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VictorOps DevOps road trip will bring practical tips to a city near you
Looking to help spread the love and joy that is DevOps agile incident management company for DevOps teams VictorOps Inc. last week announced its DevOps Roadtrip. The road trip will bring expert knowledge to cities around the U.S., including Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, St. Paul and New York City, starting late this month (March) and ...
Three DevOps Easter eggs from theCUBE speak to growth, community and misconceptions
DevOps, a methodology for enhancing communication between software development teams (Dev) and operations teams (Ops) has continued to influence the industry over they years. As DevOps practices have evolved, industry leaders and companies have weighed in on how it can be best put to use. Following that thinking, here’s a list of three “Easter eggs” discovered ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 23: Microsoft adds Tindermint to Azure BaaS, Elliptic raises $5m Series A, Wirex Bitcoin debit card, BitPay block size BIP
Blockchain technologies expand this week as Microsoft adds Tindermint, a blockchain architecture company, to the company’s Azure cloud Blockchain-as-a-Service product. And Elliptic, a Bitcoin blockchain surveillance and auditing company, raised $5 million in Series A funding. Competition is increasing for cards that use bitcoin as a back-end with Wirex’s launch of additional services for its ...
Studio Ghibli animation software platform Toonz sees open source release
The Toonz animation software used by Studio Ghibli, maker of amazing movies by Hayao Miyazaki such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, has been slated for release as free and open source software. This release is part of a deal by Japanese publisher Dwango who have inked an agreement for the acquisition of Toonz. The ...
Meet the OZO: Nokia’s virtual reality surround camera for professionals
As virtual reality makes inroads into consumer living rooms with the release of the Vive, Rift and PlayStation VR, professionals will be looking for ways to produce content for these upcoming platforms and Nokia Corporation has presented the OZO. The camera runs with a price tag of USD $60 thousand which puts it out of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 16: Microsoft mistakenly removes Bitcoin payments, Ping21 proof-of-concept, BitPay and Bloq partnership, Blockai $547k seed funding
This week Microsoft silently removed the Bitcoin payment option from the Windows 10 and Windows Mobile stores–but once it was discovered the company quickly noted that it was a “mistake.” The once mysterious company 21 Inc. continues to show its own efforts to revolutionize peer-to-peer markets and the Internet of Things by releasing a proof-of-concept ...
Windows 10 Store Bitcoin payment removal “a mistake,” says Microsoft in statement
Last night, many people noticed that Microsoft had quietly removed the Bitcoin payments option from the Windows 10 and Windows Mobile stores—speculation has gone far and wide as to exactly why that happened. After the news broke, Microsoft quickly went to the press with an official statement saying the whole thing was a mistake. “We ...
Got network problems? This $60 WiFi smartplug will reset your router if it fails
The ResetPlug made by MultiNet seeks to rescue consumers from the need to power cycle their network equipment to fix it with a simple Internet of Things solution that monitors WiFi and then takes action when it goes offline. Ever had your WiFi network suddenly go down and then, after some head scratching and calls to ...
Adobe warns of yet another Flash vulnerability, exploits in the wild
It’s that time of the year again: Adobe Systems Inc. has released a new patch for Flash that fixes a newly discovered vulnerability. Internet users are urged to download and install the patch immediately. The patch notes cite that the “updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 10: Chronicled raises $3.4 million, BitAccess opens to 6,000 Canadian merchants, Bitwage releases API and credit card payments
A great deal of attention is being laid upon blockchain technology this year and numerous companies are beginning take advantage of possible advancements. Vintage sneaker company Chronicled raised $3.4 million in seed funding to use blockchain technology to secure product authenticity. As for Bitcoin employees can more easily get their wages in bitcoin from Bitwage ...