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Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 17: GNU C library DNS vulnerability affects Bitcoin clients, SEC seeks default judgement against Josh Garza, IBM Blockchain-as-a-Service
A vulnerability discovered in the GNU C library DNS client may have implications for many Bitcoin node and wallet implementations on Linux, keep reading for information on that and how to resolve it. The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is closing in on Josh Garza and GAW Miners with a filing for a default judgement ...
Dinosaurs come to Mattel’s View-Master DLX VR headset with 2.0 upgrade
Mattel, Inc. is bringing its View-Master toy series into the 21st century by upgrading the 3D photo viewer into a mobile VR headset based on Google Cardboard. This weekend at the New York Toy Fair. Last year, Mattel announced the upgraded VR-capable View-Master and just announced today the second generation of the upgrade alongside more ...
Print your favorite toy with ThingMaker, Mattel’s upcoming $300 3D printer
American multinational toy maker Mattel, Inc. announced the release of a $299.99 3D printer that allows kids to make their own toys, called the ThingMaker. The product is named after a previous toy sold by Mattel that children could use to create figurines from molds by heating then chilling liquid plastic. This represents one of ...
AR and VR firms Magic Leap and Virtuix join the Entertainment Software Association
Augmented reality company Magic Leap, Inc. and virtual reality company Virtuix (Virtuix Holdings, Inc.) have joined the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). The ESA is a Washington DC-based association of software developers, publishers and distributors dedicated to service the business and public affairs needs of the video game industry. This news comes after Magic Leap raised ...
Pre-order Oculus Rift PC bundles touchdown February 16: Are you VR ready?
February 16, pre-order bundles including the Oculus Rift VR headset and PCs capable of running the overwhelming entertainment peripheral, will touchdown at retailers such as Best Buy, Amazon and the Microsoft Store. These bundles feature the powerful PC hardware needed to run a VR headset as well everything needed for the VR experience: the Rift ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 10: Steam getting Bitcoin payments, Simplex $7M Series A, Coin Center raises $1M, Hyperledger expands membership
Bitcoin may be getting a boost with a potential unfolding partnership between Valve Corp. and BitPay, Inc.! Redditors have discovered payment code in Valve’s video game distribution platform Steam that will allow bitcoin payments for US customers. In Bitcoin finance, credit card processing company SimplexCC, Ltd. announced $7 million in Series A funding to assist Bitcoin ...
The Pirate Bay launches broadside at copyright cartels with in-browser streaming
Notorious torrent search website, The Pirate Bay, has put a shot across the bow of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and other copyright groups with the addition of Torrents-Time, a browser plug-in that allows video streaming directly from the site. When searching video torrents a “Stream It! (BETA)” link now appears that launches ...
Flaws in ‘secure’ browsers from Avast, Comodo and Malwarebytes can’t hide from Google
Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has uncovered and disclosed flaws in anti-virus products based on Google’s Chromium browser offered by Avast, Comodo and Malwarebytes. Each of these flaws either permits attackers to run code on the computers of unsuspecting users or opens customers up to being spied upon. Chromium is an open-source browser ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 February 3: Wargaming joins forces with Bitpay, Spells of Genesis beta, Blockstream raises $55m, Japanese VC invests in Kraken
This week gamers get a boost from Wargaming as they’ll be able to buy their tanks, planes and warships in World of Tanks/Warplanes/Warships with bitcoin, thanks to a deal with BitPay. The blockchain-based tradable card game Spells of Genesis published by EverdreamSoft has also announced its beta (with web, Android and iOS mobile apps). And ...
Blockchain-based tradable card game Spells of Genesis enters beta
Today Spells of Genesis (SoG), an interesting blockchain-based tradable card game (TCG), went into beta with the game available on iOS and Android. The publisher of SoG, EverdreamSoft SA, uses a blockchain (the same technology that underlies bitcoin) to allow players to own and trade the virtual cards used in the game, along with its ...
