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LEGO releases LEGO Worlds, surprise competitor to Minecraft, on Steam Early Access
What do a lot of people do when trying to describe the block-like sandbox building nature of Minecraft to someone who has never seen the game? We tend to compare it to playing with LEGOs–just on the computer. In the vein of that comparison, The LEGO Group just announced the release of LEGO Worlds, available ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: How to keep your computer from being bitten by a zombie
Millions of computers get bitten a year and become zombies. And, since according to the Zombie Research Center May is Zombie Awareness Month, it makes sense to make computer users aware of zombified computers. It’s not quite as glamorous as the brain-eating undead hordes–but if anyone reading this article is probably reading it on a ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: 5 video games to prepare you for the zombie pandemic
According to the Zombie Research Society, May is “Zombie Awareness Month,” so SiliconAngle’s gamer staff started looking into zombie-related video games that could help you up your game when the zombies come for your brains. After some colorful language, shouts, stomped feet–and a few DVDs featuring George Romero films thrown–we came to a consensus of ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 May 27: Roger Ver vs. OKCoin, Streamium pay-per-minute, Bitfinex hacked
High drama in the Bitcoin community is happening right now over the control of the Bitcoin.com domain name as Roger Ver, well-known Bitcoin evangelist and entrepreneur, and OKCoin duke it out over an apparent contract scandal. Currently Bitcoin.com is not going to waste, of course, as it redirects to Blockchain.info (the Bitcoin blockhain explorer and ...
Bitcoin paying Streamium plans to cut out the middleman for livestreaming
Livestreaming service Streamium will bring peer-to-peer streaming video to viewers combined with bitcoin micropayment channels. Streamers on Streamium can opt to be paid bitcoin per minute from viewers. Streamium is the product of a loose collective of Argentinian hackers including Manuel Aráoz, developer of ProofOfExistence.com, and Demian Brener, who wrote in a blog post that ...
Bitfinex Bitcoin exchange hot wallet hacked, estimated 1474 BTC stolen
Bitfinex, Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange operated by iFinex Inc. (Bvi), was hacked on Friday and has warned users to suspend bitcoin deposits until the potential compromise has been resolved. What’s known so far back the hack is that hackers accessed the exchange’s hot wallet and stole approximately 0.5% of the company’s total held bitcoins. Shortly ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: How to stay fit and in charge with your smartphone during the outbreak
When the zombie virus sweeps through cities and turns friends and foes alike into brain hungry walkers, chances are you’re going to be doing a lot of running. To prepare for the upcoming apocalypse of the shambling dead you might think of hitting the gym, but chances are good you’d be better off getting fit ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 May 20: The Bitcoin blockchain continues to gain enterprise and government level curiosity
The tide of enterprise and government-level interest in Bitcoin has been changing of late, but with an eye for the functionality of the Bitcoin blockchain rather than bitcoins themselves. This week the government of Honduras made a deal with Factom Inc., a technology company that uses the Bitcoin blockchain to secure the provenance of digital ...
Zombie Awareness Tips: How to survive the apocalypse with a smart home
Zombies. The walking dead returned from the grave to feast on soft buttery brains. Smart homes, a technology that allows for the automation of certain tasks such as turning on lights or changing the temperature. What do zombies and smart homes have in common? Very little. However, when the zombie apocalypse comes and zombies eat ...
VENOM vulnerability bites VM hosts
A new unchecked buffer vulnerability that affects some computer virtualization platforms has been discovered and published by CrowdStrike Senior Security Researcher Jason Geffner. The vulnerability, dubbed VENOM (Virtual Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation, CVE-2015-3456), affects QEMU’s virtual Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) used in numerous virtual machine (VM) platforms including Xen, KVM, and the native QEMU client. ...