Bitcoin Blockchain smart contracts startup RSK Labs Ltd. has raised $1 million in seed funding in a round that included Bitmain Technology, Coinsilium, and Digital Currency Group. Based in Buenos Aires, RSK is developing Rootstock, an open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards Bitcoin miners via merge-mining, allowing them to ...

In a completely unexpected turn of events, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has suspended its efforts to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the terrorists in the San Bernadino attack. While tentatively good news given the broader debate about encryption and demands by Government officials for backdoors, the actual reason ...

Apple, Inc. revealed a slew of new products Monday including the new 4 inch iPhone SE and 9.7 inch iPad Pro, but for long-term watchers of the company the events are significant for another reason: Apple sharing some of its stats data. With Apple’s 40th birthday due April 1st (certainly not an April fools) the ...

Bitcoin surveillance startup Elliptic Enterprises Ltd. has raised $5 million Series A in a round led by Paladin Capital Group which included Santander InnoVentures, KRW Schindler, Digital Currency Group and Octopus Ventures. Founded in 2013 originally as a Bitcoin storage solution, Elliptic now offers a Bitcoin surveillance service for law enforcement and Bitcoin companies that ...

Facebook Inc.’s ability to deliver advertising based on the presumed race of the viewer has been thrown into the spotlight after it was disclosed by Universal Pictures that they delivered different trailers for the movie Straight Outta Compton based on race. In a panel at South by Southwest, Universal’s Executive Vice President of Digital Marketing, ...

Sony Corporation is preparing to launch a new, beefed up version of its PlayStation 4 gaming console, according to a report at the weekend. Social justice warrior gaming site Kotaku claims that the new PS4, tentatively dubbed PS4.5, will include “increased graphical power and games running at 4K resolution.” The report notes that is is ...

Did you know that cars now have computers, and computers can be hacked? Amazingly this risk is brand new according to the geniuses at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who issued a warning on the matter late last week. The memo states that “modern motor vehicles often include new connected vehicle technologies that aim ...

“You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day,” are the opening lines to the television show Person of Interest, which is based on the premise of a machine built for the Government that utilizes artificial intelligence to mine data to predict when a ...

The use of an all-seeing deity may have its roots in various historical religions, often represented by the all-seeing eye. But whether you are religious or not, the belief that you are always being watched is no longer the subject of debate, but of truth. You are being watched. You are being watched as you ...

Big Data analytics provider Tectonic has announced that it is now providing services for Google’s Cloud Dataproc. Dataproc launched in beta in September then in general availability in February, and allows users take advantage of open source data tools for batch processing, querying, streaming, and machine learning, complete with automation tools that allow clusters to be ...