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Breaking, Business, News, startups, Technology Security

Bitcoin becoming Regulated Currency in the European Union

Slovenian startup Bitstamp just did something that no other digital currency startup was able to do – launch the first nationally licensed Bitcoin exchange (BitEx). As it usually goes, the startup could not receive a license in its home country, so it took advantage of registering themselves in one of most business-oriented countries in the European Union. Luxembourg granted the license which will be valid in all 28 EU countries, meaning starting July 1, 2016 – 508 million EU citizens should be able to access a Bitcoin exchange under the same operating restrictions and protections as the banks and stock exchanges. “We believe that this is stability-inducing – that people will see this

Breaking, Event, News, Space and Science, Technology Security

See the Highlights of White House Science Fairs

Not long after moving into the Oval office, President Barrack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle started to change the White House conventions. While the First Lady dedicated what will become an eight year campaign against obesity and fight for better education, the POTUS (President of the United States) pushed for a healthcare reform, and thanks to a series of good and some bad moves (not discussing foreign policy here), U.S. economy is doing better than ever. Still, what both Mr. and Mrs. Obama wanted was to elevate STEM initiatives above all. As Mr. Obama said, “If a NFL football team wins the championship, and receives an invite to the

Amazon, Android, Breaking, News, Tablets, Technology Security

Amazon Restores Fire OS 5 Encryption on Kindle Tablets

UPDATE: March 7th, 2016, 11:26AM GMT Amazon released a statement where the company backtracked on its earlier decision: “We will return the option for full disk encryption with a Fire OS update coming this spring.” According to an Amazon spokesperson, the company announced its removal of Fire OS 5 encryption feature due to ‘internal belief’ in the company that there aren’t too many users which use this feature, and it was removed before the whole Apple vs. FBI case blew up. Encrpyting and Decrypting the data is tasking on the built-in SOC processors, and the company thought it could speed the performance. After a number of users complained and

Auto, Breaking, Graphics, News, Technology Security

2017 Mercedes E-Class Cockpit Looks Like a Video Game

117th edition of the North American International Auto Show will take place in Detroit, MI between January 11-24, 2016. Among 50 or so world premieres, perhaps the key launch will be the one coming in the shape of new E-Class, one of best selling cars coming from the three-pointed star from Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz. The new E-Class launch is perhaps even more important than the company flagship S-Class. Unlike the S-Class, which rules the market where BMW competes with the 7-Series, Audi A8, Jaguar XJ etc., E-Class has to battle a lot of competitors, and the company lost sales advantage in the mid-2000s, with Audi A6 and BMW 5

News, Space and Science, Technology Security

New SpaceX Dragon Capsule Looks Like Star Trek

Hot on the heels of Boeing unveiling its human transport capsule dubbed CST-100 Starliner, SpaceX unveiled its final take on the Crew Dragon capsule, which is scheduled to take first manned flights in 2017, in what will be return of United States of America to spacefaring nations, something the country wasn’t able to do since they retired the venerable Space Shuttle. In the video below, you can see the bespoke Dragon capsule, which can transport up to five people the the ISS, and what SpaceX hopes to be one of first steps to move us from LEO (Lower Earth Orbit) to other planets, especially Mars:

Auto, Exclusive, Hardware, News, startups, Technology Security

World’s Ultimate Electric Watercraft

Croatia is a country mostly known as for its beautiful locations and as a birthplace many inventors, most notably Nikola Tesla, Faust Vrancic (creator of Parachute), Slavoljub Penkala (hint: the first three letters of his surname), David Schwarz (Zeppelin or flying airship) and many more. Recently, the country is becoming a hotbed of electric propulsion technology, with RIMAC Automobili hypercars, Dok-Ing electric mining vehicles, Ducati compact electric cars etc. Its neighbour Slovenia is also becoming a powerhouse with electric ‘crafts’ which you may not expect – Slovenian Pipistrel was shamefully blocked by Airbus and Siemens and almost beat them in their own game of an electric aircraft, while Quadrofoil started the deliveries of

Biotech, Business, Cloud Computing, Intel, Internet, Space and Science, Technology Security, Wearables

Intel Invests in CareDX, Biotech Molecular Diagnostics Company

According to the company tagline “Personalized Treatment Surveillance. Better Outcomes.” CareDX, Inc. is a molecular diagnostic company which is known for its AlloMap service that monitors patients with heart transplants. Current focus is on expanding the AlloMap line of blood-test products with cfDNA for Heart and cfDNA Kidney – potentially changing the lives of millions of transplant patients worldwide. Key of the company is ‘gene expression profiling,’ using the best of semiconductor industry to analyze blood cells on a molecular level, in order to identify gene activity in various types of blood cells. By building patient maps, doctors can research and predict how a patient is reacting to treatment, inflammation

Breaking, Military, News, Technology Security

Possible Cheaper Fighter Attack Airplane for U.S. and its Allies?

As the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter finally receives active combat clearance, and enters the Air Force as a battle-ready aircraft, we saw a lot of caveats of the troubled Lockheed Martin’s fighter program. In a nutshell, it’s over budget, over the planned timeframe and over the much needed operational limit for current USAF and NAVY fighters as well. Sadly for the program, it is also weaker in combat than a 40 year old F-16, yet alone F-15 and F-18 fighters. This means, that in true facts and reality the F-35 is so much delayed, that current F/A-18 and F-16 fighters are nearing their operational limit. It also

Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Computing, News, Space and Science, Technology Security, Wearables

A Man, A Ball, And Thousands In Technology: The Rise Of Tech In Sports

Tech in sports is quickly becoming a multibillion dollar business of increasing complexity. What does the future hold?

China, CPU, Enterprise, Global Politics, Intel, Military, News, Technology Security, US

USA Embargo Cannot Stop China: Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Keeps #1

Couple of months ago, we exclusively reported that the U.S. government blocked Intel from selling its products to Chinese supercomputer firms such as Inspur, responsible for building the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. Originally, Tianhe-2 was planned to expand all the way to almost 100,000 Xeon processors and Xeon Phi co-processors, targeting to beat the 100 PFLOPS barrier. Initial deployment included 4,096 Chinese Galaxy FT-1500 processors (Chinese SPARC) and 16,000 processor nodes with two 12-core Xeon E2692 processors and three Xeon Phi 31S1P co-processors for a grand total of 3.12 million cores. Full installation of Tianhe-2 was scheduled to feature 48,000 processor nodes, or 9.93 million cores. However, those

AMD, Hardware, Internet of Things (IoT), News, Technology Security

GlobalFoundries Launches 22nm FD-SOI Process for IoT, Wearables

Since its inception, GlobalFoundries had a plan to become world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer. From starting as an AMD manufacturing spin-off, the company owners set a multi-decade plan which involved acquiring Chartered Semiconductor and recently, acquired IBM foundry business as well. The capacity grew from initial 60,000 300mm wafers in 2009 to almost quarter billion 300mm and 130+ million 200mm wafers in second quarter of 2015. While the absolute capacity numbers were even higher, the owners (Mubadala Development Company, Abu Dhabi) decided to re-address the capacity and increase volume in processes that make financial sense. In order to stay ahead the company kept on investing in SOI

Entertainment, Technology Security, VR World

Shakeup in the Piracy World as EZTV Shutters

There will be a replacement for EZTV soon enough.

Internet, Operating Systems, Software Programs, Technology Security, VR World, Windows

RIP ActiveX. Microsoft Cuts Support for Old School Protocols in IE Edge

Support for ancient protocols is being cut in the latest version of Internet Explorer.

Android, Companies, Google, Mobile Computing, Operating Systems, Software Programs, Technology Security, VR World

Android Lollipop Adoption Still Lagging

Google’s latest Android release only has a 9% market share 7 months after release.

Business, Companies, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software Programs, Technology Security, VR World, Windows

Goodbye Patch Tuesday

Microsoft is getting rid of Patch Tuesday and will instead continuously rollout updates in the background on Windows 10.

Asia Pacific (APAC), China, Global Politics, Software Programs, Technology Security, VR World

Qihoo 360 Caught Cheating in Antivirus Testing

Qihoo caught swapping antivirus engines between consumer and benchmark versions.

Analysis, Augmented Reality (AR), Technology Security, Virtual Reality (VR), VR World

Privacy Matters: The Looming Threat Over AR

A society wired to augmented reality poses a true threat to your privacy. But with the proper safeguards, the threat can be mitigated.

Asia Pacific (APAC), China, Global Politics, Technology Security, VR World

China Weaponizes Great Firewall to DDoS Sites Off the Web

The Great Firewall can now be used to DDoS sites China doesn’t like off the web.

Entertainment, Global Politics, Technology Security, US, VR World

John Oliver Grills Edward Snowden on ‘Last Week Tonight’

The Oliver-Snowden interview is uncomfortable to watch, and good journalism.

Global Politics, Technology Security, VR World

Watch A Canadian Paratrooper Land In A Dense Forest

In the annual Maple Flag exercise, the Canadian air force military airplane dropped a company of paratroopers, where one of them had a pretty scary landing in a dense forest in this video