Mar 06 UPDATED: Creator of bitcoin revealed By Frank Bi The identity of bitcoin’s elusive creator has been uncovered. Once thought to be a pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto is actually a reclusive, 64-year-old Californian. Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch Leading coal producer agrees to pay record fine to clean polluted waters across Appalachia By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 05 Insuring the Bitcoin loss with another digital currency By Simone Pathe So what happens to the value of all those lost Bitcoins? Enter Goxcoin -- a new digital currency that would insure the assets trapped in Mt. Gox. Continue reading
Mar 05 Are your grades killing your grandmother? Dan Ariely’s prescription: The perfect MOOC By Dan Ariely More college students lose grandparents right before taking college exams. Duke professor and irrationality expert Dan Ariely has a solution: Enroll in Massive Open Online Courses to spare grandparents some fatal stress. Continue reading
Mar 05 Target CIO resigns over data breach By Sam Lane The chief information officer at retail giant Target has resigned following a massive holiday-season data breach, which affected millions of customers. Continue reading
Mar 04 Guacamole at Chipotle could be climate change’s next casualty By Ruth Tam What do the Arctic’s ice cap, America’s bee population and Chipotle’s guacamole have in common? They’re all potential casualties of global climate change. In Chipotle’s 2013 annual… Continue reading
Mar 03 Yes, you can cash in on multiple exes’ Social Security benefits By Laurence Kotlikoff Larry Kotlikoff exposes yet another peculiarity of our nation's Social Security system that allows a spouse to live off the largest benefits package of multiple ex-spouses. Continue reading
Mar 02 Gamblers wager billions on unregulated Bitcoin betting sites By Simone Pathe Billions of dollars in gambling is happening in a currency that is largely unregulated, on websites set up on offshore servers, and right under the noses of officials who are unaware it exists. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch Will Mt. Gox’s missing money prompt regulation on Bitcoin? By PBS News Hour Mt. Gox, an early player in the virtual currency Bitcoins, became a major online exchange until the disappearance of a significant sum and the subsequent bankruptcy of the company. Kashmir Hill of Forbes joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the potential… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch Major Bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy, loses $425 million in virtual currency By PBS News Hour Continue watching