The number of Airbnb listings in London has quadrupled in the last four years as more and more of the city’s housing stock has been gobbled up by short-term rental companies. As of May 2019, 80,770 properties in London were listed on Airbnb, with a staggering 23 percent, or 11,200,
Take a tour The best way to see the whole building is on a tour, which costs 11 euro (about $15, £10 or AU$20). Read the article Published:February 15, 2020Caption:Geoffrey MorrisonPhoto:Geoffrey Morrison/CNET Aula Magistral The smallest venue at the Palau, the Aula Magistral seats 378. It’s used for music performances,
Confronted with a baby—or puppy—most adults can’t stop themselves from dissolving into baby talk: “WHO’S the cutest? It’s YOU! YES it IS!” We slow down, increase our pitch by nearly an octave, and milk each vowel for all it’s worth. And even if the baby can’t speak yet, we mimic
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Tyler Lizenby/CNET If you’ve already started connecting the various devices and fixtures around your home, you’ll know that there are a lot of ways to tackle the problem. You might just want one device to solve a particular issue, like a smart plug to put a lamp on a regular
Any device or service that gets people out of a fossil-fuel-guzzling, congestion-creating death machine (er, car) is great. But when it comes to e-scooters, I’m a big fan of owning your own, rather than renting one. If you own your own scooter, you’re more likely to be familiar with its
Sen. Gillibrand has a new bill that aims to protect American’s data. Getty Images Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, introduced the Data Protection Act of 2020 on Thursday to help protect the data of US citizens. The proposed legislation would create the Data Protection Agency (DPA), a
Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s entertainment news roundup. So, now that you’ve recovered from your Oscars hangover, are you dying to know what’s been happening in the world of entertainment and culture? You are? Good. Here we go. There Were 646,152 Things to Watch on
Plenty of online ads are terrible. Websites are often filled with intrusive ads that make getting to the actual content twice as hard. Amongst the worst offenders: autoplay video ads that start blaring out their message the second a page starts to load. Now something is finally being done about
The FTC wants to examine acquisitions over a 10-year period. Getty Images The US Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it sent special orders to five tech giants — Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft — requiring them to turn over detailed information about acquisitions over the past decade. The
It’s obvious, but I’ll say it: Rockets are cool. Sending stuff into space with a chemical reaction is just stupid-awesome. But clearly, we can’t keep using chemical rockets to put satellites in orbit. They’re too expensive, and the fuel is heavy—which means you need even more fuel to carry the
T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint seems set for approval. Angela Lang/CNET T-Mobile’s deal with Sprint is almost across the finish line as a New York judge has ruled to let the pending $26.5 billion transaction go ahead. First reported Monday night from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, US