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Cities get smarter with apps and streetlights
This week’s Smart City roundup features an app that helps cities fix things faster, while the windy city gets a smart upgrade despite privacy concerns. Reporting city issues using an app The City of Bakersfield, California released a new app enabling residents to report issues found around town, such as potholes, broken streetlights and ...
Smart apps avert skin cancer + power up punches
This week’s Smart Health roundup features an app that keeps your skin safe, and a smart pair of boxing gloves. Brightly protects your skin Too much sun exposure could lead to premature skin aging, wrinkles, sagging, leathering, discoloration, and even skin cancer. The effects of too much sun exposure may not be immediately noticeable, ...
VeriCoin hack leads to controversial ‘fork’ to recover stolen loot
MintPal, one of today’s most popular exchange markets for altcoins, has just admitted it was hacked. Surprisingly, its Bitcoin and Litecoin deposits were safe but the attacker was able to access about 8 million VeriCoins in the exchange’s hot wallet, a wallet that remains constantly connected to the Internet. According to MintPal, the hackers injected ...
Bitcoin the comic debuts at CoinSummit
At the recently concluded CoinSummit in London, a preview of a comic was unveiled that’s sure to intrigue Bitcoin enthusiasts and common people alike. Written by Alex Preukschat and Josep Busquet, with graphics by Jose Angel Ares Garcia, Bitcoin: The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto, is the first comic book about Bitcoin, and deals with differing ...
Built-in smart home : New products + risks
This week’s Smart Living roundup features a new addition to a company’s home automation lineup, home automation’s Canadian invasion, and connected bulbs putting home networks at risk. Smarthome adds Honeywell Lyric thermostat Smarthome, a store dedicated to selling home automation products, added the Honeywell Lyric thermostat to its smart home offerings. Lyric is not ...
Big Data school : 5 training programs for R language
There’s little surprise in seeing Java top the list of popular programming languages for 2014, but another language is gaining traction. R, the free software programming language and developer environment for statistical computing and graphics, cracked IEEE Spectrum’s top 10 list this year. With today’s wealth of data, statistical computing plays a huge role in making ...
Smart Office solutions get automated, tested in rotating boxes
This week’s Smart IT roundup features a $1.4M round of funding for a smart office software, a fresh take on product integration for sales automation, and a test lab for smart offices. Robin secures $1.4M seed funding Soon, booking office space for meetings will be as simple as walking into a room or using ...
How Legos inspire Smart Cities
This week’s Smart City roundup features a report on the progress of smart cities, an appropriately sized Lego initiative for adults, and a unified specification for smart buildings. Study projects huge growth for smart cities A report from the United Nations states that there are now more people living in cities than in suburbs, ...
Top buyback programs for old PCs and smartphones
Whether for economic reasons or environmental, device manufacturers and retailers seem to be offering more programs for cashing in on old gadgets. The sale cycle for a new smartphone has quickened with the pace of new releases from handset makers, incentivizing buyers to purchase new gadgets even before their contracts are up. If you’re in ...
The next stop for Bitcoin? Kyrgyzstan
Not many countries are openly experimenting with Bitcoin, and we can’t really blame them. What with its volatility and shady past, it’s hard not to tie a cryptocurrency into illegal transactions. Still, there are some who see the technology as the answer to faster and cheaper financial transactions, and migrant workers will greatly benefit from ...