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Scalify Raises $2 Million for Peer-to-Peer Cloud-Gaming Networking
Melbourne-based gaming start-up Scalify is looking to amplify their efforts to bring peer-to-peer networking to the gaming community after an infusion of $2 million in investment from Starfish Ventures. According to an article in VentureBeat, the start-up intends to use this investment to increase their stake in a networking technology that they’re selling to networked-gaming ...
Video Game Uses the Crowd-Sourced Gaming to Help Doctors Diagnose Malaria
Researchers at the University of California are seeking to make gamers the next line of defense in the fight against malaria via a free Internet-based pattern recognition game that has players play “pick the infected blood cell.” Standard identification of an infection involves a trained researcher staring down the barrel of a microscope and counting ...
The Pirate Bay Experiences Traffic Boost After Block; Youth Look into Privacy via VPN
In what can only be expected to be a reflection of the Streisand Effect phenomena—the more you try to hide something on the Internet, the more people will spread it around—the UK High Court’s move to force ISPs to block The Pirate Bay has been met with a traffic boost of 12 million. Also in ...
Google: Don’t Force a Merge Between G+ and YouTube for Upvotes
It may be a matter of a development mistake or it could be that Google is on the verge of a drop over a very serious precipice: merging G+ and YouTube and forcing users to have G+ accounts in order to upvote videos. Last night, well-known science fiction actor Wil Wheaton—who played Westly Crusher on ...
Will Cable and Satellite Mean the Death of Free Hulu Internet TV?
Dark rumors and accusations seem to be telling a compelling narrative about Hulu—the broadly popular venue for free Internet TV (supported by advertisements)—potentially backing away from offering their media without strings to the pubic and instead requiring cable or satellite authentication. The New York Post reports that sources told them that this might be the ...
Flashback Trojan Sought $10,000 Per Day in Google Ad Revenue Fraud
According to the security outfit Symantec, the Flashback Trojan discovered to be infecting over 600,000 Mac OSX machines has a variant that may have net the botnet owners potentially up to $10,0000 a day. The malware targets Google advertisements in a click-fraud scheme that redirects users clicks from the targeted at to the botnet’s accounts. ...
UK High Court Rules That ISPs Must Block The Pirate Bay
In what would probably be the grand slam of censorship in the UK, the BBC is reporting that the High Court has ordered ISPs to block customer access to The Pirate Bay. Amid the ISPs caught up in this order are Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media and this is the culmination of ...
PC Gaming Rejoice: Valve Confirms Linux Version of Steam and the Source Engine
The bloggers over at the Linux blog Phoronix caught up with Valve’s CEO Gabe Newell to ask about his video game distribution service and their intent to port it to the open source Linux operating system. The rumors of this particular port have been floating around since 2010 and it’s taken a few years, but ...
Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010
In a statement released just yesterday Cryptic Game Studios—developer of City of Heroes, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and a few other online game titles—revealed that they discovered that their systems have been hacked…in December 2010. The delay? The statement enlightens readers that they discovered the hack from almost a year and a half ago ...
CISPA Passed by U.S. House of Representatives in Last Minute Vote
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or H.R. 3523, just passed the U.S. House of Representatives after the day-long hearing. Originally expected to be debated on the floor of the House today for a vote tomorrow, the bill’s supporters decided to push the vote today and it went through with 248 to 168. The ...