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WSJ What’s News

No-Stress Vacations for You and Your Wallet: Your Questions Answered

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s vacation season! But planning a trip can take a lot of time, effort and money, and who wants to come home from a vacation needing another vacation? WSJ columnist Dawn Gilbertson, who covers all things travel, answers your questions about how to plan the best trip without the stress. From choosing a destination to finding the best airfare and hotels to enjoying yourself once you’re on that much-awaited trip, learn how to make plans that won’t break the bank. And yes, artificial intelligence can play a role. Luke Vargas hosts. Further Reading: How to Have a Great Vacation: What Science Tells Us Want to Know Where You’re Sitting on Your Next Flight? It’ll Cost You New Airline-Refund Rules Won’t Come in Time for Summer Travel. Prepare Accordingly. The New Hotel Essential: Easy Take-Out Food Is the World’s Largest Cruise Ship Still Fun Without the Upsells? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So how do we get AI right?

0:02.0

Well, we need the right volume of data, the software to train it, and massive compute power, or...

0:10.0

Another one buys the dust.

0:12.0

Are you ready?

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Are you ready for this?

0:14.0

Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?

0:16.0

But with HE Green Lake, we get access to supercomputing to power AI at the scale we need,

0:21.0

helping generate better insights.

0:22.6

All right.

0:25.4

Nice teamwork guys.

0:26.9

Search HPE Green Lake.

0:28.4

Hey what's news listeners, It's Sunday June 30th. I'm Luke Varkas for the Wall Street Journal

0:36.7

and this is What's News Sunday, the show where we tackle the big questions about the biggest

0:41.7

stories in the news by reaching out to our

0:43.9

colleagues across the newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world and

0:48.0

this week it's vacation time but cue the anxiety because between the race to lock in a good fare, navigating

0:56.3

so many little upcharges, trying to avoid swarms of other tourists, and hoping you'll actually

1:02.3

be able to unplug when you reach Paradise,

1:05.2

making a dream holiday a reality can be quite the chore.

1:09.2

But thankfully, journal Travel Columnist Don Gilbertson is here to answer your questions and help you make the most of your next trip so pull up your favorite booking website and let's get into it.

1:21.0

Don your biography on the Wall Street Journal website, I don't think could boil this topic

1:26.2

down any better than when it says that you help people to navigate the joys and the frustrations of vacations. That's kind of what we're here to do today in some form because when I look through journal coverage and I'm sure you found this as well in a lot of your columns feature this there's this pervasive sense that

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