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Ethereum DAO attacked, over $55 million of Ether cryptocurrency stolen
The Ethereum DAO (or Decentralized Autonomous Organization), a unique code-governed business entity designed to work entirely with smart contracts, suffered an attack today that has stolen approximately $55 million USD worth of Ether (ETH). Ether is the underlying cryptocurrency token of the Ethereum blockchain and the primary payment currency of the DAO (which also has its ...
McAfee’s new cybersecurity firm John McAfee Global Technologies seeks to secure cryptocurrency products
Earlier this week cybersecurity mogul John McAfee took the CEO position at MGT Capital Investments, Inc. and announced that the name will be changed to John McAfee Global Technologies, Inc. and the company will focus on a suite of security products. The company also announced that Roger Ver, long time Bitcoin evangelist and owner of Bitcoin.com, and Erik ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 June 15: The Halvening approacheth
Bitcoin news lately has been a little bit relaxed so this Bitcoin Weekly will be dedicated to talking about The Halvening—the second time that the Bitcoin block discovery reward will be cut in half (this time from 25 BTC to 12.5 BTC) coming up in July. Keep reading to see the infographic kindly supplied by ...
Apple looks to the future and new generations with developer tools at WWDC 2016 | #WWDC2016
The first big reveal from WWDC involves the upcoming release of the new iOS 10, a huge upgrade for mobile developers, and macOS Sierra for desktops. These pair of previews include information how Apple, Inc.’s flagship AI assistant, Siri, is being opened up to developers on these platforms. Just like how Google I/O revealed a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 June 9: OpenBazaar expands version 1.1.6, Steam stops Russia BTC payments, Trezor Password Manager, With The Best Blockchain Developer Conference
As Bitcoin and blockchain technology continue to mature the news appears to have shifted heavily towards the cultural and technological influence of the Bitcoin blockchain. Partnerships and developer conferences continue to emerge on the horizon as adoption continues. In this Bitcoin Weekly we will explore updates to OpenBazaar, new stores adding themselves to the distributed, ...
Gearing up for WWDC: Apple mobile development bootcamps for iOS (Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 of the “Gearing up for WWDC” iOS mobile bootcamp list for developers who want to be on track for everything Apple intends to unveil at this year’s WWDC 2016. If you missed it, go ahead and read through the listings provided in Part 1. Below you will find five more multi-week ...
Gearing up for WWDC: Apple mobile development bootcamps for iOS, Swift and Objective-C
The Apple, Inc. developer conference WWDC 2016 is fast approaching—and once all the new products and SDKs are announced developers will most likely be champing at the bit to use them. However, what do you do as a budding developer right on the cusp of understanding Apple’s technologies but you don’t feel like you’re quite ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 June 1: China influences rise in market value, BTC ‘not money’ case, Australia auctioning $11.5M in bitcoins, the DAO comes online
It looks like the Bitcoin market value got a sudden shot in the arm as Chinese investments have pushed the price up by almost $100 (see below). During a money laundering court case in Florida, an economics professor argued that bitcoins are “not money” by comparing the cryptocurrency to collectible baseball cards and comic books. In ...
The DevOps of Data: How Informatica Prepares Developers for the Age of Data 3.0 #INFA16
Last week’s Informatica World 2016 brought out a lot of talk involving data quality, real-time live data and the automation of ingesting and analyzing data in order to turn it into something businesses can use. Over the past years cloud technologies have delivered the power of provisioned elastic computing resources and expanded data capabilities to ...
uSens unlocks $20M to pioneer natural mobile VR human interaction
Today Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (ARVR) pioneer company uSens, Inc. announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Fosun Kinzon Capital. The company intends to use this new investment to launch its powerful 26DOF (degrees of freedom) hand tracking and 6DOF head tracking software library. The solution developed by uSens enables developers to ...