Four men have sued Bitcoinica, one of the larger Bitcoin currency exchanges before it shut down in May, alleging that the exchange owes them $460,457.70 in lost Bitcoins plus damages. It's a story that will sound familiar to anyone who has been following the saga of the fledgling currency and its...
Plaintiffs say Bitcoinica owes them almost half a million dollars
Deceased Beastie Boys MC Adam Yauch may have had more rhymes than he had grey hairs — eight studio albums’ worth of material — but thanks to a clause in his will, advertisers won’t be touching any of them. According to Rolling Stone, the...
As a college senior in the early 1990's, Mike Aponte was invited to join the MIT Blackjack Team. Over its long and storied history, the team had developed sophisticated strategies for gaining an advantage over the casinos, combining team play with card counting — tallying the dealt cards to calculate whether the remaining cards favor the player or the blackjack dealer. Card counting...
Andy Hertzfeld, who worked with Apple in the early 1980s as a "software wizard," has posted a previously-unreleased commercial for the original Macintosh via his Google+ page, as reported by 9to5Mac. In it, members of the Mac design team — including Hertzfeld, Burrell Smith, George Crow, Bill Atkinson and Mike Murray — offer a few seconds of dialog that Apple ultimately decided was a bit "too self-congratulatory" to air on mainstream television. The commercial was only ever made available to select dealers, so if you'd like a chance to see one of Apple's first private attempt at patting itself on the back, the video below is full of the company's aspirational youth.
"Apple deemed it too self-congratulatory" Andy Hertzfeld
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