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Chinese firm to recall webcams after Friday’s massive cyber attack
China-based Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co. Ltd. said today it will recall some of its products sold in the United States after researchers identified components as being targeted in Friday’s massive distributed denial of service attack. During the attack, hackers used a wide variety of Internet of Things devices across the world — including devices such as Internet-connected cameras, ...
Onchain joins with Alibaba for blockchain-powered email evidence bank
Onchain, an open-source universal blockchain system built by AntShares, today announced a partnership with China-based Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to provide technology for the Ali Cloud, Alibaba’s cloud computing branch. The Onchain platform, called the Law Chain, will provide proof-of-existence for a blockchain-powered email evidence repository as a bottom-layer framework designed for enterprise-level use. This partnership ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Bitcoin in Europe, blockchain financial news from China and the Middle East
In this week’s Bitcoin Weekly Circle, a competitive Bitcoin web-wallet, added Euro currency support for numerous European customer and Bitcoin hardware wallet TREZOR has teamed up with European Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp. In international financial technology and blockchain news, the Chinese government has published a whitepaper on the current status quo and future of blockchain development ...
Microsoft Research paper points to touch-sensitive VR interfaces
Virtual reality headsets made by Oculus, HTC, Sony and others can drive powerful audio-visual immersion, but one aspect of immersive user interfaces is still literally out of reach. That’s what Microsoft Research aims to change. This week, Microsoft Corp.’s research arm is publishing a white paper on a pair of new prototype systems that provide ...
Popularity of Google Go language climbs, with Docker’s help
Google’s programming language Go saw a huge surge in popularity in the past year. This popularity is in part thanks to the fact that the language is the foundation of the DevOps and container darling Docker as well as Google’s container orchestration product Kubernetes. The TIOBE Index for October 2016 shows that Go is one ...
The coming AI revolution will change many jobs, not just take them away
IBM Corp.’s Watson computer has shown that computers can be taught to understand data enough to play Jeopardy and learn enough to assist doctors in healthcare decisions. Companies such as Google Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have pushed smart assistants such as Google’s, Siri, Alexa and Cortana into mobile devices and home automation systems. While still primitive, they ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Blockchain.info hit with DNS hijack, NYC startups focus more on blockchain than bitcoin
If you’re a user of Blockchain.info and saw something odd, keep reading. The popular web wallet was hit with a DNS hijack attack Wednesday. In other bitcoin-related news, Japan will soon be removing sales-tax from the purchase of virtual currencies, including bitcoins. Coinbase Inc.’s GDAX exchange is hiring new developers with knowledge in bitcoin and ...
Chrome update will speed web pages with better memory usage
After years of complaints about its Chrome web browser’s slow loading of web pages, Google Inc. is promising that it will soon fix the problem. The average website that web visitors read on personal computers and mobile devices may contain upwards of two megabytes, with 10 percent of that thanks to complex scripts. This increasing page ...
RethinkDB database shuts down as its business falters
RethinkDB is shutting down. Today the RethinkDB team bid a fond farewell to its open source, scalable JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) database built for the real-time web. The news, announced on the project’s developer blog, is bittersweet and comes with a lesson-learned attitude about the failure of the project. “We worked very hard to make RethinkDB ...
Bitcoin Weekly: Adam Back becomes Blockstream CEO, bitcoin exchanges expand and more investment funding
A lot of business is going on in the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem this week. A shakeup happened at the bitcoin technology startup Blockstream when co-founder Austin Hill quit his position as chief executive and co-founder Adam Back was appointed to the position. India’s biggest bitcoin company Unocoin announced $1.5 million USD in investment funding. ...