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We expected CES this year to be about connecting everything from watches to toothbrushes to virtual worlds. We did see a lot of connected, crazy gadgetry and more: the FCC’s Tom… Read more »
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Biz is the editorial assistant for Gigaom. Before starting at the San Francisco office in February 2014, she was an editorial fellow for Wired and spent a year as a designer for the Gannett Design Studio in Phoenix, Arizona. A 2012 graduate of Indiana University, she can be found passionately tweeting about Hoosier basketball alongside a mix of tech and science news. And before you even have to ask, her name is short for Elizabeth.
We expected CES this year to be about connecting everything from watches to toothbrushes to virtual worlds. We did see a lot of connected, crazy gadgetry and more: the FCC’s Tom… Read more »
Bitcoin is not having the best start to 2015. Bitstamp, the second-largest USD bitcoin exchange, suspended its operations early Monday morning after discovering one of its wallets has been “compromised”. (Update:… Read more »
In 1999, before internet of things was a buzz word and back when we still used floppy disks, there was a movie called Smart House. It was a Disney Channel Original… Read more »
Bigger isn’t better when it comes to web pages, but the internet has continued to put on weight this year. According to the 2014 report from the HTTP Archive, the average… Read more »
Google’s Gmail appears to have been blocked in China after months of disruptions to the service. On Friday, Chinese users reported a “severe disruption”, according to GreatFire.org, which monitors online censorship… Read more »
Back in September, Reddit announced a new $50 million round of funding, but what raised the eyebrows of many redditors and crypto-geeks alike was its plans to distribute 10 percent, or… Read more »
You can’t buy a Windows Phone with bitcoin, but now you can buy Minecraft for that phone with bitcoin. Microsoft announced today that it will now accept bitcoin (via BitPay) as… Read more »
Of the 50,000 bitcoins up for auction, the Bitcoin Investment Trust bidding syndicate walked away with 48,000 of them. The US Marshals’ Service confirmed that the syndicate, which includes the Bitcoin… Read more »
It’s not enough to preach teaching kids how to code — today U.S. President Barack Obama took his turn at the keyboard to do a few exercises and learn how to… Read more »
Internet freedom has declined around the globe, once again, in 2014. A new report out from Freedom House shows that 36 of the 65 countries evaluated showed a negative trajectory since… Read more »