PC Magazine - USA (2019-06)

For tickets on many major carriers, Priceline allows you to cancel without penalty until 11:29 p.m. Central Time the business da ...

For booking smaller, independent hotels, a dizzying array of apps and websites SXUSRUWWRJHW\RXWKHEHVWUDWH6WDUWXSVVXFKD ...

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DISCONNECT TO DE-STRESS WHILE TRAVELING If you want to leave your worries at home, just make sure you’re packi ...

Below, I walk through the gadgets and apps that I consider essential when traveling (“Bring It”), along with those that I prefer ...

LEAVE IT: LAPTOP Just don’t. It’s heavy, it takes up too much precious space in your luggage, and it’s a pain to have to take it ...

LEAVE IT: WORK EMAIL AND MESSAGING SERVICES OK, I get that not everyone can totally check out of work when traveling. If you hav ...

LEAVE IT: NEWS APPS The world is terrible right now. Take a break from it. I’m not encouraging anyone to be ignorant about the Q ...

STAY CONNECTED ABROAD BY SASCHA SEGAN We all rely on our smartphones, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t keep doing so while we’ ...

Get a local SIM. If you have an unlocked smartphone that’s compatible with the frequency bands at your destination, the cheapes ...

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HUMANITARIAN TRAVEL: PHOTO WORKSHOPS THAT GIVE BACK BY TONY HOFFMAN M \¿UVWWULSZLWK7KH*LYLQJ/HQV7*/ZDVWR0RURFFRLQ ...

Founded in 2011 by travel and humanitarian photographer Colby Brown, TGL runs six or more workshops a year to longstanding desti ...

INDIA For my next TGL trip, our team met in Jodhpur, where we stayed at a guesthouse run by the Sambhali Trust, an NGO that help ...

JORDAN On TGL’s Jordan trip last November, we visited some amazing destinations, spending two nights in a Bedouin-run tented cam ...

Before we parted ways, Hamad used my camera to take a photo of me. When I studied it later, I was astonished. Although my gaze w ...

FEATURES SHOULD YOU BUY STEM TOYS FOR YOUR KIDS? BY TROY DREIER ...

As Joey Fortuna found out, it doesn’t matter how educational a toy is if kids don’t want to play with it. “STEM toys” are meant ...

But what Fortuna experienced as a problem—open-ended play and repeated failures—is an intentional part of many companies’ STEM p ...

Fisher-Price’s big entry in the STEM-toy era was the Code-a-Pillar, released in This hit toy taught the basic concept of progra ...