Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, gave the green light to the exchanges on December 1, while warning "of the potentially high level of volatility and risk in trading these contracts."

Bitcoin faces a pivotal moment as investors are about to receive an entirely new asset called Bitcoin Cash after the blockchain supporting the cryptocurrency is forced to split in two.

...and says everyone will soon be doing it. The ... chip will allow them to open doors, log in to computers and even purchase food.

Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack. The Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab said its analysis showed that there had been about 2,000 attacks - most in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.

The new versions use deep learning, an artificial-intelligence technique that is especially effective for image recognition.

Elon Musk’s new company, NeuraLink Corp., wants to merge human minds and artificial intelligence via brain implants. This plan is for Musk to fix disability, replace language and use brain implants to usher people into a telepathic world.

The United Nations has already started making preparations to develop the very technology that could be used to register every single person on Earth.

Vizio, which makes popular, high-quality, affordable TV sets, agreed to pay a $2.2 million fine to the FTC. ...Those same TVs were also busily tracking what their owners were watching, and shuttling that data back to the company’s servers.