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Tom Clancy’s The Division beta is almost over, what have we learned?
I played during Tom Clancy’s The Division closed beta to get a hands-on look at what players can expect from this next-gen third person hybrid-MMO multiplayer shooter. While the beta felt rather small and sparse, it provided an excellent view of things to come in the game, but it was not without its flaws. The Division ...
How can Twitch users prepare for Facebook live streaming?
Facebook’s new live streaming service won’t compete with Twitch, but it is a new way for Twitch streamers to interact with fans. Here’s how. Last August, Facebook, Inc. announced the upcoming launch of Live—a mobile-centric streaming service that would connect celebrities with their fans through live-streaming video—today the social media giant released the service in ...
Wercker raises $4.5 million to open-source CLI container development tool
When it comes to automating the containerization, configuration and deployment of services the right tools for the job go a long way, which is what Wercker BV’s business is all about. Today the company announced that it has raised $4.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Inkef Capital with participation from existing ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 27: Kraken and CloudFlare Twitter tiff, BitPay adds full nodes to the Azure BaaS cloud, EU will wait to regulate virtual currency
In this week’s Bitcoin Weekly, a kerfuffle caught the Bitcoin community by surprise when Kraken started to have connectivity problems and then a Twitter exchange with CloudFlare, Inc. arose. Keep reading for the blow-by-blow of information traded — which appears to revolve around an expired credit card and then an unexpectedly changed SSL certificate. BitPay, ...
World’s first Raspberry Pi drag-and-drop IoT project builder Cayenne launches today
Internet of Things (IoT) middleware applications developer myDevices (Avanquest North America Inc.) announced today the release of the first drag-and-drop app that will clear the way for development of IoT projects on the Raspberry Pi. As an IoT developer platform Adafruit Industries’ Raspberry Pi is a popular low-cost go-to Linux tool useful for rapidly prototyping small, ...
Stockholm hopes to become the first city to receive 5G in 2018 to boost IoT growth
The cities of Stockholm, Sweden and Tallinn, Estonia will become among the first two cities in the world to receive blazing fast 5G mobile networks provided by a partnership between Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera AB and Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson). According to The Local SE, the partners intend to deliver the network ...
A Counter-Strike virtual item marketplace is paving the way for bitcoin trades
Digital clothing is a staple of video game economies–in fact, many multiplayer games essentially fund themselves by selling funny hats (looking at you Team Fortress 2). So when Bitcoin payment processor BitPay, Inc. partnered with OPSkins, a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) skins trading site, it seemed like a match made for business. CS:GO is a first-person ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 20: Kraken aquires Coinsetter, Mike Hearn: “Bitcoin failed”, Cryptsy hacked, BitPay on Bitcoin 2015
Lots of big news this week for the Bitcoin community and it’s hard to keep on top of what should be put in the spotlight. In the end two major stories take the stage: Kraken’s acquisition of Coinsetter (which moves the European majority exchange onto the North American continent) and Mike Hearn’s desertion of the ...
Bitcoin exchange Kraken to aquire New York-based Coinsetter and Canada-based Cavirtex
Kraken (Payward, Inc.), a global Bitcoin exchange headquartered in San Francisco, is expanding its reach with the acquisition of New York-based Coinsetter Inc. and Cavirtex, a Canadian exchange based in Calgary was acquired by Coinsetter in 2015 after the former exchange suffered a hack that shut trading down. This move allows Kraken to expand trading into the United ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2016 January 14: DD4BC arrests, CoinDesk aquired by DCG, Eternity Wall for Blockchain messages and visualizing 2015 Core development
Good news for the Internet today. Members of DD4BC have been arrested, so perhaps some websites can breathe a sigh of relief. DDoS extortion crews have been on the rise across 2014 and 2015 (and into 2016), and sometimes these groups demand Bitcoin as ransom. Having two less potential members of extortion crews in the ...
