One of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchanges Just Added 100,000 Users in a Single Day

The eye-popping surge in bitcoin this week is paying dividends for one of the biggest U.S. online cryptocurrency exchanges. Coinbase Inc. added more than 100,000 users in the last 24 hours in the wake of the CME Group Inc.’s announcement Tuesday that it plans to […]

Fractyl Labs raises $44 million in Series D to develop a treatment for type 2 diabetes

Fractyl Labs, a Lexington, Massachusetts-based startup developing treatments for diabetes, has raised $44 million in Series D financing from a slew of VC firms, including GV, True Ventures, the IDO Fund, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Domain Associates, Mithril Capital Management, Emergent Medical Partners, L.P., […]

Apple’s High Sierra security patch affected Mac file sharing

Open the Terminal app, in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder.2. Type sudo /usr/libexec/configureLocalKDC and hit Return.3. Enter your administrator password and press Return.4. Quit the Terminal app. Done. The number of people affected by the new security update’s flaw is unknown. Apple jumped […]

Uptake nabs $117M at $2.3B valuation for industrial predictive analytics

A company that is seizing the opportunity to provide predictive analytics to the industrial world — regardless of whether a business has made the (often costly) transition to internet-of-things “smart” systems — is today announcing that it has raised a significant round of growth funding […]

The Uber-Waymo Self-Driving Car Lawsuit Gets a New Star, and Takes a Wild Turn

When Waymo, the autonomous car company once known as Google’s self-driving car outfit, announced it was suing Uber for trade secret theft in February, the action seemed to center on a single person: Anthony Levandowski. According to Waymo, the former Google engineer downloaded 14,000 secret […]