Twitter has paid $36 million for 900 owned by International Business Machines Corp (IBM). This purchase has ended any possibility of a lawsuit between the two companies, which IBM had threatened previously. This brings Twitter...
Disney is getting rid of roughly 700 jobs from Disney Interactive, which is the division responsible for online entertainment and video games. It was The New York Times that first broke the story, in which they say that these jobs...
The father of Bitcoin has long been anonymous, but it seems that he may have been outed by an article published in Newsweek this past Thursday. Who is the father of Bitcoin? According to Newsweek, the man’s name is Satoshi N...
Edward Snowden has given testimony to an inquiry by the European Parliament regarding NSA surveillance that relates to European countries. In the testimony are Snowden’s qualms with the mass-surveillance that is being carrie...
Patrick Rock, who is an advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the deputy director of policy, has resigned from his post on Monday because he was arrested in February for being in possession of child pornography. Rock, who...
Andrew Meldrum, who is from London, has been convicted for installing spyware onto the computers of three women and then using the women’s own webcams to spy on them. Meldrum was found guilty on two counts of voyeurism and t...
The American government has filed a lawsuit against Sprint, claiming that the company overcharged the government by $21 million for the wiretap operations that Sprint allowed. The US government believes that Sprint went overboard ...
Over 400 people, from all over the world, have said that they want to join in on a class-action lawsuit against Mt Gox, which until its recent closure, was one of the biggest Bitcoin exchanges. The main reason why they closed was ...
The city of Las Angeles has decided to ban the use of e-cigarettes in a number of public places, following in the foot steps of cities like Chicago and New York City. The ban, which will take effect 30 days after Mayor Eric Garcet...
Flexcoin, which was a bank for Bitcoins, has been forced to close after 896 of its Bitcoins, or $597,300 USD, at the time of this article’s writing, were stolen. This marks yet another blow to those who have legitimate busin...
Due to a mistake on Twitter’s part, a number of their users have been sent emails saying that their passwords have been reset. This incident took place on Monday (March 3) night, and resulted in a bit of a storm on Twitter, ...
It has been revealed that Bill Gates is once again the richest man in the world, with a net worth of $76 billion. Out of the past twenty years, Gates has held this title for fifteen. This news comes to us from Forbes and their ann...
Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 has sold over six million units since it was released only four months ago. These figures include the fact that the PS4 was recently released in Japan on February 22, and on a whole the sa...
After a leak revealing the fact that a fourth Batman Arkham game is being worked on, being called Batman: Arkham Knight, a trailer for the game has been released. The game is being developed by Rocksteady Studios, and will be comi...
A new study carried out by Plymouth University researchers suggests that playing Tetris can reduce a person’s cravings. The study was published in Appetite and it’s focus involved testing Elaborated Intrusion (EI) Theo...
