The International Olympic Committee Executive Board on Wednesday approved Paris 2024's proposal of assigning Place de la Concorde for urban sports and Teahupo'o site in Tahiti for surfing events. Th
It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that
A voter fills in his ballot at a polling station during the Virginia primary in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, March 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Jie) The Democratic primaries are drawing nationwi
Children learn traditional Chinese painting during a training class held at the China Cultural Center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 16, 2018. (Xinhua/Tang Lu) BEIJING, M
Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya. /United Nations The UN envoy forLibya, Ghassan Salame, has resigned from his positi
Google said in a blog post that it would roll out free access to advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally as the company pitc
Robinhood, the popular trading app with a purported 10-million-strong user base and a $7.6 billion valuation, said it will offer compensation for yesterday’s outage on a case-by-case basis, acco
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, sent a letter to the students of Devi Balika Vidyalayain, Sri Lanka, thanking them for their support during the outbr
The Polish team Jastrzebski Wegiel informed on Monday that they won't go to Italy for the quarterfinal match of the men's volleyball CEV Champions League due to concerns over the novel coronavirus e
"Crouching inside a police vehicle on a snow-covered mountain, six police in Chongli, the ski competition venue of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, stayed on duty ove
Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year.As the Dow Jones Industrial Av
Seyed Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi, a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council, died of COVID-19 on Monday, Sputnik reported citing the Tasnim
Migrants wait on the Turkey-Greece border buffer zone, at Pazarkule, in Edirne district. Ozan Kose/AFP Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has blocked any new asylum applications to the c
Cyan Banister is leaving Founders Fund to become a member of a new early-stage investment and operations-focused firm called Long Journey Ventures.The move, first reported by Axios, brings Banister ba
Nvidia has canceled the in-person portion of its GPU Technology Conference, which would have brought more than 10,000 people to San Jose three weeks from now. The company cited “growing concern
One of the big, on-going debates in VC and founder circles concerns whether to accept money from top-tier, later-stage venture capitalists during a seed round. Even as their funds reach monstrous size
As confirmed cases of COVID-19 have risen to 20 in Britain, public health experts are concerned about an inadequate government response to curb the spread of the novel