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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…

Billy Porter is known for going big. The 54-year-old actor and singer routinely stole scenes as the drag ball emcee Pray Tell in FX’s drama Pose, a role that won him an Emmy. In Amazon’s 2021 update of Cinderella, he turned the fairy godmother into a fabulous, tough-talking fairy “godmuvva”, as he puts it. But his latest role, in the Bill Oliver-directed relationship drama Our Son, takes a different tack: as Gabriel, a relatively meek stay-at-home dad divorcing his husband, Nicky, (Luke Evans), Porter is required to play…

Two teenage boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested in December for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of male and female classmates without consent, according to police reports obtained by WIRED via public record request.The arrest reports say the boys, aged 13 and 14, created the images of the students who were “between the ages of 12 and 13.”The Florida case appears to be the first arrests and criminal charges as a result of alleged sharing of AI-generated nude images to come to light. The boys…

In a time when people are doubting whether or not the rich and poor can understand each other,  TikToker Geneviève (@gen_laforce) released a video, listing all the things she’s learned since she started dating her girlfriend, who comes from a very different social background than hers.In the two-minute clip, Geneviève isn’t throwing punches at anyone. Rather, she’s explaining how our perception of ourselves and the world around us is affected by the wealth we’ve had growing up.It perfectly underscores the importance of…

Donald Trump during a Super Tuesday election night watch party at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on March 5, 2024.Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it’s unfortunate timing for the former president. He was right in the middle of furiously tweeting (or Truth-ing, to use the site’s tortured parlance) about President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.Trump sent a flurry…

Following recent Q4 2023 results that relayed a miss on annual delivery targets, Vietnamese EV automaker VinFast continues to bolster its global presence with the help of distribution specialists. Today, VinFast and a local dealer network in the Middle East signed an agreement to bring the former’s EVs to the region. 2023 was a big year for young EV automaker VinFast ($VFS), which saw revenues rise, but deliveries slip due to several issues. Since parent company VinGroup opened up its automotive arm in…

ADVERTISEMENT An airline passenger has turned to the subreddit ‘Entitled People‘ to express his amazement over what happened on a flight from Toronto to Vancouver that he was on. While the man, who goes on the platform by the nickname Canada11235813, was getting ready in his business class ‘pod,’ a woman approached him and asked if he could switch seats so that she and her husband could travel together.Without giving it much thought, the man agreed, however, he then learned that he had to downgrade to economy.Share…

One of my initial Vision Pro questions concerned the durability of the glass. When Apple opened preorders, we learned the Apple Vision Pro kit comes with a cover that protects the EyeSight display’s glass. That didn’t fully answer my questions about durability, and I said we’d learn more from early adopters.We’re now starting to get the first answers about the Vision Pro’s durability. The good news is that I haven’t seen reports about accidental drops that would damage the screen. The bad news is that some…

Some early adopters of Apple Vision Pro are experiencing a strange cosmetic crack on the front of the mixed-reality headset, and it’s occurring in exactly the same place every time.Multiple users on Reddit have reported a sudden crack in the front glass of the Vision Pro headset without any impact or previous damage to the device. Each post reporting a crack has a similar appearance, showcasing a straight line through the middle of the headset around one of the sensors.Reddit user r/dornbirn said, “Last night, I polished…

Working with co-writers Laurence Coriat and Paul Viragh, Michael Winterbottom hits a clear, confident stride with a robustly well made, if emotionally flavourless historical drama set during the British mandate in what was then Palestine. It is a film that speaks in a complex way to the current Gaza debate, contending that Zionism has anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism in its 20th-century manifestation: a rage against the British masters. But the implication is that it learned habits of ruthlessness from these very…