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Bitcoin Halving Day Draws Nigh
Prepare to fall to your knees and shake your fist to the heavens, a terrible milestone is upon us, one that will forever change the fabric of an entire community. It’s not the Mayan doomsday—it’s Bitcoin halving day. Within a day or two, the reward for block solutions in the Bitcoin block chain will be ...
Through the Looking Glass with Google’s Alternate Reality Game Ingress
The concept of the Alternate Reality Game (or ARG) was popularized across gamer culture with the “I Love Bees” viral marketing campaign by Microsoft that was meant to raise hype for Halo 2 in 2004. It turned what would generally be called a clue-based scavenger hunt into a national and Internet-related phenomenon. Nowadays, the standard ...
As Mike Lynch of Autonomy Fires Back Against Allegations; We See a Different History
Today, Autonomy was called out publicly by HP and CEO Meg Whitman for what appears to be obvious fraud when the company had its books crash down around its ears. In a segment on CNBC, Whitman went on to point out that the deal by HP for the company had been sabotaged by poor information. SiliconANGLE’s ...
Hiperos Automates Information About FCPA Risk Into Actionable Intelligence
I normally write about cybersecurity and the cultural implications of software, technology, and policy on how people approach their own security—succeed or fail. However, running a business securely is more than just properly vetting employees, putting locks on doors, and battening down the firewalls: modern day enterprises are multi-national ventures that often must work with ...
Breaking Analysis: Anonymous Stings Israel With Website Outages Over IDF Operation in Gaza
The Israeli government has reported no less than 44 million hacking attempts against security, governmental, and financial websites over the weekend as violence in the Gaza strip continues to escalate. Many of these attacks could be attributed to Anonymous, the hacktivist collective, who have gone back to their moral roots en masse and taken to ...
WordPress.com Announces Acceptance of Bitcoins as Payment for Upgrades/Services
The commercial service site that hosts WordPress installations for bloggers has recently announced that they will begin accepting Bitcoin as payment for services and upgrades. For most people, a free blog on WordPress.com is sufficient, but to receive access to many plugins, the ability to use fancy templates, and other elements that make blogging less ...
Extreme Reality Brings Gesture Recognition to Samsung Series 5 and 7 All-In-One PCs
Today, Extreme Reality has announced that they will be bringing their gesture recognition technology to Samsung Series 5 and Series 7 Windows 8 All-in-One (AIO) PCs. As the developer of Extreme Motion and Extreme UI this is one of the preeminent solutions for allowing customers hands-free control of devices and home PCs. The Extreme UI ...
HTML5 for Enterprise Now On Your Doorstep from Kendo UI and Telerik
Telerik keeps making news in mobile software development, especially for operations who routinely must produce software that will display across different devices from smartphones to tablets. Under the product Kendo UI we’ve seen that it’s possible to provide a library that permits a build-once display-anywhere paradigm using HTML5, reducing overall elbow grease for developers and ...
Reddit Considering Bitcoin for Subscription Model Says CEO Wong
Amidst the various markets that Bitcoin could have a lot of bite, online services are still the best bet and the highly democratized social forum of Reddit might just become one of them, according to news from a discussion thread there. As the site might be insanely popular with almost 3.8 billion pageviews in October, ...
The Eyes Have It at the Lund’s Prototype Digital Learning Classroom
Humanities Lab of Lund University in Sweden is working on groundbreaking educational research using eye tracking technology to enhance learning in collaboration with researchers from the University of Tübingen/Germany. The prototype classroom will use the eye tracking technology along with displays and computers in the lab to help determine what parts of a lecture appeal ...