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Space startup Vast has announced that it intends to launch what it calls the world's first commercial space station, Haven-1, sometime after August 2025 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as the first element of a 100-m (330 ft) rotating station.

The world's second-largest cryptocurrency is poised on the brink of a transformational overhaul. Within hours, "the merge" will happen, and the Ethereum network will eliminate 99.95% of its monstrous ~78 terawatt-hours per year energy consumption.

A digital artist called "Beeple" is now one of the top three most valuable artists alive – in any medium – after he sold a JPG file of his work for US$69,346,250. Welcome to the crazy world of NFTs, and the internet's latest wild gold rush.

Looking at today's tech, you might think “pack it in, inventing is finished.” But innovateurs and imagineers need something to do, even when the well of useful ideas is running dry. Here are the oddest and most questionable inventions of 2019.

Facebook today announced plans to roll out a new form of cryptocurrency called Libra, which will integrate with the social media giant's apps including WhatsApp and Messenger in an effort to make moving money as simple as sending a text message.

An anonymous cryptocurrency millionaire recently launched a fund to donate $86 million in Bitcoin to charity. One of the biggest donations so far is to MAPS, an organization working to turn MDMA into a legal PTSD treatment.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have promised a revolution in capital - but at what cost? The Bitcoin network alone is now burning a horrific 240 kilowatt-hours of electricity per transaction, using as much energy as the entire nation of Serbia, and heralding an environmental disaster.

In the wake of the recent WannaCry ransomware attack, secretive hacking group The Shadow Brokers has revealed plans to release more stolen data through a subscription service. But who is behind this mysterious disruptive force? Foreign intelligence, anarchic hackers or someone inside the US?

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin may seem to be the fad that keeps coming back around every ​year or so, but a new study finds they may be much bigger than previously thought. A landmark study finds cryptocurrencies are actively used by three times as many people compared to other estimates.

Microsoft has quietly announced that its customers can now use bitcoin to purchase certain products through third party payment processor BitPay, which also supports tech sales site TigerDirect and Virgin’s space flight offshoot Virgin Galactic.