A writer who has followed bitcoin for several years says neither of these comparisons quite works. The still-evolving cryptocurrency is neither an irredeemable flop nor...
Burger King is introducing a burger with a vegetarian patty from the startup Impossible Foods. It's a big step toward the mainstream for startups trying...
Bruce Friedrich used to work at PETA. But when he realized that making others feel bad about eating meat does not make them consume less...
The Orthodox Union, the largest kosher certifying organization in the world, is trying to figure out how it should deal with what is known as...
The number of people who have bought virtual currencies more than doubled last winter. For people who got in late, the bust has been disastrous.
The first blockchain was created in 2009 as a new kind of database for the virtual currency bitcoin. Now, innovators are looking to use similar...
While banks can stop or reverse large electronic transactions made under duress, there is no bitcoin bank to halt or take back a transfer, making...
Graduate-level classes this semester at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Duke, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland, among other places, illustrate the fascination...