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Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 21: Bitcoin is Money
As world governments begin to grasp that a virtual currency can and is being used as part of commerce and trade, it means that they must come to understand what that means for them. In most cultures that grow beyond barter and abstract value into currency also start to regulate the production and use of ...
Exclusive: A Study of the Development Team Working on Missing World Media’s City of Heroes Spiritual Successor The Phoenix Project
In the wake of video game publisher NCSoft Corp. shutting down the popular MMORPG City of Heroes a number of fans have found themselves in limbo—primarily because for a very long time, CoH has been the pinnacle-best of superhero-themed MMOs in the video game market. As a result, the fans have been aching for a replacement ...
Aerospike 3 Release Seeks a Step Up in NoSQL, Focuses On Real-Time Processing
For the past several years, NoSQL databases have provided a scalable, manageable, and stable method for dealing with modern scaling and data format challenges. Aerospike real-time NoSQL database and key value store has broken the predictable performance barrier by applying established distributed systems principles, new real-time optimization techniques and flash storage (SSDs) technologies. Now, the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 14: US Regulators Aim Their Sights at Bitcoin
Virtually unnoticed for some time, Bitcoin has just become of major interest to regulators—specifically the New York Department Of Financial Services and the US Senate. In a statement released alongside the revelation that the NYDFS had submitted 22 subpoena’s to various big players in the Bitcoin market, Benjamin Lawsky, who heads the department, called Bitcoin ...
Atlassian Celebrates New Search Functionality with an Interactive Tale in InfoQuest
Atlassian has put time and thought into what affects the role of everyone–including developers–when it comes to office interactions, communication, and project management with a suite of tools that simplify tracking and organizing the nitty-gritty social details of working together. While that last sentence may make sense to anyone who has worked with a group ...
What IBM #OpenPOWER Consortium New Chips for Datacenters Could Mean for Developers
The datacenter has become the metropolis of cloud computing and a space where a lot of things come together for Internet and networked and while the field is constantly changing a group of servers is a massive investment for any outfit from enterprise to small business. As a result, looking at the IBM OpenPOWER Consortium ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 7th: Coinbase Offers Microtransactions, Crypto Street Beta Launch, MtGox Partners With Akamai
In this Bitcoin Weekly we take a little look at the state of economic stability of Bitcoin itself by talking about a few things that have to do with exchanging, trading, and working directly with BTC. To start, Coinbase thinks it has a solution to the “microtransactions” problem that plagues not just fiat money over-the-Internet ...
Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women in Video Games Part 3 Talks About Gender Roles in Games
The third video in Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series is out and she speaks in this one primarily about the role that gender generally takes in games and how the video game industry is doing a poor job of “growing out of” the last century. This is the third in a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 31: Thailand “Bans” Bitcoin, Bitcoin Movie Kicked from Kickstarter, DATA is here to self-regulate BTC
A story is going around how the Thailand government has “banned Bitcoin,” as in made it illegal—but that’s not quite what it seems to be. More than likely (as with most world governments) Thailand is uncertain what to do with Bitcoin and has advised a company in-country that since its unregulated that they probably shouldn’t ...
Trademark Issue Leads to MMO Fan Site Removing Public-Data About EverQuest Character
Feldon of EverQuest 2 fan-site EQ2Wire was perhaps groggy with sleep when he first received an e-mail message from Thomas Freyer, apparent owner of Malshandir Limited, claiming that EQ2Wire’s publication of character information violated his trademark—the information belonged to one Malshadir, a male, level 92, dark elf dirge on EverQuest 2 Antonia Bayle server. That ...