From eWeek: The Bitcoin crypto-currency is one the biggest financial stories of 2017, increasing dramatically in value over the past 12 months from $1,000 in January to as high as $20,000 on Dec. 7. As Bitcoin's value has grown, so too have its risks, as sites struggle to remain both available and...

From The Verge: Designing specialized processing chips for artificial intelligence is becoming common for serious tech companies, and Tesla, it seems, is no exception. According to reports from both The Register and CNBC, CEO Elon Musk was talking up the company’s custom AI chips at machine learning...

From PC Mag: Companies looking to test package or food delivery robots on San Francisco sidewalks will have a more difficult time in the future.

According to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle, the city's Board of Supervisors this week unanimously passed tough new regulations that "limit...

From EETimes: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) said it aims to open its second fab in China earlier than originally expected in order to meet strong demand in the world’s fastest growing semiconductor market.

The company will “pull in” the opening of the fab located in Nanjing, China...

From PC Mag: The rollercoaster rising value of bitcoin has forced online gaming distributor Steam to drop the cryptocurrency as a payment method.

A year ago, it cost a mere $0.20 to process transaction fees for bitcoin payments, but due to the digital currency's surging value, those fees can now...

From CNET: Fresh off the heels of $1.5 billion in new investor funding, Lyft is hiring a vice president of corporate development and investor relations. Kristina Omari, former vice president of corporate development for Fitbit, has been tapped for the job.

"She brings a proven track record of...

From The Verge: A 20-year-old man was responsible for the massive data breach at Uber last year, and the company paid him to destroy the data through its bug bounty program, reports Reuters. In November, Uber revealed it suffered from a cyberattack in October 2016 that exposed the private data of 57...

From eWeek: The wait is nearly over for PCs that are powered by Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon mobile processors and can run full versions of Windows 10.

Nearly a year after first announcing that Windows on Arm PCs were in the works, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and Asus officially took the wraps...

From The Verge: It's here at last: the Amazon Prime Video app is now available for the Apple TV. The app arrives six months after Apple CEO Tim Cook said it would arrive “later this year” and with just days to spare in 2017. The iOS app was just updated to 5.0 as well, adding iPhone X support and...

From eWeek: Microsoft and security firm ESET announced on Dec. 4 that the companies have been cooperating with international law enforcement agencies for more than a year to disrupt a sprawling botnet, known as Gamarue.

Gamarue—a crime kit that is known on Internet underground marketplaces as the...