Judith Sheindlin, better known to millions of fans as Judge Judy, had an interesting case last week when she was forced to try to understand what Bitcoin was. The episode, which went to air November 12, saw the good judge preside over a case lodged by a man named Dan Haahr who claimed to have ...

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) may have channeled funds used to set up Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris by using Bitcoin according to a group monitoring the organization. The report comes from the Ghost Security Group, an offshoot of Anonymous who describes themselves as a counterterrorism network that combats extremism ...

Social media giant Facebook, Inc.’s commitment to being against terrorism after the horrific attacks that occurred in Paris Friday has been called into doubt, with the company apparently taking sides with ISIS instead of the voice of those opposed to the group. Facebook stands accused of banning a Facebook group called “Report ISIS accounts” which, as ...

Is the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge so good it can save a life? It turns out the answer to that question is yes, with one man crediting his life to Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd.’s flagship device during the horror which was the Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night. According to a French media ...

The born-again version of once great social sharing site Digg, Inc. has taken the venture capital path with the company taking $4 million Series A (apparently you start again when you’re reborn) in a round from DG Incubation, the Tokyo-based investment subsidiary of Digital Garage. As part of the deal, Digg itself is spinning off ...

Visa, Inc. wants a part of the future in fintech payment solutions with an announcement it is working on a proof-of-concept for a Blockchain-based remittance service. Working with distributed ledger specialist Epiphyte Ltd. through its Visa Europe Collab innovation hub, the project is looking to use the Blockchain to power an improved remittance service for ...

One of Google’s cute, little self-driving cars had a run-in with the law Thursday, with a test vehicle being pulled over by an Officer in Mountain View. While the notion of a self-driving car being pulled over for a traffic infringement it both amusing and ethically interesting at the same time, the vehicle was actually ...

Google has finally released its YouTube Music app to market with a streaming app that offers a service for both free and paying users. Available on both Android and iOS, YouTube Music is being pitched as a way to do even more to support artists and all the fans who turn to YouTube to discover ...

Despite the hype around the second coming of virtual reality (90’s kids will understand the reference), much of it has sounded like vaporware…until now. Tech and consumer giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is going first to market with their new Gear VR headset now available for order with a shipping date of November 20. The ...

The highly publicized and mostly popular news that Dell, Inc. will be acquiring rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. for $67 billion may be in doubt with a report Tuesday that the takeover may result in an insanely crazy tax bill. Re/Code quotes the proverbial insiders as being worried Dell could end up having a ...