Bitcoin, the digital currency that earlier this week crossed over the $250 mark for the first time, is in the throes of a crash. The currency topped out at $266 earlier today and then plummeted to $105 before returning to about $156 at the end of the day, according to Business Insider. It is predominantly…
Next time you’re chatting with friends and wondering if anyone else is watching, you can rest assured they aren’t…if you are both using Apple messaging technology. Apple’s iMessages software platform is so secure not even the Drug Enforcement Administration can crack it, even with a warrant, according to an internal document uncovered by CNET News.…
Rumors have circulated for years that Facebook would create a Facebook Phone. This week, the company went one better by creating a Facebook Phone without any investment in hardware, chip design or manufacturing plants. With the new Facebook Home interface, the company simply turns your Android smart phone into a social phone. If you’re already…
After Zynga officials said last fall that the company would begin talks with Nevada state gaming officials, analysts speculated that it would be a year and a half or two before Zynga or any other social gaming enterprise would have a real-money social gaming platform ready in the US market. At the time, it was…
Did Google fool you today? Probably not, but if you fell for any of the gags below, don’t feel bad, it’s all in good fun. Google began its April Fools’ Day pranks early and hard, releasing fake announcements almost as fast as it killed its own products during its Spring Cleaning a week earlier. Some…
Researchers at Stanford University said they have developed a biological transistor capable of Boolean operations – the third of three basic operations necessary for creating a fully functional biological computer in living organisms. Importantly, the discovery also enables signal amplification and cellular level control, which opens wide-ranging implications for medical research. For example, the biological…
Apple Computer has acquired WiFiSlam for $20 million, according to the Wall Street Journal and others. The Palo Alto-based indoor GPS startup, which began in the StartX student startup accelerator of Stanford University, develops technology that allows smart-phones to pinpoint their locations and determine the location of nearby friends in real-time with an accuracy of…
Co-Founder Micah Smurthwaite and his friend Mike Hansen conceptualized Showscoop on pieces of printer paper. Now the App, which which launched at , is a full blown service that lets users review concerts much like Yelp does for restaurants.
Palo Alto start-up Yummly, one of the fastest growing sites in the foodie market, has managed two huge wins in recent weeks, and we’re not talking about winning cake recipes. The first win took place earlier this year, when Shopwell CEO and co-founder Brian Witlin joined Yummly as the head of mobile and platform development.…
For most sports fans, March is a time to revel in 66 games of heart-wrenching, bracket-busting college basketball. And Google is jumping on board. According to Josh Constine of TechCrunch.com, the tech giant is imbedding the NCAA March Madness bracket into the top of the page on a variety of search results. Google and its…