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Wow! Dogecoin users have donated more than $30,000 worth of the virtual currency to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Olympics Games in Sochi, Russia.

A new Web service, dubbed Card for Coin, is doing its part to lower Bitcoin's barrier to entry by letting users trade in Starbucks gift cards for Bitcoin.

Charlie Shrem, co-founder and CEO of Bitcoin exchange BitInstant, with money laundering in connection with now-defunct online drug marketplace Silk Road.

The Dogecoin community has built a brand on giving to those in need. But as the cryptocurrency ages, can it maintain its good-guy image?

The Dogecoin community has raised nearly $7,000 to help send three athletes from India to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

In response to Apple's ban of the last Bitcoin wallet app, Blockchain, from the App Store, Bitcoin users have begun smashing their iPhones in protest.

Bitcoin vending machine manufacturer Lamassu announced today the launch of the first known Bitcoin sales kiosk operating in the United States.

Following Mt. Gox collapse, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin has requested that the federal government “ban” Bitcoin entirely.

After losing 750,000 Bitcoins belonging to customers, Mt. Gox and its CEO Mark Karpeles have been hit with the first inevitable class action lawsuit.

In a blockbuster new report, Newsweek claims to have unmasked the identity of 'Satoshi Nakamoto,' the creator of Bitcoin. His real name? Satoshi Nakamoto.

The implosion of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has left the entire industry in shock. Can it pick up the pieces and rebuild stronger on its own?

Thieves have delivered a fatal blow to the second Bitcoin exchange in a week – but that hasn’t stopped the rising value of the embattled cryptocurrency.

Newsweek's outing of Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto is scary because we can imagine it happening to us.

A Bitcoin believer on Reddit put his money where his mouth is after losing a bet that the price of a Bitcoin would remain at $1,000 “come January 1st.”

The Beam remote presence solution sounds like a good idea. Too bad it's the Segway of teleconferencing.

CES 2014 shows us that the future of consumer technology means giving up the last remaining shred of privacy we enjoy. But don't worry, it's not so bad.

Reports of the death of CES have been greatly exaggerated. And this year, the world's biggest consumer technology show has come back to life in new ways.

To kick off CES 2014, Parrot debuted two new ‘bots that promise drone fun without leaving your wallet feeling lighter than air.

Despite Apple, Microsoft, and every other CES doubter, the annual show's Monday press day is one of the most important of the year in tech. Who wins Monday matters, and in 2013, Samsung backed up its gaudy sales figures with an impressive display of its next 12 months in hardware.

Nobody knows CES better than Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association.

Review: The BlackBerry Torch 9810 offers both a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard, but the hybrid design makes sacrifices on both ends and suffers from RIM’s outdated BlackBerry OS.

'Live at the Beacon Theater,' Louis C.K.'s latest stand-up special, is available straight from his website, for $5. You could get it for free via torrent — but you shouldn't.

Congressional privacy advocates have issued a letter questioning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the social networking site's plans to let developers access users' private information.

Opera has officially entered the competitive world of mobile app sales with a new online app store.

Feeling the heat from iPhone and Android, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.

A Google AdMob study of tablet usage has found that playing games is more popular than any other activity.

The wait is finally over: Apple's new iPhone is the 4S. It looks identical to the iPhone 4 -- but it's what's changed on the inside that makes all the difference. Check out all the key details here.

A new smartphone screen from Hitachi beats out Apple's already-impressive Retina display by just a few pixels.

Mobile application analytics company Localytics says 26 percent of apps downloaded in 2010 were used only a single time

Mistaking it for a reference to "Battleship," Sony accidentally retweets the jailbreak code that it is trying to keep from being published.

For the first time ever, the Super Bowl will stream online, and through Verizon's NFL Mobile app, NBC has announced.

Which would you rather fight: one horse-sized duck, or 100 duck-sized horses? This hypothetical has been put to everyone from a New York Times columnist to the President of the United States. But what do these fighting amateurs know about battling mythical beasts? We went to the real experts to settle this matter once and for all.

Interest in Twitter Inc from both Facebook and Google has placed the value of the micro-blogging site at around $10 billion. That's insane — and dangerous, say analysts.

The House has shut down an amendment that would have made it illegal for employers to demand job applicants' Facebook passwords as part of their background check. Fortunately, the practice does not appear to have been as widespread as first believed.