Pinterest launched a next-generation CDC-based database ingestion framework using Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg. The system reduces data availability latency from 24+ hours to 15 minutes, processes ...

Bill Gates launched a $100,000 challenge for better condoms in March 2013, months before Jeffrey Epstein wrote unverified emails alleging the billionaire sought STD medication Kuhlmann /MSC/WikiMedia ...

US President Donald Trump has denied any knowledge of a reported multimillion-dollar investment by an Abu Dhabi royal family member into World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a cryptocurrency platform ...

The first automated border control system (E-Gate) at Bandaranaike International Airport was inaugurated today (28) by the Ministry of Ports and Civil Aviation, the Embassy of Japan, and the ...

How much do you really know about your ancestors? Maybe you know what countries they came from, what languages they spoke or what tribes they belonged to. But the details that help us understand ...

Driving through the desert, the border appeared and disappeared without warning. No guards, no checkpoint, no questions asked. Flags changed, but daily life didn’t. In a world obsessed with borders, ...

Cactus and Baker Hughes completed a transaction to create a joint venture consisting of the latter's surface pressure control business. Image by humblebleufrog photo via iStock Cactus Inc and Baker ...

Ripple announced a two-phase zero-knowledge privacy roadmap for XRPL in October 2025, targeting institutional adoption by mid-2026. Phase 1 enables private, compliant transactions using zero-knowledge ...

U.S. Bancorp, which does business as (and is better known as) U.S. Bank, has begun testing its own stablecoin on the Stellar blockchain. The pilot, detailed in a recent Bloomberg report, focuses on ...

In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary. The messages, which the ...