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Bitcoin’s recent wobbles have given fresh urgency to a question that’s gripped market observers for much of the past year: will the cryptocurrency go down as one of history’s most infamous bubbles, alongside tulip mania

If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sincere in a recent post about gradually taking the media element out of “social media”, he’s striking a powerful blow for tech self-regulation, as well as preparing to pay a heavy price for

Prime numbers are more than just numbers that can only be divided by themselves and one. They are a mathematical mystery, the secrets of which mathematicians have been trying to uncover ever since Euclid proved that

Recent revelations that millions of Intel’s chips carry a security flaw is putting a deeper strain on the company’s decades-long partnership with Microsoft. Dubbed Wintel, the two technology giants worked hand in hand for much

It was late November and former Intel engineer Thomas Prescher was enjoying beers and burgers with friends in Dresden, Germany when the conversation turned, ominously, to semiconductors. Months earlier, cybersecurity researcher

AMD is the sad sack of semiconductor makers. A security hole in its biggest rival’s computer chips gives it a small opening to change its fortunes. The bad news for Intel was a report that a design flaw in its widely used computer chips

When will cryptocurrencies live up to the second part of their name? Now that bitcoin is a mainstream asset, with futures contracts traded at the world’s largest exchange, becoming actual money should be the logical next step. But if