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Fuse UX tools bridge the divide between mobile developers and designers
After a full year in beta, Fuse (Fusetools AS) is now announcing the release of its user experience design (UX) tool suite for developers and designers to rapidly create beautiful mobile apps. The tool suite provides a markup language and unique visual tools to bridge the gap between designer and developer while also delivering powerful ...
Daimler self-driving semi truck makes first test trek on German autobahn
Self-driving cars have grown leaps and bounds in capability as well as in size. This is the case of German auto-giant Daimler AG recently tested a standard Mercedes-Benz Actros truck fitted with the ‘Highway Pilot’ system by letting it loose on the autobahn, the famous highway-system in Germany. The system uses a combination of radar, ...
Patreon hacked: User names, email and mailing addresses compromised
Go-to site for people to support their favorite artists and Internet personalities Patreon, Inc. announced late last night that the website’s database had been compromised. According to a security advisory released at the time, the information accessed included “registered names, email addresses, posts, and some shipping addresses,” additionally some billing addresses added prior to 2014 ...
Akamai uncovers Linux Trojan XOR botnet capable of 150 Gbps attacks
This week, Internet content delivery service Akamai Technologies, Inc. published a cybersecurity advisory revealing a staggering new distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack botnet named XOR that is capable of attacks in excess of 150 gigabytes per second (Gbps). The botnet is made up of Linux machines infected with a Trojan designed to hijack systems running ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 30: R3 adds 13 banks, Naughty America says VR porn stirs bitcoin payment interest, 21 Bitcoin Computer on Amazon.com
Bitcoin continues to receive the college treatment with the opening of The Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering at Imperial College London. This adds to the ever increasing number of colleges and universities opening programs to examine and develop Bitcoin-related technologies from MIT to Stanford University. The distributed ledger (aka blockchain) technology startup R3 announced last ...
ERNIT piggy bank Kickstarter: Introducing kids to digital currency
It’s an old story about parenting, getting a child a hollow plastic or ceramic pig with a slot on the back so that coins can be inserted and stored. After inserting enough coins the pig would be smashed open and the coins used to buy something. A new Kickstarter by ERNIT seeks to bring the ...
Ultra Clean Asia Pacific opens region’s largest commercial 3D printing facility
South-east Asia just saw the largest commercial 3D printing facility in the region open today when Ultra Clean Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd (UCT) announced its newest production factory in Singapore. This opening of the UCT Additive Manufacturing Centre is aimed to supply the aerospace, dental and medical industries, but also plans to provide consumer services. ...
Surprise Microsoft VR Kit may challenge Google Cardboard
While Microsoft is working hard to produce technologies for augmented reality (AR) with its amazing HoloLens–which would likely supplant Google, Inc.’s Google Glass–the software giant may be also making inroads into AR’s near cousin virtual reality (VR). Thurrott.com author Brad Sams spotted the Microsoft VR Kit on a website connected with a Russian Hackathon. The ...
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 ...