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New Relic Unleashes “NERD LIFE” MC Frontalot Video
According to New Relic, “2013 is the year of the nerd” and that everything is hackable. For many developers, inventors, hackers, and others the world is a place of constant innovation and moving parts. Nerds, geeks, and others see the world not so much differently than anyone else but possess a cultural vision that includes ...
GitHub Memorial for Aaron Swartz Open to All
As a pioneer in freedom of speech, Internet openness, government transparency, and the availability of human thought, it seems fitting that a memorial built atop the fundamental nature of GitHub. Anyone with an installation capable of running “git” or “rake” can add their own memory. The repository is available via GitHub, Aaron was a tireless ...
BitcoinStore Plans to Take On the World of Online Electronics Retail with BTC
You can visit BitcoinStore’s web page right now but they’re still running deep during their beta stage and haven’t kicked in the hype or the advertising—right now over 500,000 electronics products are available for surprisingly low prices all sold for bitcoins. The site has a planned launch date for the ides of January so expect ...
Hal Abelson Appointed by MIT President to Investigate University’s Role in Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
Over the weekend the Internet lost one of its most amazing guiding lights: Aaron Swartz—an early developer of the ever-popular Reddit, did significant work with XML, and even co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification that blogs use to syndicate their work. He has been nothing short of a powerhouse for free information and freedom of speech. ...
MakerBot Replicator 2X Announced at CES 2013: Now With Twice the 3D Printing
At the last CES 2012, MakerBot brought out the Replicator—an amazing consumer-level 3D printer—and this year at CES 2013 CEO Bre Pettis announced the company has kept up their momentum and revealed the prototype Replicator 2X that sports two printing heads instead of one. An update designed for more advanced consumers interested in much more ...
BitPay Receives $510,000 in Funding Round to Advance Bitcoin Processing
It’s past the end of 2012 and it’s time to look at where Bitcoin is going and the increase in services that provide processing means that there’s a bigger space for people who want to trade BTC to move into. BitPay is an electronic processing service that enables merchants to take Bitcoins and turn them ...
Razer Unveils High End Gaming Tablet That Doubles as a Transformer
During CES 2012, Razer revealed the Fiona—an overpowered, surprisingly odd tablet that would work to slake the bloodthrist of gamers for a mobile device that could play video games with the best of them. Now at CES 2013, Razer has finally unleashed the design and its actually much better than the original expectations. Instead of ...
With Warrantless NSA Wiretapping Renewed by Congress Internet Users Rethink Privacy
Recently, the United States Congress renewed the warrantless wiretapping powers of the NSA in the FISA Amendments Act by a 73 to 23 vote. The law had been set to expire shortly, but it has been duly resurrected amidst a great deal of controversy and ill feelings on the subject in regards to how agents ...
Google Augmented Reality Stars of 2012: Glass and Ingress
Ever since the impromptu fashion show at Google I/O 2012, Google Glass—the augmented reality spectacles produced by the world’s Internet search megagiant—we’ve been sitting on the edge of our seats to see where this product might go. A little bit goofy looking, for all its stylish affectations, but then again the first Bluetooth headsets didn’t ...
The State of Augmented Reality in 2012: Heads Up, Metadata, and Mapping
Cameras. They’re everywhere and in everything, usually as a person on the street we connect cameras with the idea that someone is watching us—but in our hands, they have a secondary purpose: they allow us to record and translate our own experience through a device. That’s a long way of saying, “My smartphone can use ...
