Google and Nasa announced they were collaborating on the D-Wave X2 quantum computer, which they say is 100 million times faster than a conventional computer chip, in 2013. It can answer certain algorithms in seconds rather than years.

The announcement follows a string of moves ... to make AI technology available on a noncommercial basis. Facebook, Google, and International Business Machines recently donated portions of their formerly proprietary AI software through an open source license.

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 "milestone" was reached on Monday [8/24/15], when "1 in 7 people on Earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family."

When something you like pops up, all you have to do is click. The sites may already have your credit card info— you only have to add it once.

The National Security Agency lost its authority at midnight to collect Americans' phone records in bulk, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul stood in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday Senate session.

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.

According to visitor logs and emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal, high-ranking Google staffers, including Eric Schmidt, met with White House officials 230 times across two terms, or roughly once a week in four years.

Unlike bitcoin, where the network is decentralized and there is no supervisor, the proposed digital currency system will be controlled by central banks, the news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying.

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

The Federal Communications Commission will vote today on whether to classify the internet as a "utility" for purposes of regulating net neutrality. The new regulations will clear the way for government domination of the internet.

Britain’s electronic spying agency, in cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments to seamlessly eavesdrop on mobile phones worldwide.

There is no evidence at this time that the agencies spied on people who were not valid intelligence targets, but this overreach by the governmental spy agencies is sure to cause concern.

"Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.”