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Rainforest QA changes DevOps testing by crowdsourcing humans
Rainforest QA (CLDRDR, Inc. d/b/a Rainforest) is a company looking to change the way that companies approach software testing by adding a human element. The company uses a stable of human workers fielded from crowdsourced manpower to provide parallel automated testing and quality assurance as-a-service. In the current world of software development getting a good ...
21 Inc.: Changing the way we pay for and play with the Internet of Things
When the mysterious Bitcoin mining company, 21 Inc., first appeared on the scene it was hard to tell what they were up to. Rumors coalesced into the famously questionable Bitcoin-mining toaster–but now it’s obvious that the company intends to change the face of markets that enable the Internet of Things by using Bitcoin as a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 23: Circle gets BitLicensed, Coinbase caught with patents down, Copay 1.2.5 update, and more
This week feels like a split between Circle becoming the first Bitcoin business to receive a New York BitLicense and Coinbase getting caught with its patents down. As for good and great news, BitGo tweeted that the company has transacted over $1 billion in a single quarter. The mystery Bitcoin mining company, 21 Inc., has ...
U.S. Marines take Google’s robot dog ‘Spot’ for a walk
Boston Dynamics, subsidiary of Google Inc. (soon to be “Alphabet”) has produced some amazing robotic creations–amid them is Spot, a robotic “dog” designed for traversing different types of terrain. This week, reports Ars Technica, the U.S. Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia took Spot out for a walk. The Marine base, home of the Marine ...
Look out high school students: AIs are getting better at geometry tests than you
Researchers at the University of Washington have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve geometry problems about as good at the average 11th-grade student. That means about 500 points (out of 800) on the SAT geometry section, or about 49 percent accuracy. The holy grail of AI is to provide not just computational ...
XBT Provider announces Bitcoin security denominated in Euros on Nasdaq Nordic
Today Stockholm-based XBT Provider AB (publ) announced the launch of Bitcoin Tracker EUR, a bitcoin-based security pegged to the Euro. The Bitcoin Tracker EUR security will become available for trading on Nasdaq Nordic (Nasdaq OMX Nordiq) on October5 of this year. XBT Provider, a subsidiary of KnC Group, a large Bitcoin miner and mining hardware ...
Explaining the 3D printing technology at Shapeways [Infographic]
The advent of 3D printing has brought on a flood of innovative potential to multiple industries. Through 3D printing, an engineer can look directly at her potential product within hours of her designing it, a surgeon can put her hand on a replica of a human organ or bone before making the first cut and ...
BitPay hacked for $1.8 million in bitcoin during December 2014
Court documents filed on September 15 in a federal court in Atlanta, GA have revealed that Atlanta-based BitPay, Inc. was hacked to the tune of 5,000 bitcoins (approximately $1.8 million) in December of 2014. As a major financial services provider in the Bitcoin marketplace, BitPay is an extremely obvious target for hackers. Of course, BitPay ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 16: Cryptocurrency academic journal Ledger, BlockTrail wallet, CardCash and BitPay, blockchain fintech
This week, Bitcoin and the blockchain, the underlying technology that runs Bitcoin, received some academic attention with the first Bitcoin-related scholarly journal from the University of Pittsburgh named the Ledger. The blockchain itself continues to keep the interest of financial institutions as an economic technology and now nine major world banks are throwing their weight behind a New York-based ...
Say goodbye to Project Morpheus and hello PlayStation VR
Sony Corporation’s virtual reality headset Project Morpheus is no more. The global gaming and hardware company has rebranded its VR headset, set to launch sometime in 2016, to PlayStation VR. Sony announced the change at the Tokyo Game Show this morning in Japan. The name change shifts Sony’s offering from just a VR headset to ...