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Microsoft Xbox One: Apps, entertainment, and the personal cloud rolling in
Microsoft’s Xbox One isn’t just an interesting piece of hardware with an upgraded controller, better Kinect, and a nice boatlaod of games–it’s also a bevy of new social applications, an entire network, and a space for players to take advantage of everything a wired world has to offer. The physical and on-hand characteristics were covered ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 Nov 20: Crowd-funded ‘Assassination Market’ surfaces, Senate virtual currency hearing full of love for BTC
It’s time to bring in the Bitcoin news good with the bad. A so-called crowd-funded “Assassination Market” run by a shifty wannabe political specter surfaced that takes bitcoins as bounty to kill government officials—but that hasn’t done much to dampen the great news coming out of this week’s Senatorial hearings about virtual currencies. In fact—although ...
Sauce Labs helps Savings.com prepare for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush
For retailers and those who support their customers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday can put a massive strain on company resources–hardware, software, and personnel. In the DevOps scene, those personnel are the developers, testers, and finally operators who have to build, QA, and deploy that software. In the ever advancing enterprise sector we have seen ...
Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs Women in Video Games Part 4 looks at the Ms. Male Character
The fourth video of Tropes vs. Women is out and Anita Sarkeesian uses her 25 minutes to focus on two popular video game tropes that set female characters apart from male characters: specifically the “Ms. Male Character” and a revisitation of the “Smurfette Principle.” Put together, these two tropes permeate a giant portion of the ...
Google, your YouTube commenters are revolting
Anger and fury continues to grow over the integration of YouTube comments with Google+ as long-time video makers react to woes and community disruption caused. When Google announced the upcoming replacement, debates broke out about the anti-anonymous nature of Google+ while also noting some positive benefits. Google+ comments allow users to hold highly connected, social ...
New Autodesk 3D cloud-streaming applications bring high-end power into the browser
More than ever the cloud and mobile devices are freeing up workers from being chained to their offices to get work done and the first wave has been collaboration and support—but the technology just hadn’t quite cracked the nut for highly computational tasks such as 3D rendering and design. This is the domain of Autodesk ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 13: Bitmit closing up shop, Chinese exchange GBL vanishes on investors, Shopify adds 70,000 merchants to the BTC market
Bitcoin value lately continues its highly upwardly mobile trajectory as over the last 24 hours the bids on MtGox for the currency has elevated from $365 to $425. In the Bitcoin community, new opportunities are opening up as others are closing down. Right now, Bitmit is showing all signs of shutting its doors—closing out all ...
Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io goes frownyface and shuts down after serious breach
Visitors to the secure Bitcoin wallet site Inputs.io will be greeted with a frowning emoticon today and a PGP-signed message telling them the bad news: Inputs.io has been shut down in the wake of a massive hack. The site has lost 4100 bitcoins to hackers and is unable to continue operations. :( Two hacks totalling ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 6: China market still going strong, another study ‘Bitcoin is broken’, US Senate seeks hearings on virtual currency
Not to be outdone from last week, Bitcoin value has continued its rise from $210 last week to exceeding $250 this week. Much of this is still speculated to be due to the introduction of China to Bitcoin exchange markets (and not without some convincing evidence.) Also this week–a new paper about how the protocol ...
Ask DevOps: It is time again to tangle with Daylight Savings Time, a guide for developers
Daylight Savings Time is becoming more and more of a controversial subject as civilization continues to integrate with roads, cars, and internet. The old ways of saving extra light by pushing the clocks around is becoming more of a frustrating tradition and less of something that seems useful to new generations—but aside from making extra ...