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A Frontier Airlines plane lands at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Elizabeth Page Brumley | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesFirst class on Frontier? Not quite. But the budget airline on Tuesday launched a new add-on to get more room at the front of its tightly packed planes — with no middle seat neighbor.On flights starting April 10, Frontier will offer UpFront Plus in the first two rows of its Airbus planes, where it will block the sale of the middle seat. Those seats will…

In a concerning turn of events for iPhone users worldwide, iOS security has been rattled by the emergence of the first-ever banking Trojan tailored specifically for Apple devices. Dubbed…

Imagine the sheer bliss of having an entire bus, a whole movie theatre, a parking lot, or even a public restroom entirely to yourself.Privacy is indeed among the simplest, yet ultimate, luxuries of life. That is until someone decides to waltz in and shatter it all by sitting, standing or parking way too close to you and making you feel like they are invading your personal space. This is precisely what happened to a Southwest Airlines passenger, who was thoroughly enjoying the luxury of a nearly-empty flight until a…

Early on in Harmony Korine’s new experimental action film Aggro Dr1ft, hitman protagonist BO (Jordi Mollà) strangles a guy to death in his pool. Or maybe that happens toward the end. And, come to think of it, that might have been a hot tub. You’ll have to forgive my confusion, because the movie is defiantly nonlinear, shot entirely in the garish neons of infrared vision, and not anchored in any baseline reality: the moment he snuffs out this man, BO unleashes a gigantic Balrog-like kaiju that appears to breathe flame…

I wonder why all sorts of drama involving various entitled people often unfolds on transport, and specifically on airplanes? Perhaps being in a confined space with many other people somehow affects a person’s subconscious, revealing their darkest edges; who knows? But the fact is that plane drama is a pretty common thing.For example, here’s a story from the user u/Dramatic_Safe_4257 in the AITAH Reddit community, who specifically bought the third seat in the row they were sitting in with their friend – and still…

The more high-level the gear you can make gets, the weirder the materials required to make it become in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Some of the top-level items will require things like shark fins and other oddities that make sense as to why they’d be so rare, but the empty cough drop tin sounds like something you would just grab out of a trash can on the street. But no matter how many dumpsters you dive in, you will never find one. You can waste a lot of time looking for this item before you even have the chance…

With this year’s festival entering its dying days, market news remains unusually slight, a surprise given how strike-impacted buyers were reportedly foaming for schedule-fillers. Big sales so far haven’t been all that big – Jesse Eisenberg comedy A Real Pain at Searchlight, Steven Soderbergh ghost story Presence at Neon – and so there are questions that still need answering going into the last weekend.But earlier this week, as others umm-ed and ahh-ed, Netflix made a bullish statement with a $17m purchase of low-budget…

Mark Zuckerberg bet tens of billions of dollars on the “metaverse” only to be mocked for the idea of an immersive virtual-reality social network at every turn. When all is said and done, his promise to add legs to users’ digital avatars (previously rendered as floating torsos) might be what most people remember about the ill-conceived project — if they think about it at all. But while the metaverse failed to launch, the frenzy over artificial intelligence surged: 2023 was rife with speculation about the promise of…

A galaxy has been discovered that, unlike any other known in the modern universe, seems to be essentially devoid of stars. The galaxy—a floating hunk of dust and gas aimlessly adrift in space, found only thanks to its subtle, serendipitous signature in a radio telescope—is nearly as massive as the Milky Way yet invisible to the naked eye. The discovery could “upend what we think we know about galaxy formation,” says Pieter van Dokkum, a Yale University astrophysicist, who was not part of the finding.Called J0613+52, the…

Translated poetry seldom finds a home in this column – if only because when youhave no knowledge of the original language, the reading can be like trying to see through frosted glass. But the Ukrainian poet Iryna Shuvalova is a revelation. This is her fifth collection, her first to be translated into English, and it is extraordinary to read partly because, even though these poems were written before the war (touching on the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea), they offer insight into what it is to be Ukrainian at this…