With summer trips on the horizon and fall vacation planning underway, we have a huge crop of new and improved hotels and resorts for you. Whether you want to relax in an all-inclusive retreat or dangle over a city in a glass pool, these stays are sure to please. Our weekly roundup has your next accommodations covered, from touchscreen, news-displaying mirrors to the world’s largest hot-springs pool. 10 Best All-Inclusive Resorts in
For one of the hottest hotel scenes in the country, look no further than Miami. Adding to its already dazzling lodging portfolio, the city has ushered in a new era of hotels, with many big openings in the past year and plenty more to come in 2015 and 2016. Among these newcomers are boutiques and big brands, but each one is stunning in its own right. For your next jaunt
Madrid has long been a mecca for gin lovers, who routinely hop from bar to bar sipping goblets of flamboyantly garnished “gin tonics,” as Spaniards call them, until sunrise. But until recently, those with a taste for well-made Martinis and other classic cocktails had largely been out of luck. Not anymore: The capital is in the midst of a cocktail renaissance, with a new wave of innovative coctelerías—all featuring distinctively
Twitter has announced a new set of Wimbledon-themed emoji via the timeline of Serena Williams. The new characters are part of a broader push to get fans engaging on social media during the tournament. Aside from #Wimbledon (which brings up a tennis racquet), the hashtags let you broadcast where you’re watching from: #TheQueue, #TheHill (Henman Hill) or #TheWorld (anywhere outside SW19). Twitter says it wants to create “a friendly battle
A new report from Bloomberg backs up the rumours we’ve been hearing about Force Touch coming to the iPhone. “People with knowledge of the matter” say production has already started on this year’s handsets. For the Force Touch newbies, it’s a pressure-sensing technology that reacts to the lightness (or otherwise) of a touch on a display. It can already be found on the Apple Watch and the new MacBook. Bloomberg’s
Strapping fitness Has anyone noticed how the sun seems to be shining a little brighter these days? The air feel a little crisper, more satisfying? And how about them chirping birds, eh? Loads of them everywhere. It’s possible that this is just my post-triathlon mind breaking free of the memory of being trapped in the Thames, the need to keep donning the sausage suit and throw myself in lakes no
With the excitement of E3 behind us, the ever-present negativity in the games industry settles back down to its regular levels. At even the best of times, there’s always this undercurrent of grumblings about frame rate, resolution and various other game-related things like DLC and exclusives and pre-order bonuses, and much of it is legitimate and worth pointing out. Like most people, I don’t really want to see things like
Introduction Windows 10 isn’t really the last version of Windows. It might be the last version number though, because new features and improvements will come out as part of Windows 10 rather than as new releases you have to upgrade to. Some of those will be smaller fixes and updates; some will be larger upgrades, like the Redstone update expected in 2016. They’ll be delivered through Windows Update and Windows
ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany all but buried negotiations on Saturday to keep Greece from default, saying a surprise decision by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call a referendum had left nothing to discuss but how to cope with failure. Worried the country could default and even leave the euro zone, some Greeks queued up at cash machines to withdraw funds, though there were no signs of panic in Athens.
Big business was on the winning side in the U.S. Supreme Court’s two major cases of the year, with hundreds of employers pushing hard in favor of gay marriage and the healthcare industry backing the insurance subsidies available under Obamacare. The court on Thursday rejected a conservative challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law on a 6-3 vote and, a day later, ruled 5-4 that gay marriage should be legal