The Tribune

• AN Australian man long rumoured to be associated with the digital currency Bitcoin has publicly identified himself as its creator, a claim that would end one of the biggest mysteries in the tech world.

BBC News reported on Monday that Craig Wright told the UK media outlet he is the man previously known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The computer scientist, inventor and academic said he launched the currency in 2009 with the help of others.

Wright told the BBC he had decided to make his identity known to stop the spread of “misinformation” about Bitcoin.

• A SOLAR-powered plane landed in suburban Phoenix on Monday night after a day’s flight from California, the latest leg in its around the world journey using only energy from the sun.

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 arrived in the suburb of Goodyear, southwest of Phoenix, at the end of a 16-hour trip from Silicon Valley. After Phoenix, the plane will make two more stops in the United States before crossing the Atlantic to Europe or northern Africa, according to the website documenting the journey. The single-seat aircraft began its voyage in March, 2015, from Abu Dhabi.

• AN OUTDOOR advertising company that owns thousands of billboards across the United States and around the world may be subject to a federal investigation to determine if its practice to gather mobile phone data to learn about people who are passing their displays in order to cater adverts to specific consumers is legal.

Senator Charles Schumer wants authorities to investigate Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, which has more than 675,000 displays in more than 40 countries and insists the information it uses is anonymous. Schumer says he believes the company has created “spying billboards”and is asking the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation to determine whether the tracking constitutes a deceptive trade practice.

• NEARLY four million Nissan cars are being recalled due to major safety problems where passenger air bags or seat belts could fail in a crash, leading to serious injuries or fatalities.

Nissan North America Inc said that 3.2 million cars may have a problem with a sensor that detects if the front passenger seat is occupied and if that passenger is an adult or a child. Defective sensors might incorrectly think that an adult is a child or classify the seat as empty, thus turning off the air bag.

Nissan will notify owners of the problem and offer to fix it for free. It is also recalling another 620,000 of its 2013-2016 Sentras, in which the air bag sensor isn’t shutting off when it should be.

• THE CREATORS of “Angry Birds” hope cinema audiences don’t get their feathers ruffled if some filmgoers pluck out their mobile devices at the end of “The Angry Birds Movie” and point them at the screen.

Rovio Entertainment is dropping a code in the closing credits of the upcoming animated film inspired by the mobile gaming sensation that will hatch an exclusive level for a new pinball-inspired game called “Angry Birds Action!” A level set on Piggy Island, home to the Angry Birds’ snout-faced adversaries, can only be unlocked if players pluck out their mobile devices and zap a code displayed during the film’s credits when it debuts on May 20.