Hut 8 Mining Group raised $70 million CAD to invest in mining machines, and mined 828 bitcoins in the first quarter of 2018.Source: Coin Desk - Digital currency

Researchers are cooking up pill-sized sensors to detect medical molecules and possibly diagnose other gastrointestinal ailments.Source: Wired - Emerging technologies News

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The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a settlement with PayPal, Inc. over allegations that its Venmo peer-to-peer payment service misled consumers about their ability to transfer funds to external bank accounts and control the privacy of their Venmo transactions.In its complaint, the FTC alleges that when Venmo notified users that money had been credited to their Venmo balances and was available for transfer to an external account, it failed to disclose that those funds could …

A monero cryptominer based on XMRig is hijacking Macs, causing high CPU and fan usage.Source: Coin Desk - Digital currency