07/07/2014

French police smash illegal Bitcoin trading ring

French police said Monday they had smashed an illegal Bitcoin trading network, seizing virtual currency worth 200,000 euros ($272,000) in the first such operation in Europe.

Spain's Gowex wifi scandal bruises small firms

Startling revelations of at least four years of false accounting by Spanish free wifi provider Let's Gowex threatened Monday to inflict broad damage on the reputation of small and medium-sized firms seeking investor cash.

Ultra-cold atom transport made simple

Techniques for controlling ultra-cold atoms travelling in ring traps currently represent an important research area in physics. A new study gives a proof of principle, confirmed by numerical simulations, of the applicability ...

China's hidden water footprint

China's richest provinces have an outsized environmental impact on the country's water-scarce regions, according to new research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the University of ...

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