Bitcoin is headed directly to the Black Rock Desert, Nevada by way of the annual Burning Man festival. The Burning Man Project, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit organization behind the festival started accepting Bitcoin for donations earlier this week. “Donations will help provide more grants, training and support to creators of radically interactive art and ...

Seth Rogan & James Franco’s new movie The Interview was released yesterday and it looks like it might be a hit, at least on BitTorrent. The movie features a plot to kill North Korea’s President Kim Jong-Un and is widely believed to be the raison d’État Sony Corp. was targeted by hackers acting on behalf of the kleptocratic state ...

Bitcoin has been voted the worst currency in 2014, following a year of downward fluctuations in the still young open cryptocurrency market. Bloomberg makes the claim, highlighting that Bitcoin did even worse than the Russian Ruble and Ukrainian Hryvnia. “…relentless promotion can’t hide these facts: The digital currency peaked at a value of $1,130 just over a ...

Seth Rogan and James Franco fans will have something extra to celebrate this Christmas with news that The Interview is now available on Google Play, YouTube and Xbox. The distribution of the movie had previously been canned following threats from North Korean backed hackers, a move that was condemned by many, including President Obama.  Surprisingly the movie is not ...

Uber Inc. CEO Travis Kalanick has been indicted in South Korea for operating an illegal taxi service, a charge that carries a jail sentence of up to two years The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office told Yonhap News that it had charged Kalanick with violating a law governing passenger transport services, which specifies that rental-car service ...

Uber Inc. has apologized for implementing surge pricing during the Sydney terror attack December 15th. The company was unfairly attacked by the mainstream media and the uninformed on social media when its algorithms automatically increased the cost of booking a car due to an increase in demand. “The events of last week were upsetting for the whole community ...

Sony Corp. has announced that it will allow showings of The Interview in a limited theatrical release, after previously cravenly giving in to threats following its much publicized hacking by North Korea. At the time of writing screenings of the comedy have been confirmed in various cinemas in Texas and Georgia, although The Wrap reports the final number ...

Where will Bitcoin head in 2015? It’s December and that means it’s prediction time, and so far with pre-Christmas predictions there’s a split of opinion between those predicting a bull or bear market for the cryptocurrency. Bulls At the head of the bullish Bitcoin market predictions for 2015 is Keith Gilabert of Fina V Capital, who ...

Google has revealed the first “real build” prototype working version of its autonomous self-driving vehicle. The new car, part of Google’s self driving car project, is the first fully functional self-driving car designed from the ground up by the company. The vehicle offers a number of new features from a mockup previously revealed in May, although the ...

Sony Corp. has threatened to sue Twitter Inc. if the company doesn’t remove accounts that are disseminating leaked emails obtained from its well publicized hacking by North Korea. Sony lawyer David Boies is reported to have written to Twitter’s general counsel Vijaya Gadde, saying that if “stolen information continues to be disseminated by Twitter in any manner,” Sony will “hold Twitter ...