India’s payment push is cutting out Visa and Mastercard

As global regulators increase their scrutiny on Visa and Mastercard over merchant fees, India has chosen a different path: creating rival payment networks that are increasingly sidelining international card networks. The strategy builds on India’s Unified Payments Interface, known as UPI, a nine-year-old system that now processes more than 13 billion real-time transactions monthly, or … Read more

X says it is rolling out labels for parody accounts

Elon Musk-owned social network X said today that it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to differentiate them from other accounts. In the past, users, including news presenters, have mistaken posts from parody accounts as authentic statements made by real people or entities. The company’s safety account on the platform said that … Read more

The Streaming Bridges – A Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT and CoAP Example to Learn More

1. Introduction Nowadays, we can rely on different streaming systems to transmit and collect our data. Some of the systems that we use, require extremely high availability. On the other hand, for other systems, high availability can be a trade-off between having a reliable system. Sometimes getting systems slower, can allow room to increase the … Read more