Author: Keith Anthony

Texas has long been defined by oil, heat, and huge infrastructure projects. Now, it’s also at the center of a growing environmental debate. Microsoft’s Stargate campus in Abilene is leading a data center boom that is drawing concern over water use, right in the middle of a prolonged drought. According to a July 2025 investigation by The Austin Chronicle, data centers across Central Texas are consuming millions of gallons of water every day. This comes as many residents are being asked to reduce their usage due to dwindling supplies. The problem is not limited to one city. In San Antonio,…

Senegal has pulled the plug on Akon City, reclaiming almost all of the 55-hectare seaside concession after seven years of missed deadlines, fading crypto fortunes and a single half-finished welcome centre that now shares its lot with grazing goats. The $6 billion “real-life Wakanda” once promised luxury towers and flying-car parking is now the most expensive visitor kiosk on the continent. Ambitious Beginnings Announced with Marvel-level fanfare in 2018, Akon called it a “real-life Wakanda” inspired by Black Panther -the plan promised soaring hotels, a 5,000-bed hospital and streets that ran on renewable energy and Akoin. The project aimed to…

Nikita Bier has twice turned a simple, feel-good polling idea into chart-topping apps that sold to giant buyers. His playbook relied on hyper-targeted launches, guerrilla social tactics, ruthless iteration, and a “no-budget” marketing philosophy that let the product itself do the work. Below is a closer look at the exact moves that took tbh and Gas from zero to millions and what Bier is building next. 1. Build for One Tight Audience First 1.1 Pick a “seed” school Bier chose a single Georgia high school that started its semester earlier than the rest of the country so he could test…

In July 2023, Sam Altman stood behind Worldcoin as one of the boldest bets in crypto. It was pitched as a new identity layer for the internet, a way to verify that someone is human in an age of deepfakes and AI bots. To participate, users would simply have to let a silver “Orb” scan their irises in exchange for World ID and some WLD tokens. The pitch was simple. The implications, enormous. Two years later, the excitement is evaporating. A Quiet Descent Worldcoin’s token (WLD) debuted with a wave of enthusiasm and big-name backers. Since peaking at $11.74 in…

If you have watched enough Shark Tank or Dragon’s Den, you develop an instinct for which pitches are going somewhere. The niche idea that sounds too risky, the founder who walks out empty-handed, the deal that almost did not happen. Sometimes the sharks get it completely wrong, and the person they passed on builds something that makes the investment they turned down look embarrassing in retrospect. iGaming has produced a lot of those stories. The numbers involved now make some of the biggest deals you have ever seen on television look like rounding errors. FanDuel started in Edinburgh with $1.2…

On March 23rd of this year, EA launched the 1.5.1 title patch to EA FC 26 that fixed a ton of bugs and added some new customization and gameplay features. This patch affects all platforms with the most prominent additions being in the Career mode and even new Broadcast packages. However, the biggest part of the update are the Real Face scans. These are scans of real players and managers being added to the game as a collaboration. Here is everything new in this patch and what this means for EA FC 26. All Career Mode Fixes A bunch of…

Friends is an iconic sitcom, the NBC series aired from 1994 to 2004, revolving around the lives of six friends in their 20’s living in New York. Although it finished over 20 years ago, the show still airs globally. Each cast member receives 2% of that figure ($20 million annually). Cast Salaries & Negotiations Season 1 (1994–95): Each actor earned $22 500 per episode. Seasons 9–10 (2002–04): Through collective bargaining, the six leads compelled producers to raise their fees to $1 million per episode each. Reportedly, Matthew Perry’s initial holdout forced the studio’s hand- he refused to show up to…

Most people who use it have never thought about it. You tap a button in a game, confirm a subscription, or enter a competition, and somewhere in the fine print it says the charge has gone to your mobile bill. No card details, no bank login, no PayPal redirect. It just happens. That is direct carrier billing, and it is embedded more deeply into daily digital life than most people realise. The mechanism is straightforward. When you select pay by phone as a checkout option, the platform identifies your number through your mobile data connection or asks you to enter…

Imagine taking on Adobe Photoshop and not only surviving but thriving. That’s exactly what Ivan Kutskir did when he created Photopea, a powerful online photo editor used by millions worldwide. The most mind-blowing part? He runs the entire operation alone and keeps his yearly expenses at just $700. Kutskir’s Background Kutskir’s grew up in a small village in Ukraine, where his early fascination with computers set the stage for his future endeavors. By the age of 14, he was already building websites, and his passion for computer graphics only grew from there. It was during his computer science studies in…

Online casinos have long since ceased to be mere platforms with a catalog of slots. Today, operators compete not only on bonuses or marketing. Content has become the key factor. If a platform offers unique games, players stay longer. That is why more and more companies are turning to game development slots from Inkration, which are created specifically for a particular brand or platform. When an operator uses standard games from dozens of providers, the catalog looks almost the same as that of competitors. But game development slots allow you to create your own product that cannot be found on…