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NASA is a big name in the aeronautics field even beyond the public consciousness of knowing NASA means “going into space”; but beyond being the Star Trek of the modern era, NASA also works tirelessly to make the skies safer. One of …
Using Big Data to predict product launch succcess with dunnhumby stats at hack/reduce
Back in May, Kaggle ran a competition with hack/reduce and dunnhumby focused on using big data predictive analysis on product launches. The objective: to discover how to predict the level of success or failure of a product by looking at the first …
Bitcoin value hits $1,000
In what is by far the first ever time, BTC value has hit an average of $1,000 USD across exchanges. This is historic perhaps only because modern mathematics is base-10 and people psychologically love powers of ten, but it’s also notable because …
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 27: Black Friday Edition
This year, Black Friday occurs on Friday, November 29. This event for most retailers represents a huge rush of shoppers seeking deals before year’s end in a heady, berserk rush to find the best prices of the entire year—and at the same …
Ask Dr. Bitcoin: How to avoid scams, a basic guide
We at SiliconANGLE have been following the Bitcoin market and community for a while now and with each jump in valuation and press cycle comes new blood rushing in like a tide. As a result of new people entering the scene there’s …
Microsoft Xbox One: Apps, entertainment, and the personal cloud rolling in
Microsoft’s Xbox One isn’t just an interesting piece of hardware with an upgraded controller, better Kinect, and a nice boatlaod of games–it’s also a bevy of new social applications, an entire network, and a space for players to take advantage of everything …
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 Nov 20: Crowd-funded ‘Assassination Market’ surfaces, Senate virtual currency hearing full of love for BTC
It’s time to bring in the Bitcoin news good with the bad. A so-called crowd-funded “Assassination Market” run by a shifty wannabe political specter surfaced that takes bitcoins as bounty to kill government officials—but that hasn’t done much to dampen the great …
Sauce Labs helps Savings.com prepare for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush
For retailers and those who support their customers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday can put a massive strain on company resources–hardware, software, and personnel. In the DevOps scene, those personnel are the developers, testers, and finally operators who have to build, QA, …
Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs Women in Video Games Part 4 looks at the Ms. Male Character
The fourth video of Tropes vs. Women is out and Anita Sarkeesian uses her 25 minutes to focus on two popular video game tropes that set female characters apart from male characters: specifically the “Ms. Male Character” and a revisitation of the …
Google, your YouTube commenters are revolting
Anger and fury continues to grow over the integration of YouTube comments with Google+ as long-time video makers react to woes and community disruption caused. When Google announced the upcoming replacement, debates broke out about the anti-anonymous nature of Google+ while also …