Israel’s emergence as a centre for automotive technology got a vote of confidence on Monday when Intel said it would pay US$15bn for Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based maker of chips and software for driverless cars. It will be the largest takeover of an Israeli
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A controversial plan to fix bitcoin’s network congestion suffered a setback after attackers used a newly discovered bug to crash the software. Bitcoin Unlimited, which had been attracting support from the digital currency’s biggest miners, was
The 94-year-old creator of the lithium-ion battery has invented another breakthrough storage device that’s capturing the attention of industry heavyweights. “John Goodenough, inventor of the lithium battery, has developed the first
You may not know it by looking at bitcoin’s recent price surge, but the infrastructure underpinning the world’s most popular virtual currency is teetering. While speculators continue to push the value of the digital money to record
Bitcoin’s price plummeted after US regulators rejected a proposal by the Winklevoss twins for a publicly traded fund based on the digital currency, dashing hopes that a government-approved investment vehicle would lead to wider
BT Group has agreed to legally split off its Openreach network division into a separate entity as demanded by Britain’s telecommunications regulator, a victory of sorts for the phone carrier’s rivals though not as complete a breakup as they
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said the group will work with technology companies to close gaps identified in thousands of Central Intelligence Agency documents it published this week as well as in additional material it
The motto at billionaire Jeff Bezos’s rocket company is “gradatim ferociter”, Latin for “step by step, ferociously”. The Amazon.com founder sees applying that intensity toward making space travel more like hopping on an aeroplane
Uber Technologies will end the practice of showing fake versions of its app to government officials suspected of conducting sting operations on drivers. The programme, which is sometimes referred to as “Greyball”, blocks users who
For a company that has been mired in negative headlines for months, just about the last thing Samsung Electronics needed was news its smart TVs could be used to spy on users. According to documents released by WikiLeaks, that is exactly what