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As of writing, BitcoinAverage.com is currently reporting that the market price of BTC is $300.98. This marks the first time that Bitcoin has remained above the $300 mark for a sustained period of time since January this year. (There was a brief …
Raspberry Pi will soon have official, customized bulk ordered versions available
The hugely popular micro-sized bare-bones development kit Raspberry Pi is about to receive official customization treatment in an exclusive agreement struck between Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd., the commercial subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and Element14, subsidiary of Premier Farnell plc. In …
Joomla zero-day SQL Injection flaw patched, affects millions of websites
Last week, Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered a SQL injection vulnerability exploit in widely popular web content management software (CMS) Joomla that allowed for access to administrative areas. Shortly thereafter, Open Source Matters, Inc., developers of Joomla, released version 3.4.5 to address this issue. …
Pantheon for EDU: Managing websites for schools just got easier
For organizations with a large number of web properties to manage–because of sheer size, numerous departments, multiple locations or open access to employees and students–a content management system (CMS) is the best tool. This week Pantheon Systems, Inc., a powerful website management …
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 October 21: Kinguin partners with BitPay, corrupt agent sentenced in Silk Road theft, Voxelus cryptocurrency
This week opened up with the Bitcoin market rising almost $20 over last week and peeking into the $270 range–thus opening up rumors and speculation as to what’s causing this rising market. As with the last time Bitcoin saw a sudden bust …
Bitcoin Group on track for world’s first Bitcoin mining IPO with $3m via BnkToTheFuture
Melbourne-based Bitcoin Group Limited is a hair’s breadth away from an Initial Public Offering after raising over $3 million on Bitcoin equity website BnkToTheFuture (Bnk To The Future Ltd.). According to Forbes, the company has raised most of the $3.6 million needed for the …
Popcorn Time pirate movie streaming coming to a browser near you
It has never been so easy to watch popular movies and TV shows on your computer without having to buy them, all made possible by the widely popular application Popcorn Time. The app, described as “Netflix for pirates,” uses the BitTorrent peer-to-peer …
MIT developing a system that replaces human intuition for big data analysis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are looking to take human intuition out of big data analysis by letting computers choose the feature set used to identify predictive patterns in the data. This …
‘Voxels’ to become the first cryptocurrency to power a VR marketplace via Voxelus
First debut at Oculus Connect last month, Voxelus (www.voxelus.com), the world’s first end-to-end virtual reality content creation platform, expects to launch the largest marketplace for virtual reality assets and games next year. The in-platform currency used on the Voxelus platform will be …
City of Paradigm: A new dawn for Virtual Reality
Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing …