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Guild Wars 2 releases beta 64-bit client, here’s how to get it
For a very long time, players of the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game Guild Wars 2 could get the game in one flavor: 32-bit. However, many people currently run on systems and OSes that can support 64 bit—in fact, according to a report over 92 percent of all new PCs sold worldwide and running Windows ...
Kim Dotcom at it again with plans for private internet with MegaNet
Kim Dotcom, from MegaUpload (Mega Limited) controversy and fame, just announced that he intends to build his own private internet–with emphasis on the private. The web mogul says plans for “MegaNet” will make the communication infrastructure secure and distributed by using the unused bandwidth and computing power of smartphones and computers running nodes on the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 November 4: Bitcoin market boom nears $500, Bitcoin Unicode symbol coming, Taiwan declares Bitcoin illegal
This Bitcoin Weekly would be remiss if the first thing mentioned was not that Bitcoin market value nearly hit $500 on some exchanges today. The community has been watching the slow but very apparent rise in market value over the past few weeks with some interest. Keep reading for some speculation as to what’s behind the ...
An MMO Halloween retrospective: Friends, ghosts and ghouls across the multiplayer industry
Spooks, ghouls and horror movies in TV make the vanguard of the onrushing Halloween holiday for the mass media. Often it’s a lot of build up to a final climax of costume parties and walking the streets dressed as Elsa from Frozen or trying to make a “I’m in the shower,” costume work without being awkward. ...
Botnet takes over Twitch Installs Linux, partially installs Gentoo
Lately a fad of allowing crowdsourced control of video games has invaded popular videogame streaming website Twitch TV (Twitch Interactive, Inc.). First it was Twitch Plays Pokemon then more interesting iterations appeared such as Twitch Plays Dark Souls (an extremely difficult game for someone without hundreds of fingers going in opposite directions). Over the weekend ...
Oculus co-founder says mobile VR will dominate before PC VR goes wireless
Next year, a flood of virtual reality (VR) headsets will be hitting the consumer market leading the way for an entire market of VR-based entertainment. VR currently promises to be a new way interacting with computers, an immersive science fiction iteration on film and gaming. However, according to Oculus Inc. co-founder Palmer Luckey, VR on ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 28: European Union rules BTC exempt from VAT, Bitfinex bitcoin debit cards debut, BTCC margin trading service launches
As of writing, BitcoinAverage.com is currently reporting that the market price of BTC is $300.98. This marks the first time that Bitcoin has remained above the $300 mark for a sustained period of time since January this year. (There was a brief spike during July, but that didn’t last.) This marks the third week of ...
Raspberry Pi will soon have official, customized bulk ordered versions available
The hugely popular micro-sized bare-bones development kit Raspberry Pi is about to receive official customization treatment in an exclusive agreement struck between Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd., the commercial subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and Element14, subsidiary of Premier Farnell plc. In London today the two companies announced that the deal will give Element14 exclusive ...
Joomla zero-day SQL Injection flaw patched, affects millions of websites
Last week, Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered a SQL injection vulnerability exploit in widely popular web content management software (CMS) Joomla that allowed for access to administrative areas. Shortly thereafter, Open Source Matters, Inc., developers of Joomla, released version 3.4.5 to address this issue. Administrators are urged to upgrade immediately to seal up the vulnerability. The exploit ...
Pantheon for EDU: Managing websites for schools just got easier
For organizations with a large number of web properties to manage–because of sheer size, numerous departments, multiple locations or open access to employees and students–a content management system (CMS) is the best tool. This week Pantheon Systems, Inc., a powerful website management platform for WordPress and Drupal, announced Pantheon for EDU: the only product of ...