A 54‑year‑old Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, has been transferred from a remote prison in Zanjan to Tehran Pars Hospital after suffering a heart attack. The family foundation announced that she has received a suspension of her sentence, although the details remain unclear. Mohammadi ea
A new technique called Deep Patch Fuzzy Learning mixes several tricks to help computers see images better. Instead of looking at an entire picture all at once, the method breaks it into many small patches. Each patch is then processed separately, allowing the system to focus on local details t
Politics in the U. S. has turned into a nonstop seesaw ride. Since 2000, power has switched parties in 11 of the last 13 major elections. Before that, full reversals happened only 5 times in the final 13 elections of the 1900s. The causes run deeper than who sits in the Oval Office. Rising inequalit
BlackRock is taking another step into crypto by planning two new funds that trade on blockchain instead of traditional exchanges. The move shows how Wall Street is slowly merging with digital money systems, even as regulators try to keep up. The first fund copies a well-known $6. 1 billion US Treas
Ondo Finance, Ripple, Mastercard and J. P. Morgan tested a new way to turn digital Treasury tokens into real cash across borders. The test happened on May 6, 2026 and showed that a token held on the XRP Ledger can trigger a bank payout in seconds. The XRP Ledger recorded the redemption of part
Jeff Bezos might be cutting back on one of his toys. His massive yacht, Koru, reportedly hit the market for over half a billion dollars. This 417-foot vessel needs a support crew and costs millions just to keep running. Its sheer size even caused headaches in the past, like when engineers nearly had
Many modern TV shows include steamy scenes, but filming them isn’t as glamorous as it might seem. The cast of an upcoming Amazon Prime series revealed that actors often feel awkward during these moments, even if the scenes look passionate on screen. Instead of pretending it’s fun, they focused on ma
This weekend, you could drop forty bucks on a jazz show that’s really a fundraiser for a disease most people mix up with lupus. The headliner, a sax player named Merlon Devine, will blow notes for two hours starting at four o’clock in a converted space downtown. Doors open half an hour early, but do
Texas has just pulled the plug on a Dallas-area school operating under a misleading name. The place called itself the Texas American Muslim University at Dallas, promising degrees in tech fields like artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. But here’s the catch: it never had state approval to hand
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has put the brakes on a bill that would have drastically shortened the prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro. The justice ruled that the bill, which aimed to cut Bolsonaro’s 27-year sentence down to just over two years, cannot take effe
