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The best desktop 3D printers of 2015 for the enthusiast and where to buy supplies
Over the years 3D printing has continued to engage and interest people for industrial uses as well as consumers. The consumer models started somewhat expensive, and way out of the ballpark of most everyday desktop printer users, but now many 3D printer manufacturers are producing relatively low cost solutions for everyday use. If you’re in ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 26: Bitcoin block size debate, Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, Spells of Genesis and virtual items
This week continues the contentious Bitcoin block size debate and discussions of the emergence of the Bitcoin XT client, see below, and more talk about numerous BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) presented by varied Bitcoin developers and community luminaries. As back to school continues, various academic institutions are beginning to offer courses in Bitcoin from New ...
Coffee-based filament allows people to 3D print beautiful, brown objects
People who like coffee can now make java-based objects with their 3D printers using a coffee filament manufactured by 3Dom USA called Wound Up, produced in partnership with Fargo, North Dakota based bio-composite company, C2renew. The outcome of this partnership enables 3D printer owners to print a cup that could be an actual “coffee cup.” ...
Take to the skies with TobyRich gaming drones Kickstarter for mobile
Video games rarely get a chance to jump out of the screen and into the real world, but with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets this sort of gaming is becoming a reality. On the forefront of this sort of augmented entertainment, Germany-based drone maker TobyRich GmbH has come up with tobyrich.vegas, a gaming ...
Google’s Go programming language version 1.5 leaves C behind
Wednesday marked the release of the sixth major stable release of Google’s Go programming language with version 1.5. It is currently available for download right now. Go, also known as golang, was developed in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a language beloved by many developers, making a high of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 19: Bitcoin flash crash and Bitfinex margin trades, Bitcoin XT fork splits community
On Saturday Mike Hearn, ex-Google employee and major Bitcoin developer, posted an essay describing the need for moves to be made to resolve expected Bitcoin network block size scalability issues. To get the ball rolling to make a change manifest, Hearn and Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen published a new client, Bitcoin XT, as a ...
Augur’s decentralized predictions marketplace crowdsale raises $1.3 million in 26 hours
What would you pay to be able to predict the future? What if it turns out that it doesn’t take a psychic, but instead it’s possible to do so with emerging technology. One such technology, Augur (Forecast Foundation osaühing), is running a crowdfunding sale right now intended to bring in funding for a decentralized prediction ...
City of Paradigm: The blockchain and the retail chain
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing the real-world context of the technologies described in the story. Readers may find ...
Filament raises $5 million to add trust to the Industrial Internet
The Internet of Things and Industrial Internet is about to get a boost from blockchain technology, the distributed ledger that secures digital currencies such as Bitcoin, as Filament, an enterprise technology company that creates smart connected networks for machinery, equipment, and wireless sensors, announced the closure of the Series A funding round raising $5 million ...
Team Fortress 2 trading site Dispenser.tf hacked, bitcoins stolen
Earlier this week, popular Team Fortress 2 item trading forum and website Dispenser.tf was taken offline due to hackers compromising the site, which led to the theft of 100 bitcoins (approximately $26,000 USD.) The sites owner, posting as Joto, went to Valve Corporation’s Steam community forums to explain: At around 9:00pm (GMT+8), there was [unauthorized] access ...