Newly unsealed court documents in the case against disgraced former Secret Service agent and Silk Road bitcoin thief Shaun Bridges allege that further bitcoin was stolen after Bridge’s was initially arrested. The documents were revealed as part of the ongoing investigation of Bridges following his second arrest in February after he was found with a bag ...

Apple, Inc. has fired backed at claims from Spotify AB that they are being treated unfairly by claiming that Spotify is asking for exemptions to App Store rules that are applied equally to everyone. The row started last week when Spotify released a copy of a letter it sent to Apple’s lawyers which claimed that ...

In a surprising move Apple, Inc. is said to be in talks to acquire rival music streaming service Tidal (Aspiro AB). The Wall Street Journal claims that Apple is exploring the idea of acquiring Tidal to bolster its Apple Music service due of Tidal’s strong ties to popular artists. The talks between the two sides ...

The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla Motors, Inc. following the death of a driver who was using the company’s autopilot feature. Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old man from Ohio, died when a tractor-trailer drove across a highway in Florida perpendicular to his 2015 Model S; according to a blog post ...

Troubled mobile phone manufacturer HTC Corporation has made one of their best calls in years and has spun off their virtual reality (VR) division into a separate company. HTC Vive Tech Corporation, a fully owned division of HTC, will now be home to the HTC Vive VR headset, and according to a statement from the ...

Do you like Amazon? Do you want a cheap phone? If the answer to those two questions is in the affirmative, Amazon.com, Inc. has a deal for you with the e-commerce giant now offering Prime members discounted Android phones with one small catch: the lock screen will include Amazon advertising on it in the same ...

In a withering takedown of one of the most popular enterprise security applications firms, a researcher from Google, Inc.’s Project Zero security team has exposed critical flaws across a range of products from Symantec, Inc., including Norton Anti-Virus. The exposure of the flaws came from Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy who described the flaws as being ...

A new law proposed in China would extend consumer protections usually associated with physical assets to virtual properties, including Bitcoin for the first time. The draft law, a proposed new Civil Code General Provision, is said to have been created to keep up with a changing global economic landscape and would treat Bitcoin and other ...

San Francisco-based Bitcoin exchange Kraken (Payward, Inc.) has acquired Dutch Bitcoin exchange CleverCoin B.V. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Founded in 2013, CleverCoin aimed to help fintech companies in Europe by providing Bitcoin services via a platform “that makes trading Bitcoins accessible for everyone.” The company provides payment options through SEPA, credit ...

Proving that chatbots can actually be useful in real life, an automated lawyer chatbot has successfully challenged 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York. DoNotPay uses artificial intelligence to discuss the circumstances of the parking ticket with those who have received one, asking questions such as if there were clearly visible parking signs and ...