Nine months after revealing plans to develop a decentralized and encrypted chat application, BitTorrent opened public testing for Windows, Mac and Android versions of the program. Called Bleep, the ...

BitTorrent, the company behind the popular file sharing protocol with the same name, is developing a secure chat application that will encrypt all communications between users and won’t use any ...

A major update to BitTorrent's file-syncing program makes private sharing easier and better, and accessible to all. I've been contributing to PCMag since 2011 in a variety of ways. My column, Get ...

Following its acquisition by blockchain startup Tron, peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent will begin incentivizing users by paying them with its cryptocurrency tokens. Tron announced Thursday ...

BitTorrent's peer-to-peer sharing may soon learn a new trick, as Bram Cohen, chief scientist and co-founder of the company (and the originator of the BitTorrent protocol itself) has been at work on ...

In my previous post on the BitTorrent protocol, I took a look at the main parts of what makes up its infrastructure. For this post I am going to focus on how data is uploaded and downloaded. The ...

Jason Sun, the man behind the TRON (TRX) cryptocurrency, has reportedly agreed to buy the company behind the BitTorrent technology, the eponymous client, and the uTorrent client. The acquisition ...

BitTorrent applications used by hundreds of millions of users around the world could be tricked into participating in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, amplifying the malicious traffic ...

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BitTorrent will crowd source ideas from its 170 million users for its new Sync program for file sharing across multiple computers. Of course, the company is best known for its slightly less legal uses ...

How Do BitTorrent Sites Make Money? BitTorrent sites act as hubs where internet visitors download, share, and search for ...