From the archive

July 2014

30 posts

Canada Implements World’s First Law Regulating Bitcoin

The Parliament of Canada has approved the world's first national Bitcoin law. It is the first official law that concerns the treatment of Bitcoin financial transactions under national anti-money laundering law. Bill C-31 was an amendment to Canada's Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA). In other words, the bill amended, or made a change to, an

YouTube Shames Slow Internet Providers

Have you ever wondered why a YouTube video is taking a long time load, buffering, or refusing to play? YouTube has started pointing people towards the answer to that question. A blue bar will appear underneath the video that asks, “Experiencing Interruptions?” Click on the button that says “Find out why”, and the answer is revealed. YouTube will automatically send

GNC #961 Guest Host The Gadget Professor

Today we welcome the Gadget Professor as the Guest Host of Geek News Central. A big thanks to Don for hosting the show while I am on vacation. Be sure to check Don's show out! I cover the rest of the tech news and update you on my Transformation. Download the Audio Show File Geek News Central Google+ Community. Geek

Angry Birds Go gets multiplayer mode

Angry Birds, the Rovio franchise that brought mobile gaming to the forefront, has released many iterations of its titles, and all continue to be updated with new levels. One of the newest is Go, which takes a different approach to things, bringing Kart racing to the franchise, and lots of interesting features with it. Now the game is finally receiving

Songza is “Thrilled” to Become Part of Google

Songza has announced that they are becoming part of Google. They stated that they are “thrilled” to make the announcement and that they “can't think of a better company to join in our quest to provide the perfect soundtrack to everything you do”. Not much else was said, other than that no immediate changes to Songza are planned (“other than

GNC #960 Facebook is Experimenting on You

Facebook is Experimenting on you, and if you think it sounds evil, it really is evil when you get into the nuts and bolts of what these maniacs where doing. Nothing like a good old brain washing to start your day courtesy of the Facebook evil scientist! I cover the rest of the tech news and update you on my

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