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IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranking crowns Java king with interactive web app
Interested in learning what tops the charts for programming languages devs are using? Check out IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranked listing web app—best part: it’s interactive and you can vote. Recently IEEE Spectrum released a list of the top ranked programming languages developers are using in the field to do their jobs. The list grabs from ...
The next mission to Mars will be funded by selfies
The first generation of space exploration had us glued to our TV screens watching the fruits of billions of dollars in government investment and the work of some of the world’s finest scientific minds. The second generation may be funded by selfies. To fund a spaceship to Mars the Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M) mission ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 2: California updates law to allow Bitcoin, Newgg.com and 1-800-Flowers.com join the flock, Tim Draper wins the US Marshals BTC auction
It’s been an exciting week for the Bitcoin community with the Silk Road auction completion (and the anonymous bidder revealed as Tim Draper, see below.) The market value for BTC jumped from around $600 on Sunday, before the announcement, to over $650 today. California has repealed language from state law that could have been an ...
California clears legal obstacles to Bitcoin’s use as money
The LA Times reports that Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that removes obstacles to businesses legally accepting and trading in bitcoins in California. Assembly Bill 129 repeals part of California’s Corporations Code (Section 107) that restricted the use of bitcoins and other digital currencies as money in the state. The bill strikes language ...
Logentries boosts DevOps log analysis with real-time team annotation
DevOps teams live and thrive not just on their tools but their capability to communicate discoveries in a timely fashion. To do this, a multitude of DevOps tools are on the market, but Logentries, producer of a SaaS cloud-based log analysis tool, has added a few team-based features to their product that DevOps teams will ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 25: Swarm redefines crypto-crowdfunding, Just-Dice suspends betting, one year of BitcoinAverage
This week’s Bitcoin Weekly has something for everyone. First, a new crypto-crowdfunding platform arrived earlier this month seeking to redefine how people raise funds with cryptocurrencies. Canada’s new Bitcoin-as-money regulations have already caused some casualties with Just-Dice and Doge-Dice suspending service to bring themselves in line with the upcoming law. BitcoinAverage is fast coming up on ...
Nest’s new API puts smart devices and developers under one roof
Yesterday, Nest announced the Nest Developer Program that will offer an application development interface, or API, so that third-party apps can hook up with Nest products. The new API is designed to open up Nest’s platform and allow it to talk to a myriad of other connected devices from smart watches to smart thermostats. Nest ...
Cisco open-sources experimental small message encryption for cloud, IoT
Networking giant Cisco is open-sourcing an experimental cipher that could help preserve privacy in the cloud and the Internet of Things. Cisco software engineer Sashank Dara describes the cipher as “FNR” (Flexible Naor and Reingold) and says that it’s a variant on the work of Naor and Reingold from a paper published in the Journal ...
City of Paradigm: Crowdfunding delivers community as well as funds
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 the real-world context of the technologies described in the story. Readers may find ...
The U.S. Post Office looks to the Internet of Things for solutions
The recent woes of the United States Postal Service (USPS) are well known, but that doesn’t mean the service can’t find a friend in digital messaging. The USPS’s Office of Inspector General is offering up to $100,000 to any supplier that can help it realize the potential of low-cost sensors and wireless technologies. In a ...