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Bullish on Bitcoin: theCUBE discusses Bitcoin’s prospects for the future
Taking a break from all the chaotic goings-on at HP Discover in Barcelona this week, theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante of Wikibon sat down with SiliconANGLE’s founding editor Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins yesterday to discuss one of the most disruptive trends in tech – Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that’s threatening to take the world of ...
Google ‘might’ ditch Intel & build its own ARM-based chips (one day)
As the world’s biggest internet company, Google has designed and built its own custom-made servers for several years now, but that hardware is still made using components from other companies. However, that could be set to change one day, as a speculative report from Bloomberg reveals that the web giant is now looking at building ...
Microsoft plots to undercut Android by dropping Windows Phone license fees
Microsoft is reportedly considering a dramatic shift in its mobile strategy, copying Google and giving away its Windows Phone and Windows RT software to device makers for free. The plan has yet to be confirmed, but if Redmond follows through it could result in a flood of new Windows Phone devices from brands like Samsung, ...
Sophos warns of rising ransomware threat in 2014
Cybercriminals are attempting to create a so-called “ransomware creation kit” in order to mass produce new variants of malware designed to extort money from PC users, reports security firm Sophos. The warning comes from Sophos’ annual Security Threat Report, which revealed that ransomware has become far more widespread over the last 12 months. The company ...
High-end Ubuntu Touch OS phones set to ‘touchdown’ next year
The last 12 months have been a pretty wild ride for the Ubuntu Touch operating system for smartphones. Canonical first announced the OS back in January, and following the release of a developer preview back in February, the company embarked on an ambitious, but ultimately unsuccessful, campaign to get its high-end Ubuntu Edge smartphone ‘crowdfunded’ ...
Did the world’s major financial powers just endorse Bitcoin?
With the astonishing rise of Bitcoin in the last few weeks, the world’s major financial powers have been scrambling to give their official stance on the digital currency that’s recently turned four years old. Bitcoin first came to the attention of mainstream media earlier this year, when the volatile cryptocurrency’s first “bubble” saw its value ...
Tech giants form the AllSeen Alliance to enable the Internet of Things
In order to fulfill the promise of the “Internet of Things” and bring connectivity to devices of every shape, inside homes, hospitals, factories, schools and beyond, a group of technology and consumer electronics companies have formed a new alliance. The Internet of Things is a catch-all term used to describe all the different kinds of ...
Is the FBI watching you through your web cam?
We know that the FBI, NSA and other agencies have the ability to scan and read our emails almost at will, but according to a report over the weekend, its surveillance capabilities extend far beyond that. In one of the creepiest revelations we’ve seen so far this year – and we’ve seen lots of creepy ...
Tech giants unite in call to end government surveillance
Despite being at each other’s throats the majority of the time, the world’s leading internet companies do see eye-to-eye on some issues, and it seems that none are particularly keen on the US government’s massive web surveillance operations. Which is why eight companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, AOL, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo, have banded ...
Sheep Marketplace heist – $100M worth of Bitcoin believed stolen as site vanishes from the Deep Web
An underground online marketplace that sold illicit goods including guns and drugs has suddenly vanished without trace, taking with it as much as $100 million worth of Bitcoin, in what has been labelled as the “Biggest Darknet Scam Ever”, according to Deepdotweb.com. Sheep Marketplace is one of a number of Deep Web sites that emerged ...