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Adobe Systems’ Flash – which had long faced criticism for its cumbersome user experience and vulnerability to hacking – is finally set to fade into history. At the end of 2020, the company will stop updating and

Bitcoin backers celebrated as the community embraced a new mechanism to improve usage and allow it to scale, boosting confidence in the virtual currency and sending prices back near record highs. The community, which

Qualcomm, the biggest maker of chips used in mobile phones, has forecast steep declines in profit and licensing sales, underscoring its dependence on the royalties that one of its largest customers, Apple, has stopped

Years ago, Google built a social network separate from its prized asset, Web search. The effort failed. Now the company is trying again — only this time, it’s turning its search engine into something that looks a lot like

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]acebook’s WhatsApp messaging service has been partially blocked in China, following a censorship crackdown by the government. Multiple WhatsApp users…

Bitcoin has reversed steep losses as miners began using new software which aims to bridge an ideological gap that has threatened to divide the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin’s community has been at bitter