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President Obama Hip to the Reddit Social Experience
Yesterday, the President of the United States did something no other President has ever done before: he took a moment out of his extremely busy day and started up an AMA on Reddit. Otherwise known as an “Ask Me Anything” thread on the ever popular social media site, these posts are used by celebrities, industry ...
Hacktivist Group GhostShell Leaks 1 Million Accounts From Banks, Governments, and Consultancy Firms
Over the weekend an as-yet-unknown hacker group called Team GhostShell spilled account credentials from some extremely hard targets over the weekend (or so it seems) and they’ve also gone as far as to name their affiliation with the hacktivist collective Anonymous. In their Pastebin post, the hactivist group penned the name “Hellfire” to their project ...
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and the Live Streaming Revolution for Gaming
Social media and video has an interesting culture when it comes to people sharing their lives what started with people pushing images from phones to services such as Instragram and the webcam revolution with YouTube has become also a utopia for gamers. The proliferation of HDPVRs and capture cards have enabled console and PC gamers ...
Xbox LIVE Goes Political with Real-Time Polling Capability for the 2012 Elections
Microsoft is seeking to become the first limb of the future AllThing (a political body that consisted of the voting minds of an entire population seen in Dan Simmons’s Hyperion) by putting the ability to do live polling in the hands of Xbox LIVE users during the Presidential debates. Console owners will be given the ...
National Watchdogs Becoming Concerned Over Money Laundering Potential of Bitcoin, Virtual Currencies
The Australian anti-money-laundering watchdog the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (or AUSTRAC) issued a report in July that assigned a higher priority of concern to virtual currencies such as World of Warcraft gold and Bitcoin. This isn’t something entirely unexpected by both economists and experts on virtual currencies, after all hackers and others have ...
Google and Boingo Extend the Reach of Free Wi-Fi in NYC for the Summer
Courtesy of Google Offers, numerous New York City subway stations will be receiving free Wi-Fi via Boingo. The idea is to provide the Wi-Fi to customers with an advertising subtext that permits local businesses to push marketing spiels to wireless users in order to direct them to their stores and offer them exclusive deals. The ...
The Week Anonymous Didn’t Hack Sony’s PlayStation Network (Again)
It’s only been a year now, but the lingering sting of when the PlayStation Network was taken offline by hackers and the potential involvement of Anonymous in the initial hack still aches like a sore tendon. As a result, when rumors arise that the hactivist collective has been on the prowl against and 0wnzored the ...
What Happened to OnLive? Cloud Gaming Outfit Closes Up Shop and Evaporates
Friday last week wasn’t much of a TGIF for cloud-based gaming company OnLive employees as the company laid off its entire staff and closed its doors. According to an article in Polygon this caught the entire gaming industry by surprise and the confirmation came down from a report out of Kotaku that confirmed that OnLive ...
Bitcoin: Feeding the Low-Overhead Revolution One Darknet at a Time
Whenever Bitcoin is brought up two thoughts often leap into the same arena at the same time one that involves the strange enigma of economics and the other that speaks to the freedom-loving cryptogeek in every Internet activist. So when I stumbled across Kevin Carson’s essay on the impact of Bitcoin at C4SS, it piqued ...
Microsoft Too Can Get Hip with MAKER Culture but It’s Weak MAKE-fu
Innovation is a fleeting firefly chased by every company and corporation, but often its an ideal arising out of a sudden leap forward by an individual and not part of the everyday grind. In many ways, this is why I gravitate towards looking at organizations such as Hacker Dojo and other in-your-garage oriented inventive and ...