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Microsoft’s Big Announcement Today Will Cover Next Gen Xbox, How to Tune In
The Big Announcement about the next-generation Xbox happens today and if you’re a gamer, it’s something you don’t want to miss out on. Not only will fairly-much every major gaming website be live streaming and blogging the press conference, you can also watch it at Xbox.com starting 1p ET/10a PT/17:00 GMT. Be sure to stay ...
Canadian Money Regulation May Prove a Warmer Climate for Bitcoin than the US
A leaked letter from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has come to the attention of The Register that shows that citizens of the United States’s northern neighbor may enjoy less regulations on bitcoin trading. In the wake of US authorities seizing the Dwolla account of Mt. Gox using money laundering ...
Google I/O 2013: OAuth API Design and Security for Authentication in Application Development
Developers who work with accessing APIs are probably already largely familiar with the paradigm that OAuth works under: it’s an identity and authentication API. In his session, Adam Eijdenberg describes how to connect your applications with Google’s services using OAuth from how to produce keys for applications to use the API, how to implement them ...
LulzSec Hackers Sentenced for Past Mayhem Bringing Their Era to its Final Interlude
During the 50-day mayhem spree by these Internet hackers, LulzSec brought attention to the capability of a small group out to do vandalism and damage to websites—and exactly what could be done with it. Instead of breaking into websites and toting the passwords and sensitive user information to the highest bidder, LulzSec hacked “for the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 15: Bitcoin Hard Fork Today, Mt. Gox Dwolla Account Seized by DHS, BitPay Hires Core-Developer Jeff Garzik
It seems like this is the week for odd financial troubles for Mt. Gox, specifically the events pertaining to a lawsuit between Bitcoin’s biggest exchange vs CoinLab and now a warrant seizing the company’s Dwolla account. Fortunately, not all is darkness and rainclouds—the Bitcoin hard fork today is going off without a hitch and barely ...
Bitcoin Blockchain Hard Fork Coming May 15th Final Warning
The blockchain for Bitcoin clients is going to split off from older clients on May 15th and the final warning has already been put into electronic ink by the maintainers (and the community in general.) To the uninitiated, this sounds a lot more ominous and terrifying than it really is, but really this sort of ...
The First Salvo of the Cultural Crisis for 3D Printing and Printable Guns Fired by US Sate Department
It’s been coming for a little while now, but gun control vs 3D printable guns has been part of commentary by popular TV shows and fiction and then recently Defense Distributed developed and DEFCAD posted the first working (as in not exploding when fired) 3D-printed gun the “Liberator.” Of course, the US State Department took ...
EMC’s ViPR Fits Nicely into the API Management Ecosystem for Solutions #EMCWorld
At the recent EMC World 2013 conference, the storage giant unveiled its new software-defined storage platform ViPR—this product puts them on pace with other software-defined vendors (which have been expanding slowly through compute and networking) and gives IT departments a new way to give their own apps and external developers access to their systems. Using ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 8: CoinLab vs MtGox Lawsuit, Coinbase $5M Investment Funding, Bitbox and Crypto.st New Exchanges
The news for Bitcoin during the past week has been part lawsuit, part awesome funding, and part the rise of new exchanges to add into the already thickening ecosystem. Right now, CoinLab and MtGox had a partnership that went sour and ended with acrimonious legal proceedings—to the tune of $75 million in damages. Coinbase has ...
Pivotal Embraces Outside Cloud Providers and Open Source Philosophy Just Good Dev Buisness #emcworld
EMC’s Pivotal seeks to expand out into providing platforms that will give enterprise the ability to take advantage of big data analytics in the cloud—by adding the advantage of using VMware cloud, AWS, or OpenStack—and this also represents a move by VMware and EMC to embrace open source and open clouds. Both VMware and EMC ...