Interesting Tidbits

The Street As Facebook Inc.’s (FB – Get Report) data scandal surrounding information accessed by the political data firm Cambridge Analytica continues to reverberate, the social media giant has another controversy on its hands. Some Facebook users who […]

Bloomberg John McAfee disappeared from the public markets after MGT Capital Inc. severed ties with the controversial antivirus software developer, but now he’s back and advising a cryptocurrency startup that’s conducting an initial coin offering. McAfee is joining […]

Business Insider The Brooklyn-based startup Light has set an impossible goal of getting people to put down their smartphones. Light launched in 2014 and a year later debuted its first product, the Light Phone. It could only […]

Business Insider Millennials, the largest living generation, are poised this year to have more spending power than baby boomers, according to analysts at Bernstein. And so, it’s important to understand what they’re buying, and how […]

The Street From coins targeting the cannabis community to those based on a viral Internet meme, the crytocurrency craze has created some pretty strange investing opportunities. We dived into the black hole that is the Internet […]

Bloomberg A Chicago trader working for Consolidated Trading LLC faces charges he stole $2 million in cryptocurrencies from his firm to cover his losses and then lied about it to cover gambling debts. Joseph Kim, 24, was […]

Futurism   IMITATING LIFE A collaborative effort between Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Carnegie Mellon University has established a method of growing hydrogel in a way that more closely resembles the shape and structure of […]

Bloomberg China’s clampdown on its crypto industry is sending miners scurrying for a new home. They’re finding one in Canada, lured by its cold climate, lots of clean, cheap power and a welcoming market for raising capital. […]

Forbes A few years ago, Lin Shao was living a pretty comfortable life in the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen. He’d just landed a well-paid mechanical design job, earning more than many of his fellow […]

Bloomberg Mining cryptocurrencies is far too energy intensive and is consuming as much electricity as a G-20 economy, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said. “The Bitcoins mining, which is this accelerated and augmented […]