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Pre-ordering Guide for 2015: How and where to get the newest games
Not willing to wait for that new game to come out and you want it day one or midnight of launch day? Pre-ordering can mean the difference between standing in line for hours or just sitting on the couch—especially in the case of digital pre-loads or release-day shipping. From Amiibos to the next Battlefield or ...
Xbox Live experiences downtime, hacker group claims responsibility
Upon waking this morning many Xbox gamers found themselves unable to log-in, starting at approximately 6am EDT today. Microsoft is working on the problem and says that it has restored most of the systems, but account log-in issues may still pervade the system. According to the Microsoft Xbox status page that some services are still ...
DDoS attack on GitHub evidence for the Great Cannon of China
China is already well known for its nation-wide Internet filtering software dubbed The Great Firewall of China, but what is only coming to light is that China also may have a Great Cannon. According to a report posted on CitizenLab the Great Firewall of China may have been used to effect distributed denial of service ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 April 8: Bitcoin Foundation ‘effectively bankrupt’, Coinapult restores services, Rand Paul bitcoin donations, Buttercoin closure
Over the weekend it became known that The Bitcoin Foundation, a well-known U.S.-based institution dedicated to evangelizing bitcoin and funding a few bitcoin core developers, is strapped for cash. This news came with part and parcel with some drama over the funding situation at the foundation and the news is still developing regarding a potential ...
Bitcoin Foundation is out of cash, considers restructuring plans
The Bitcoin Foundation, a U.S. outfit consisting of bitcoin luminaries organized to help promote the cryptocurrency, has seen a great deal of controversy lately and the most recent rumors involve documents and statements floating around the Internet suggesting that the foundation is out of money. Recently elected Bitcoin Foundation board member Olivier Janssens posted to ...
Microsoft halts production of Kinect for Windows, focuses on USB adapter
Microsoft Corporation has announced that the company will discontinue the standalone developer’s kit Kinect for Windows v2 sensor and instead intends to consolidate with the sensor that ships with Xbox One and a USB-enabled Kinect Adapter for PC. According to Microsoft, the Kinect for Xbox One and Kinect for Windows v2 sensors are functionally identical ...
Align Commerce launches beta B2B global payments system using the Bitcoin blockchain
International payments cost companies a great deal of money and Bitcoin-related startup Align Commerce wants to change that. According to Marwan Forzley, CEO and Founder of Align Commerce, “businesses spend over $50 billion on wire and foreign exchange fees,” and his startup hopes to change that by using the Bitcoin blockchain as intermediary instead of ...
Reddit’s April Fools offering is…a button
Social media news aggregation site has an interesting relationship with April Fools day. So when today the site posted to its blog announcing of all things a button, it caught the Internet’s attention. The button—an interchanging graphic with a padlock symbol on it—says that it allows users to press it but once. Pressing the button ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 April 1: Rakuten week long $30 discount for BTC purchases, Overstock.com invests in PeerNova, Bitcoin blockchain could house malware says INTERPOL
This Bitcoin Weekly may have fallen on April 1st, but it’s not the April Fools edition for the Weekly. This week, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is bringing bitcoin payments to the United States and to sweeten the pot has begun a week-long $30 discount (for purchases $100 and up) starting today. Overstock.com has invested in ...
Valve will offer HTC Vive dev kits for free to select developers
In order to get its new virtual reality (VR) device out onto the market as quickly as possible, Valve will be offering free development kits for the upcoming HTC Vive to a small handful of developers. Valve Corporation and HTC Corporation have already sent free dev kits to a select number of developers, according to ...