Travel Tech Tested: Surprising Wins and Fails

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TEC309: From apps that outpace airline updates to gadgets that save your sanity, Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Joseph Sund review the tech that worked—and failed—on a 12-day Italy trip, plus debates on AI recreating the dead and killing virtual job interviews.
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Links for this episode:
- TEC305: The Ultimate Travel Tech Guide: Apps, Power, and Security for Stress-Free Trips
- Flighty
- Rome Pilgrim
- Weather on the Way
- Flightaware
- Planefinder
- MyTSA
- Citymapper
- Lyft
- DayOne
- Pedometer++
- Plugbug with FindMy Universal
- Ceptics Travel Power Strip
- Ceptics Italy, Europe Travel Adapter Plug Set – 2 Pack
- JISULIFE Handheld Mini Fan
- Gewanolla Portable Waist Fan
- Holafly
- AOL is finally shutting down dial-up | The Verge
- Dead need right to delete their data against AI, lawyer says • The Register
- TEC118: Tech Memento Mori
- Parents of Parkland shooting victim use AI to “bring him back”
- Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview
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