TECHNOLOGY

The co-founder and technical director of a major bitcoin website has sold all his bitcoins, claiming that the popular cryptocurrency has become "virtually unusable".

"He's never not an a**hole. Never," Andy Lassner, an executive producer for The Ellen Show, tweeted.

Nasa reinvented a 150-year-old technique to capture supersonic motion as well as the shockwaves of a jet.

China reportedly plans to launch "hyperspectral" and "synthetic aperture radar" satellites, by 2021 to help spy on every object in the contested waters.

Facilities over which drones cannot be flown include those at Los Alamos, Idaho and Savannah River.

National Infrastructure Commission is calling on Ofcom to demand better coverage and internet speed including 4G in the UK.

Amazon Prime video users have stumbled across a Japanese show called Tokyo Train Girls, which features groping and up-skirt shots of women on public transport.

Kremlin-linked troll accounts on Twitter and Facebook have reportedly used fake profiles to incite anger and spread confusion following terror attacks in the UK.

The F-35 can provide a whole range of data to US' Missile Defense Agency to help them track and shoot down ICBMs.

After a Chinese woman realised other people could unlock her phone despite claims it was impossible, Apple has been accused of failing minorities.

Joe Wren, 17, was travelling on the train following an interview to study maths at Robinson College when he was handed the heart-warming letter.

"This is not even remotely normal. There's something going on here," one Twitter user said.

"Ted Cruz, the Jar Jar Binks of the Republican party," one Twitter user wrote.

Twitter blasted Sarah Huckabee Sanders over her tweet about the most "underreported" Trump stories of 2017.

Scientists who analysed the videos frame by frame have come up with a number of findings that are quite curious.

A "sickness surveillance system" will help the UK's National Health Service (NHS) plan for surges in demand this winter by tracking outbreaks of illnesses, including norovirus.

Russia could be working towards expanding its nuclear arsenal from roughly 7,000 to 8,000 weapons by 2026.

The strange new add-on featured an ominous phrase that did little to quell suspicions or fears: "My Reality Is Different Than Yours."

While most of the names and some information in the Jacobs letter have been redacted, the letter outlines some shady unlawful activities within Uber's "ThreatOps" division.

Russia made a lot of military advancements this year. Here are our picks of the most interesting ones.

To simulate the failure, only two of the three parachutes bundled with the mock spacecraft were deployed.

Of all the techniques that are being seriously studied, Robert Mueller believes 3D printing will lead the way in lunar construction.

The agency captured the image as its Mars Express spacecraft moved from North to South Pole.

MAGMA is a drone that has no hydraulics to change direction. It simply makes use of air blown to the right parts of its wing.

In a blog post on 15 December, researchers from the social network said that spending too much time "passively consuming information" can make people "feel worse".

"You misspelled #NetNeutrality, you genetically altered butternut squash," one Twitter use fired back.

"Was this Trump's performance review?" one Twitter user questioned.

"This was a fantastic way to end the year for SpaceX east coast launches," Jessica Jensen, director of SpaceX's Dragon Mission Management, said.

Sarah Idan, otherwise known as Miss Iraq, has been bombarded by death threats following an Instagram post alongside Adar Gandelsman, Miss Israel.