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3D Printing Has a Lot to Look Forward to in 2013: The Physible and Beyond
For the year of 2012, we’ve been looking at what’s been going on in the realm of 3D printing—that last-mile for enterprise and consumers to prototype or print their own “things.” Right now, the industry is relegated to the fringe of expectation but sits right on the cusp of becoming the next-big-thing for providing not ...
‘Twas the Morning of Christmas and Steam Had an Outage
Fortunately, for most gamers, this issue was over almost as soon as it was noticed. Today—of all days Christmas day when many e-gifts, some video games, will be unwrapped—the digital distribution network of Valve’s extremely popular Steam had a worldwide outage causing much frustration. Reports from users in the Steam forums reveal that at approximately ...
Elcomsoft’s Forensic Decryption Software Moves the Needle for Practical Cryptography
Cryptography is the go-to defense for cybersecurity, it’s essentially the strongbox of the computing era—and just like a strongbox it’s not designed to keep the contents perfectly safe from all perpetrators, it’s designed to resist their attempts to get at it. It’s still possible for the Hole In The Wall gang to derail your train, ...
Video: 2012 Has Been An Amazing Year for Video Games
The year of 2012 has seen a lot of industries go through a great deal of change and the state of the art is always shifting. Video games are no exception and 2012 has been an amazing year for looking at what it is to make video games, what it is to be a gamer, ...
Reports of Bitcoin’s Criminal Potential Have Been Exaggerated by CNN Fortune
Yesterday, CNN Fortune published an article by Cyrus Sanati about Bitcoin entitled “Bitcoin looks primed for money laundering.” In what could be best described as an odd screed against Bitcoin and its potential financial impact on the world, it delves into places that paint the cryptocurrency as a boogeyman while at the same time reporting ...
Salinas Police Department Uses ShareFile to Make Reports Smarter, Easier, and More Secure
When we look at technology that affects governments we generally think of the US federal government—a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy that crosses state lines and needs to communicate with itself constantly—but often we forget that small cities and even police departments are no less in need of upgrades. So when I went to speak with the ...
How a Robot That Plays Angry Birds Can Aid Development and Quality Assurance
This story starts in an interesting place: the quest to produce a robot that plays Angry Birds; but it ends in a place very familiar with anyone who has ever worked in product testing: a robot that does the tedious task of pressing every button combination on a physical UI. Recently, I spoke with Jason ...
Digital Currency Outfit Bitcoin-Central Makes Milestone Towards Becoming Like a Bank
Contrary to reporting this week (BBC), Bitcoin-Central did not gain the ability to act like an actual bank—but what they’ve gained is no less fundamental a milestone for a Bitcoin outfit. By partnering with Aqoba, which is a payment services provider capable of dealing with insured accounts, Bitcoin-Central has gained the ability to offer Euro-based ...
DevOps Executive Spotlight: Icenium’s Doug Seven, Executive VP of Telerik
Not too long ago, DevOpsANGLE spent a moment to examine Icenium from Telerik—a cloud-to-developer environment that makes a great tool for any mobile development shop to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to producing and maintaining mobile apps—and now it’s our great pleasure to speak with the man behind the curtains. Doug Seven ...
Google Celebrates Ada Lovelace With a Beautiful Doodle
If you missed it, Google has celebrated the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace with a beautiful Google doodle. She is often referred to the first programmer and is chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. As an English mathematician who worked at the advent of the ...
