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An updated list of the best Android developer tools for your amazing mobile game
Developers seeking to develop games for Android are presented with a constellation of tools, SDKs, and APIs to assist them along the way. Below is not a definitive list, but should work as a starting point for anyone looking for what is currently available. In early 2015, SiliconANGLE published a similar list, and we’re now ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 29: Mike Tyson, OneBit goes alpha, HP and Bitcoin, investments and blockchain to soar in 2015
This week, an interesting NFC Bitcoin payment system that uses NFC and works at any place that accepts credit cards has gone into alpha testing. Read up on OneBit below. HP posted an interesting article that outlines the power of the Bitcoin blockchain as a basis for contracts (and replacing lawyers?) It also looks like ...
Valve closes major security hole in Steam that enabled account takeover
Digital game distribution platform Steam had a massive security hole that allowed hackers to steal any user blind and the thief only needed a username to do it. That hole is now filled in, according to parent company Valve Corporation. The hijack exploit took advantage of the lost password function. As with most websites, this feature ...
OneBit alpha testing NFC Bitcoin payments at credit card accepting merchants
A Bitcoin app that allows for payments via NFC at credit card accepting merchants has just gone into its alpha stage of testing. OneBit, which started out as an app developed during a MasterCard PayPass hackathon, is now expanding its horizons and embarking on a journey out into the world to test its capabilities. The ...
Gameplay recording platform Kamcord launches easy mobile game livestreaming
Kamcord Inc. already allows users to record and share videos of their mobile gameplay, but now the company is announcing the launch of full mobile game livestreaming capabilities. As recording software, Kamcord boasts more than 1 million registered user profiles and over 50 million videos shared. In total, the service can record and share video ...
CoinMate Bitcoin exchange integrates with UK payment provider MoneyPolo
Today London-based Bitcoin exchange CoinMate (Confirmo Ltd.) announced integration with UK payment provider MoneyPolo. Moneypolo (Mayzus Financial Services Ltd.) launched in 2011 with the goal of providing affordable, secure and efficient financial solutions regardless of location. Today it covers over 150 countries and enables cash withdrawals and deposits in the currencies within those countries. The ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 July 22: EU seeks to exempt BTC from VAT, Putin on Bitcoin, BitX $4m funding, Coinffeine distributed exchange beta
This week saw a lot of politics happening around Bitcoin, of various sorts. First there’s been some talk for a while now in the European Union about whether Bitcoin should be subject to VAT (Value Added Tax) or not–so far a European Court of Justice Official has argued for exempting bitcoin due to its nature as ...
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland on Enigma using the Bitcoin blockchain to compute with secure data | #MITCDOIQ
With a name like Enigma readers would be right to suspect that MIT was working on something used by a super villain, of course the premise of the project is to make everyday people smarter and safer. Alex “Sandy” Pentland, the Toshiba Professor at MIT, advises the Enigma project which uses the Bitcoin blockchain to ...
Players in World of Warcraft can now have virtual cats curl up in their virtual laps
People are already able to play video games and have their cats curl up in their laps—but now World of Warcraft players can have their cats in games curl up on their characters’ laps. It’s cat lap inception! This recent addition to Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.’s cultural juggernaut massively multiplayer role playing game (MMORPG) allows players ...
Shenmue III breaks Kickstarter video game funding record at $6 million
In what looks like a massive coup for fan culture and community interest, Yu Suzuki’s newest game of the Shenmue series is becoming a reality. The Kickstarter for Shenmue III was announced at E3 2015 during the Sony PlayStation press conference with a seemingly modest goal of $2 million, which the game has handily exceeded ...