Bitcoin fans are fond of claiming that the price of the cryptocurrency is heading to the moon, but it may now be halfway to Mars. The price of bitcoin broke yet another new record in trading Thursday thanks to rumors that Amazon.com Inc. might be about to enter the market. The price of bitcoin hit ...

Ransomware-as-a-service will see the insidious malware spread rapidly beyond personal computers in the year ahead, according to the new report out Thursday from Sophos Group plc. The Sophos 2018 Malware Forecast looked at the direction malware took in 2017 to make its predictions for the year ahead. The new trends include the continuing rise of RaaS, ...

Weeks after a farce that saw Google LLC stop using a cupcake emoji thanks to accusations by social justice warriors that its use constituted fat shaming, a new drama has emerged at the body that certifies emojis over a proposal to implement a “frowning poo emoji.” The argument over the emoji is between developers working with ...

Waymo Inc. Thursday said it signed a deal with AutoNation Inc., the United States’ largest automotive dealer network, to provide support services for its self-driving car fleet. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but AutoNation’s 360 nationwide dealerships will provide maintenance and repairs for Waymo’s existing fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica vehicles along with any ...

Electric vehicle and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. is not doing so well. The company Wednesday reported a massive loss in the third quarter and disclosed production problems with its electric vehicles. By the numbers, Tesla reported a loss of $671 million in the quarter with negative cash flow of $1.4 billion, or a loss of $2.92 per ...

A new form of ransomware detected in Japan is allegedly being used to cover up a previous hacking campaign, in a new twist on what would otherwise be just another ransomware attack story. Dubbed “ONI,” the ransomware is targeting Japanese companies for the specific purpose of being a “wiper,” a form of attack used to ...

Smart earbud startup Doppler Labs Inc. is history, closing its doors after running out of money when its product failed to sell. Founded in 2013, the San Francisco-based company designed an “augmented reality” pair of earbuds called Here One that included a built-in microphone. It allowed certain sounds through while intelligently filtering other sounds out. In ...

CME Group Inc., the operator of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, announced Tuesday that it intends to launch bitcoin futures trading by the end of the year. Pending regulatory approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the move would be a U.S. first. It would see the exchange offer and trade bitcoin futures contracts, a form of tradable forward agreement ...

Despite previous claims that many consumers aren’t aware of the risks presented by “internet of things” devices, a new survey has found the opposite, with 90 percent of consumers saying they don’t trust the security offered by now near omnipresent devices. The finding comes from digital security firm Gemalto NV in its new “State of ...

Information technology services company CorpInfo Inc. has raised $20 million in new funding and announced a strategic shift that includes a name change and new focus on Amazon Web Services consulting and managed services. The company has adopted the name of Onica Inc., taken from a service it started offering in 2013. It’s already a certified AWS Premier ...