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Fly over World of Warcraft’s Stormwind City in this pannable 3D video
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., the American company behind the multiplayer gaming cultural juggernaut World of Warcraft, intends to make a movie about their supremely successful franchise. To do this, the gaming company went to the film company Legendary Pictures, LLC. The Warcraft movie is still in production, but there have been a few teasers coming out ...
Toby Ganger, artist behind ‘Welcome to the Blockchain,’ talks mixing music and Bitcoin
Toby Ganger is a Hip Hop and Rap artist previously profiled in Bitcoin Weekly for a song he produced named “Welcome to the Blockchain (The Bitcoin Song).” In the song, his vocals speak to the economic and political interests of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency community and the technology itself. I had a chance to catch up ...
GitHub Desktop arrives to replace Mac and Windows apps with unified GUI
Today code repository GitHub, Inc. announced the release of GitHub Desktop for free and enterprise customers alike. The app can be downloaded by interested parties right now from desktop.github.com and the page also contains an overview and images for the curious. The proposed vision for GitHub Desktop is to replace previously separate Windows and OS X apps with a “unified ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 12: New York BItLicense provides cold comfort as Bitcoin business exodus begins
As New York’s BitLicense became official on Saturday, the reaction of the Bitcoin community has become front and center news. While some Bitcoin-related businesses have signaled their intent to apply for and comply with the license, numerous other businesses have begun to leave New York and block customers from the state. Keep reading to get ...
Star Trek Online expansion vows more exploration content after the war is over
In the grim present of Cryptic Studios, Inc.’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game Star Trek Online players have known only war for the past five years. In what is known as the Iconian War arc, STO has continued a long-tale of warfare and strife for the Star Trek aligned game—but that is coming to ...
Guild Wars 2 gets more social in upcoming expansion with Pact Commander Mastery
ArenaNet LLC’s buy-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game Guild Wars 2 has almost reached its third birthday and has its first expansion planned for release this year. While the game has seen a number of user experience changes and upgrades, the Heart of Thorns expansion promises not only to expand the content and breadth of ...
BitLicense hostility to Bitcoin buisness leads Bitfinex and Kraken to ‘Escape from New York’
New York has long been the financial hub of the United States and it is the home of the famous Wall Street stock exchange. However, as a technological instrument of finance and exchange, Bitcoin has not seen favorable treatment in this celebrity city of the financial industry. This is due to one piece of legislation: ...
Boeing and Hacking Team may soon be dropping malware from the skies via drone
Drones already have a variety of purposes from delivering bombs and spying on foreign countries (for the military) or delivering packages (someday for Amazon.com) but it soon that thanks to Boeing Company and Hacking Team drones may be engaged in cyberwarfare sooner than expected–assuming drones aren’t already. Hacking Team is a Milan-based malware company implicated ...
The future of custom medication: FDA approves first 3D printed pill
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first 3D printed pill, paving the way for the future of customized medication. The drug involved, an anti-seizure medication called Spritam (levetiracetam), is printed by a specialized device into a carefully crafted delivery system in the form of a porous indigestible pill. Aprecia Pharmaceuticals ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 August 5: Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan, Blockchain.info tricked over Satoshi bitcoins, and more
Mt. Gox is again in the news with the arrest of its CEO Mark Karpeles by Japanese police–no charges have been filed yet, but allegations of serious misconduct have been leveled by authorities. Yesterday, Blockchain.info caused a bit of a row by displaying what looked like Satoshi Nakamoto moving some of the earliest minded bitcoins–which ...