Saroj Kar

Saroj is a Staff Writer at SiliconANGLE covering DevOps, Emerging Tech, Mobile and Gaming news. If you have a story idea or tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Telerik releases TeamPulse extension of GitHub for business users transparency

Telerik, the leading vendor of development tools and solutions for Microsoft .NET platform, announced the expansion of its product portfolio TeamPulse to include Git and GitHub integration for team productivity solutions and better transparency for business users. The latest TeamPulse R3 release also includes new REST API and .NET SDK as well as personas to ...

Continuuity Reactor 2.0 brings easier and faster Hadoop development

Continuuity wants to make it easier for developers to harness the power of big data tools like Hadoop. The big data solutions provider has been simplifying the development of Big Data apps with products like Continuuity Big Data AppFabric and Continuuity Reactor, which provide a development framework designed to make building big data applications on ...

DARPA is looking to build hacker-proof future with self-healing software

Software so advanced that it’s capable of self-healing in case of attacks from hackers, responding to attacks and even updating its code in real-time, without the assistance of humans. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), scientist wing of the Pentagon, is planning to make that happen and for this reason the agency has announced ...

Corona SDK gets legendary designer and coder John Romero

Corona Labs, the mobile SDK company that builds rich mobile apps, has announced that Doom and Quake designer John Romero has joined the company on its advisory board. Corona offers Lua-based Corona SDK to mobile developers to help them create games and apps for iOS, Android, Nook, and Kindle Fire. Romero will assume a role ...

Bitcoin’s first ATM makes appearance in Vancouver this week

Probably the world’s first Bitcoin ATM opens this week in Vancouver, Canada. According to reports from CBC, Mitchell Demeter, co-founder of Vancouver Bitcoiniacs bitcoin trading company and part-owner of Robocoin, have invested in five such machines to be placed across Canada. The automated teller machine, made by Nevada company Robocoin, is being installed at the ...

Apigee extends API Web design with Node.js interfaces

As more business incline to mobile, cloud and web for commerce, APIs allow a variety of devices to access the same power source and use it for any number of purposes. Apigee, the enterprise-grade API management platform, can be an effective platform that offer plug-and-play configurations on API creation. But these are complex problem that ...

British police mistake 3D printer parts for 3D-printed gun components

Police in Manchester, UK, found a 3D printer and initially believed that criminals may have been used in an attempt to manufacture a weapon. During an raid on a local property in the area of Greater Manchester on October 24, the officers discovered what they thought was a trigger mechanism, and another part that was ...

How poor DevOps culture led to a $465M trading loss for Knight Capital

On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Americas LLC experienced a significant error in the operation of its automated routing system for equity orders, known as SMARS. While processing 212 small retail orders that Knight had received from its customers, SMARS routed millions of orders into the market over a 45-minute period, and obtained over four ...

Is TrueCrypt is Safe to Use? Time to Check It Out

Researchers are calling for a full audit of extremely popular opensource encrpytion solution TrueCrypt. This effort begins at IsTrueCryptAuditedYet.com–that includes seeking funds for the project–but the history of TrueCrypt and its capabilities begin in February of 2002. Surprisingly, as a security tool, TrueCrypt has never been audited, its authors are anonymous, and it has an extreme ...

Coinbase Free Micro-Transactions Offers Bitcoin Tipping on Reddit

Like any new breakthrough innovation, Bitcoin has a fiercely loyal core supporters and followers who are passionate about the idea. They are the ones to advance and spread the idea and help Bitcoin to rise to the next level. Bitcoin has many fans who are excited about the idea and how it can shape the ...