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The Industrial Internet Will Open Up a Whole New Horizon for Developers
Development and operations have never quite seen a challenge like is being heralded by the advent of the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet—two things that mean essentially the same thing, but exist in different contexts. To make matters more interesting these concepts bind together not only a multitude of devices, but everything we ...
A New Era of Multiplayer Gaming As Seen at #E3 2013
I’ve been studying and playing massively multiplayer online (MMO) games for years now and the most fun element of all of them is having and seeing in-universe human cohabitation in that virtual world. In fact, this is the particular definition that separates an MMO from something that’s just massive and multiplayer. This E3, Sony, Microsoft, ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 12: IRS Eyes Bitcoin Over Tax Evasion, PRISM’s Effect On BTC Prices, Israeli Banks Resisting Exchanges
This past week saw a huge explosion of media surrounding domestic spying and the deep puncturing of trust and privacy by US Internet users (and people in general) with the revelations surrounding Verizon and the NSA and then immediately thereafter the leaks involving PRISM. This has driven a lot of thought about what BTC can ...
PRISM, NSA, and Privacy: The Fundamental Need for Whistleblowers and the Danger of Institutional Secrecy
Whistleblowers and leaks mean more than ever in this era of information overload and information security. The intelligence community is fundamentally about two things: knowing true things and spreading untrue things so that rivals know less true things. The Internet has changed fundamentally not just how information is gathered—but how personal information is produced and ...
Watch Dogs #E3 2013: Ubisoft is Still Teasing and We’re Still Loving It
Last year, we were teased with this surveillance techno-thriller from Ubisoft to great effect and if we include the recent revelations about the NSA spy programs, it certainly is beginning to strike home. This year’s Ubisoft press conference brought up a new trailer…short, sweet, to the point–and powerful. Yet still, it’s just a tease. Little ...
Microsoft Xbox One Gaming Cuddles Up to the Cloud: FORZA Motorsport 5 and Titanfall
As I say, it’s obvious that with the exclusive launches for the Xbox One, Microsoft really wants to show off how the compute cloud will improve gaming. For an understanding of this, see the notion of three cloud machines for every Xbox console and how that would affect MMO gaming on Microsoft’s console. Listening to ...
Microsoft E3 2013 Bring on the Games—Ryse: Son of Rome, Sunset Overdrive, Halo
A new console will make-or-break its debut based on what games will launch with it and especially which games will be exclusive to that console. Looking at the market of the Microsoft press event it’s not too shabby. Between the expected Halo and Battlefield 4, we can add Romans on the beach, big-stompy robots, and ...
Microsoft Brings It Back to Gaming at E3: Xbox 360 Revamp, Xbox One Game Reveals
The Xbox One really needed something for gamers after what felt like a huge flop for the gaming community when Microsoft showed that the company intended to make the new console into an entertainment center. During the controversial Xbox reveal, Microsoft frustrated the gaming community with the potential of always-on DRM (now expected as call-home ...
Amazon Shows Love for Indie Game Developers with the Indie Game Store
Amazon announced today that they would be entering the indie video game scene with a new store on their website focused entirely on this particular niche of video game development. Indie developers for a long time have become the art-filled mayhem of the gaming market versus the glitz-and-glam of the triple-A game makers, and while ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 June 5: The Federal Reserve ‘Studies’ Bitcoin’s Impact, EFF Thanks the Bitcoin Community, Humble Indie Bundle 8
While this week hasn’t been overly dramatic for the Bitcoin market, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a lot of questions still rolling around about regulation and government activity. Last month, we saw MtGox’s Dwolla account sized by the US government, Liberty Reserve get shut down for criminal activity, and further money exchange domains have ...