Day: July 9, 2014

Entertainment

J.K. Rowling has released a new ‘Harry Potter’ story online

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes J.K. Rowling has written a new story about Harry Potter, featuring the character as an adult for the first time since the conclusion of her book series nearly seven years ago. The story is the latest in a series about the the Quidditch World Cup that Rowling has been writing over at Pottermore for a few months now in anticipation of the actual World Cup. Written from the perspective of gossip journalist…

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Cloud IT

RackWare Raises $2.3M For Its Cloud Management Solution

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois As businesses shift their data center solutions to the cloud, there is room for companies that don’t just help them migrate or create hybrid solutions, but also for those that help them utilize their existing solutions and scale them as needed by using private and public clouds.RackWare, which competes with companies like RightScale, offers solutions for enterprise IT to automate much of this and today announced that it has raised a $2.3…

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Automotive Culture Environmental

A Weekend With The All-Electric BMW i3

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington I’ve never driven a BMW, or an electric car, so I might have been an odd choice to test drive the new BMW i3, the German car maker’s all-electric hatchback, which packs the equivalent of 170 HP into its electric engine. But an unexpected reviewer might be the perfect candidate for an unexpected car. The car, which was on limited display at CES back in January, is on sale as…

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Culture Mobile Social Networking

Germany’s Stunning World Cup Win Over Brazil Is The Most-Tweeted Sports Game Ever

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Darrell Etherington For a long time yesterday, I couldn’t see any tweet in my regular feed that wasn’t in some way linked to the Germany/Brazil semifinal World Cup match – and apparently, I wasn’t alone. The devastating 7-1 victory by Brazil was the most activity around a single sports game on Twitter ever (via THR), surpassing the Super Bowl from earlier this year. Brazil’s routing garnered 35.6 million tweets during the game…

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Google Microsoft Security

Google, Microsoft and Instagram rush to fix Flash flaw that could steal your data

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT  Yet another critical security flaw has been found for Adobe’s notoriously sieve-like Flash plug-in, this time by Google Engineer Michele Spagnuolo. His exploit tool, called “Rosetta Flash” is just a proof of concept, but could allow hackers to steal your cookies and other data using malicious Flash .SWF files. The exploit is well known in the security community, but had been left unfixed until now as nobody had found a way to harness it for…

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