iPhone Calls Can Be Hacked: Don’t Want Your Call To Be Public? Better Use FaceTime Audio
The iPhone, and all cell phones at large, are vulnerable to an SS7 cellular network hack that means a hacker could listen in on your phone calls, read your text messages and track your location, even if you have location…
How the FBI Uses Facial Recognition to Fight Crime
Days before a Pennsylvania court planned to sentence him to years in prison in 1996 for molesting three children, Lynn Cozart—a middle-aged security guard—vanished. For years, investigators searched for him, but the case went cold—that is until 2015, when Pennsylvania…
The Next Greek Crisis is Coming
As you approach the northern Greek city of Kozani, which stands on a plateau surrounded by mountains, you start to see smoke—thick white clouds floating above the knotty shrubs and sun-dappled hills of Western Macedonia. This is the heart of…
Why The ‘Living Wills’ of Top U.S. Banks Failed The Test
Why The ‘Living Wills’ of Top U.S. Banks Failed The Test by Knowledge@Wharton Peter Conti-Brown and Michael S. Barr on Banks’ ‘Living Wills’ http://media.blubrry.com/kw/p/d1c25a6gwz7q5e.cloudfront.net/audio/160414A_KWRadio_LivingWills.mp3 Eight years after the Great Recession, the top eight “systemically important, domestic banking institutions” in the…
India’s Leading Bitcoin Exchange Coinsecure Has Raised Over $1.2 Million in Ongoing Fund-raising Campaign
Bitcoin Press Release: Indian Bitcoin exchange and wallet Coinsecure has raised over $1.2 million in the first 4 months of their ongoing fund-raising round ‘Series A’. 18th April 2016, Delhi, IN – Coinsecure, the leading Indian Bitcoin trading platform, has…
Bitcoin Micro Payments a Short-term Fail, but Long-term Potential High
One of the many problems that Bitcoin has the potential of solving is that of how to pay content providers (like me). In this piece, Gene Hoffman of Vidicia lays out the problem of paying for content – most people…
Negative Interest Rates for Dummies
If you ever borrowed money, you are most likely familiar with the concept of positive interest rates. That’s the world where you pay interest on the money you borrowed. Lately, you probably been hearing more and more about negative interest…
Muslims for Bernie Sanders
The dramatic debate between Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Brooklyn on April 14, in anticipation of the New York primaries on April 19, notwithstanding, the national conversations about the US presidential campaign has become positively predictable, if not…
Book Says JPMorgan Knew What Madoff Was Doing
Say the name Bernie Madoff, and chances are everyone will immediately remember the Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of $64 billion. What likely won’t spring to mind is JPMorgan Chase’s role in the more than decadelong fraud. And the link…
Greece’s Creditors Weigh Extra Austerity Measures to Break Deadlock
Greece’s Creditors Weigh Extra Austerity Measures to Break Deadlock Option Investing partners – Greece’s creditors are considering seeking extra austerity measures that would be triggered if Athens misses its fiscal targets, in a bid to bridge differences between Europe and…