Online stockbroker Robinhood Financial LLC officially launched its zero-fee cryptocurrency exchange service Thursday in New York at a time when bitcoin’s price continues to experience a roller coaster ride. The service launched in January 2018 with support for bitcoin and Etherum for users in a small number of states, with today’s announcement coming as an expansion ...

Autonomous driving startup Aurora Innovation Inc. today said it has acquired Blackmore Sensors and Analytics Inc., a maker of advanced lidar seasons used in self-driving cars, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016 in Bozeman, Montana, Blackmore develops frequency-modulated continuous-wave lidar imaging and its supporting analytic tools software. Lidar is a remote sensing method that ...

AT&T Inc. customers can now pay their bills using cryptocurrency through a deal the telecommunication giant has signed with BitPay Inc. It’s the first major U.S. mobile carrier to provide a cryptocurrency payment option. Customers can choose BitPay as a payment option, then opt to pay their bills using either bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash. “We’re ...

The 90-day reprieve Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. that was granted to access U.S. technology May 20 could become permanent as President Donald Trump said today that the company was on the table as part of trade talks with China. An executive order signed May 16 banned American companies from doing business with Huawei, the world’s second-largest ...

With the drama surrounding the Trump administration executive order cutting off Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from U.S. companies remaining ongoing, the damage caused by the order could sound the death knell for the company outside its native China. The ban, ostensibly made on the grounds of U.S. national security, has seen Google LLC cut Huawei off from ...

In arguably one of the most bizarre hacking stories of modern times, the U.S. Air Force is currently investigating a hacking attempt instigated by … the U.S. Navy. The cyberintrusion is said to involve a Navy prosecutor embedding tracking malware in emails sent to an Air Force lawyer involved in a war-crimes case. The case in question is that of Eddie ...

Government services in Baltimore remain crippled by ransomware over two weeks after it the city was first attacked. The attack involved RobbinHood ransomware, which spread throughout the city’s network, disabling systems ranging from payment services to police, the Department of Transport and closed-circuit television networks. The ransomware is estimated to have taken offline more than 10,000 ...

Nonprofit consumer testing organization Consumer Reports has warned that the lane-changing feature in Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot is “far less competent” than a human driver and poses serious safety risks. The finding came after the organization tested the feature using a Model 3 on roads in Connecticut following an update pushed out by Tesla to its ...

Chinese-owned tech companies may be on the nose with the Trump Administration, but that hasn’t stopped the U.S. Postal Service teaming with one to test shipping using self-driving trucks. The trial involves the USPS shipping mail and packages in Texas using self-driving trucks designed by TuSimple. TuSimple was in the news recently when reports emerged ...

Craig Wright, the on-again, off-again claimant to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, is at it again. Today it was revealed that he has obtained a copyright for the original bitcoin white paper as well as the original code used to build bitcoin. An Australian entrepreneur, Wright (pictured) was first claimed to be Nakamoto in a ...