OhmConnect, an Oakland-based company, is offering a demand-side solution that could end up playing a crucial role in helping California avoid rolling blackouts this summer.
Now that El Salvador is taking bitcoin nationwide, other Central and South American countries are coming forward with their own proposals in what's shaping up to be a regional race to become the next bitcoin hub.
Criminal gangs that used a secure-messaging app called ANOM unwittingly allowed the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop on their conversations.