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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 November 18: Bitcoin Black Friday is coming! 21 Bitcoin Computer is shipping. Judge Judy talked about Bitcoin?
Witty headlines aside, the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving is coming up fast as well as the shopping holiday Black Friday. In the past, Black Friday has proven to be an interesting time for Bitcoin as it represents a moment for people to spend their coin and a chance for merchants who accept Bitcoin to advertise ...
Code.org celebrates third annual Hour of Code with Minecraft tutorial for kids
In a three-way partnership Microsoft Corp., Mojang AB and Code.org have announced the celebration of the third annual Hour of Code, a programming event directed at teaching children to program computers, with the introduction of Minecraft as a coding environment. Launched in 2013, Code.org is a non-profit with the mission of increasing participation of women ...
Hands on with HoloLens: Watch out for robot bugs in the wall
This week, Microsoft brought a demonstration of its newest augmented reality product, the HoloLens, to my home down of Phoenix, AZ. The Microsoft reps refer to this experience as “mixed reality,” it uses a set of goggles that set a transparent screen on your face and add virtual “holograms” to the world in front of your ...
BLUE1647 Documentary: The power of the Hackathon
In the parlance of developers a hackathon is a short-term event designed to bring together like-minded individuals—sometimes from the same expertise and sometimes from a diverse set of capabilities. At a hackathon developers, makers, hardware hackers and creative thinkers come together to complete a project, which they must conceive, design, and implement on deadline. Since ...
Icelandic startup Sólfar Studios raises $2.1 million to bring Everest to VR
Icelandic virtual reality (VR) developer startup Sólfar Studios ehf. raised $2.1 million in seed funding from both Nordic and Asian venture capital investors. The seed round includes Shanda Group, Tianqiao Chen’sprivate investment group, Iceland´s NSA Ventures, and Finnish VCs Inventure and Reaktor Ventures along with individual investors from the company´s previous angel round. Sólfar Studios ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 November 11: Satoshi Nakamoto Nobel Prize nomination, Zapchain and Coinbase partnernership music to our ears, Quadriga Canadian Blockchain R&D Lab
In what came as no surprise, a Professor of Finance, Bhagwan Chowdhry, announced that he would nominate the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, for the Nobel Prize in Economics. With how the Bitcoin protocol and its underlying blockchain-technology shows huge promise in effecting change in economics and fintech the lambent afterglow of Satoshi’s creation continues ...
U.K. authorities connect in joint operation to police the Dark Web
In a movie almost reminiscent of CBS’s CSI: Cyber the United Kingdom’s top law enforcement agency, the National Crime Agency (NCA), and the U.K.’s intelligence and security organization the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have aligned in a joint operation to take on the Dark Web, the segment of the internet hidden from prying eyes by ...
Introducing LucidCam: A stereoscopic 3D 180-degree virtual reality camera
Virtual reality (VR) has long been seen in the mind of the public as a way to “see” within computers. As a result, it has an audience with their eyes peeled for everything from computer graphics VR movies and video games with the option of being enjoyed with VR. However, as a method of viewing ...
IMMUNIO changes the DevOps game with Security-as-a-Service
Web and mobile development have been maturing for a very long and, during that tenure, developers have learned a great deal about what security treats applications face. This has meant the growth of best practices and defensive design. However, developers are rarely in control of all the code, often third party libraries are needed to ...
Overwatch introduces three new heroes, release date June 2016 | #BlizzCon
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. just announced three new heroes for its highly anticipated first person shooter (FPS) that pits superheroes against supervillains Overwatch—and with them the anticipated release date of June 21st, 2016. When it goes live, players will be able to pre-order at BuyOverwatch.com for what is expected to be $39.99 for the regular edition ...