Forbes Advisor Canada

13 hours ago | forbes.com | Gary Stoller

Picking up a car rental late at night can put a snag in a vacation. To ensure your vacation doesn’t get off to a bad start, it may be wise to listen to the advice of a rental car company executve. Late-night rentals, particularly during the peak summer travel season, could lead to unstaffed counters, unexpected fees and vehicle unavailability, according to an executive at Rental Center Crete, which has been renting autos in Greece since 1975.

13 hours ago | forbes.com | Larry Fleisher

The “Subway Series” has existed since June 16, 1997, when Dave Mlicki pitched a shutout in Yankee Stadium and the Mets and Yankees have engaged in 470-plus hours in regular season games plus a memorable five-game World Series in 2000 documented in various books. There have been storylines galore and memorable games. Among the bigger storylines was Roger Clemens hitting Mike Piazza in 2000 and Shawn Estes throwing behind the seven-time Cy Young winner in June 2002 at Shea Stadium.

14 hours ago | forbes.com | Steve Baltin

In 1971, jazz giant Alice Coltrane performed a now iconic show at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Last year, that show was finally shared with the world as an acclaimed live album. And tomorrow night (May 16) her family return to Carnegie Hall to pay tribute to her music and celebrate her legacy. I spoke with her children, Ravi and Michelle Coltrane, as well as her nephew, Flying Lotus, about the show, why Alice’s music is more popular now than ever and her love of Carnegie Hall.

15 hours ago | forbes.com | Charlie Fink

Among funding announcements from new generative AI startups was underplayed AI/XR news from Meta, whose Ray Ban smart glasses got their expected boost this week with a Llama app upgrade. Apple is chewing its heart out with envy as it races to catch up. There’s plenty happening in the Metaverse, too, where Meta is not doing as well, spending gobs of cash on preteen-dominated Horizon Worlds in a seemingly futile attempt to catch up with Roblox and Fortnite.

17 hours ago | forbes.com | David Bloom

Would a streaming service by any other name smell as sweet as the anodyne and largely meaningless “Max?” Uh, yes, and probably be a lot more popular long-term with consumers around the planet. At this week’s New York upfronts presentation to advertisers, Warner Bros. Discovery executives said its Max streaming service this summer would revert to its natal name, HBO Max.