A nor'easter disrupted flights at Boston Logan Airport on Saturday, with 253 cancellations and 38 delays reported as of noon. Airlines including JetBlue, United, American, and Delta offered travel waivers as the storm brought heavy rain, coastal flooding, and winds of 50–65 mph expected across the Northeast.
VoltDB is a commercial in-memory DBMS offering ACID-compliant NewSQL functionality optimized for OLTP queries with distributed architecture via sharding and replication. Originated from the H-Store research project at Brown University and MIT, it launched as a Boston spinoff in 2009 and now exists in both commercial and open-source versions, though the original source code is no longer publicly available.
In 1833, Frederic Tudor shipped natural ice from Boston to Calcutta, proving that ice could survive long tropical voyages and be commercially viable. This successful shipment transformed ice from a local seasonal product into a global trade commodity, enabling tropical cities to access ice for cooling and food preservation before mechanical refrigeration.