Critics of bitcoin often argue that it’s useless as a means of payment, one of the key elements of any successful currency. That’s not quite right, and likely to become less so. First, a reminder on how bitcoin works. If I want to send someone
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Richemont’s decision to plough €2.7bn into e-commerce by buying out Yoox Net-a-Porter is a wake-up call to sceptics who thought consumers would never buy US$5 000 Cartier necklaces and $50 000 Vacheron
There’s a compelling reason to consider what’s going on with cryptocurrencies a purely speculative boom-and-bust roller-coaster: over a three-month period, the prices of all the top coins and tokens are rather strongly correlated
The threat of large-scale cyberattacks and a “deteriorating geopolitical landscape” since the election of US President Donald Trump have jumped to the top of the global elite’s list of concerns, the World Economic
Bitcoin’s recent wobbles have given fresh urgency to a question that’s gripped market observers for much of the past year: will the cryptocurrency go down as one of history’s most infamous bubbles, alongside tulip mania
If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sincere in a recent post about gradually taking the media element out of “social media”, he’s striking a powerful blow for tech self-regulation, as well as preparing to pay a heavy price for
Prime numbers are more than just numbers that can only be divided by themselves and one. They are a mathematical mystery, the secrets of which mathematicians have been trying to uncover ever since Euclid proved that
Recent revelations that millions of Intel’s chips carry a security flaw is putting a deeper strain on the company’s decades-long partnership with Microsoft. Dubbed Wintel, the two technology giants worked hand in hand for much
Government’s radical Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which seeks to introduce into law many aspects of the controversial national integrated ICT policy white paper, will undermine the industry and lead to poor and inadequate
It was late November and former Intel engineer Thomas Prescher was enjoying beers and burgers with friends in Dresden, Germany when the conversation turned, ominously, to semiconductors. Months earlier, cybersecurity researcher