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China has banned Bitcoin from being used as a currency; Germany has permitted its transactional use; Singapore is keeping hands-off. India, meanwhile, has yet to make a ruling, but it’s keen to make the public aware of the dangers.

Crowdfunding is a great way to get the money you need to make that great idea a reality, but what does it take to make these campaigns successful? GoGetFunding took a look at 12,052 projects to see...

Can there ever be too much of a good thing? If that thing is new wearable technology, we'd have to loudly proclaim no. After all, we aren't yet living in an awesome cyberpunk world where each of us i...

Kemal Derviş discusses the economic convergence progress and the global factors needed to create "catch-up" growth, including sufficient investment in both physical and human capital and macroeconomic stability.

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We created microcredit to fight the loan sharks; we didn’t create microcredit to encourage new loan sharks… Microcredit should be seen as an opportunity to help people get out of poverty in a business way, but not as an opportunity to make money out of poor people. - Muhammad Yunus, founder of Microfinance

Networking semiconductor maker Avago and today announced plans to acquire storage and networking semiconductor maker LSI for $6.6 billion in cash.  The combined company is expected to generate about $5 billion in revenues, roughly half of which will...

Short of attending an industry event or ordering your own dev kit, it's a bit tricky to get your hands on an Oculus Rift VR headset. Soon, that could change: the company just secured $75 million in funding to bring the product to market.

I am spending this week at the annual December CEO Space Business Growth Conference in Las Vegas, one of five summit events the company holds through the year.

(Phys.org) —Networks of nanometer-scale machines offer exciting potential applications in medicine, industry, environmental protection and defense, but until now there's been one very small problem: the limited capability of nanoscale antennas...

(Phys.org) —By applying pressure to a semiconductor, researchers have been able to transform a semiconductor into a 'topological insulator' (TI), an intriguing state of matter in which a material's interior is insulating but its surfaces or edges...

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If you've tried any of the countless smartphone apps that promise to turn your phone's camera into night vision goggles, you already know they're all snake oil.

It may look like something out of a fantasy story about magic rings and wizards. But the makers of the new “Smarty Ring” seem quite serious.

With the SmartCharge bulb, a new product currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, there is no reason to be afraid of the dark, ever again.

Speaking as an idealist, I’m presuming failure is such a vibrant topic of conversation this month because we’re coming up on the time when people make new year’s resolutions, and the desire to do better is the fundamental precept behind such...

The road to immersive virtual reality has been a long and strange one -- it was fodder for wide-eyed futurists and engineers for years before it became..

(Phys.org) —Two teams of researchers, one working in Saudi Arabia, the other in Spain, have discovered independently that adding vibrations to a graphene surface allows for more efficient conversion of photons to plasmons.

(Phys.org) —Some people think that university researchers are so occupied with their laboratories that they've lost sight of the world outside the ivory tower of academia.