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Post-Covid travel isn’t equal for all

The US reopened its borders, welcoming fully vaccinated foreign travelers after a long 604 days of closure. I was one of them, leaving the UK for the first time since February 2020 to fly to New York City. Thankfully, the whole process was a breeze, except for a punishingly breeze-free stint in the stuffy corridor that led me through border ...

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Airbus gets mega-order for 255 jets led by Wizz, Frontier

Bloomberg Airbus SE notched a mega-order for 255 narrow-body jets at the Dubai Airshow, bolstering the European planemaker’s case that aircraft demand has started to roar back from the lows of the coronavirus pandemic. The deal for Airbus’s larger A321 model is valued at more than $30 billion before typical industry discounts. It will be parceled out among Wizz Air ...

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Facial recognition has troubling limitations

London is one of the most watched cities in the world: Its inhabitants are caught on camera about 300 times a day on average and the British capital has become a testbed for police use of live facial recognition. But the technology, which powers a multibillion-dollar market for security firms and building management, has troubling limitations. To show it up ...

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