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Are bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies overhyped & dangerous?Exchange owner CME Group, TradeWind Markets, and financial technology company Paxos are working to make the$27 billion-a-day gold market digital.The business say it will include more openness and security to the gold market .”Digital gold would take market share away from other gold …

On August 2, Bitcoin–easily the most valuable single cryptocurrency by orders of magnitude–suddenly forked when a group of users decided not to support the adoption of changes to the blockchain system proponents claimed would make BTC transactions faster. Right now, there are two forks, or divisions in Bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash, …

Future Android phones could come equipped with some fancy new camera features thanks to technology being developed by Qualcomm. The company has yet to announce its next-generation Snapdragon system-on-a-chip (SoC), but it’s already showing off some wild things it’ll be able to do. An updated version of Qualcomm’s image signal …

The rumor mill pegged Apple as working on a smartwatch for several years before the Apple Watch finally launched. The long development timeline gave everyone else a chance to launch their wearable platforms, but wearables haven’t been the explosive success technology firms had hoped. Even Apple’s eventual Apple Watch launch …

Intel has taken the unusual step of releasing (or leaking) information on the company’s next-next-generation processor. The new, 10nm chip will be codenamed Ice Lake and isn’t expected to debut until after Coffee Lake, which is expected to launch later this year on the 14nm++ process. We already knew Intel …

Holographic technology is frequently shown in science fiction and superhero movies (Tony Stark’s in-helmet displays are all holograms). Our real-life capabilities have historically been far more modest, even though the first science fiction author to write about the concept, Jules Verne, published his The Carpathian Castle in 1893. Now, an …

Smart-lock manufacturer Lockstate has egg all over its face after bricking its own customers’ locks and making them inoperable. The company has previously partnered with Airbnb to make its locks available to owners who want to remotely lock or unlock their houses before or after guests arrive, and some of …

Fear of AI and robotics is fairly common in humans. There have been ample predictions about how the robot/AI revolution will destroy an enormous number of jobs, while potentially posing an existential risk to the long-term survival of the human race. In the real world, however, our robot designs are …

Google’s consumer-facing chat application Allo, a successor of sorts to Gchat, is today available on the web for desktop users. The service, which lets you chat with friends while taking advantage of features like stickers, “smart replies” for one-tap responses, and Google Assistant integration, among other things, has been in …