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Naomi Brockwell is the Bitcoin Girl (Video)
There’s a new celebrity in Bitcoin town and it’s Naomi Brockwell, the star of Moving Picture Institute’s new music video “Bitcoin Girl,” which parodies the Billy Joel song “Uptown Girl.” Bitcoin Girl is an interesting composition of Bitcoin culture along with amusing lyrics that use the original tune to tell a similar story. The video ...
Dell becomes the largest ecommerce merchant to accept Bitcoin
In what could be the biggest splash in Bitcoin history to date, computer legend Dell just announced that the company will accept bitcoins. To do this, Dell has integrated with Coinbase and the entire process took 14 days from inception to launch. Coinbase claims on its announcement blog that Dell is the largest ecommerce company ...
3D scanning for Indiana Jones and Doctor House from the Artec Group
With much of the media’s attention on 3D printing the other side of the industry, 3D scanning, sometimes gets overlooked. While 3D printing provides an excellent technology for rapidly prototyping 3D objects from digital objects, the converse allows engineers to take real world objects and digitize them. Industry experts and engineers now have access to ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 16: Bitcoin conversion on Google, QuickBooks gets BTC payments, Shopify and Coinbase, North American Bitcoin Conference
Today Google finally joined Bing in showing bitcoin conversion rates in search results. QuickBooks now allows customers to pay businesses in bitcoins with Coinbase integration; Shopify has also launched Coinbase integration for its e-commerce web stores. BitPay is sponsoring a party at the North American Bitcoin Conference, happening this Friday, July 18th preceding the conference ...
Chef brings the power of DevOps to web-scale IT automation
DevOps automation tool leader Chef Software, Inc. has announced today a strong business trend towards DevOps tools amid the rise of web-scale IT—an architectural approach pioneered by web innovators such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Chef Software is also releasing a series of new enterprise product features and commercial services designed to help enterprise customers ...
Raspberry Pi B+ model takes the original and makes everything better
Developers and Makers rejoice now because the best hobby-embedded platform for easy prototyping and design, the Raspberry Pi, has released a new model. The Raspberry Pi B+ is essentially an iteration on the previous model that enhances a lot of previous features while keeping the unit at the same price. Most of the basic specs ...
Judge knocks down ‘Bitcoin is not money’ argument in Silk Road trial
Virtual currencies still exist in a strange regulatory and legal fog where how they’re use is defined seems a bit up in the air. The popularity of Bitcoin in particular has raised questions about its legitimacy as money—especially noting that more and more businesses are now accepting bitcoin in place of dollars. So, as a ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 9: France shuts down illegal exchange confiscates coins, Spendabit launches, Xapo raises $40m
With so many e-retail sites starting to take bitcoins—from 1-800-Flowers to Newegg—Spendabit, a search engine, has stepped up to let people look for product they can buy with BTC. A wallet service, Xapo, just made Bitcoin history with the biggest total investment so far at $40 million. France has joined the US as the second ...
IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranking crowns Java king with interactive web app
Interested in learning what tops the charts for programming languages devs are using? Check out IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranked listing web app—best part: it’s interactive and you can vote. Recently IEEE Spectrum released a list of the top ranked programming languages developers are using in the field to do their jobs. The list grabs from ...
The next mission to Mars will be funded by selfies
The first generation of space exploration had us glued to our TV screens watching the fruits of billions of dollars in government investment and the work of some of the world’s finest scientific minds. The second generation may be funded by selfies. To fund a spaceship to Mars the Time Capsule to Mars (TC2M) mission ...
