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In a report released by Apple, Inc. last week the company released its annual “Environmental Responsibility Report” for 2016 in which the company revealed that in 2015 it recovered over 61 million pounds of materials from broken products. Highlights from the report …
It’s time to ditch QuickTime: Apple stops support for buggy platform on Windows
If you still have Apple QuickTime still installed on your Windows PC, it’s time to uninstall it now. Apple, Inc. is reportedly ending support for the movie player and on the heels of this news two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in …
Developers: Roll your own Facebook Messenger bot and what you can do with it
At the F8 Developers conference, Facebook announced the Facebook Messenger product that is designed in particular for people to develop bots, or applications that could respond to commands sent via chat from the public. Out of all the announcements from Facebook, this …
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 April 13: Storj beta added to Azure BaaS ecosystem, ShapeShift hacked, Kraken Series B investment
Looks like blockchain is continuing to get a great deal of attention this week with Intel outlining plans for its “Sawtooth Lake” distributed ledger program and Storj beta being launched on Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service platform. In not-so-great news, Erik Voorhees’s ShapeShift cryptocurrency …
Money Partners Group fuels Bitcoin exchange Kraken with Series B investment
One of the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ethereum exchanges Kraken (Payward, Inc.) today announced raising money in its Series B funding round. The full amount of the deal was not disclosed it does include an investment from Money Partners Group, a Tokyo-based …
Arrayent connects developers to IoT ecosystems with the EcoAdaptor for Nest
Arrayent, Inc., developer of the Arrayent Connect platform for Internet of Things (IoT) networks, recently announced Its first commercially available rapid deployment service for IoT ecosystems called an EcoAdaptor: the EcoAdaptor for Nest. EcoAdaptors from Arrayent expand the capability for developers to …
Blockchain is big at NYC future technology workshop hosted by COALA
Earlier this week, over 150 experts in cryptocurrency and decentralized ledger technology, otherwise known as blockchain technology, met in New York City’s Greenwich Village to confer about the future of blockchains. Held at New York University’s Stern School of Business on April …
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 March 6: Barclay’s joins UK launch of Circle, Red Hat blockchain initiative, Microsoft and R3, OpenBazaar launch
The Bitcoin world continues to keep getting more interesting when international bank Barclay’s joins up with Bitcoin mobile wallet app maker Circle for a U.K. launch of its app. And, on the other side of big bank partnerships, Microsoft joined up with …
Red Hat OpenShift Blockchain Initiative brings the blockchain to fintech enterprise and startups
Red Hat Inc., world leading open source software company, announced today the expansion of its blockchain technology solutions for startups and enterprise enabling fintech and financial services with the OpenShift Blockchain Initiative. The Initiative from Red Hat seeks to provide startups, enterprise and fintech companies …
Is your DevOps mature? Find out with Automic’s assessment service
Today Automic Software GmbH announced the release of new features expanding its business automation services for application release orchestration, continuous delivery and DevOps automation. The new services also include new pipeline visualization tools, open-source community driven content, Marketplace integration, online maturity assessments …