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FAA rules come into effect today that will bring commercial drones to U.S. skies
Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the regulatory body in the United States tasked with assigning rules and roles to flying vehicles, brought into effect the first rules that affect the use of commercial drones in the skies of America. Companies and commercial drone pilots interested in taking advantage of these rules must first pass ...
Domino’s teams up with Flirtey for drone pizza delivery in New Zealand
Domino’s Pizza just made the first step towards the strange future of pizza delivery by drone, with a test project in New Zealand. The fast food chain has partnered with drone business Flirtey to become the first commercial drone delivery service in the world—which will begin flying pizzas and wings to homes later this year. Flirtey ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 24: Bitstamp turns 5 Ledger wallet giveaway, CEO of CHBTC interview, final Silk Road BTC auction and Bitcoin Core 0.13.0
This week brings a birthday for London-based Bitstamp Bitcoin exchange, the company is turning five and is giving away a bunch of Nano Ledger hardware wallets. News outlet CryptoCoinsNews interviewed the CEO of China-based exchange CHBTC, who answered some questions about China and Bitcoin. The final auction for bitcoins sized in the Silk Road auction, ...
Blockchain.info ‘down’ briefly due to an unexpected DNS problem
The major Bitcoin wallet and blockchain explorer website Blockchain.info (Blockchain Luxembourg S.A.) went “offline” for a unknown amount of time today when a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue made it impossible to visit the site. The problem has been fixed, but some users may still be having trouble visiting http://blockchain.info until the fix propagates. Some ...
Omega2, $5 Linux platform computer for IoT projects, exceeds $450k in Kickstarter funding
The Omega2 set out to produce an extremely cheap, extensible Linux computer designed for Internet of Things (IoT) projects with a Kickstarter campaign asking for only $15,000. Now, with only for days remaining in the campaign, the Omega2 team is set to receive over $450,000 in funding from over 11,000 backers. Developed by the Onion Corporation, the Omega2 ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 17: Bitfinex hack interim report, KeepKey wallet does ShapeShift trades, Copay users can purchase Amazon gift cards
It’s the week of wallets in the Bitcoin ecosystem with KeepKey and BitPay’s Copay both making announcements. The hardware wallet KeepKey just announced a firmware change that allows wallet users to make trades on the ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchange platform (currently for Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin). BitPay’s Copay wallet app also announced a change that will ...
DDoSCoin rewards attackers with a cryptocurrency for blasting a website
Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Michigan released a white paper [PDF] describing a new type of cryptocurrency. It’s called DDoSCoin and it would pay people who run nodes in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for participation. The cryptocurrency does this by using the cryptographic handshake from ...
myDevices partners with Arduino to jumpstart Internet of Things project development
This week, Internet of Things (IoT) company myDevices (division of Avanquest North America Inc.), developer of Cayenne (a drag-and-drop IoT project builder), announced a partnership with Adruino S.r.L., leading open source hardware and software ecosystem for embedded and microcontroller projects. As a market, IoT is a rapidly growing industry that connects consumers, businesses and even ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 10: Bitfinex trading coming back online, App Store fake Bitcoin apps, Kim Dotcom Megaupload Bitcache talk
Bitfinex is big news this week, especially after the hack last week, and the company has begun reporting that it expects to bring most of its trading platform back online along with deposits. The iTunes App Store is still having troubles with fake Bitcoin apps appearing—Apple has been removing those last discovered and reported but ...
Delta Air Lines flight cancellations possibly caused by data center fire
Earlier today, Delta Air Lines, Inc. grounded all flights nationwide–domestic and international–due to a power failure at its Atlanta data center. The outage lasted six hours ending around 8:40 a.m ET, although at that time Delta noted that only “limited” flights would be running and there would continue to be cancellations throughout the day. .@Delta has ...