India Blockchain Week (IBW) Unveils Diverse Speaker Line-up

By Owais Sultan
India Blockchain Week (IBW), the country’s flagship series of blockchain and Web3 events held in Bangalore from Dec.4-10, is…
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Cryptocurrency Exchange Eterbase Loses $5.4 Million to Hackers Overnight

A group of hackers on Monday night compromised cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase and raided six hot wallets to steal $5.4 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Tezos, Algorand, and TRON. The criminals transferred the funds into their wallets which Eterbase… Continue reading Cryptocurrency Exchange Eterbase Loses $5.4 Million to Hackers Overnight

Scammers pwn verified Fox Twitter account to scam cryptocurrency

Scammers have been exploiting Twitter for months now to steal digital currencies from naïve users, but this month one attacker pulled off a rare coup by compromising a verified Twitter account. Continue reading Scammers pwn verified Fox Twitter account to scam cryptocurrency

Beware the ‘celebrities’ offering you free cryptocoins on Twitter

Who CAN you trust if you can’t trust @DoonaldTrump65, promising Ethereum to all comers like he’s a cryptocurrency version of Oprah Winfrey? Continue reading Beware the ‘celebrities’ offering you free cryptocoins on Twitter

Visual Futurist Syd Mead will Keynote at Hackaday Superconference

What does the future actually look like? Chances are what you see in your mind when presented with that question is heavily influence by Syd Mead. He is an industrial designer, but his body of work — which includes some of the most iconic Sci-Fi movies ever filmed — built a much more interesting job title for him: Visual Futurist.

Meet Syd Mead as he presents a keynote talk at the 2017 Hackaday Superconference this November 11 and 12 in Pasadena, California.

Philip K. Dick wondered Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but when it came time to build those …read more

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Lightweight Game Console Packs a Punch

Any maker worth their bits will look for new ways to challenge themselves. [Robert Fotino], a computer science student at the University of California, is doing just that: designing and building his own lightweight hobbyist game console that he has appropriately named Consolite.

[Fotino] wrote his own compiler in C++ that converts from C-like languages to a custom-designed assembler that he has dubbed Consolite Assembly. To test his code, he also wrote an emulator before loading it onto the Mimas V2 FPGA board. Presently, Consolite  uses 64KiB of main memory and 48 KiB of video memory; a future version will …read more

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