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Minecraft saw 1.4 million concurrent users on Saturday
The ever-growing phenomena of Minecraft continues to dominate its own niche of the industry and has already well solidified itself as a cultural touchstone. Even Microsoft Corporation’s purchase of Mojang AB, the Swedish development studio of the block-centric sandbox game, has not slowed this cultural juggernaut. Polygon reports that Saturday Minecraft developer Nathan Adams, aka Dinnerbone, ...
Bitcoin Yearly 2014: A retrospective monthly look back at bitcoin (Part 2: Jul – Dec)
This is the second part of the Bitcoin Yearly retrospective. Below is a month-by-month highlight of adoption events, hacks, and big news as seen by the Bitcoin community. This post is split into two parts, this is Bitcoin Yearly July through December 2014, go back and read for January through June. The second half of 2014 saw ...
Bitcoin Yearly 2014: A retrospective monthly look back at bitcoin (Part 1: Jan – Jun)
The year 2014 has been long on Bitcoin news. For the most part it has been good, the industry has grown by leaps and bounds as more investment pours into Bitcoin projects, merchants from Dell to Microsoft have accepted bitcoins for services, and even PayPal partnered its way in. It has not been all rainbows ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 January 7: Genesis Block Day, Bitstamp hot wallet compromised, Mt. Gox saga continues, Bitcoin has died (again)
It’s the first Bitcoin Weekly of 2015 and it’s been an interesting holiday and New Years for the community. For the most part, the transition from 2014 to 2015 has been uneventful, even sedate, but the news just keeps coming. Bitcoin recently turned six, Bitstamp has suspended operations after a suspected hot wallet compromise, Mt. Gox ...
UK police allegedly nab another Lizard Squad hacker on suspicion of cyber-fraud
Reports are continuing to trickle in about more members of Lizard Squad garnering the attention of international authorities. On December 29th, Vinnie Omari, a 22-year-old British citizen was arrested by law enforcement agents from the South East Regional Organized Crime Unit and his home was raided. The Daily Dot confirmed the arrest and search via ...
3D printing allows surgeons to hold a heart in their hands
With advancements in 3D printing, surgeons can now use the technology to produce replicas of baby’s hearts in order to better understand what needs to be fixed. Rare congenital disorders in newborns can create situations where the heart is malformed, however the tiny size of the heart and the child make surgeries difficult and often ...
Nvidia unveils first teraflop mobile chip with the Tegra X1 #CES2015
Nvidia Corporation co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took to the stage at CES tonight to reveal the chip maker’s newest mobile product: the Tegra X1. This chip, modelled after the Maxwell GPU for desktop PCs, he claims is the first mobile GPU capable of reaching a teraflop of computing power. Making the Tegra XI, he ...
Internet mayhem crew Lizard Squad now offering DDoS service for hire
Now infamous Internet mayhem crew Lizard Squad has just come out of an attention-grabbing holiday season with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against major gaming networks on Christmas Day to offer a DDoS service for hire. The service, billed as a stress tester, the “Lizard Stresser” was announced by the group on Twitter earlier ...
BitPay Bitcoin Bowl nets more than 3 million viewers game night
Friday, December 26th, was the first-ever Bitcoin Bowl football game sponsored by BitPay, a popular Bitcoin processing service for consumers and merchants. BitPay first announced their sponsorship of the St. Petersburg Bowl and partnership with ESPN Events in June this year. While a smaller bowl, the event has been cited to have pulled in 3.3 ...
FBI allegedly investigating member of Lizard Squad after Christmas Day DDoS
A member of now infamous Internet mayhem group, Lizard Squad, is allegedly under investigation by the FBI after speaking to the media about recent attacks against Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony Online Entertainment’s PlayStation Network on Christmas Day. The Lizard Squad member, who goes by the handle of “ryanc” or Ryan, According to The Daily ...