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US government prepares to auction $17 million worth of Silk Road bitcoins
The US Marshals are preparing to auction off the bitcoins seized from the raid of anonymous, black market site Silk Road. According to the asset forfeiture auction document, the auction will take place on June 27th and winners will be notified on June 30th. The coins on auction are those seized from the Silk Road ...
Facebook open-sources Haxl: Big Data Haskell library
Yesterday, Facebook announced the open-sourcing of Haxl, a Haskell library used to greatly simplify access to remote data, such as databases and API web-based services. This release continues a trend of Facebook’s strong bent towards data science and the processing of complex datasets, and at the same time sustains a commitment to the open source ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 11: Yahoo! Finance adds BTC ticker, REEDS Jewelers partners Coinbase, Dark Wallet alpha promises anonymity
In the news today, Yahoo! Finance follows Bloomberg in adding a Bitcoin market price ticker. REEDS Jewelers is the newest retail chain to partner with Coinbase for bitcoin payments. Finally, Dark Wallet has been in the news since April, but how does it work and what does increased anonymity mean for regulators? The market also ...
AI milestone: Computer passes Turing test by posing as a 13-year-old boy
A computer program at the University of Reading in the U.K. has achieved an artificial intelligence milestone by passing the venerated Turning Test. The software, called Eugene Goostman, attempts to simulate a 13-year-old Ukranian boy. The Turing test, named after Alan Turing who introduced the idea, is used to determine if a machine exhibits intelligent ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 6: Dish to accept Bitcoin, Coinsetter adds features, Voorhees settles with SEC over securities trading
Dish Network announced its intention to become the biggest company to start accepting bitcoins. Andreas Antonopoulos published a Bitcoin beginner’s guide on Boing Boing. Coinsetter is adding new features for customers and app developers. And Erik Voorhees of SatoshiDice has settled with the SEC over unregistered securities trading. Welcome to this Bitcoin Weekly. Read on ...
Apple turns up developer appeal with Swift programming language
On Monday, Apple announced a new programming language called Swift for iOS and OS X app development. As a language, it’s extremely similar to C and Objective-C with a couple exceptions. Apple’s mission with Swift is to provide easy coding, combined with security and efficiency as an iteration to Objective-C without straying too far from the ...
Betterment DevOps Profile: Development and the mobile vs. web experience
Betterment, developer of an online investment app, launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 with a web and mobile product directed towards consumers interested in managing their own money. Their road from a startup with an interesting idea to a powerful app set that includes DevOps, automated testing, and end-user support has been fraught with challenges. According ...
Google uses machine learning as data center efficiency workhorse
Google is putting machine learning to use to make its already mighty data centers even more efficient. With the help of neural networks and data analytics, Google hopes that a new datacenter project will allow the search giant to push power consumption down. The company outlined the project in a whitepaper (PDF) released Wednesday and ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 May 28: Bitstamp proof of reserves audit, major law firm accepting bitcoin, Overstock bitcoin sales reach $1.6m
The number of exchanges submitting to public proof of reserves audits increased this week with Bitstamp joining the trend. A major New York law firm, McLaughlin & Stern, LLP, has started accepting bitcoins. Ben Davenport of Facebook is joining Bitcoin security platform BitGo as co-founder. And Overstock has reached $1.6m in bitcoin sales. Bitstamp runs ...
Google Ingress soaring to new heights after over a year running
Google’s augmented reality game, Ingress, started small in November 2012 with a closed beta and went into open beta October 2013. And, since December 2013, Ingress has been fully available to the public. Much of 2013 and now part of 2014, has seen the game grow in complexity and popularity. With its initial announcement, Ingress ...
