Cash will be a thing of the past by the time current college students have families, Apple CEO Tim Cook told a group at Trinity College Dublin.

The project partners with local telecommunications companies to share cellular spectrum, and the balloons relay wireless traffic from mobile phones and other devices to the Internet.

Oct. 8, 2015 - China is in the process of rating its citizens according to their acceptance of the government's desires and aims.

Everybody is measured by a score between 350 and 950, which is linked to their national identity card. While currently supposedly voluntary, the government has announced that it will be mandatory by 2020.

Banks and credit companies have been sending consumers new cards, which look like their old cards but are fitted with a small metallic high-tech chip known as EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard, Visa -- the three companies that created the standard.

The actual card number is never shared with the merchants and can use all major credit cards. Obviously, NFC [Near-Filed Communication] is needed for you to use this neat-o feature at 700,000 stores across the U.S.

As The New York Times put it, itBit appeared to be “the winner in a race among bitcoin exchanges to become the first to be fully regulated in the United States.”

The charter provides the legal framework needed to operate in all fifty states. However, some states, like California, may require itBit to win additional licenses in order to accepted.

The software works by tapping into the Knowledge Vault, the vast store of facts that Google has pulled off the internet.