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Not just the Lich King, it’s the NSA: Real world agents making avatars in World of Warcraft
The NSA, and its UK sister the GCHQ, have both seen operatives spending long hours in front of computer screens and under headphones listening to the chatter of a million wiretaps, Skype calls, and cell phone conversations—but what hasn’t been revealed until now is how much time the spy agencies have spent in the virtual ...
Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How environmentally friendly is Bitcoin?
“I keep hearing that Bitcoin is powered by computers and that mining it can take a lot of energy. How environmentally friendly is Bitcoin?” asks Concerned About the Environment. Concerned here has a good question about the nature and distribution of Bitcoin and it’s one that has come up before such as this Ars Technica ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 December 4: Bitcoinity switches to mBTC, Kevin Rose speaks, CoinMap maps, and China rises
It’s a week after BTC value exceeded $1,000 and we had Bitcoin Friday (taking advantage of the “retail holiday” Black Friday.) As a result of the value in excess of $1,000 popular market charting website Bitcoinity has switched to mBTC for display purposes. Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, had words to say about the bitcoin ...
NASA’s NextGen air traffic control lab gets a development collaboration upgrade with Stash
NASA is a big name in the aeronautics field even beyond the public consciousness of knowing NASA means “going into space”; but beyond being the Star Trek of the modern era, NASA also works tirelessly to make the skies safer. One of NASA’s teams out of Armes Research Center is part of a project known ...
Using Big Data to predict product launch succcess with dunnhumby stats at hack/reduce
Back in May, Kaggle ran a competition with hack/reduce and dunnhumby focused on using big data predictive analysis on product launches. The objective: to discover how to predict the level of success or failure of a product by looking at the first few weeks of sales. Called the “Product launch challenge” the hackathon brought in ...
Bitcoin value hits $1,000
In what is by far the first ever time, BTC value has hit an average of $1,000 USD across exchanges. This is historic perhaps only because modern mathematics is base-10 and people psychologically love powers of ten, but it’s also notable because that’s a lot of money. Right now, on BitcoinAverage, 1 BTC = $1,000.36 ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 27: Black Friday Edition
This year, Black Friday occurs on Friday, November 29. This event for most retailers represents a huge rush of shoppers seeking deals before year’s end in a heady, berserk rush to find the best prices of the entire year—and at the same time retailers often see it represent most of their revenue for the entire ...
Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How to avoid scams, a basic guide
We at SiliconANGLE have been following the Bitcoin market and community for a while now and with each jump in valuation and press cycle comes new blood rushing in like a tide. As a result of new people entering the scene there’s also the potential that more predatory elements of the Internet will take advantage ...
Microsoft Xbox One: Apps, entertainment, and the personal cloud rolling in
Microsoft’s Xbox One isn’t just an interesting piece of hardware with an upgraded controller, better Kinect, and a nice boatlaod of games–it’s also a bevy of new social applications, an entire network, and a space for players to take advantage of everything a wired world has to offer. The physical and on-hand characteristics were covered ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 Nov 20: Crowd-funded ‘Assassination Market’ surfaces, Senate virtual currency hearing full of love for BTC
It’s time to bring in the Bitcoin news good with the bad. A so-called crowd-funded “Assassination Market” run by a shifty wannabe political specter surfaced that takes bitcoins as bounty to kill government officials—but that hasn’t done much to dampen the great news coming out of this week’s Senatorial hearings about virtual currencies. In fact—although ...