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OKCupid announced on Tuesday via Coinbase, a "bitcoin wallet" where people can buy and sell the digital currency, that it would begin taking payments in Bitcoin for its "A-List" features.

The site joins dozens of other sites, including WordPress and Reddit, in accepting the digital currency.

Now that Apple has announced that an outside organization, the Fair Labor Association, will audit the working conditions at most of the plants that build Apple products, will the growing protests over the exploitative practices at those plants start to die down?

Sen. John Rockefeller and others in Congress wonder whether the company has more than technological innovations to hide. When Apple didn’t participate in an April hearing on children’s online privacy, the West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, gave voice to his suspicions. “When people don’t show up when we ask them to ... all it does is increases our interest in what they’re doing and why they didn’t show up,” Rockefeller said of Apple and Google, which both declined to testify.

Apple is using a patent from 1996 to get the government to stop android phones from being smart. It's not even a tangible part of the equipment.

FTC scolds Apple, Google and developers over (lack of) kids' privacy

Parents still aren't given the guidance they need to determine whether or not kids' apps are safe, the Federal Trade Commission said Monday.

"It’s the third time in a month that Apple has turned Drones+ away, says Josh Begley, the program’s New York-based developer. The company’s reasons for keeping the program out of the App Store keep shifting. First, Apple called the bare-bones application that aggregates news of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia “not useful.” Then there was an issue with hiding a corporate logo. And now, there’s this crude content problem."

Technologist, Yan Huang covers: Google and Apple, through the WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), is pushing to replace the current underlying technology XHTML2 of the Internet with their new HTML5. This will remove market share from Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun Java FX, and put more control of the Internet in Google and Apple's hands.

When Apple needed to complete a $1 billion data center in North Carolina, they found themselves thwarted by an acre of land belonging to Donnie and Kathy Fulbright--their home of 34 years. Where the state would've condemned the property and taken it by force (offering some token amount in "compensation"), Apple told the Fulbrights to name their price. They did, and Apple (a corporation driven by profit motive, not political power) will easily earn back the $1.7 million price they paid for that land.

The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt. Gox, a Bitcoin trading platform. A Dwolla representative confirmed the move to Betabeat. Chris Coyne, cofounder of OKCupid, posted a screenshot of an email he received from Dwolla, stating that due to recent orders from the Department of Homeland Security, Dwolla cannot complete the bank transfer to Mt. Gox.