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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 May 4: Is Craig Wright actually Satoshi Nakamoto? Yet again hard to say
The Bitcoin community has gotten used to an almost annual turn of discoveries and revelations attempting to unmask the mysterious inventor of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency Bitcoin, the enigma otherwise known as Satoshi Nakamoto. The most recent contender for the title of Satoshi is once again Craig Steven Wright, an Australian academic and businessman, who ...
Coinsource adds 9 new Bitcoin ATMs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas
National Bitcoin ATM (automated teller machine) network Coinsource (Clark, Sharp, and Reynolds, LLC, DBA CoinSource) just announced its largest installation yet by adding seven new machines in the Los Angeles area and two more in Las Vegas. According to the company this makes Coinsource the largest bitcoin ATM provider on the West Coast with 16 ...
Meet VREAL: the startup that wants to become the Twitch of virtual reality
Seattle-based VREAL Inc. (which stands for “Virtual Reality Entertainment And Livestreaming”) seeks to become the first-of-its-kind virtual reality streaming service the likes of which this world has never seen. The service would be similar to game streaming platform Twitch (Twitch Interactive, Inc.), which boasted over 2 million peak concurrent viewers in 2015 and over 35 ...
What new features for Skype for Business means for DevOps and developers
Microsoft recently announced a series of improvements to its Skype platform including upcoming “much anticipated” Skype for Business Preview for Mac OS X El Capitan. The preview is rolling out right now and is available on demand to IT Professionals who can sign up on SkypePreview.com. Skype is already a powerful platform for inter-group communication, ...
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 ...