When can something bad also be used for good? The answer is crypto mining! Traditional crypto mining is notoriously resource-intensive withthe annual carbon footprint of mining Bitcoinequivalent to that of countries like Argentina and Norway. But rest assured, companies arehard at workfinding creative ways to mine crypto sustainably. Further, because the creativity of people knows no bounds, it’s not just computers they have been mining crypto with. Oh, not at all....

5 years ago, on July 15th, 2006,Twitter, then called Twittr, opened to the public.Twittr was described as“a new mobile service that helps groups of friends bounce random thoughts around with SMS.” The microblogging platform has grown into something founders Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams could never have imagined. At the start of this year, Twitter users in Japan set the tweets per second record at 6,939 tweets per second, 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day....

If you’ve been out of the crypto game for a while, here’s what’s been happening:major cryptocurrencies are trading in the red,retirees protest El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender, andHonduras opened its first cryptocurrency ATM.Basically, business as usual in the crypto verse. However, if you’re still HODLing some coins, you might want to brush up on what you can buy with them. Here are 5 ‘crazy’ things you could blow your crypto cash on....

It’s been a whirlwind few months for LulzSecurity (LulzSec), bursting onto the tech scene with the high-profile hacks of US TV network Fox, moving on to compound Japanese electronics giant Sony, taunting its detractors as they sought to expose row after row of SQL database entries in high-profile government and agency websites. On Saturday,LulzSec announcedon Twitter that after 50 days of “anarchic lulz” it was to cease operations, dropping its largest collection of compromised data in torrent file posted to The Pirate Bay....

News broke today that sent a jolt throughout the Midwest startup community: A massive new center isset to open early next yearin Chicago that will house myriad young companies. And perhaps crucially, it’s backed by J.B. Pritzker, an individual worth over $1 billion, providing it with a firm financial footing. Pritzker is not alone in the venture, and is joined by three other founders: Matt Moog (Built in Chicago), Troy Henikoff (Excelerate Labs), and Kevin Willer (Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center)....