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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Silk Road resurfaces with more advanced Invisible Internet Project network

A new website called “Silk Road Reloaded” wants to become the new marketplace for illegal products. Strangely, it does not rely on Tor, a service that anonymizes traffic, but the Invisible Internet Project (I2P) anonymizing network. Two months after the Silk Road 2.0 closure by the FBI, the new site launched yesterday as reported by ...

Best 2014 DevOps tools and trends that define the future of DevOps in 2015

A simple Google Trends search reveals that DevOps as a keyword has been growing since 2011, seeing its greatest growth in the past two years. DevOps may have a model and definition–software engineering that stresses communication, collaboration, and integration between software development and operations teams (or Information Technology). Yet in the field, DevOps implementations vary ...

Best game development tools for Android to build killer apps

If you’re interested in current tools for Android game development, with some new contenders take a look at the updated article: “An updated list of the best Android developer tools for your amazing mobile game.” Given the broad increase in demand for Android game development services, multiple companies are showing great interest in this segment. That ...

Twine: A tool for creating interactive video game stories for all

Those who have a few years under their belt may still remember “Choose Your Own your adventure”,”SOS” or “Book-Games”. These books consisted of a narrative told through a few paragraphs of story with a decision made by the reader at the end of the section directing readers to flip to a particular page. Each decision led ...

Internet of Things and Smart Cities: what happens when the ‘unconnected’ connect

Up until now, the Internet has been used primarily as a medium for the transfer and exchange of data and information and has been optimized for access and speed. Experts now agree that the next phase of the “Internet for the People” brought by the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT leads a sweeping cultural ...

Chef Study: Developers emerge as the new millionaires power class in business

The DevOps methodology has become a winning strategies for enterprise computing and development. Application development has always been a slow process and timelines were often extended, leading to delays in deployment. With DevOps, enterprises meet the main challenges of application deployment: speed and quality of implementation. According to a new survey from Chef, a leader ...

Round-up: Open source technologies are key to the growth of Internet of Things

Today, there are numerous products that allow the exchange of information on the Internet, but there is little real interoperability. Companies that make fact-based device platforms and proprietary applications may be stifling the creation of a complete ecosystem. The Linux Foundation believes that the objective of a full ecosystem within the Internet of Things can ...

Looking back at DDoS in 2014: Most enduring attack trends

Attackers use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt websites by bombarding them with traffic from multiple sources, resulting in online service becoming unavailable for a period of time. As a tool of distraction and frustration, DDoS has been with the Internet almost since its inception and during 2014 it saw a lot of ...

Microsoft to make Halo 4 gaming cloud engine Project Orleans open source

Microsoft has announced the open-source release of the back-end cloud software that powers its popular game Halo’s multiplayer capabilities. Called Project Orleans, the software is the creation of eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research based on the .NET platform and is used to develop massive-scale cloud applications to run on the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. ...

Oculus goes shopping to bring hands and 3D models into the virtual world

Oculus VR has gone Christmas shopping and purchased a couple companies: Nimble VR on one side and 13th Lab on the other. In addition, in its latest statement the company also confirmed bringing Chris Bregler, an expert in the field of motion capture to the VR team. Nimble VR is a company founded in 2012 ...