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Kickstarter CEO: ‘We’re here to help people take over the mainstream’
Kickstarter CEO, Yancey Strickler has said that his hopes for Kickstarter are that it will allow the talented but unrecognised be able to make an impact and one day perhaps even take over the mainstream of industries. Yancey Strickler has been speaking following the events of the Kickstarter Funded film “Kung…
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Bitfinex Bitcoin Exchange Lose $61 Million in Hack
With millions traded every day through systems that rely on both the technology and the people acting to secure the environments they trade in, theft can happen. With banks recently reporting a string of thefts through the SWIFT network, it seemed like only a matter of time before digital currencies…
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Third Hack Linked To SWIFT Network Costs $10 Million
In this day and age, people like to know that their bank is keeping their money safe. Sadly in this day and age where everything is connected that is harder to do than most would imagine and it would now seem that a third bank has linked a theft to…
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Fujitsu Purchase 85% Shares in AMD Operations
AMD have just announced that they are now on a joint venture with electronics giant, Fujitsu. The two companies will be pairing together to provide factories in Penang (Malaysia) and Suzhou (China). Fujitsu will be getting a whopping 85 percent of the joint venture, which is suspected to heavily reduce…
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What If You Tried to Print the Entire Internet?
The internet, a whopping network of networks, spanning the entire globe and even some of outerspace. More than 3 billion users are online and by 2016 internet traffic could be at a massive rate of one zettabyte per year. Stuff.co.nz did some amazing mathematics to work out, just how many…
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Apple To Produce More Than 5 Million Watches in First Run
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will produce 5-6 million Apple Watches in their first production run. It’s said that half of this number will be the low-end ‘Apple Watch Sport’, starting at $349. A third of those produced will be the stainless steel “mid-teer” ‘Apple Watch’ and the rest…
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Mental Millet: 1.62 Million Phone Orders in 72 hours
Chinese phone company and electricity provider Millet have just reported that after 72 hours of continuous operation, they’ve dispatched over 1.62 million total units of their new phone release amounting to a total sales amount of $254.5m USD. This shipping figure doesn’t include their TV orders processed in the same time…
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Dota2 Makes the Front Page of The New York Times
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again – eSports is becoming mainstream. Whether you agree with video games being classified as a ‘real sport’ or not, there is no denying that through recent developments in the eSports scene, it’s becoming something very big and very real. We reported…
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Sony’s PlayStation Reported to Outsell Microsoft’s Xbox by 3:1
Sony’s first quarter 2014 financial report is looking very good for the company, having posted a net income of $261 million. The company is said to have sold 3.5 million PS4 and PS3 consoles, a 2.4 million increase compared to the Q1 2013 statistics. Aside from PS3 and PS4 sales,…
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ESPN to Air 10 Million USD Dota 2 Gaming Tournament
As released today, Valve has announced ESPN will be showing live coverage of their 10 million dollar electronic sports tournament, simply labeled ‘The International’. The International has been run yearly since 2011, with Valve pitting 1.6 million dollars of funded prize pool in recent times. To help increase this incentive,…
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8 Million Concurrent Users on STEAM During Summer Sale
Recently STEAM has reached a new milestone, hitting over 8 million concurrent users during their Summer Sales. With the exact peak being 8.020,813, this was reached during their Summer Sale, Encore Day over the last weekend. Last December was when STEAM broke the 7 million milestone with November 2012 marking their 6 million figure. As…
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Mobile Game Dev Millionaires feel…Guilty?
The New Yorker released an article about the “pressures” that game developers can incur making millions of dollars on cheap games. Taken from the article is the following quote from Rami Ishmail, a game dev from the Netherlands that developed Ridiculous Fishing which is available on iOS: “Ever since I…
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BBC Sport App Quick Off the Starting Block
For a large number of us, Sport is less of a hobby but more like a religion and that could be either towards football, golf, rugby, horse racing so on and so forth. In the UK especially and globally, BBC sport has a big presence and its sport pages on-line gets a…
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