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Apple Watch vs. Dick Tracy, The Jetsons & Pip-Boy 3000
The Apple Watch is out and there’s already comparisons being run against other products of a similar vein such as Galaxy Gear S, Sony Smartwatch 3, and the ASUS ZenWatch. It’s certainly been a few years of wearable watches—but how does the Apple Watch compare to its fictional precursors? Science fiction writers have had a ...
Big data is the smart tool for the evolving future of cyberdefense | #Splunkconf
There’s an old adage about technology that goes something like, “If you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door.” The flipside to this, especially in the world of cyberdefense, viruses, malware, and worms is that somewhere out there someone is building a superior mouse. The past decade of networked ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 Oct 8: Gavin Anderesen on Bitcoin scalability, Blockchain receives $30m, Bill Gates, the BearWhale is dead
The news from this week contains a mixture of the usual Bitcoin expectations from developers speaking up, to technologists speaking out, and funding rounds coming to important outfits. Gavin Anderseen, best known as a Bitcoin core developer, has spoken up about needed changes to the Bitcoin block chain to address issues of scalability in a ...
Splunk MINT makes a home for mobile data with enterprise and DevOps analytics
As more businesses extend reach into the mobile realm, it is becoming ever more important to be able to instrument and gather data from mobile applications. To ease this form of instrumentation, Splunk Inc. announced today the general availability of Splunk MINT Express and Splunk MINT Enterprise (beta). Splunk MINT Express is a cloud service ...
Splunk Enterprise 6.2 woos enterprise and business users with new version
Splunk Inc. announced today the release of the newest version of its real-time operational intelligence platform Splunk Enterprise 6.2, which comes with a number improvements that enhance enterprise-level capabilities. Splunk Enterprise 6.2 focuses on scalability and stability, with marked increases over previous versions, as well as greater accessibility for business users. This release shows a ...
How long would it take to mine Bitcoin by hand?
Ever wonder how long it would take to mine a block into the Bitcoin blockchain by hand? Well, wonder no longer because blogger Ken Shirriff has done the work for you with a pencil and paper. In an article entitled “Mining bitcoin with pencil and paper,” Shirriff provides a thorough explanation of what a lot of bitcoin ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 1: Circle exits beta, Square plans POS system for BTC, Reddit alt-coin IPO, OpenBazaar 2.0
This week Circle gets the center ring after coming out of its lengthy closed beta to throw open its doors to the unwashed masses. The company hopes to provide another portal for consumers to enter into the bitcoin economy and does so with easy purchase of bitcoins via bank account or credit card. Last week, ...
Circle out of beta, opens up to international audience
Circle, a Bitcoin wallet and payment service, has been a very long time in coming and has carried with it a great deal of hype. The seemingly secretive service went through a recent closed-beta round where invites where at a premium; now the service has come out of beta and is now available to the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 September 24: Enter the dragon—PayPal partners with BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin
This week, PayPal signing on with BitPay, Coinbase, and GoCoin really takes the cake as it paints an interesting future for the mass adoption of Bitcoin. While the PayPal partnership does not mean that PayPal users will receive or store bitcoins, it does mean that merchants who use PayPal can allow their customers to pay ...
BitPay announces groundbreaking Bitcoin payment partnership with PayPal
BitPay just sealed community rumors and speculation today with an announcement that the Bitcoin processing company is partnering with PayPal. BitPay posted about the first step of the partnership on its blog, and that step has been to integrate with PayPal’s Payments Hub. Merchants using the PayPal Payments Hub can now create a BitPay merchant account and ...