Genesis Mining to End Unprofitable Crypto Contracts Cloud mining service Genesis Mining is forcing some clients to upgrade to a five-year subscription or else lose services, it announced Thursday. The Iceland-based startup said in a blog post that it will end open-ended contracts for customers who are not earning enough …

iPad explodes at Apple’s Amsterdam store, customers evacuated An iPad exploded at the Apple Store in Amsterdam on Sunday as a result of an overheated or leaky battery, reported Dutch outlet AT5. No one was injured, although three people at the store were treated for respiratory problems after the event. …

Robotics-as-a-service is on the way and inVia Robotics is leading the charge – TechCrunch The team at inVia Robotics didn’t start out looking to build a business that would create a new kind of model for selling robotics to the masses, but that may be exactly what they’ve done. After …

The Huawei Watch 3 Could Store a Pair of Wireless Earbuds The Huawei Watch 2 is one of the best Wear OS smartwatches, but if Huawei’s latest patent is anything to go by, the company is preparing a new smartwatch — or watches — that seriously steps things up in …

Nvidia Reports ‘Substantial Decline’ in GPU Sales to Crypto Miners Nvidia is reporting a “substantial decline” in revenue as a result of declining sales to cryptocurrency miners. In an announcement of its second quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, the graphics card maker’s CFO, Colette Kress, stated that while “GPU business revenue was $2.66 …

Coinbase Wins Patent for Secure Bitcoin Payments System A newly published Coinbase patent seeks to protect a way of making bitcoin purchases more secure for customers. In the filing, published August 14, the U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange outlined how it could develop a payment portal which would allow users to pay using …

Unstoppable Scams? Ethereum’s Gambling Problem Is Only Getting Worse Ethereum has a gambling problem. Since July, products resembling Ponzi schemes, a fraudulent form of investment promising high returns for little cost, have topped the charts among decentralized applications (dapps) running on the world’s second-largest blockchain, outpacing even the popular CryptoKitties. But if …

Mark Cuban-Backed Unikrn ICO Hit by Class Action Lawsuit Unikrn, a Seattle-based e-sport betting startup that conducted an initial coin offering (ICO) last year, is now facing a class action suit accusing it of violating securities law in the U.S. Las Vegas resident and lead plaintiff John Hastings filed the …

New patent suggests multiuser support could one day come to Siri A new patent suggests that a major improvement may be in the works for Apple’s digital assistant. Nothing has been confirmed, but Apple may soon work on implementing multiuser support for Siri. The post New patent suggests multiuser support …

UK Crypto Futures Exchange Adds Bitcoin Cash Contract Crypto Facilities, the U.K-based crypto futures exchange and CME Group partner, is adding a bitcoin cash product to its offerings. The firm announced Friday that it was launching the contract on its platform, which is regulated by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority. …