveability Index for Greater London based on metrics related to the proximity, density, and diversity of POIs, along with…

Airports in more than a half-dozen U.S. markets have declined to display a video in which
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem blames congressional Democrats for the government shutdown and any related travel delays,
citing the political nature of its content, according to local authorities.

Officials that oversee airports serving Buffalo, Charlotte, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle and Portland, Oregon,
said the video could violate internal policies tha…

Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints
Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.

Yanukovych loses court case, EU rules to keep sanctions and travel ban against Ukraine's former president in place: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/yanukovych-loses-court-case-eu.html

It WILL get worse.
The upside here is that the overwhelming majority of Americans are entirely unaffected by air travel problems the overwhelming majority of the time. However, most members of Congress routinely commute by air on a weekly basis.
https://flipboard.com/@…

The government shutdown is snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse
Travelers across the U.S. are beginning to feel the impacts of the government shutdown, as air traffic control staffing shortages disrupt flights across the country. A dozen Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facilities saw staffing shortages on Monday, according to an evening advisory from the …

Prosus invests ~$146M in Indian travel app ixigo for a 10.1% stake; sources say Prosus plans to buy more shares from other investors to raise its stake to 15% (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.c…

NFLPA optimistic about international travel, seeks data on injuries, playing surfaces, 18-game schedule https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6704152/2025/10/10/nflpa-international-games-injuries-playing-surfaces-18-games/

London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07) - Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport -

London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07)
Ambient busy big holiday time airport nowhere near any aircraft. #fieldRecording #travel #airport

COMPASS: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Tool-Mediated Planning & Preference Optimization
Tian Qin, Felix Bai, Ting-Yao Hu, Raviteja Vemulapalli, Hema Swetha Koppula, Zhiyang Xu, Bowen Jin, Mert Cemri, Jiarui Lu, Zirui Wang, Meng Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07043

COMPASS: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Tool-Mediated Planning & Preference Optimization
Real-world large language model (LLM) agents must master strategic tool use and user preference optimization through multi-turn interactions to assist users with complex planning tasks. We introduce COMPASS (Constrained Optimization through Multi-turn Planning and Strategic Solutions), a benchmark that evaluates agents on realistic travel-planning scenarios. We cast travel planning as a constrained preference optimization problem, where agents must satisfy hard constraints while simultaneously …

Photos from a Holiday week https://muz4now.com/2025/photos-from-a-holiday-week/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Travel&utm_medium=mastodon

Photos from a Holiday week
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Luskentyre Beach on the Isle of Harris is one of the many beautiful beaches in Scotland
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/ive-travelled-world-david-attenborough-35811964#Echobox=1756595018

'I've travelled world with David Attenborough but one of my top places is on our doorstep'
Chadden Hunter has spent the last 25 years travelling the world with the likes of Sir David Attenborough and has visited some of the most remote and beautiful places on the planet

DeepTravel: An End-to-End Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Autonomous Travel Planning Agents
Yansong Ning, Rui Liu, Jun Wang, Kai Chen, Wei Li, Jun Fang, Kan Zheng, Naiqiang Tan, Hao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21842

DeepTravel: An End-to-End Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Autonomous Travel Planning Agents
Travel planning (TP) agent has recently worked as an emerging building block to interact with external tools and resources for travel itinerary generation, ensuring enjoyable user experience. Despite its benefits, existing studies rely on hand craft prompt and fixed agent workflow, hindering more flexible and autonomous TP agent. This paper proposes DeepTravel, an end to end agentic reinforcement learning framework for building autonomous travel planning agent, capable of autonomously planning,…

I took a holiday with my spouse and you get these photos of lighthouses, beaches, sunsets, and more. Can you tell where we’ve been?
#travel #PhotoSeries #inspiration

Photos from a Holiday week
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb, and others are preparing for AI agents, which could disrupt their booking platforms and upend the $1.6T global travel market (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4d1acaff-07e4-4739-9ea4-5c6cba553e74

Travel Regrets: 10 European Destinations I Won't Ever Visit Again & Where To Go Instead https://www.wanderluststorytellers.com/tra

Travel Regrets: 10 European Destinations I Won't Ever Visit Again & Where To Go Instead
Read our honest take on 10 European destinations that didn't live up to the hype – and the nearby alternatives that stole our hearts.

Circle the Continental Divide, Wyoming

The drive: On the 480-mile loop, join the club of adventurers who have crossed the Continental Divide not once but twice
— at the scenic Togwotee Pass and the point between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
After traversing the natural landmark,
you still have hundreds of miles to explore.
On the Wind River Indian Reservation, cue up the TravelStorys audio tour
and spend a night in a furnished tepee owned and o…

8 scenic road trips to explore America this summer
Volcanoes, lakes and oceans await for those willing to take a scenic U.S. road trip.

16 Underground Cities You Never Knew Existed: Hidden Worlds That Will Leave You Awestruck
https://inspiremymantra.com/16-underground-cities-you-never-knew-existed-hidd…

16 Underground Cities You Never Knew Existed: Hidden Worlds That Will Leave You Awestruck
Beneath the bustling cities and serene landscapes of our world lies a realm few have dared to explore—a hidden tapestry of life carved into stone, shrouded in

12 Beautiful Medieval Cities and Towns in Greece That Transport You Back in Time https://share.worldwildschooling.com/r/Qb3ulh?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Travel&utm_medium=mastodon…

12 Beautiful Medieval Cities and Towns in Greece That Transport You Back in Time
These 12 gorgeous medieval cities in Greece will make you feel like you’ve stepped into a fairy tale.

Sunset Around The World
- sunrise and sunset can be inspiring sights wherever you go -
#Travel #Photo Series
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Sunset Around The World #Travel #Photo Series
Stan Stewart - @muz4now