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Researchers at the University of Washington have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve geometry problems about as good at the average 11th-grade student. That means about 500 points (out of 800) on the SAT geometry section, or about 49 …
XBT Provider announces Bitcoin security denominated in Euros on Nasdaq Nordic
Today Stockholm-based XBT Provider AB (publ) announced the launch of Bitcoin Tracker EUR, a bitcoin-based security pegged to the Euro. The Bitcoin Tracker EUR security will become available for trading on Nasdaq Nordic (Nasdaq OMX Nordiq) on October5 of this year. XBT …
Explaining the 3D printing technology at Shapeways [Infographic]
The advent of 3D printing has brought on a flood of innovative potential to multiple industries. Through 3D printing, an engineer can look directly at her potential product within hours of her designing it, a surgeon can put her hand on a …
BitPay hacked for $1.8 million in bitcoin during December 2014
Court documents filed on September 15 in a federal court in Atlanta, GA have revealed that Atlanta-based BitPay, Inc. was hacked to the tune of 5,000 bitcoins (approximately $1.8 million) in December of 2014. As a major financial services provider in the …
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 September 16: Cryptocurrency academic journal Ledger, BlockTrail wallet, CardCash and BitPay, blockchain fintech
This week, Bitcoin and the blockchain, the underlying technology that runs Bitcoin, received some academic attention with the first Bitcoin-related scholarly journal from the University of Pittsburgh named the Ledger. The blockchain itself continues to keep the interest of financial institutions as an economic technology and …
Say goodbye to Project Morpheus and hello PlayStation VR
Sony Corporation’s virtual reality headset Project Morpheus is no more. The global gaming and hardware company has rebranded its VR headset, set to launch sometime in 2016, to PlayStation VR. Sony announced the change at the Tokyo Game Show this morning in …
The University of Pittsburgh is now home to Ledger: the first Bitcoin-only academic journal
The world of Bitcoin is an extremely broad realm filled with interests that intersect mathematics, cryptography, engineering, computer programming, law, finance and economics. Any of these subjects alone could lead a doctoral thesis so it’s no surprise that eventually an academic journal …
Star Trek Online, Neverwinter Online struck by DDoS attacks twice in one day [UPDATED]
Over the weekend video gamers who enjoy exploring the galaxy in Star Trek Online and fighting orcs with swords in Neverwinter Online found themselves briefly unable to do so. Some players described lag spiking so high that characters began “rubber banding”–or repeatedly …
BlockTrail launches secure multi-signature Bitcoin wallet service
Amsterdam-based BlockTrail B.V. is stretching its virtual legs and launching a brand new multiplatform Bitcoin wallet service for iOS, Android, and the web. The service, which has been in the Bitcoin industry since 2014, started originally with a blockchain explorer — a service …
Tor anonymity network benefits from .onion added as special-use domain name
No, the .onion top level domain (TLD) is not about parody news, it’s a way of accessing websites that run on the Tor (the onion router) network. The Tor network is an Internet fixture that provides anonymity to users by bouncing …