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Ada Lovelace Day: A Proud Legacy for Coders
Computers have one feature in common from the first engines of computation to the most modern quantum models: they’re all built to permit customization to task. Computers are programmable–either in hardware or software–and this is what makes them the versatile central technology of computation that makes them the “brain.” As a result, computers science and ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 9th: Bitcoin Community Mocks FBI Over Silk Road Takedown, Bitcointak.org Is Back, BitPay Updates Pricing
The Silk Road takedown has shaken up the Bitcoin community to an extent but once the dust settled it’s hard to say that it hurt anything. In fact, it’s easy to argue that in taking down the Silk Road the FBI has just forwarded their cat-and-mouse game with illegal activity and vindicated the use of ...
Silk Road Shutdown Leads to Further International Arrests
Further arrests have surfaced in relation to the recent raid, and shutdown, of Silk Road–an anonymized website existing in the “dark web” that facilitated illegal activity and drug sales. Only last week the FBI raided the Silk Road website and arrested the alleged founder, 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht (aka the Dread Pirate Roberts.) The raid appears ...
The Saga of Silk Road’s Dead Pirate Roberts, Ross William Ulbricht
The downfall of Silk Road and the capture of the alleged Dread Pirate Roberts has made digital newsreels and much digital ink has been spilled over the issue, and the saga is far from over. The presence and persistence of the Silk Road as a part of the dark web, hidden from prying eyes within ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 2nd: Feds Raid Silk Road and Arrest ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’, Bitcoin Dark Wallet, ZeroAccess Mining Botnet Shut Down
It’s an exciting week for Bitcoin: Wallets, and botnets, and even pirates await cryptocurrency enthusiasts on the rolling high seas of the Internet. The biggest news for today is the FBI raid and shutdown of the online black market Silk Road—including the apparent confiscation of almost 26,000 BTC from a man alleged to be the ...
Microsoft Kinect PC Support Promises Enhancements to Augmented Reality, Human-Machine Communication
The Microsoft Kinect system heralded a whole-new-way to control gaming consoles, but it became immediately obvious that it was much more than that. Within months of its release software engineers of every stripe saw its potential as a system for turning the human body into a controller and permitting more emotive reactions in the realm ...
Missing Worlds Media Announces Kickstarter Date for City of Heroes Spiritual Successor City of Titans
The much-anticipated spiritual successor to Paragon Studios’ doomed superhero MMORPG City of Heroes has had its developer announce the official Kickstarter date after a little delay. Previously set for September 8th the project is now back on track for October 2nd. The City of Titans Kickstarter is now live. This should come as a comfort ...
Icenium Visual Studio Integration Puts Developers Back On Top of Mobile
One might say that a developer is only as good as her tools–but that story has always gone deeper than that, a tale of skill and romance, a love-hate relationship with the most popular tools and the configurations that make a dev feel at home. Recently mobile developers received a huge treat from Telerik’s Icenium ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 September 25: Lucky Gambler Makes 11k BTC, Coinsetter to Launch Soon, Coinkite Brings POS Solution
The biggest gambling win of bitcoins has happened over the weekend with a mysterious “deep pockets” gambler named Nakowa winning over 11k BTC from the gambling site Just-Dice.com. This huge win has triggered a wave of speculation about how it was done–from luck to cheating the system–as well as some discussions with Nakowa him/herself on ...
Blizzard Makes Plans to Remove All Auction Houses from Diablo III
After pioneering an attempt to introduce Real Money Transactions (RMT) into an online game, Blizzard is removing all auction houses from Diablo III in preparation to changing the way the game’s item system works. Citing that the auction house (AH) and its RMT version undermine the core gameplay of Diablo, Blizzard states that they will ...