Consumer
Airbnb bans beds-stripping and dishwashing chores from 20 November
Airbnb hosts worldwide may no longer require guests to strip beds, take rubbish offsite or wash and put away dishes under policy taking effect 20 November.
Consumer
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Consumer
Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt Azure Maia rollout from 2027
Microsoft says Azure Maia 200 is now serving production workloads and Maia 300 arrives in 2027, with plans to scale Maia to multi-gigawatt deployments.
Consumer
Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark Dev Box Open for Pre-Order
Microsoft opens pre-orders for Surface Laptop Ultra at $2,599 and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at $5,999, both built around NVIDIA's RTX Spark Superchip.
Consumer
Venmo Credit Card Adds Extra 1% Cash Back for Splitting Dining Bills
Venmo's new card rewards structure offers 3% automatic back on dining and entertainment plus 1% more when purchases are split with friends in the app.
Consumer
Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft; LinkedIn and M365 roles reshuffled
Microsoft says Ryan Roslansky will leave after nearly 18 years; Dan Shapero stays LinkedIn CEO and several product leaders shift reporting lines.
Consumer
PayPal survey: 58% worried about holiday costs, 64% plan to spend same or more
A PayPal-commissioned survey of 2,005 U.S. adults finds early shopping, budget setting and rewards use rising as financial concern grows ahead of the holidays.
Consumer
Microsoft adds governed business context to Copilot via Fabric IQ
Microsoft says Fabric IQ is generally available in Copilot Chat and Cowork, grounding answers in governed Power BI semantic models, metrics and definitions.