New Google Flights tool will help you book the cheapest tickets

Apr 4 2023

Google Flights is currently testing a new program which will ensure that you are guaranteed to book the lowest price for your flight.

The platform is rolling out a brand new feature which will offer customers the lowest price when booking certain flights.

Flights available through this new feature will be indicated with price guarantee badges. If, when booking a flight, you see the badge, this means that Google is confident that the price will not get any cheaper before takeoff.

If it does lower between purchase and departure, Google will send the difference through Google Pay. Google are currently testing the program on flights available to be booked with the ‘Book on Google’ itineraries departing from the US.

“No one likes to feel buyer’s remorse, and that’s especially true for a big purchase like plane tickets where the prices change from day to day”, a Google announcement reads.

“We’ve all thought to ourselves: Should I book now in case the price goes up tomorrow? Or should I wait in case there’s a better deal next week?”

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Qala Saints Football Club with new football pitch as Gozo ministry continues push for sports

Apr 4 2023

The sister island’s Qala Saints Football Club is set to receive a brand new football pitch surrounded by Gozo’s trademark green fields and beautiful blue sea.

A recent post shared by Minister for Gozo Clint Camilleri showed the brand new pitch in all its glory as the Ministry continues its reported push for a bigger, revitalised sporting sector.

Multiple Qala Saints FC supporters and representatives took to the comments to share their enthusiasm towards the project, stating that objects of this magnitude seemed out of reach for a long time.

This follows a number of other sports-related projects, including works on the Gozo Aquatic and Sports Centre which will house a number of different sporting disciplines such as basketball, tennis and swimming in an Olympic-size swimming pool.

What do you think of the Qala Saints’ new pitch?

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Research suggests people could start living to 141 years old

Apr 4 2023

There is a likelihood that younger generations of the human population could celebrate their 141st birthday, a new study suggests.

Dr David McCarthy, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia, says that ages could be pushed to as old as 141 for men and 130 for women.

Up until now, scientists thought it possible to live up to just over 120. Life expectancy of course increased as modern healthcare itself improved. By 2010, the average age was 82 for women and 78 for men.

The research, which was published in PLOS One, analysed the mortality of older people in 19 countries and how the increase in mortality rates by age differs by different cohorts born in different years.

It was discovered that people born in the first part of the 1990s, the rate at which mortality increases with age has actually fallen. This indicates the maximum age at death will increase in the coming decades.

The study went on to highlight how mortality postponement appears to be more likely for those born between 1910 and 1950, with oldest members of these cohorts living to 120.

The oldest person to have ever lived was Jeanne Calment, who made it all the way to 122 years. She was born on the 21st of February, 1875 in Aries, France and died in 1997.

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First mobile phone call was made around 50 years ago

Apr 4 2023

The first mobile phone call was made on the 3rd of April 1973 by Marty Cooper, the inventor of the technology we now today consider almost essential to our lives.

Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men he was competing with to develop the device.

Cell phones would not become available to the general public for another decade after that, but that phone call paved the way for all of us using them and, ironically, having most of us preferring to text instead of call.

The first mobile phones were the size of a brick and, suffice to say, they changed quite a bit over the years. The now 94-year-old Cooper told CNN that he was not surprised that everyone owns a cell phone.

Prior to that first phone call, Motorola, for whom Cooper worked as an engineer, had been competing with Bell Labs to produce the technology. The latter, a research arm of AT&T, developed the transistor and various other innovations.

It wasn’t until the 1990s that the modern cell phone really became popular, shrinking in size so that it could be carried easily by 97% of Americans today.

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