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• German schools ban Microsoft Office 365 amid privacy concerns

  The German state of Hesse has ruled it's illegal for its schools to use Microsoft's Windows 10 and Office 365 citing "privacy ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• German police raid another Bitcoin-powered dark web marketplace

  German police have busted Chemical Revolution, a dark web marketplace, which allowed consumers to buy narcotics with Bitcoin. ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Spanish police arrest Bitcoin launderers in international credit card fraud case

  Spanish police have arrested 35 people allegedly involved in an international counterfeit bank card ring which laundered ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• A German minister wants access to your encrypted WhatsApp and Telegram messages

  Germany's Federal Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer wants encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram to provide ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• German watchdog accuses CoinBene of unlicensed cryptocurrency trading

  Cryptocurrency trading platform CoinBene has been put under the microscope again following an announcement from one of Germany's ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Prince Charles on Bitcoin: 'It's a very interesting development'

  A Twitter user posted a video of them asking Prince Charles what he thought of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain yesterday. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• UK to regulate social networks to curb the spread of harmful content

  The UK is proposing a move to regulate social media platforms, and hold them accountable for the spread of like misinformation, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Moonday Mornings: 30% of cryptocurreny startups failed in 2018

  Another weekend has come and gone, meaning there's blockchain and cryptocurrency news to catch up on, thankfully Monday Mornings ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 3 countries host over 50% of the world’s Bitcoin nodes

  Ever wondered which country is running the most nodes on the Bitcoin network? Well here's your answer.

  • Matthew Beedham

• Here are the 5 hottest startups in Germany

  By Marta Dawydzik and Andrea Hak When you hear underground techno clubs with permissive raves and more museums than rainy ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Why Germany wants to block Facebook's Messenger-Instagram-WhatsApp merger

  Facebook made a splash recently when CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to integrate its messaging platforms on Instagram, Messenger, ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• ShapeShift forced to 'help' police with 60 cryptocurrency inquiries last year

  The FBI and the SEC were noted as the most common US agencies to request information related to cryptocurrency users on ShapeShift ...

  • David Canellis

• Why we will probably never have a perfect clock

  We still have to make sure that the time we define matches our everyday experience of day and night and the rhythms defined ...

  • The Conversation

• German artists brilliantly honeypot 'Nazis' into exposing themselves and their friends

  Their site promised people cash to name participants of a violent anti-immigrant protest. But that wasn’t the real goal. ...

  • Alejandro Tauber

• France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up

  France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Germany wants a global 'minimum tax' for tech giants' revenue

  Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz finally supports global minumum tax on tech giants. France and Germany push for the ...

  • Már Másson Maack