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Vyacheslav Prokofyev | TASS | Getty Images The bitcoin community appears to have resolved the in fighting over the future of the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin fell by another $200 on Tuesday after the fallout of a Chinese ban on cryptocurrency crowdfunding methods saw the price of the digital coin slump earlier …

The PowerShares QQQ, which tracks the top 100 stocks in the tech-heavy Nasdaq, was up almost 2 percent in a month that saw a slight drop for the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500, and a bigger, 1.6 percent, decline for the small-stock Russell 2000. Some of the …

Joshua Roberts | Reuters President Donald Trump announces his strategy for the war in Afghanistan during an address to the nation from Fort Myer, Virginia, August 21, 2017. President Donald Trump is expected on Friday to eliminate a program protecting young people brought to the United States illegally as children …

Chesnot | Getty Images Visitors play a game with the virtual reality head-mounted Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus at Le Grand Palais on December 15, 2016 in Paris, France. Electronics giant Samsung is the latest company to get the go-ahead to test self-driving cars on California’s public roads. That’s …

Disney | Lenovo The “Star Wars: Jedi Challenges” game requires players to wear the Lenovo Mirage augmented reality (AR) headset. While wearing this, the game will be overlaid onto the real world, allowing players to battle enemies with the Lightsaber controller that comes with the game. Disney has partnered with …

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images An UBER application is shown as cars drive by in Washington, DC. Uber is to have designated drop-off and pick-up areas at all of Westfield’s 33 shopping centers in the United States. The two firms announced a partnership that places the locations on …

Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty Images Russia’s President Vladimir Putin,(L), China’s President Xi Jingping (R) and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for the concluding session of the BRICS summit. Despite holding deep historical and cultural ties, a brief border war in 1962 prompted turbulent relations, and earlier this …

On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Apple had scheduled a product-announcement event for Sept. 12. Apple has not confirmed the report. The iPhone 8 launch will be a “fairly material one for Apple,” RBC Capital’s Amit Daryanani told CNBC in a phone …

Getty Images Lavar Ball and LaMelo Ball look on from the audience during week eight of the BIG3 three on three basketball league at Staples Center on August 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Basketball’s current most famous family, the Balls, are headed to Facebook. “Ball in the Family” — …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple. Apple CEO Tim Cook has collected $89.6 million as part of a 10-year deal that he signed as an incentive to keep the iPhone maker at the forefront of the technology industry after he took …