Bitcoin skyrockets to all-time high above $8,500

Published time: 25 Nov, 2017 09:35 Edited time: 25 Nov, 2017 09:50 The world’s most popular cryptocurrency surpassed $ 8,500 on Saturday at 9:30am GMT, setting another record high. Bitcoin is up over 850 percent this year. November has been an extremely volatile month for bitcoin. Earlier this month, the digital currency price fell to […]

8,500 Verizon customers disconnected because of “substantial” data use

Enlarge (credit: Verizon) Verizon is disconnecting another 8,500 rural customers from its wireless network, saying that roaming charges have made certain customer accounts unprofitable for the carrier. The 8,500 customers have 19,000 lines and live in 13 states (Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wisconsin), a Verizon […]

Windows switch to Git almost complete: 8,500 commits and 1,760 builds each day

Enlarge (credit: Git) Back in February, Microsoft made the surprising announcement that the Windows development team was going to move to using the open source Git version control system for Windows development. A little over three months after that first revelation, and about 90 percent of the Windows engineering team has made the switch. The […]

£8,500 for YOUR old banger: Ministers plan HUGE scrappage scheme for diesel cars and vans

Anyone in the UK with a diesel car or van more than 10 years old is likely to be eligible to get whopping discounts off a low-emission replacement.   The Government is keen to rid Britain’s roads of diesel cars by 2030 and officials are considering copying an extremely successful French scheme, where drivers of […]