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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 April 27: Bitcoin payments come to Steam, Japan OKs virtual currency, an unlucky someone sent 291 BTC as a fee
In what is the biggest coup for the Bitcoin community in 2016, Valve Corporation’s video game platform Steam started taking Bitcoin payments. Keep reading for more details on how that came about and why this is a big deal. Also in video games news for Bitcoin, the gaming marketplace Kinguin just announced that publishers on ...
Nokia looks to digital health with Withings acqusition plans
Nokia Corp, global communications company best known for cellphones, recently announced plans to expand the company’s reach into digital health hardware and software with the acquisition of France-based health technology firm Withings S.A. The communications company intends to add Withings and all its resources to the Nokia Technologies portfolio of products and services, enhancing Nokia’s fitness and health-based applications. ...
With the Walabot sensor and API mobile developers can see through walls and more
The Walabot is an amusingly named sensor for mobile projects (including smartphones) developed by Vayyar Imaging Ltd. that can see through walls, detect moving objects and even measure breathing. This week Vayyar announced the release of the Walabot API along with several examples that can be implemented with the Walabot SDK. Mobile phones already come ...
Mother Nature’s smartwatch: The Internet of Things for Earth Day 2016 | #EarthDay2016
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a proposition that is here to stay as more and more everyday objects get networked together as sensors get smaller and more ubiquitous. This progression towards IoT has implications for the environment, for better and for worse. A multitude of small sensors can provide information about car emissions, power ...
Coming soon to Steam: Bitcoin payment support!
In an announcement sent today to publishers on Valve Corporation’s Steam video game delivery platform the company again confirmed that it will soon be accepting Bitcoin. This isn’t the first time that expectations have risen about Steam beginning to accept bitcoins for videogames, but it is the first time official messaging follows. One publisher went ...
Zengaming raises $2.8M to bring esports pro gamers together
This month Israeli esports startup Zengaming, Inc. announced a funding round that raised $2.8 million for the esports social network. The platform provides a place for gamers looking to make a professional name for themselves in the esports circuits as well as reach out to fans and potential sponsors. The funding round was led by Crown ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 April 20: The epic story of how ShapeShift was hacked, but the fox recovered
Erik Voorhees the CEO of ShapeShift AG, a unique registration-less cryptocurrency exchange, went to the Internet to provide a full post mortem of the hack that recently shut the service down and lost the company approximately $230,000 USD in bitcoins. It is a story of insider betrayal and recovering from a hack told with a ...
It’s beginning: The first VR virtual desktop app makes its debut
The power of virtual reality is that it allows users to redefine their experience of space and location and with consumer-level VR rigs coming to market—such as the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift—the VR revolution is almost here. With a $15 app developed by Guy Godwin called Virtual Desktop, users can use their VR ...
Just in time for Earth Day: Apple recovers $40 million in gold by recycling
In a report released by Apple, Inc. last week the company released its annual “Environmental Responsibility Report” for 2016 in which the company revealed that in 2015 it recovered over 61 million pounds of materials from broken products. Highlights from the report include the recovery of over 2,204 pounds of gold at a market price ...
It’s time to ditch QuickTime: Apple stops support for buggy platform on Windows
If you still have Apple QuickTime still installed on your Windows PC, it’s time to uninstall it now. Apple, Inc. is reportedly ending support for the movie player and on the heels of this news two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in the platform that put PC users at risk. According to security company Trend ...