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Niantic fixing Pokémon GO server problems that irk users and change community conduct
As people begin the flood the streets staring at their smartphone screens looking for ever elusive Jigglypuff and Dratini in Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Niantic, Inc.’s recently released mobile game Pokémon GO, players are encountering more obstacles than just walking to complete their goals. Like most extremely popular game launches, some players have experienced connectivity ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 13: Ubiquity real estate proof-of-transfer on blockchain, Stroj and Counterparty “picopayments,” Coinbase outage, and more
This week has seen numerous developments in the Bitcoin and blockchain industry. For example, blockchain-powered startup Ubiquity just used the Bitcoin blockchain and the Colored Coins protocol to securely record a real estate transfer. Storj and Counterparty have teamed up to work on an instant micropayment protocol called “picopayments” to level up microtransactions on the ...
Rio 2016 Olympics will pose network traffic challenges for mobile DevOps and developers
The 2016 Summer Olympics will take place in Rio de Janerio, Brazil and the mobile app market will be following the crowds who flow into the city to watch the games and participate in festivities. This means that mobile developers will be scrambling to keep up with the increased demand, but at the same time ...
This infographic from xMatters argues the case for using a DevOps toolchain [INFOGRAPHIC]
DevOps communication and alerting provider xMatters, Inc. put together an infographic why businesses need to plan out DevOps toolchain integrations because a properly built DevOps plan should work like a well-oiled machine. As with any well-oiled machine the production, upgrading and maintenance is part of a chain of activities (or tools) used by a team ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 July 6: Uber and Xapo partner in Argentina, Netki $3.5m seed round, John McAfee’s 2 petahash mining facility, BTC Halving Day parties
Today’s Bitcoin Weekly shows that once again Bitcoin is proving to be a powerful alternate payment system to traditional credit and debit processors (such as Visa and MasterCard) as the Argentinian government attempts to push ridesharing app company Uber Technologies, Inc. out by shutting down payment avenues. Bitcoin wallet service and processor Xapo Ltd. has ...
Netki raises $3.5m in seed round to expand cryptocurrency digital identity platform
Digital identity startup Netki, Inc., which provides secure cryptocurrency payment systems, announced that it raised $3.5 million USD in a seed round led by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures today. Joining the round was Donuts, Colle Capital, The Husseini Group, Digital Currency Group, Plug and Play, Base Ventures, Tom Turney, and Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex. Founded in 2014, ...
Developers getting more out of Red Hat between containers and .NET Core 1.0 | #RHSummit
This year’s Red Hat Summit 2016 led with a number of announcements that bring a diversified set of open source tools to developers using Red Hat Linux. Amid them Red Hat’s announcement of new container storage innovations with the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and a partnership with Microsoft, which open-sourced core parts of its ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 June 29: China extend consumer protection to bitcoins, Hillary Clinton blockchain mention, Australian BTC auction $15 million, Satoshi Nakamoto bobblehead
Attention to Bitcoin and blockchain technology has seen a rally this week with a great deal of new news and information appearing in a crush now that it’s the end of June. It’s also seen that Bitcoin markets have been rallying since the Brexit decision where England and Wales voted to leave the European Union ...
Using nano-segmentation Apcera looks to bring cloud trust to Docker container deployment
Highly secure trusted cloud platform provider Apcera, Inc. today announced the release of its own approach to securely managing Docker containers in production at scale. The product is an enterprise-ready orchestration framework called the Apcera Trusted Cloud Platform and it is designed to address today’s gaps in container deployment, management and scalability with an eye ...
The SPACE VR platform will put you in your own virtual world for work
As virtual reality headsets slowly come to market they have presented themselves primarily as a new vehicle for entertainment: VR movies and video games. However, another market has already begun to emerge where developers are approaching VR for work. With this in mind Pygmal Technologies announced the release of the SPACE VR platform for work ...