Hull city council considering bitcoin-like currency
Hull’s decision to launch its own cyber-currency, called Hullcoins, may sound like an April fool’s joke, but it shows the kind of traction virtual currencies are gaining in the real world.
Forget exploding cigars. The latest from the fractious relationship between the United States and Cuba brings things into the 21st century: via social networking.
Hull’s decision to launch its own cyber-currency, called Hullcoins, may sound like an April fool’s joke, but it shows the kind of traction virtual currencies are gaining in the real world.
Much of the world remains unprepared for the mounting threats of the changing climate, a major international report warns.
Employees of software company Mozilla, best known for its Firefox internet browser, launch a Twitter campaign asking new chief executive Brendan Eich to step down over his stance on gay marriage.
Barack Obama outlines details of his plan to end the governments bulk collection of phone data, including procedure on how officials will now have to request data from phone companies.
Astronomers discover what they think is a new dwarf planet, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. And they can only guess how it got there.
First Twitter, now YouTube – the Turkish prime minister blocks the video-sharing site after what he called the “villainous” leak of a secret recording of top security officials on the site.
As the search for missing Malaysia flight MH370 narrows, questions are being asked about what lies under the vast southern Indian Ocean.
MPs defend the UK military’s controversial drones programme, saying pilots are not video-gaming “warrior geeks”, and call for more clarity around their secretive use.
A UK shopping centre is one of the first to track where shoppers go and what shops they visit, through their phones: Channel 4 News paid a visit to find out what it is doing with the data.
Shopping centres are now known to track customers through their Wi-Fi signals, but what are they doing with the data? Technology producer Geoff White reports.
Click through the slides to see the key phases in the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
A leading medical expert on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs accuses critics of misleading the public about the dangers of their use.
Calls to “shut down Twitter” don’t only come from prime ministers facing corruption allegations: during the 2011 riots former MP Louise Mensch suggested the same thing.
The Turkish government’s decision to ban access to Twitter comes as little surprise, writes Niall Finn, a student in Ankara.