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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 ...
Developers: Roll your own Facebook Messenger bot and what you can do with it
At the F8 Developers conference, Facebook announced the Facebook Messenger product that is designed in particular for people to develop bots, or applications that could respond to commands sent via chat from the public. Out of all the announcements from Facebook, this one has a broad number of applications for connecting people with software. If ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 April 13: Storj beta added to Azure BaaS ecosystem, ShapeShift hacked, Kraken Series B investment
Looks like blockchain is continuing to get a great deal of attention this week with Intel outlining plans for its “Sawtooth Lake” distributed ledger program and Storj beta being launched on Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service platform. In not-so-great news, Erik Voorhees’s ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchange service was hacked and is still offline pending an investigation into how ...
Money Partners Group fuels Bitcoin exchange Kraken with Series B investment
One of the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ethereum exchanges Kraken (Payward, Inc.) today announced raising money in its Series B funding round. The full amount of the deal was not disclosed it does include an investment from Money Partners Group, a Tokyo-based firm with a market cap of over $260 million USD (or ¥29 billion). ...
Arrayent connects developers to IoT ecosystems with the EcoAdaptor for Nest
Arrayent, Inc., developer of the Arrayent Connect platform for Internet of Things (IoT) networks, recently announced Its first commercially available rapid deployment service for IoT ecosystems called an EcoAdaptor: the EcoAdaptor for Nest. EcoAdaptors from Arrayent expand the capability for developers to connect with already-existing third-party IoT ecosystems by abstracting the behaviors and functionality in ...
Blockchain is big at NYC future technology workshop hosted by COALA
Earlier this week, over 150 experts in cryptocurrency and decentralized ledger technology, otherwise known as blockchain technology, met in New York City’s Greenwich Village to confer about the future of blockchains. Held at New York University’s Stern School of Business on April 4th and 5th, the COALA Blockchain Workshop NYC led to a number of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 6: Barclay’s joins UK launch of Circle, Red Hat blockchain initiative, Microsoft and R3, OpenBazaar launch
The Bitcoin world continues to keep getting more interesting when international bank Barclay’s joins up with Bitcoin mobile wallet app maker Circle for a U.K. launch of its app. And, on the other side of big bank partnerships, Microsoft joined up with the R3 consortium for access to its Azure-based Blockchain-as-a-Service product. Open source giant ...