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New functionality and strong community with OpenStack Juno puts devs on top
In April, when OpenStack released open source OpenStack Icehouse, database as a service project Trove was one of its main features. Fast forward six months: OpenStack Foundation releases OpenStack Juno with several new projects, and lots of new features. The 1,400 contributors to this version, OpenStack Juno, included multiple bug fixes (more than 3200 have been squashed) and added more ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 November 5: Coinbase adds multi-sig to Vault and BTC Guild is not shutting down!
It’s nearing the end of 2014 and the Bitcoin economy has seen a lot of different changes in the way that people think about the technology as currency. One way that it has been changing is the continual evolution of services that surround Bitcoin, the rise of Circle, BitPay adding on partners, and now Coinbase ...
How Avatar X hit 10k members : Q&A with Google+ Bitcoin Community owner
The most prolific and populous Bitcoin community on Google+ is hosted by Avatar X, an interesting individual who runs the blog Appatic. He brought the Bitcoin Community into being in 2012 with co-founder Cameron Ruggles, and it has almost been two years running—this month made the milestone of 10,000 members. As a result of this ...
Ebola scares lead surge in downloads of mobile game Plague, Inc.
As news of Ebola outbreaks begins to percolate through the news media and popular TV shows run episodes themed by infectious diseases the gaming public has increasingly shown interest in Plague, Inc. a game about outbreaks. Plague, Inc. is a mobile game where players simulate the outbreak of a deadly worldwide disease and attempt to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 29: Bitcoin sidechains, the Bits debate, identify scams and frauds, G+ Bitcoin community
This week in Bitcoin is still overshadowed by last week’s Bitcoin sidechains AMA by the authors of a vastly popular whitepaper on this technology that might fundamentally change how the Bitcoin protocol can be used. Scams can be fairly prevalent in the wild, wild west of BTC–even as it slowly gains mainstream adoption (or perhaps ...
CBT Nuggets cooks up Chef training videos to serve DevOps to IT pros
The world of DevOps is slowly filling to the brim with tools, each of which takes on a particular vertical of the whole DevOps experience—but as has been reported before, DevOps is a culture more than it is a single technology. As a result, to have a working DevOps team—much like any other team—the members ...
Bitcoin pegged sidechains whitepaper reveals new horizons for cryptocurrency
This last summer Adam Back, developer of the Bitcoin algorithm HashCash, and Austin Hill, founder anonymous networking and privacy technology company Zero-Knowledge Systems, teased the idea of Bitcoin sidechains: a mechanism for transferring Bitcoins to a separate-but-connected blockchain that can be used like an alt-currency but has its Proof of Work and value entangled with ...
Sumo Logic unveils Transaction Analysis component for its analytics platform
Sumo Logic, a machine data intelligence company based in California, today announced the general availability of Transaction Analytics as part of its analytics platform. This technology applies the concept of mining connections between transactions to take complex systems and provide patterns with context. As a data intelligence company, Sumo Logic hopes to provide customers a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 October 22: Gavin Andresen Reddit AMA, Bitcoin community vs. NYDFS BitLicense, and more
The current trends in the Bitcoin show that while progress is slow, it’s constantly building momentum. Last week, Andreas Antonopoulos went before the Canadian Senate and gave an amazing 2 hour talk, this week Gavin Andresen went to Reddit and gave amazing answers. The public comments period for the New York Department of Financial Services ...
The rise and fall of the Anonabox Kickstarter highlights demand for simple privacy
In a world where TV shows make it obvious that most personal communications on the Internet are hardly anonymous—anyone who watches Scorpion or Person of Interest probably has this sense. Many users may desire to return to a sense of simple security and privacy. But privacy often proves far from simple and most Internet users ...