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Developers unbox recently shipped HTC Vive VR headsets
The ever-amazing and impressive HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) headsets developed by Valve Corporation are now shipping to studios, the company announced on Friday. The first to receive the Vive Developer Edition include a developers from major movie studios, AAA developers, and small indie teams intent on building their first title. This ship-out is part ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 June 3: New York’s BitLicense final draft released, Block Chain Summit, BTC Regulations by state, and more
It’s going to be hard to top the fact that the New York Department of Financial Services and Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky released the final draft of the proposed BitLicense regulation for New York today. In fact, if there’s anything that Bitcoin readers pay attention to, it should be this, today and possibly for the rest ...
Highlights from the Block Chain Summit: BitFury mining lightbulbs, Lucy Liu, and social media
Ordinarily people would need no reason to visit a picturesque island retreat for a gathering of like minds, partying, and socialization over drinks—add in a group of Bitcoin luminaries and you’ve got the Block Chain Summit of 2015. The summit took place on Richard Branson’s private island from May 25 to May 28 and featured a ...
LEGO releases LEGO Worlds, surprise competitor to Minecraft, on Steam Early Access
What do a lot of people do when trying to describe the block-like sandbox building nature of Minecraft to someone who has never seen the game? We tend to compare it to playing with LEGOs–just on the computer. In the vein of that comparison, The LEGO Group just announced the release of LEGO Worlds, available ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: How to keep your computer from being bitten by a zombie
Millions of computers get bitten a year and become zombies. And, since according to the Zombie Research Center May is Zombie Awareness Month, it makes sense to make computer users aware of zombified computers. It’s not quite as glamorous as the brain-eating undead hordes–but if anyone reading this article is probably reading it on a ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: 5 video games to prepare you for the zombie pandemic
According to the Zombie Research Society, May is “Zombie Awareness Month,” so SiliconAngle’s gamer staff started looking into zombie-related video games that could help you up your game when the zombies come for your brains. After some colorful language, shouts, stomped feet–and a few DVDs featuring George Romero films thrown–we came to a consensus of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 May 27: Roger Ver vs. OKCoin, Streamium pay-per-minute, Bitfinex hacked
High drama in the Bitcoin community is happening right now over the control of the Bitcoin.com domain name as Roger Ver, well-known Bitcoin evangelist and entrepreneur, and OKCoin duke it out over an apparent contract scandal. Currently Bitcoin.com is not going to waste, of course, as it redirects to Blockchain.info (the Bitcoin blockhain explorer and ...
Bitcoin paying Streamium plans to cut out the middleman for livestreaming
Livestreaming service Streamium will bring peer-to-peer streaming video to viewers combined with bitcoin micropayment channels. Streamers on Streamium can opt to be paid bitcoin per minute from viewers. Streamium is the product of a loose collective of Argentinian hackers including Manuel Aráoz, developer of ProofOfExistence.com, and Demian Brener, who wrote in a blog post that ...
Bitfinex Bitcoin exchange hot wallet hacked, estimated 1474 BTC stolen
Bitfinex, Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange operated by iFinex Inc. (Bvi), was hacked on Friday and has warned users to suspend bitcoin deposits until the potential compromise has been resolved. What’s known so far back the hack is that hackers accessed the exchange’s hot wallet and stole approximately 0.5% of the company’s total held bitcoins. Shortly ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: How to stay fit and in charge with your smartphone during the outbreak
When the zombie virus sweeps through cities and turns friends and foes alike into brain hungry walkers, chances are you’re going to be doing a lot of running. To prepare for the upcoming apocalypse of the shambling dead you might think of hitting the gym, but chances are good you’d be better off getting fit ...