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Xbox One Could Be Microsoft’s Fertile Ground for Massively-Multiplayer Games
The Xbox isn’t the place to go to for MMOs, free-to-play or otherwise. As a whole, consoles have not been that big of a breeding ground for massively-multiplayer online games and part of that may be due to the general video-game making culture related to consoles which tend to favor sports and shooter games (can ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 22: Butterfly Labs ASIC Miners Ship, Canadian Regulators Lighten Fears, and the EFF Accept BTC as Donations Again
It’s been a sunny week for Bitcoin with some interesting turbulence, some shifting fronts, the odd cloud, and a lot of bright spots. First on the plate is that Butterfly Labs is shipping their promised ASIC miners after over a 10 month delay. Canadian money regulators have sent a now-leaked letter to Bitcoin exchanges in that country ...
Under the Hood of Xbox One with Microsoft’s Marc Whitten #XboxReveal
As part of the presentation today for #XboxReveal in which Microsoft unveiled the next-generation Xbox One console, Marc Whitten took the stage to talk about what makes the gaming console tick. He started by describing how software, hardware, and sensors all work together to produce the experience described earlier by Don Mattrick and Yusuf Mehdi. ...
Behold the Xbox One: Intelligent TV, Personalized, Powerful, Cloud-Centric
Don Mattrick took the stage before a cheering and excited audience in an auditorium on Microsoft campus. In order to launch, a commercial was run that spoke to the intentions of Xbox as it moves into the future using the cloud, personalization, and further connectivity of community and social–it’s obvious that Kinect, Xbox Live, and ...
Microsoft’s Big Announcement Today Will Cover Next Gen Xbox, How to Tune In
The Big Announcement about the next-generation Xbox happens today and if you’re a gamer, it’s something you don’t want to miss out on. Not only will fairly-much every major gaming website be live streaming and blogging the press conference, you can also watch it at Xbox.com starting 1p ET/10a PT/17:00 GMT. Be sure to stay ...
Canadian Money Regulation May Prove a Warmer Climate for Bitcoin than the US
A leaked letter from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has come to the attention of The Register that shows that citizens of the United States’s northern neighbor may enjoy less regulations on bitcoin trading. In the wake of US authorities seizing the Dwolla account of Mt. Gox using money laundering ...
Google I/O 2013: OAuth API Design and Security for Authentication in Application Development
Developers who work with accessing APIs are probably already largely familiar with the paradigm that OAuth works under: it’s an identity and authentication API. In his session, Adam Eijdenberg describes how to connect your applications with Google’s services using OAuth from how to produce keys for applications to use the API, how to implement them ...
LulzSec Hackers Sentenced for Past Mayhem Bringing Their Era to its Final Interlude
During the 50-day mayhem spree by these Internet hackers, LulzSec brought attention to the capability of a small group out to do vandalism and damage to websites—and exactly what could be done with it. Instead of breaking into websites and toting the passwords and sensitive user information to the highest bidder, LulzSec hacked “for the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 May 15: Bitcoin Hard Fork Today, Mt. Gox Dwolla Account Seized by DHS, BitPay Hires Core-Developer Jeff Garzik
It seems like this is the week for odd financial troubles for Mt. Gox, specifically the events pertaining to a lawsuit between Bitcoin’s biggest exchange vs CoinLab and now a warrant seizing the company’s Dwolla account. Fortunately, not all is darkness and rainclouds—the Bitcoin hard fork today is going off without a hitch and barely ...
Bitcoin Blockchain Hard Fork Coming May 15th Final Warning
The blockchain for Bitcoin clients is going to split off from older clients on May 15th and the final warning has already been put into electronic ink by the maintainers (and the community in general.) To the uninitiated, this sounds a lot more ominous and terrifying than it really is, but really this sort of ...