April 6, 2021 Signal Is Adding a New Privacy-Focused Payments Feature Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company is expanding into a new frontier:…
April 6, 2021 XRP Tops A Three-Year High Above $1 Amid New Turn In Ripple Lawsuit XRP is going from strength to strength, shattering its way to new highs. On Tuesday, the price of the now fourth-ranked cryptocurrency jumped above…
April 6, 2021 Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI. Individuals at 1,803 public agencies—many…
April 6, 2021 Big Telecom’s Voting Rights Stance Is as Treacherous as It Is Hollow Corporations have long vied to cultivate brands that consumers will—at the very least—perceive as “socially responsible.” Since the 1980s, these efforts have forced companies,…
April 6, 2021 Nexo Sued for ‘Unlawful’ Liquidation of Clients’ Collateral XRP Amid SEC’s Ripple Lawsuit Bitcoin News Crypto lending firm Nexo is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by an XRP investor for “unlawfully” suspending the use of the cryptocurrency…
April 6, 2021 Polkadot futures open interest hits $1B as DOT price reaches a new ATH The open interest of Polkadot futures soared to $1 billion, eclipsing Litecoin and XRP to make DOT the third-largest futures market. On March 24,…
April 6, 2021 Square, Coinbase, and Fidelity set to rollout a Bitcoin Trade Group Square, Coinbase, and Fidelity; companies owned by some of fintech’s top guns, along with other leading crypto companies are joining forces to lead the…
April 6, 2021 Employee Indicted for Hacking Kansas Water Utility and Trying to Shut Down Key Systems A federal grand jury is indicting a 22-year-old guy over accusations that he tampered with a public water system. Dude allegedly hacked into a…
April 6, 2021 Gazelle brings back its phone trade-in program two months after discontinuing it Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Trade-in provider Gazelle exited the online trade-in business back in February, and now the company says it’s…
April 6, 2021 Rewards system allows decentralized messaging app users to earn crypto The messaging app project was aimed at avoiding third-party data harvesting. Make Sense Labs, a decentralized application firm backed by venture capitalist Tim Draper,…