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Best travel charger for phones and laptops in 2024
Power up for international trips with the top travel chargers
Whether you are planning an international vacation or a work trip, a travel charger is a must-have accessory to keep your phones, laptops, and other gadgets juiced up without relying on multiple adapters and power bricks.
How to use Google Flights Explore
Learn how to get more from Explore, an indispensable travel tool from Google
Planning a trip can be fun. It can also be frustrating, even when using the best travel apps. This is particularly true when finding flights. Researching flights can give you ideas. However, not finding a suitable flight can take the wind out of your sails. Google's free travel tools have everything you need for your trip. Google Travel has something for everyone, but if you're looking for a spontaneous adventure, Google's Explore feature is your best bet.
Best VPNs for travel in 2024
Whether you're traveling domestically or overseas, these VPNS will keep you safer online and let you access all the content you can at home
Your passport is at the ready and you've packed your sun lotion, pest spray, and that novel you've been putting off reading for years. There's one other essential travel item that you may have forgotten, however: a VPN.
Google Chrome is adding a boarding pass detector on Android
Because less hassle when traveling is always a good thing
The worst part of traveling home for the holidays is traveling itself. There are so many hoops you have to jump through, the lines are long, and the delays are plentiful. What shouldn’t be a hassle, though, is being able to grab your boarding pass and get it on any device you’ve got on you. Google recognizes this, and not too long ago, the company made it possible to share boarding and event passes on Google Wallet to anyone with a custom link. It appears that Google is taking additional steps to make obtaining boarding pass information easier with a newly-added flag found on Chrome.
5 of the best StackSocial Labor Day deals to check now
From Microsoft Office to Dollar Flight Club, get deals for as little as $30
If you’re taking these last couple of weeks of summer to tie up loose ends before the school year starts, you’re likely looking for great deals on necessities. While retail giants like Best Buy offer back-to-school discounts on tech products from laptops to headphones, there are notable software and subscription sales at StackSocial happening now.
Safely packing your electronics for travel involves more than attaching a case and crossing your fingers. If you're traveling with one of the best Chromebooks or an Android tablet, you'll want to take extra steps to ensure your fragile device is safe.
Expedia’s new ChatGPT integration uses AI to help you plan your next vacation
It can help you book hotels, activities, and more
Next time you’re planning a trip using Expedia you can get a little help from AI. This week, the travel site announced the launch of a new in-app trip planning experience that is powered by ChatGPT. The feature works a lot like talking to a travel agent might. For instance, if you’re thinking about traveling to Ireland this summer, you can start an open-ended conversation within the app about the Emerald Isle. When you do, Chat GPT will make suggestions on things you might want to do on your trip, places you might want to visit, and where it thinks the right place for you to stay is.
Delta will offer free Wi-Fi to all flyers starting February
You will need to sign up for Delta SkyMiles, though
In-flight connectivity has improved by leaps and bounds over the past several years. While internet access on flights has been around for a while, it almost always involves hefty carrier fees or other member-only caveats. Delta is looking to change that by offering free Wi-Fi on nearly all of its routes starting February 1.
Google Search for travel gets new green filters and instant results for trains
You can choo-choose trains over planes
If you want to travel meaner, leaner, and greener this fall and upcoming holiday season, Google's got your back with new filters and views for travel — especially if you're riding the rails in Europe.
Google's new travel tools help save you money and find the best hotels
The improved flight price tracker is especially useful
Summer is fast approaching and COVID restrictions are significantly reduced in more places than last year. If you're planning an international trip, it's best to make those reservations sooner rather than later; Google says search interest for "passport appointments" increased 300% in 2022. The search engine also offers a host of useful tools to help you plan and organize your trip. Its Travel website has just been updated with a handful of helpful new features — most notably a flight price tracker that finds deals for any dates.
Google Search can now sell tickets to some of the world's biggest tourist attractions
If only there wasn't a thing called COVID-19 making travel harder
The first thing people usually do when looking for activities to do on a trip is to look up places or tourist attractions in Google, just as one often looks up pretty much anything in Google. The company already has a hub for all your travel needs, which is called Google Travel, but just looking up a tourist attraction or destination on Google Search can already give you crucial info on that place, including reviews, opening and closing times, and even some rough insights on what the busiest times usually are for stopping by. Now, you can also book some tickets to certain attractions right from Google Search while you're at it.
AT&T juices up its most expensive wireless plan with one key advantage over T-Mobile
Would you rather stream HD Netflix versus UHD HBO Max?
AT&T is going to bat for its high-flying, high-paying customers by boosting several amenities in its Unlimited Elite service plan and International Day Pass for data needs while traveling. These upgrades bring the carrier into line with what T-Mobile offers for its top-tier subscribers.
I finally found the perfect travel planning app
After 4 years of trial and error, Wanderlog is a breath of fresh, beautiful air
Planning for a vacation is the next best thing to actually going on said vacation. I love opening hundreds of tabs, reading dozens of "must-do" listicles, bookmarking fun and odd things to do, and readying a half-rigid itinerary made of scheduled activities with room for on-the-spot whims. What I don't love is that there's no way to really tie all of this research together. Chrome bookmarks, Keep notes, Gmail, and Maps lists only go so far — I always end up going back and forth between them, fighting against this fragmented approach. Then a few weeks ago, I ran across Wanderlog and let me tell you one thing: If I was to build my ideal travel planning app from scratch, it would be pretty darn close to Wanderlog. Actually no, scratch that, I'd build something similar, but I'd fail to think of at least a dozen awesome extra features that the service already offers.
Google's new travel tools are designed to help plan your next vacation safely
View local guidelines and restrictions alongside flights and hotels
Whether you're ready for it or not, a lot of people are planning to travel this summer for the first time in over a year. Even if you're taking a socially distanced vacation, it's essential to keep up with the latest local guidelines and restrictions for wherever you're headed. Google is getting prepared for the summer rush with some new trip-planning tools for its search results.
Timeline view on Google Maps gets new Trips tab, coming to Google Photos
If you're traveling, you can see your hotel's COVID-19 response in detail at google.com/travel
We'll make no judgment of whether you're traveling for the holidays or not — the time of year always seems to amp up the urgency of things. If you do, Google may let you know what your hotel is doing to keep the coronavirus at bay. Even if you don't, the company will be introducing a couple of new ways to look over your travel memories.
Google tries to make travelling less stressful during COVID-19 with new information on flights and hotels
View the percentages of open hotels and operating flights
We're well into the summer tourist season now, but COVID-19 has thrown travellers for a loop. Since many vacations start with a simple online search, Google has been helping relay key info like coronavirus travel advisories and restrictions. Now the company is announcing a few new travel-focused features to make hitting the road easier during the pandemic.
Google's community mobility reports show how the coronavirus has changed society (Updated)
Google also provides banners and curated search results to keep the public informed during the crisis
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Google's apps and services are among the most-used in the world, so it's no wonder that people turn to the company when they want to find out more about the coronavirus pandemic. In order to suppress misinformation and help its users find trustworthy sources, Google took a lot of measures, including a COVID-19 website created in cooperation with the WHO and the CDC and many editorialized search results in all products. While it's pretty easy to spot all of this information yourself while you're using Google apps, we'd still like to give you a broad overview of some of the measures.
Mozilla has several flavors of its Firefox browser for Android, with 'Firefox Lite' serving as the main choice for Indonesia and other Asian countries. Despite its name, the Lite browser has become more and more bloated over the past few months, and now there's a travel feature that isn't very helpful.
Taking a trip can be a stressful time; remembering tickets, hotels, rentals, and plans can easily become a bit overwhelming. TripIt attempts to ease that burden by allowing you to link your email to its planning services and spitting out a professional-looking and easy-to-read itinerary. So far, you've had to manually enter any meetings or miscellaneous entries into your TripIt app when you wanted to add something besides travel. Now, TripIt is helping to streamline that process with seamless support for adding meetings and invitations to your itinerary.
The music industry doesn't make things easy for any service in the business of distributing songs. Despite the tight laws and regulations, most music services have figured out a way to make your subscription valid across country borders. That, however, has never been Google's strongest suit, and YouTube Music is one of the biggest examples. When the service launched, subscribers noticed that if they traveled to an unsupported country, they lost all of their privileges. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore.