While 2015 was a great year that saw a record amount of venture capital flow in Bitcoin and the Blockchain come of age, it wouldn’t be the Bitcoin space without a year full of drama, including failed businesses, arrests, outright scams and a bit more in between for good measure. Looking back at the year, you ...

Concurrent to the rise of smartphone payment systems in 2015 has been the rise of fingerprint scanning as a method of user authentication. But what if the use of fingerprints is not the future of security? Chief Executive Officer Joe Siegrist of password management firm LastPass (LogMeIn, Inc.) believes that the concept of fingerprint authentication ...

Spotify AB is facing a new class-action lawsuit headed by musician David Lowery over a claim of unpaid royalties. Lowery, the lead singer of a band by the name of Cracker and also regarded as a “music copyright activist,” claimed in the suit filed on December 28 in the Central District Court of California that ...

Would you use your television as the main hub for your Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices? Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. thinks the answer to that question is yes, with an announcement Tuesday that its new lineup of smart televisions will do exactly that. According to the company, all of its 2016 SUHD TVs will ...

Something strange happened in the world of Bitcoin in 2015. While cryptocurrency fans were well aware that the Blockchain, the distributed digital ledger that powers Bitcoin was a brilliant technology, few else knew of its potential. Then it all changed. In 2015, the Blockchain came of age as companies small and large, including some of ...

Despite its perhaps premature death back in January, Glassholes the world overall have a late Christmas present today with pictures of the new version of Google, Inc.’s smart eyewear making their way online. The new version of Google Glass, sadly not dubbed “look like a tool: the next generation,” were discovered by 9to5Google in a Federal ...

A massive database containing the personal information of a staggering 191 million Americans has been discovered online, although no one quite knows how it got there or where it came from. Discovered by security researcher Chris Vickery, the database appears to be a list compiled on people who vote and includes the voter’s full name ...

The Bitcoin space came of age in 2015, as much of the sometimes dubious early players dropped by the wayside and serious money entered the space for the first time as markets recognized the value Bitcoin startups offer. You could say Bitcoin has moved on from being in its tweens into a teenager, and while ...

Blockchain records management startup Factom, Inc. has hit a roadblock in its attempt to see its Land Registry Tool being put to use in an actual full country. The company announced a deal with the government of Honduras back in May that would have seen the country implement Factom’s technology to track who owns what within ...

Cloud communications company Twilio, Inc. may be one step closer to an initial public offering with a report on Christmas Day that it might be happening … again. According to The Wall Street Journal quoting the proverbial “people familiar with the matter,” Twilio has filed confidentially for its IPO and is working with banks, including Goldman ...