‘Tis the season to get it on… Alone!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for porn! Bet you didn’t see that coming, did you? Yes it’s the holidays and people are still basking in the holiday cheer, but did…
IBM Smarter Cities initiative: Using big data for better traffic flow
City living is making a come back, and with it has come increasing congestion, longer commutes, and bad air quality. IBM’s Smarter Cities Initiative aims to take the ever growing amount of real-time data—from…
Doggone it! Someone’s just ripped of 21 million Dogecoins
Dogecoin, which is probably the most ridiculous cryptocurrency to emerge so far, based on one of this year’s most ridiculous internet memes, has reportedly suffered its first hacking incident with more than 21 million…
Top 6 trends in wearable tech for 2013
It’s been an amazing year for wearable tech, rising to the top of connected trends in the tech space. Awaiting the next big thing after smartphones and tablets, wearable tech such as smartwatches and…
Dread Pirate Roberts wants his Bitcoin booty back
Alleged Silk Road website mastermind Ross Ulbricht, AKA Dread Pirate Roberts, has just launched an ambitious attempt to have more than 173,000 Bitcoins seized by the FBI returned to him, despite continuing to protest…
Microsoft’s ‘compiler as a service’ project Roslyn emerges from stealth
By Saroj Kar
Most compilers currently are black boxes–they make the source code into object files or assemblies in a sort of “code goes in, executable comes out” fashion. The purpose of “Roslyn Project” from Microsoft is…
Bitcoin Weekly: Predictions for BTC in 2014
By Kyt Dotson
With 2013 wrapping up we’ve seen some amazing movement and popularization for the cryptocurrency so-named Bitcoin. The beginning of 2013 saw BTC value at $13 and through a series of leaps and bounds the…
Linkify looks to improve mobile search, announces SDK beta for iOS platform
By Saroj Kar
If you try to search the web on the mobile, smartphone users still find the mobile search experience woefully inadequate. Even the newest smartphones and tablets don’t provide people an easy way to search…
RainStor release offers security, encryption and fast search on Hadoop
RainStor has been delivering enterprise data storage for the last five years. Its latest version adds enhanced security and faster search capabilities. RainStor’s Database runs natively on Hadoop with no requirement to move data…
Hadoop rises and becomes stronger with native R programming support
By Saroj Kar
Hadoop just gained a new tool. The company Revolution Analytics (RA) modified its package for statistical analysis of Revolution R Enterprise 7 (RRE 7), so that the R language can also be used for…