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3D Printed Gun Project Hits Setback When Printer is Repossessed
Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, discovered his project to attempt to created a 3D printed gun with a leased uPrint SE 3D printer suddenly cut short when the company that leased the printer to him recalled their device. They’d heard that he intended to use the equipment to ...
Bitcoin Foundation Flexes PR Muscles for Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin Gets Futures Market
Looks like Bitcoin is getting itself a little more news recently with the formation of the Bitcoin Foundation—a recently formed PR organization seeking to clean up the bad reputation that the cryptocurency has gained in the wake of numerous hacks of trading websites and it’s association with potential criminality. Also in the news is that ...
Notch of Minecraft Fame Reignites Indie Gamer Issues with Windows 8
As Microsoft continues to prepare Windows 8 for its eventual launch, more and more game developers in the indie spotlight have continued to highlight problems that they see potential in the platform. The most recent has been Markus “Notch” Presson of Minecraft fame. He has added his own voice to previous dissent from both Blizzard ...
Major Cable ISPs Challenge Xbox on its Own Turf with Cloud Gaming
On the cusp of cloud-gaming outfit OnLive going down in flames and evaporating, it appears that major ISPs are looking into their own cloud-gaming delivery services to players who use Internet-enabled devices such as smart TVs. According to a report in Bloomberg, AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., and Time Warner Cable Inc. expect to start ...
Augmented Reality Welding Helmet Prototypes How Awesome the Technology Can Get
While Google Glass has gotten a lot of press lately for doing augmented reality for consumers, there’s a great deal of other applications that require an augmentation of human vision. One such application is welding: a bright light sits in front of the welder as high energy flame or electricity is used to melt molten ...
DevOps Answers: Should Developers Install Software on Production Themselves?
The connection between development and operations in IT means that developers and sysadmins get a lot more cozy in order to make sure that everything runs a great deal more smoothly. However, while this means breaking down a lot of bureaucratic barriers, it also means carefully examining how the organization uses this connection and what ...
Facebook Returns to the Nymwar: Users Asked to Snitch on Friends Not Using Real Names
The fight over the ability to maintain a type of anonymity on social media originally spoken of as fiascos surrounding “Real Name policies” and dubbed the “Nymwar” (after psudeonym) has returned to the table once again as Facebook opened up another salvo. In what looks like a cynical attempt to discover if users are using ...
HoneyMap: Visualizing Malware Attacks Across the Globe with the Honeynet Project
The Honeynet Project is making some real waves in the malware community by setting up “sensors” across the Internet (in the fashion of honeypot servers pretending to be possible targets) in order to track the spread and distribution of malware. Now, they’ve taken it a step further with an amazing jQuery-driven visualization web page (named ...
Inventive Redditor Builds Xbox 360 Into a Laptop Case and Walks into a Bar
Interestingly, it’s not a joke, yet that is the punch line for this inventive marvel. Most game consoles are a little bit less-than-portable—that’s why the mobile market is awash with handhelds that act like consoles but run in their own little world. Consoles require a wall socket and a TV screen to be useful, in ...
Gaming Giant King.com Hooks into Cloudera Hadoop to Understand Players
King.com is a European powerhouse for mobile and web gaming that receives over half of its traffic from Facebook. As a platform, mobile gaming is highly monetized and looking at outfits like Zynga it’s also highly lucrative (although still a rocky place to live.) The nature of mobile gaming leads companies to looking at who ...